From: rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue)
Subject: Re: The Harrassing Phone Calls Can Stop NOW!
Organization: insert anything here
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 16:16:17 GMT

>In article <12234@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:

>>Oh?  Can you provide some examples?  I have yet to hear any of
>>the fundamentalists argue for extermination of homosexuals.

	"The fundamentalists" really can be any organized body, really.
Apart from the fact that between 500,000 and 1,000,000 gays and lesbians
were exterminated by the Nazis (I can understand Cr*m*r not knowing this,
since it is written out of almost all Holocaust information in the US, 
including the traveling Anne Frank museum - I haven't heard yet if it
will also be left off of the new Holocaust memorial in the US, but
I expect it will...), there are several groups willfully killing
gays and lesbians.  This just appeard on the net this morning.

	[This was several hundred lines long - I've edited out
a great deal since I think for sane people, the point is made
pretty much right off the top...  For bigots, it doesn't matter since
they'll come up with some excuse or other rationalization...]

	There are of course countless other examples.  As far as
religious fundamentalists go, there was a study done inthe last year
by a woman who interviewed convicted gay bashers to find out their motivation
for their crimes.  The overwhelming rationalization was that they had
been taught from early on that gays/lesbians were so vile that it was
just and a "good thing" to get rid of them.  They said that most of this
messages came from within their churches, schools, and families.
"Everyone hates faggots, so who'd care if someone got rid of a few?"


	I will try and track down the name of the author and
title of th book etc.
	So, Clayton, try and worm out of this one.


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Subject: IGLHRC:URGENT ACTION ALERT
Date: 11 Sep 92 04:53:00 GMT


URGENT ACTION ALERT
from the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
IGLHRC

Emergency Response Network (ERN)
IGLHRC has compiled human rights
abuses against gays and lesbians throughout the world and is
asking your help in addressing these urgent issues.  Please write
to the person listed at the end of each summary.  Please send a
copy of your response to us.

1200 Gays Murdered in Brazil Over Past Decade

Every five days, a gay man or lesbian is murdered in Brazil.  Luis
Mott, founder and president of Grupo Gay de Bahia, the most active
gay organization in Brazil, has documented approximately 1200
murders in the past decade.  Only about 10% of the killers are
ever brought to justice.  Murders are most often committed by
hustlers who rob their victims, kill them, and then escape
prosecution.  In the few cases where charges are filed, the
murderers go free or receive light sentences, based on a court
defense that they were forced to defend their honor against sexual
advances by their victims.  In a recent case, a 26-year-old Sao
Paolo man was imprisoned only after brutally murdering a dozen
wealthy gay men he picked up in a public park.  The judiciary is
also rife with homophobia; one judge told Mott, "To kill a gay is
like killing a dog." Organized hate crimes are also common in
Brazil.  Mott has documented twelve paramilitary organizations
throughout the country that have dedicated themselves to
exterminating homosexuals and transvestites.  These groups
specialize in gruesome murders.  One such organization, Comando de
Ca a aos Gays, has claimed responsiblity for assassinations and
mutilations of several Rio de Janiero transvestites.  Please write
to the Brazilian secretary of human rights.  Tell the Secretary
that Brazil has a duty to protect all its citizens, regardless of
their sexual orientation.  Demand that Brazil begin to apprehend,
prosecute, and punish the murderers of gay people, that the
country eliminate the prejudice against homosexuals in the courts,
that the judicial process be reformed to eliminate defense of
honor as grounds for murdering gay people, and that the government
cease tolerating the existence of paramilitary organizations
dedicated to killing homosexuals and transvestites.  Postage to
Brazil is $.50 per half-ounce.

Write to:
Secretario de Direitos Humanos
Ministerio de Justisa
Brasilia, BRASIL

Wave of Violence Continues in Mexico

On August 10, a 22-year-old gay activist became the latest victim
in a wave of anti-gay violence in the state of Chiapas in southern
Mexico.  Martin Balesca Domnguez, a member of the AIDS
organization Piscis de Arriaga,  was severely beaten and stabbed
many times by unidentifed attackers who left him for dead near the
town of Arriaga.  A dozen other gay men and nine prostitutes have
been murdered in Chiapas in the past year, most of them shot with
high-caliber weapons in or near the capital city of Tuxtla
Gutirrez.  None of the cases have been solved by the local police,
who consider these murders to be crimes of passion or vengeance
within the gay community, despite clear signs of professional
marksmanship and striking similarity among the cases.  Local gay
leaders are being harassed by police as a result of the publicity
surrounding the violence.  Leaders of Crculo Cultural Gay, a
Mexico City gay organization, recently demanded that Mexico's
National Commission on Human Rights investigate the violence and
murders, which have been rampant in other parts of Mexico as well.
 Since June, a transvestite has been beaten to death in Oaxaca,
three gay men were murdered in Mexico City, and two gay men were
found bound and shot to death in Guadalajara.  Mexican activists
say international pressure will help now and they ask that you
write and demand that the Mexican government act to stop the
homophobic violence throughout the country.  Postage to Mexico is
$.40 per ounce.

Write to:
Lic. Ignacio Morales Lechuga
Procuraduria General De La Republica
Paseo de la Reforma y Violeta
Mexico, D. F., 
C.P. 06300


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