Hearing on Anti-Gay Violence before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary. House of Representatives, Ninety-Ninth Congress, Second Session. Serial No. 132.
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Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. This document presents witness testimonies and prepared statements from the Congressional hearing called to examine the issue of antigay violence. In his opening statement, Representative John Conyers, Jr. presents statistics which attest to a rise in antigay violence since the murders of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk in 1979. He notes that there are currently no federal statutes which specifically prohibit antigay violence and stresses the need for this hearing to examine the level of violence being directed toward homosexuals and to determine what needs to be done about it. Kathleen Sarris, Robert Gravel, and William Hassell describe violence directed against them because of their homosexuality.