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Repeated protests demand inquiry into excessive force
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P O W E R S of the press watched in shock, the protesters
were brutally beaten: 48 were arrested, 70 were
injured and 12 sought medical treatment.
ontreal Urban Community police
According to members of Montreal’s
(MUC) made a violent raid on a private lesbian and gay community, the MUC police
gay party on July 15. According to Montreal’s have a history of similar treatment toward
Lesbiennes et Gais Contre La Violence (LG V), native peoples, blacks, women, and people with
a coalition working to stop anti-gay violence,
disabilities.
officers from Station 25 physically and verbally
Police later admitted that undue force was
brutalized the approximately 300 people
used during the July 15 raid, that the use of
present at the party which took place in the
rubber gloves and riot gear was provocative,
city’s “gay village.”
and that there is a problem with the relationship
Nearly 50 people were injured and eight
between themselves and Montreal’s lesbian and
were arrested for allegedly assaulting an
gay community. Despite these admissions,
officer. Arrestees were reportedly denied
charges against the arrestees were not dropped,
medical attention for up to 24 hours. LGV also although ACT UP/Montreal’s Michael
said that police had removed their plastic
Hendrick’s says that the lesbian and gay com
identification tags in direct violation of MUC
munity is now looking toward “sustained and
policy. Frank Smithson, a member of ACT UP/ concrete demands” in dealing with the police,
New York, said that people were running for
and a full-scale inquiry by the city’s Public
their lives as the MUC officers “floored their
Security Commission.
engines, trying to run people over on the
Another demonstration protesting the police
sidewalk.”
incidents was held on July 29. Attendence
At 9 pm that same day, about 900 demon
estimates ranged from 2000 by the press, to
strators gathered in the Gay Village to stage a
2500 by the event’s organizers.
peaceful sit-in, protesting the police raid. Riot
Contributions to the LGV Legal Fund can
gear-clad MUC officers from Station 33 also
be sent to Lesbiennes et Gais Contre La
showed up for the event
Violence, c/o Contre Communitaire Gais
Demonstrators called for police to drop all
Lesbiennes, Montreal, C.P. 476, Succ. C,
charges against those arrested, free a man who Montreal, QC H2L 4K4, Canada, or call (514)
was still in custody, make an independent
522-9851.
inquiry in to the incident, and give the gay -
Actions are also being planned at the
community a seat on the MUC police/minority Canadian embassy in Washington, DC.
relations committee. By 11:15 pm the crowd
Members of Queer Nation’s International Focus
had agreed to disperse, promised by the police Group in New York have urged that protest
that their demands would be addressed by noon letters and phone calls be addressed to Quebec
the next day.
Delegate-General Leo Pare, Quebec Govern
On July 16, the violence began again, when ment House, 17 West 50th Steet, Rockefeller
250 lesbian and gay protesters staged a
Center, New York, NY 10020; (212) 397-0200.
noontime kiss-in at Station 25. Club-wielding
officers in riot gear, once again wearing no
Excerpted from an article by Jon Nalley, Gay
identification, attacked the demonstrators from
Community News, Aug. 5-11,1990.
four directions. While bystanders and members
M
Community Defense Coalition, the Coalition
Human Rights March and Rally
for Human Dignity, AIDS Coalition to Unleash
Power (ACT UP), Lesbian Community Project,
A Portland-area coalition is planning a
Radical Women, Anti-Racist Action, Oregon
march and rally for Sunday, October 7, 1990, to Fellowship
of Reconciliation, American
address concerns about the increase in hate
Friends
Service
Committee, to Portland
crimes in Portland. The event will precede the
Rainbow Coalition and the Portland Reproduc
trial of neo-nazi organizer Tom Metzger, who
tive
Rights Committee. “Anyone interested in
is being sued in connection with the murder of celebrating
the diversity of our community and
Mulegeta Seraw. Eric Borgerson of the October working to drown
out the forces that would
7th Committee explained, “We want to show
destroy it, are welcome to join us,” says
that our community stands for justice and equal organizer
Catherine Smith.
rights for all people . . . bigotry and violence
The
next
meeting will be held Saturday,
like that promoted by Metzger will not be
August 18 from 1-5 pm in Room B of the
tolerated.”
Multnomah
County Library at 801 SW 10th
The event is being sponsored by a wide
Avenue.
spectrum of organizations, including the
Buffet Flat Denied Relocation
Deemed a “gold-mine-in-the-middle-of-
no where” by Self magazine. Central Oregon
antique palace Buffet Flat may soon be history.
The store, located on Highway 97 between
Redmond and Bend, home to such delights as a
bowling ball garden, a goat named Lucy that
lives in a pink Studebaker, and a dog named
Bear that lives in a tree, as well as a huge
collection of antiques and memorabilia dating
from around 1870 to 1960, is set to be demol
ished in September as part of a highway-
widening project
Owners Gene Carsey and Mike Craven, who
are openly gay, proposed moving the complex
across the highway, as explained in a Decem
ber, 1988 Oregonian article, but their applica
tion to move the store was denied by Deschutes
County hearings officer, Ed Fitch. Carsey and
Craven say that the ruling is being appealed to
the county commission level, and a hearing is
set for September. This is the last chance for
relocation of the business.
Buffet Flat opened in their present location
in 1977. Owners Carsey and Craven, host a
party for Central Oregon gays every Saturday
night. Friends of Buffet Flat have begun a letter
writing campaign to the Deschutes County
Commissioners, asking for fair play. For more
information call Gene Carsey or Mike Craven,
389-6391.
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