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British Military Boots Gay Servicemembers |
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By Rex Wockner
International News Report 116 Anti-Gay Murders in Brazil
There were 116 anti-gay murders in Brazil in 1998 reports the
Bahia Gay Group (GGB), which has kept violence statistics for
several years.
Seventy-three of the victims were gay men, 36 transvestites and seven lesbians. "Most of the gay men were shot dead inside their own apartments, while the transvestites were mainly killed in the street," said the group's Luiz Mott. "Many of these crimes are committed with excessive cruelty, with many stab wounds, strangulation, suffocation and torture."
GGB's 1998 report also catalogs non-fatal violence against gays and anti-gay discrimination by governments, churches, schools, employers and the media. For a copy of the report, write GGB, Caixa Postal 2552, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, fax 011-55-71-322- 3783 or e-mail luizmott@ufba.br. British Military Boots Gay Servicemembers Sixty-five members of the British armed forces were ejected for being gay in 1998, The Pink Paper reported April 2. Forty-one were men and 24 were women. One was an officer. The majority served in the army. Britain's military gay ban is currently under scrutiny from European courts. |
