Flyers Attack Gays Again; Activists Urge Caution by Students : Cal State Northridge: It is the second time in a week handbills calling for violence have been found. This time, they mention a group blamed for assaults.

Crudely drawn flyers calling for attacks on homosexuals appeared Friday at Cal State Northridge as a campus activist group urged students to protect themselves against threatened gay bashing during an emotional “teach-in.”

It was the second time in a week such anti-gay flyers have appeared on the campus.

Four flyers were discovered at several locations by students and members of SQUISH--Strong Queers United in Stopping Heterosexism.

Two were marked by swastikas and mentioned “The Blue Boys,” a group that has been blamed for several attacks on gays in West Hollywood and Silver Lake during the past few years.

Police said The Blue Boys have used baseball bats in their assaults.

Campus police officials said the flyers are linked to other flyers distributed on campus within the past week that offered free baseball bats for a “gay bashing and clubbing” night.

“These new flyers add the additional element of providing us with a possible source for these hate crimes,” said Lt. Mark Hissong.

“We’re obligated to maintain peace on campus through the investigation of all these flyers.”

The four flyers, one of which called for violence against homosexuals, were displayed during a two-hour teach-in held by SQUISH in a Fine Arts Building classroom attended by more than 70 students.

“I’m sickened by this,” said SQUISH member Mat Rodieck. “It makes me angry and scared.”

He added that gay and non-gay students should start taking precautions for their personal safety. “These latest flyers indicate that we really have to start doing that.”

Several students and faculty members spoke about discrimination and their fears over the hostility expressed in the flyers.

“It’s not an issue of who’s more oppressed, because we’re all targeted by this,” said SQUISH co-founder Desiree Dreeuws.

“These new flyers are racist, anti-Semitic, anti-gay. I’m scared for my family.”

Her voice became choked, and she stopped speaking.

The campus has been rocked all week by the discovery last Saturday of similar flyers.

The first flyer read “Squash the SQUISH” and showed a stick figure knocking off another stick figure’s head with a baseball bat.

The flyer urged readers to gather this evening at the “Northridge Park parking lot.”

The flyers sparked a “die-in” sponsored by SQUISH, in which members drew chalk outlines of their bodies on a campus sidewalk.

The protest set off a shouting, spitting confrontation with other students.

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