Miss Condom pageant in Bangkok
Thai bar girls, international public health officials and one transvestite competed in the annual "Miss Condom Asia-Pacific" pageant in Bangkok this week. "Judged on their safe sex knowledge and onstage poise, they blew up condoms and danced to Thai country tunes on a makeshift stage as a man wearing green condom suit cavorted nearby." The event was started in the 1980s to promote AIDS awareness and condom use.