Date:         Wed, 13 Apr 94 00:14:03 EDT
From: Bob Summersgill <XE605C@gwuvm.gwu.edu>


Press clipping:

Echo Magazine (Phoenix) March 24 - April 6, 1994

Minority Opinion	

Washington--One of the founders of a new gay rights groups--Gay and
Lesbian Americans (GLA)--has endorsed rioting and political
assassination to achieve equal rights for homosexuals.

Michael Petrelis, a former head of the Washington, DC chapter of
ACT-UP and a former member of Queer naion, was quoted in the
November-December issue of the Magazine _Mother Jones_ as saying,
"If someone took out Jesse Helms or William Dannemeyer of California,
I would be the first to stand up and applaud." Elsewhere in the article
by Michael Willrich, Petrelis speaks of the 1989 AIDS conference in
San Francisco: "We should have shut down the subway and burned down
city hall. I think rioting is a valid tactic and should be tried,"
the _Philadelphia Gay News_ reported.

GLA's first nationwide action was press conferences at state capitals to
push for lesbian and gay rights on Valentine's Day.

Steven Reichert, described by a GLA news release as "interim National
Network Coordinator," said gays and lesbians "can't rely on a small
handful of Washington lobbyists to gain freedom.  Our challenge
will be to empower people to speak for themselves, shout at their
elected officials, and have a voice in their own liberation."


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