Gay Sports Event in The Hage THE HAGUE This weekend (16/17 june) some 700 gay sportsmen and women will meet for the seventh consecutive year in the city of The Hague for the Sports Unite Festival, a weekend of sports competitions organised by the G.I.S.A.H. (Gay Integration Thro- ugh Sports and Activities Holland), which takes place each year in the weekend preceding Dutch Gay Pride. On friday 16th sports teams from 8 different European countries will arrive in The Hague and competitions will start the next day. At three diffe- rent locations the teams will compete in Sports like: badmin- ton, volleyball, basketball, swimming, wrestling and soccer. This year for the first time teams from the UK and Italy are joining the event, with the German delegation with some 200 gay and lesbian sportspersons being the second largest after host country The Netherlands. On Saturday evening a large party is being organised for all contestants with brunch on the North Sea beach the next day. During the week between the Sports Unite Festival and Dutch Gay Pride, which this year takes place in Hilversum on june 24th, a number of gay events are being organised in The Hague including: an evening of gay Choir sin- ging, a Carribean party, a literary evening with drag Queen Dolly Bellefleur and a midsummer night's party. 12 Year Sentence demanded in Gay Murder Case AMSTERDAM Last week a 12 year jail sentence was demanded in an Amsterdam court against three men suspected of having robbed and murdered a gay man in Huizen, a small town some 30 km east of Amsterdam. The victim had taken the three suspects, two of them illegal immigrants, one of them a Mauretanian living in France, into his home. After it was suggested they have sex together one of the suspects, who was in a homosexual relati- onship with the victim claims to have left the house while the other two men stayed behind with their victim. Sometime that evening they must have gagged and killed the 63-year old man whose body was discovered the next morning in his bedroom. Dutch Gay News is a non-commercial, volunteer activity aimed at spreading information concerning all aspects of the Dutch gay community. DGN can be reached c/o: Bert Schuur, John Franklinstraat 71-iii, NL-1056 TA Amsterdam, The Netherlands, tel/fax int-31-20-6837486, email: berts@xs4all.nl Love from Holland, Bert Schuur