Date: Mon, 01 Dec 1997 13:55:51 +0000 From: David Subject: OutRage! Demo Tomorrow GAYS DEMAND SHARE OF LOOTED NAZI GOLD Bid to win Compensation for Homosexuals persecuted by Hitler ***** DEMONSTRATION ***** 9 a.m., Tuesday, 2-December-1997 Lancaster House, London SW1 -- Queen's Walk press entrance Government officials from the 15 nations attending the London conference on looted Nazi gold, including the British Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, will be confronted by lesbian and gay campaigners demanding compensation for the homosexual victims of Nazism. The gay rights group OutRage! has condemned suggestions that only Jewish people should benefit from a restitution agreement. We demand that everyone who suffered under the Third Reich should be entitled to a share of the gold stolen from holocaust victims by the Nazis, with priority going to those who have been denied compensation by the German government. The Nazi gold conference takes place on Tuesday, 2nd December, at Lancaster House, London SW1. Campaigners from the gay rights group OutRage! will picket the conference from 9 a.m., as Foreign Ministry officials from 15 nations arrive. The picket will be at the press entrance, on Queen's Walk, (a bridle path between Green Park tube station and The Mall). "Where the owners of looted gold cannot be traced, it should be used to compensate holocaust victims who have been refused reparations by the German government, including East European Jews and gay people" said Huw Williams of OutRage! "Some of the gold should be set aside to finance memorials, educational programmes, and museums in honour of the forgotten victims of Nazism, such as gypsies, the disabled, homosexuals, and black people." OutRage! is proposing that gay community groups should receive a share of the looted gold, to help finance: -- a gay holocaust memorial and museum in Berlin; -- educational films about the persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany, for distribution to schools; -- a hardship fund, to support elderly gay holocaust survivors. Further Information: Peter Tatchell, tel. 0171-403 1790. ======================================= http://www.OutRage.cygnet.co.uk/nazigold.htm ======================================= ======================================= o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o- o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o "It is not those who can inflict the most, but those that can suffer the most who will conquer" | Terence MacSwiney |-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-