The collection was to have taken place at the Port of Miami where another cruise ship with lesbians aboard was set to dock That ship, the Seabreeze, had been treated shabbily by Christian Coalition spin-offs in Nassau, Bahamas. The Caymans boycott, say Oral Majority spokespersons, is a reprisal for the official Cayman's Tourist office refusal to allow recent docking to a cruise ship with 900 gay males aboard.

Kunst , Logan and Oral Majority activists had also planned a gala welcome for the 800 Nassau-spurned lesbians. "WELCOME HOME!" said a large sign on The Oral Majority van. The happy-go-lucky protesters had also brought ""hugs and kisses" chocolates as gifts for the docked visitors.

"We were forced out; denied permission to collect signatures; and harassed by Officer Wynter," complained Kunst to GayToday. Two more officers arrived to back up Wynter and one of them, said Kunst, wrote a report "in case it appeared that she was involved in anti-gay political activity."

Kunst believes, he says, that the Miami police were, in fact, working in collusion with anti-boycott forces in the Caymans and elsewhere, helping homophobic tourist officials abroad.

The veteran activist had secured Port of Miami entry permission last Wednesday, he says, from a woman whose first name was Heidi. His free speech rights were trampled on by police, he charges.

Officer Wynter, says Kunst, refused to believe that Oral Majority had previously collected signatures in the Port in February, and had also, at that time, secured permission to do so.

"Wynter wasn't interested in the 1^st Amendment for us or the Miami media, TV's local news Channels 4 (CBS) and 6 (NBC)," said Kunst. In fact Miami's CBS news lead- story was devoted Sunday to the arrival of the lesbian cruise at Miami's Port. NBC's TV news showed Oral Majority members and the lesbians too. ABC's coverage was devoted exclusively to the city's lesbian visitors, however.

Prior to the Oral Majority's eviction from the Port, the activist group was shown on CBS collecting Cayman Islands boycott signatures from passengers filing out of the lesbian cruise ship. Oral Majority, harassed by police, quickly switched collection sites, setting up a table at Lincoln Road and Euclid Avenue on Miami Beach. Thus far the boycott has collected over 6,000 signatures.

"I got to talk with a number of the lesbians who'd been on the Nassau cruise ship," director Kunst explained, and they told what had happened in Nassau. (See GayToday, Events, April 15.)

The women said that they'd been warned aboard ship that the Christian fundamentalists would be waiting for them when the Seabreeze docked in Nassau. There had also been assurances from the Bahamian government that passenger safety would be a priority. In fact, the women complained, there were only two police personnel on the Nassau dock.

They had also been told that the "Christian" demonstrators would be kept distant from the ship. Contrary to this promise, the fundamentalists got up onto the pier itself. They sang hymns at the lesbians but instead of responding angrily the same-sex passengers joined in the singing. The Bahamian government later apologized, the women said.

The Oral Majority will file a grievance with the Port of Miami,