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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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The Gay Homeland Foundatn is an ternatnal anizatn dited to the ia of creatn of a self-admistrated terrory for the GLBT-people. 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.
A ‘GAY HOMELAND’ UNDONE BY HOMOPHOBIA AND RACISM
What happened when a biracial uple tried to tablish a gay muny lled Stonewall Park the Nevada sert durg the AIDS epimic * homeland gay *
In many stat homosexualy is persecuted by crimal laws, rultg long imprisonment or ath penalty. Great progrs were achieved by the efforts of Gay rights activists groups like ILGA, cludg Gay marriage or civil partnership liberal untri. We regnize the efforts of the numero ternatnal and lol Gay and Lbian anizatns, but we also strongly believe that this approach do not offer a relief for the GLBT people sufferg the worst discrimatn large parts of this world.
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.
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.
NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
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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.
WE SPOKE TO THE MAN WHO REALLY WANTS A SEPARATE COUNTRY FOR GAY PEOPLE
The man who shot up a gay club Colorado Sprgs earlier this month has drawn praise onle foms, Homeland Secury said Wednday, warng that LGBT dividuals now face a heightened risk of attack the g months. * homeland gay *
“Ghost Town to Bee Gay Town, ” said Uned Prs Internatnal.
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.
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 *
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.
He was driven to build a gay homeland not jt for the greater good, but also to give Parkson, whom some scribed as gnively challenged, a safe and peaceful place to live after Schoonmaker was gone, said Rob Schlegel, a reporter who vered the Stonewall Park story for Reno’s gay Bohemian Bugle newspaper, and the lol mastream paper, the Death Valley Gateway ia of a separate gay muny was not new to the charismatic Schoonmaker, acrdg to Dennis McBri, who wrote about Stonewall Park his book, “Out of the Neon Closet: Queer Communy the Silver State. ” He was probably volved wh the Los Angel Gay Liberatn Front, which 1970 veloped plans to tablish a gay muny northern California’s ty Alpe County 10 south of Lake Tahoe, McBri proposal shocked California’s ernment and faced major opposn om relig lears and rints. Schoonmaker knew he would need more than a morn sculpture to attract fellow gays to his town.
But he reasoned that he’d have to build the gay muny an area where no one else would want to live, where lols would appreciate the velopment, and gays uld be left alone, acrdg to Schlegel. In October of 1986, Schoonmaker announced the al and the forthg gay mec, even though one of the partners the UPI article said that “negotiatns were ntug and no money had changed hands. But stead, the homophobia he hoped to pe nonted him, as gay-fearg lols protted and news outlets County missner Bob Revert, who owned a general store and gas statn the nearby town of Beatty, ma very clear that gay people weren’t wele, acrdg to Schlegel.