From: tachyon@cats.ucsc.edu (Tane' Tachyon)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Scott Lively convicted, and this week's hate crimes
Date: 13 Oct 1992 18:10:51 GMT
Organization: Tachyon Labs
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Keywords: OCA, Measure 9, hate crimes


In article <1992Oct7.213819.10267@spdcc.com> rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue) writes:
>bcapps@agora.rain.com (Brent Capps) writes:
>>3. HARASSING PHONE CALLS AIMED AT "ANNE FRANK IN THE WORLD" EXHIBIT
>>   The First United Methodist Church of PDX has received four harassing
>>   phone calls about the Anne Frank exhibit that opens this Friday.
>>   "Basically, they say Anne Frank is a hoax," said Wendy Liebreich,
>>   who heads the "Anne Frank in the World" committee that is presenting
>>   the exhibit.  The American Jewish Committee has also received such
>>   calls.  No specific threats were made, and 24-hour security arrangements
>>   have been made.
>
>	Speaking of the AFinW exhibit, it is true what I heard that all
>references to GBLO*-victims of the Holocaust were removed from this exhibit?
>If so, what sort of message is that giving: "IT's OK to revise history
>if only to remove faggots from any positive lght."  (As if the death
>of tens of thousands of people could be construed in any wa y"positive".

Having seen the "Anne Frank in the World" exhibit yesterday here in
Santa Cruz, I can say that that is *not* the case.
 
The exhibit had a series of 77 or 78 large (probably the size of a
wide door) silkscreened panels, each of which would typically have six
or seven pictures with text.  These panels told chronologically the
story of Anne Frank mixed with the rise and fall of the Nazis and
their crimes.  At the end it talked about how the story of Anne Frank
has spread around the world, and about neo-Nazis and hatred in the
world today.
 
I remember seeing four specific mentions of LGB people in the exhibit,
and while you might want there to be more, I thought the ones that
*were* there were well done.
 
The first was just a panel mentioning "homosexuals and gypsies" as
some of the other targeted groups.
 
The second gave a figure for the number of "homosexuals (mostly men)"
killed in concentration camps, and said that they were made to wear
pink triangles.  This was accompanied by a concentration camp picture
of a line of men wearing presumably-pink (black and white picture)
triangles.
 
The third was near the end, in a section talking about attacks from
people claiming the holocaust was a hoax.  It said that some people
were also trying to keep all mentions of LGB people out of discussions
of the holocaust.  There was a picture of Amsterdam's memorial to the
LGB people killed by the Nazis.
 
The fourth was almost at the very end, in a section showing the
activities of hate groups of today.  It amounted to something like "as
you see, these people hate lesbians and gay men too" accompanying a
picture of marchers with "kill queers" and "thank god for AIDS"-type
signs.  I was impressed that the exhibit didn't just show the "safe"
groups like the KKK, but was willing to name names by showing, among
others, Le Pen and some anti-immigration groups.
 
Some videotapes about Anne Frank were playing at the same time, but I
don't know whether they were a part of the exhibit proper or something
someone local had decided to run along with the exhibit, and I didn't
get to see them anyway (missing a bus made me arrive closer to closing
time than I had planned), so I can't say anything about their content.
 
Another thing was that in the same room as the "Anne Frank in the
World" exhibit, there were many exhibits made by local groups on
discrimination/persecution against local communities, such as the
Latino population, the Japanese during WWII (photos of stores with "no
Japs allowed" signs to echo similar "no Jews allowed" ones on the Anne
Frank exhibit panels), PWA's, and yes, queers.  There was a large
display telling the story of the fight for the Santa Cruz anti-
discrimination ordinance earlier this year.  Another display focused
on the local Triangle Speakers' Bureau's visits to area high schools.

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