INTERNATIONAL

News from other countries; translations and selections from homofile magazines abroad.

continental journey

by trebor

Fox

or those of our readers who have not yet made that promised pilgrimage to Europe I should like to draw a few sketches of the lives and habits of our minority in those countries I recently visited.

I found Denmark to be a land as pleasant as it is picturesque, with the best of its existence focused in that merry-go-round capital on the island of Zealand Copenhagen. In this delightful city, more than anywhere else I know, that nostalgic cliche "the good old days" may be applied with the least reservation. In summer especially the town is bustin' out all over, and the sturdy pulse of pleasure throbs on far past the stroke of twelve. During the four months of mid-year, the open-air amusement gardens of Tivoli become the brilliant hub of Copenhagen life from sunset on, when thousands upon thousands flock there in a joyful mass. They come to see the multicolored Chinese lanterns hanging everywhere helter-skelter from the

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trees that border the lakes and many paths and surround the numerous open cafes: they come to watch the charming pantomime antics of Columbine and Montmartre that are divulged to an audience, expectant with periscopes, by the parting of an enormous blue and gold peacock tail curtain.

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