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From: rob@ptsfa.UUCP (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: Nazi concentration camps
Message-ID: <656@ptsfa.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20-May-85 16:47:46 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 20 16:47:46 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 24-May-85 03:26:32 EDT
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Reply-To: rob@ptsfa.UUCP (Rob Bernardo)
Organization: Pacific Bell, San Francisco
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Summary: 

In article <2225@decwrl.UUCP> lasher@via.DEC (Lew Lasher - DTN 381-2651) writes:
>Gay leaders and politicians bungled an excellent public relations
>opportunity brought about by President Reagan's bungled visit to
>West Germany.  Not just Jews and Legionnaires had a right to be
>outraged; not just Jews and political prisoners were slaughtered
>by the Nazis: gay people were a major contingent in concentration
>camps.  But while a renewed awareness about Nazi misdeeds was stirred
>inadvertently by Reagan, no such consciousness raising was to be had about
>gay oppression under the Third Reich.  Gay leaders were sleeping, or
>perhaps vacationing in Nicaragua.
>
>		Lew Lasher
>		Digital Equipment Corporation


I think this may be a false impression due to the lack of coverage of
by the mainstream media to report official messages of protest by
Gay leaders. If my memory serves me correctly, Bay Area Reporter
(a gay San Francisco paper) reported the participation of Gay Jews
who protested as GAY JEWS at a holocaust memorial in SF.
-- 


Rob Bernardo, San Francisco, California
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