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- Subject: GAYNET Digest Volume 10 Issue 12
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- Contents:
- Democratic Nat'l Committee Holiday Card
- Re: GAYNET Digest Volume 10 Issue 5
- 2nd Montreal anti-gay hate slaying
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- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 22:55:01 EST
- From: jeff@millie.loc.gov (Jeff Mallory)
- Subject: Democratic Nat'l Committee Holiday Card
-
-
- This year's DNC greeting card just has a picture of the White House
- framed in greens and boughs, with a Season's Greetings along the
- bottom!
-
- Jeff
-
- Thank you John P. for getting the gaynet eradio-mobile back
- on the air!!
-
-
-
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- Date: 18 Dec 1992 23:40:52 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Mykel --He's Right-- Board <MQB8130@ACFcluster.NYU.EDU>
- Subject: Re: GAYNET Digest Volume 10 Issue 5
-
- How do you UNSUBSCRIBE or at least set NOMAIL. I'll be gone for awhile
- and I don't want my account to explode.
- Thanks, Mykel
-
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- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 01:52 EDT
- From: ALAN YOSHIOKA <ES051204@Orion.YorkU.CA>
- Subject: 2nd Montreal anti-gay hate slaying
-
- 5 charged in second Montreal hate slaying
- School teacher found dead after being severely beaten at roadside
- rest stop
-
- from the Globe and Mail (Toronto), Dec 18, 1992, page 7.
-
- Quebec police say they are dealing with their second hate slaying
- in two weeks after the arrest of five young males in the beating
- of a man believed to be gay.
-
- Daniel Lacombe, a 37-year-old high school teacher, was found dead
- early Saturday at a rest stop in Joliette.
-
- "Like many roadside rest stops, this is a very popular meeting
- spot for homosexual men," said a spokesman for the Joliette
- police. He said the victim seemed to have stopped to go to the
- washroom when he was attacked.
-
- Originally, police thought Mr. Lacombe had suffered a heart
- attack and cut his head in a fall. But an autopsy revealed he had
- been beaten about the head and had suffered a fatally ruptured
- aneurysm.
-
- "The victim was beaten, but he died for other reasons. That's why
- the charge isn't murder," said a spokesman for the provincial
- police.
-
- He said five males, aged 16 to 19, were arrested. One is charged
- with manslaughter and one with aggravated assault, and three are
- charged under the Young Offenders Act with conspiracy to commit a
- criminal act.
-
- On Dec. [sic, actually Nov.] 29, the body of 51-year-old Yvon
- Lalonde was found in Montreal's Angrignon Park, another meeting
- spot for men seeking homosexual encounters.
-
- Police said Mr. Lalonde had been bludgeoned to death by a group
- of Nazi skinheads who had stalked the victim because they
- believed him to be gay.
-
- Six young persons are in prison charged under the Young Offenders
- Act with first degree [i.e. premeditated] murder.
-
- After that killing, police revealed that the park had been the
- site of dozens of assaults against solitary men in recent months.
- Community activists said there has also been a marked increase in
- violence against gays and lesbians in Montreal's Gay Village.
-
- A coalition of gay and lesbian groups set up a 24-hour hotline in
- response to the rising violence, saying homosexuals are reluctant
- to report crimes because of traditionally poor relations with
- police.
-
- The newly formed coalition called for a public inquiry by the
- Quebec Human Rights Commission into violence against homosexuals,
- and criticized provincial Justice Minister Gil Rmillard. The
- commission will consider the request today.
-
- Despite an outcry from a number of civil-rights and religious
- groups over the first hate slaying, Mr. Remillard played down
- that incident.
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- end of globe story
-
- In Toronto there is a rally and demonstration on Dec 19 at 7:30
- p.m. at the 519 Church St. Community Centre in the heart of the
- gay ghetto. The event is organized by a group called Anti-racist
- Action.
-
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- End of Digest
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