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places, WITH a report on gay rights about be presented by the Labour Party national executive, a march is to be held in ManFebruary against the state repression of lesbian and gay people.
It aims to bring to light the many different ways in which Children are pressured to hide lesbians their sexuality for fear that they separated. Gay men face much heavier sentences heterosexuals for comOn the streets, the police arrest gays if we hold hands, kiss • Thev ar. rest us for having sex in 'public' but harass our private clubs. They refuse to protect us from 'queer bashers' In school children taught that heterosexuality is 'natural' and desirable. Young repressed, harassed by the police, and liable to be put into care or sent to Borstal 'for their own protection'.
In mental hospitals, lesbian and gay people are given aversion therapy, shock treatment, drugs including hormones remove our sexuality), brain surgery to Cure In prison, we are emotional. ly and physically harassed by both warders and other mates sexuality known.
In the bedroom, young people involved gay relation. ships are liable to be put into care or sent to borstal or mental hospital. It is illegal for adult men to have gay relationships are with someone under 21 - or, in the north of Ireland, any age. The police have regular witch. hunts which blackmail to gain information In the home, have no legal rights and so it is impossible for gay assert their against their parents. The way the law is applied to tor instance. and man to rape his wife out make the situation of married lesbians more intolerable.
In employment, public secemployers against gays if about our sexuanty, if we are in contact with young have upheld employers to sack us solely on the groman see sa many the be they women.
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for strong discriminate we are open VOUI especially emplovment tribunals the right of Lesolan respects increase police witch-hunts over the past year Manchester demonstration will be calling for an end to police harassment and to discrimination in the courts crime without a victim.
Young people should have right to determine their own sexuality, ana inere nas to legal and financial independence for youth and The demonstration demane end medical torture of gays, and to discrimination in emplovment It. will be the first march ever held on the general issue Stare repression of gays National already come the Unior of and left organisaorganisers are calling labour movement support, so us is a good op portunity to raise gay rights ir oracusalem Labour Party branch.
Information leaflets and posters from: Campaign Against State Repression of and Gav People, BM Gay volse, London vC TV 3XX. Attillatior and donations to: CASR, c/0 Gay Centre, 61a Bloom St, Manchester 1.