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Subject: GAYNET Digest Volume 10 Issue 12

Contents:
Democratic Nat'l Committee Holiday  Card
Re: GAYNET Digest Volume 10 Issue 5
2nd Montreal anti-gay hate slaying

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Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 22:55:01 EST
From: jeff@millie.loc.gov (Jeff Mallory)
Subject: Democratic Nat'l Committee Holiday  Card


This year's DNC greeting card just has a picture of the White House
framed in greens and boughs, with a Season's Greetings along the
bottom!

Jeff

Thank you John P. for getting the gaynet eradio-mobile back
on the air!!



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Date: 18 Dec 1992 23:40:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mykel --He's Right-- Board <MQB8130@ACFcluster.NYU.EDU>
Subject: Re: GAYNET Digest Volume 10 Issue 5

How do you UNSUBSCRIBE or at least set NOMAIL.  I'll be gone for awhile
and I don't want my account to explode.
					Thanks,   Mykel

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Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 01:52 EDT
From: ALAN YOSHIOKA <ES051204@Orion.YorkU.CA>
Subject: 2nd Montreal anti-gay hate slaying

5 charged in second Montreal hate slaying
School teacher found dead after being severely beaten at roadside
rest stop

from the Globe and Mail (Toronto), Dec 18, 1992, page 7.

Quebec police say they are dealing with their second hate slaying
in two weeks after the arrest of five young males in the beating
of a man believed to be gay.

Daniel Lacombe, a 37-year-old high school teacher, was found dead
early Saturday at a rest stop in Joliette.

"Like many roadside rest stops, this is a very popular meeting
spot for homosexual men," said a spokesman for the Joliette
police. He said the victim seemed to have stopped to go to the
washroom when he was attacked.

Originally, police thought Mr. Lacombe had suffered a heart
attack and cut his head in a fall. But an autopsy revealed he had
been beaten about the head and had suffered a fatally ruptured
aneurysm.

"The victim was beaten, but he died for other reasons. That's why
the charge isn't murder," said a spokesman for the provincial
police.

He said five males, aged 16 to 19, were arrested. One is charged
with manslaughter and one with aggravated assault, and three are
charged under the Young Offenders Act with conspiracy to commit a
criminal act.

On Dec. [sic, actually Nov.] 29, the body of 51-year-old Yvon
Lalonde was found in Montreal's Angrignon Park, another meeting
spot for men seeking homosexual encounters.

Police said Mr. Lalonde had been bludgeoned to death by a group
of Nazi skinheads who had stalked the victim because they
believed him to be gay.

Six young persons are in prison charged under the Young Offenders
Act with first degree [i.e. premeditated] murder.

After that killing, police revealed that the park had been the
site of dozens of assaults against solitary men in recent months.
Community activists said there has also been a marked increase in
violence against gays and lesbians in Montreal's Gay Village.

A coalition of gay and lesbian groups set up a 24-hour hotline in
response to the rising violence, saying homosexuals are reluctant
to report crimes because of traditionally poor relations with
police.

The newly formed coalition called for a public inquiry by the
Quebec Human Rights Commission into violence against homosexuals,
and criticized provincial Justice Minister Gil Rmillard. The
commission will consider the request today.

Despite an outcry from a number of civil-rights and religious
groups over the first hate slaying, Mr. Remillard played down
that incident.
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end of globe story

In Toronto there is a rally and demonstration on Dec 19 at 7:30
p.m. at the 519 Church St. Community Centre in the heart of the
gay ghetto. The event is organized by a group called Anti-racist
Action.
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