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Contents:
- GAY HOMELAND FOUNDATN
- A ‘GAY HOMELAND’ UNDONE BY HOMOPHOBIA AND RACISM
- NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
- WE SPOKE TO THE MAN WHO REALLY WANTS A SEPARATE COUNTRY FOR GAY PEOPLE
GAY HOMELAND FOUNDATN
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A ‘GAY HOMELAND’ UNDONE BY HOMOPHOBIA AND RACISM
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Whereas Gay and Lbian people some European untri and Canada are ee om discrimatn and enjoy equal rights wh heterosexual cizens, most of our people are subject to harassment, huiatn and state-sanctned discrimatn.
NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
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May some untri the life for heterosexuals be difficult and full of hardship, the life of homosexuals is much harr. Non of the leadg liberal untri offers a ee immigratn right for persecuted Gay and Lbian people, and a sgle man or a woman n make very ltle to change the pace of history. There should be a refuge for our people to whdraw om homophobic stat now and the future.
WE SPOKE TO THE MAN WHO REALLY WANTS A SEPARATE COUNTRY FOR GAY PEOPLE
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This ncept might clu protected settlements wh existg untri, as well as a creatn of a new land for homosexual people. An addnal crease of self-nscns of the GLBT-muny is expected when Gay and Lbian people would unrstand themselv as a "folk" wh own cultural inty and tradns, a Gay natn ed.
9, 1986, at the height of anti-gay hysteria durg the AIDS crisis, a biracial gay uple om Reno, Nev., ma a remarkable announcement: They were gog to create what some lled “a gay homeland” the Nevada Schoonmaker and Aled Parkson planned to name the muny Stonewall Park, after the 1969 uprisg New York that lnched the gay rights movement. The effort to transform the abandoned ghost town of Rhyole to an enclave wh gay-owned banks, shops, sos, and sgle-fay hom mec ma news.
“Group Buys Ghost Town for Homosexual Cy, ” said the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “Ghost Town to Bee Gay Town, ” said Uned Prs Internatnal.
Meet Viktor Zimmerman, the director of the Gay Homeland Foundatn and a man wh a vehement plan to tablish a gay-led untry. * homeland gay *
And the lol Death Valley Gateway Gazette put s own twist on : “Happy Gays Are Here Aga.
” Schoonmaker billed Stonewall Park as a rort muny, a haven where gays uld live and thrive away om AIDS-spired and legally sanctned homophobia. Schoonmaker, then 44, had faced homophobia long before movg to Nevada, which still had an anti-sodomy law, the 1980s. Growg up a small Wt Virgia mg town, he knew he was gay om age 9.
In high school, his two bt iends, 16-year-old boys who were also gay, died by suici, part “bee they knew what society thought of gay people and didn’t anticipate a happy future for themselv, ” acrdg to a story the Los Angel 1974, Schoonmaker met Parkson, his partner, San Francis, where the two ran a few bs ventur before settlg Reno. There, they both worked at sos but were relegated to the rtrants — at that time, gays were forbidn to handle rds, dice and money for gamblg gam. Parkson was black, and as Schoonmaker soon saw, Ameri was not safe pecially for Ain Amerin gays at the time, they faced racial tnts Reno.