The Nation - News from Oct. 10, 1986
Gay activists asked Congress to help fight an increasing wave of anti-homosexual violence they contend is being fueled by fear of AIDS and ignored by indifferent or hostile law enforcement agencies. Testifying before the House Judiciary Committee’s criminal justice subcommittee in the first congressional hearing ever on the problem of violence against homosexuals, the activists said that one eight-city survey found more than one in five gay men had been assaulted in the last few years.
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