I'm really astounded, Camille, by your report of
the Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras - watched, you say,
by 60,000. How many participants ?
One tends to assume, of course, that any lady
from Down Under will also be a lesbian.
But I can scarcely envisage such a thing as
an 'Australian poofter' (which is, after all,
a masculine noun.) To these old ears, it has
a deeply oxymoronic ring.
Scottie B.