'Gay Bashg'--AIDS Fear Ced as Attacks on Male Homosexuals Grow - Los Angel Tim

Contents:

• CHAPTER 9 GAY-BASHG: VLENCE AND AGGRSN AGAST GAY MEN AND LBIANS
• GAY BULLYG, GAY BULLI AND DEALG WH GAY BASHG
• ‘GAY BASHG’ A GROWG THREAT TO HOMOSEXUALS
• TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
• HOMOSEXUAL SAILOR BEATEN TO DEATH, NAVY CONFIRMS : CRIME: GAY-BASHG MAY BE MOTIVE, ACTIVISTS AND FAY MEMBERS SAY. THEY CHARGE VER-UP BY ARY.
• ‘GAY BASHG’--AIDS FEAR CED AS ATTACKS ON MALE HOMOSEXUALS GROW

CHAPTER 9 GAY-BASHG: VLENCE AND AGGRSN AGAST GAY MEN AND LBIANS

Publisher SummaryThis chapter foc on dividual gay-bashg through theorizg that ntribut to the stigmatizatn of homosexualy and vertly by failg to acknowledge and exame the problem of antigay vlence. The pervasive homophobic i of the society at large and of the amic muny self rulted both the neglect and the ghettoizatn of this important problem.

GAY BULLYG, GAY BULLI AND DEALG WH GAY BASHG

The outset of aggrsn and vlence agast gays and lbians take many forms om the obv, such as physil attacks, sults, and vic jok, to the subtle but equally pernic, such as the refal to regnize the existence and legimacy of the gay muny and gay culture, the re-wrg of verse by famo poets to obscure referenc to same-sex love, and the genocidal failure by the Amerin ernment to fund AIDS preventn efforts at an aquate level.

The level of acceptabily or unacceptabily of homosexual behavr vari tremendoly om culture to culture and even over time wh the same culture.

‘GAY BASHG’ A GROWG THREAT TO HOMOSEXUALS

Gay bullyg statistics dite that gay teens are two-to-three tim more likely to m suici than other youths and about 30% of all suicis have been lked to a genr inty crisis. Gay bullyg statistics dite that 9-out-of-10 gay youth have been subject to bullyg and that, of those, almost half were physilly harassed and a quarter report beg physilly asslted. Any dividual mor cince of gay bullyg or gay bashg may be somethg that someone n al wh but the ma problem wh is s pervasive and nsistent nature to the pot where jur an dividual's self-teem and sire to live.

TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED

Many anizatns are dited to stop gay bashg and gay bullyg and there are more and more iativ lolly, like high schools, to stop gay bashg. Over 4000 Gay-Straight Allianc are now registered wh the Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network and iativ such as "No Name-Callg Week" now exist to put the spotlight on all typ of bullyg and bashg.

He scribed his first exposure to the ps' gay bashg when he was told to meet a group of six to ten officers at a lol Sydney park while uniform.

Higgbotham quickly realized was not a legimate police operatn, but stead a brazen and public mob attack by uniform police targetg gay men.

HOMOSEXUAL SAILOR BEATEN TO DEATH, NAVY CONFIRMS : CRIME: GAY-BASHG MAY BE MOTIVE, ACTIVISTS AND FAY MEMBERS SAY. THEY CHARGE VER-UP BY ARY.

"Eventually, I unrstood that this was beatg gay people and was beatg gay people wh alumum tncheons and was done by on-duty uniformed police.

‘GAY BASHG’--AIDS FEAR CED AS ATTACKS ON MALE HOMOSEXUALS GROW

"The cliffs surroundg the greater Sydney area NSW were popular wh members of the gay muny lookg to hook up durg the 1970s and '80s.