In Peru a mayor from the small town of Huarmey, Jose Benitez (pictured), is concerned that drinking tap water would turn the town gay because the water is supplied by the neighbouring town of Tabalosos which happens to be the home of over 14 000 queer folk.

The mayor stated his concerns at the launch of a local project intended to increase his town's access to water.

José Benítez, Huarmey mayor, says:
“Unfortunately Strontium reduces male hormones and suddenly we’ll be as Tabalosos, as other towns, where the percentages are increasing of homosexuality.”

The Tabalosina mayor, Jorge Luis Vasquez, said: “Young people have low self-esteem (because of) this stigma”.

Dr. Robert Castro Rodriguez, the dean of the College of Pharmaceutical Chemistry of Lima, told a radio station that strontium can cause bone cancer, anaemia and cardiovascular problems but a link with homosexuality has yet to be identified.

Clearly Mayor Benitez are more concerned about gays in his town than bone cancer.