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ANTI-GAY AND LESBIAN VIOLENCE REPORT
A s part three of a series reporting incidents
of violence and harassment compiled and pub-
lished by the National Gay and Lesbian Task
Force, the following segment focuses on verbal
harassment and defamation as reported from
various media sources:
• February 1992: Presidential candidate Pat
Buchanan aired anti-gay television advertise-
ments to attack president George Bush.
Buchanan’s ad featured sensationalized excerpts
from Tongues Untied, a documentary about Af-
rican-American gay men that was subsidized by
the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
The commercial accused Bush of investing tax
dollars in “pornographic and blasphemous art”
that “glorified” homosexuality. Following the
ads, the Bush White House forced the resignation
of NEA chairman John Frohnmayer.
• February 1992: Following a meeting
between Bush/Quayle campaign chairman Rob-
ert Mosbacher and officials of the National Gay
and Lesbian Task Force, conservatives called on
Bush to distance himself from the meeting. Morris
Chapman, Southern Baptist Convention chief,
wrote Bush, “We call upon you personally to
disavow any support or sympathy for the homo-
sexual civil right agenda.” GOP presidential
contender Pat Buchanan and conservative con-
gressmen also attacked the meeting. The Admin-
istration did distance itself from the meeting,
with the White House Press secretary Marlin
Fitzwater saying about Mosbacher, "The meet-
ing w as a matter of personal conscience because
a daughter who is homosexual asked him to do
it.”
• June 1992: Vice-President Dan Quayle
began stressing “family values” in speeches and
interviews during the summer. At a fund-raising
event, he said George Bush “is willing to stand up
for basic values, rather than treating all life style
choices as morally equivalent." An aide stated
later that the comment referred to homosexual-
ity.
• June 1992: When asked in a New York
Times interview whether he thought it is “wrong
for people of the same sex or unmarried people to
be parents,” George Bush said, “I can’t accept as
normal life style [sic] people of the same sex
being parents. I don’t accept that as normal. And
I believe in the traditional family values. But to
glamorize hie styles tnat are, m my view, nut
normal life styles, I don’t approve of that I don’t
want to censor it, but I don’t approve of it.”
• August 1992: “[Bush] is not going to
investigate people's private lives or demand to
know sexual preference before he appoints people.
But he is going to appoint people who do repre-
sent his views on family values. People who
openly advocate gay life styles are not prime
candidates for jobs,"said Charles Black, advisor
to the Bush campaign.
• August 1992: In response to a New York
Times question on how he would deal with a gay
grandchild, George Bush said, "I’d love that
child, I would put my arm around him and I
would hope he wouldn’t go out and try to con-
vince people that this was the normal life style,
that this was appropriate life style, that this was
the way it ought to be. But I would say I hope you
wouldn’t become an advocate for a life style that
in my view is not normal, and propose marriages,
same sex marriages as a normal way of life.”
• September 1992: Dan Quayle said his
view on homosexuality is “that it’s more of a
choice than a biological situation. I think it is a
wrong choice. I do believe in most cases it
certainly is a choice.”
• January 1992: Actor Mel Gibson launched
a tirade against gay men during an interview with
the Spanish newspaper, El Pais, which was sub-
sequently reprinted in the US press. “They take
it up the ass,” he said as got out of his chair, bent
over and pointed to his posterior. “This is only
for taking a shit.” Gibson told the interviewer
that he decided to become an actor despite his
fear of being considered gay, and added, “With j
this look, who’s going to think I’m gay? It would
be hard to take me for someone like that. Do I
sound like a homosexual? Do I talk like them?
Do I move like them?” Asked by Good Morning
America to respond to gay groups’ charges of
defamation, Gibson said, “I don’t think there’s an
apology necessary, and I’m certainly not giving
one.”
• March 1992: The much-hyped release of
the movie Basic Instinct drew protests from gay
and lesbian activists around the country because
of its portrayal of lesbians as ice-pick-wielding,
man-hating, psychopathic killers. Roxy, the live-
in lover of the main character Catherine, slashed
her little brother to death when she was 14 be-
cause, according to the script, “she just sort of did
it on impulse.” Roxy also tries to kill the lead
male character in a jealous rage after watching
him have sex with Catherine. All the lesbian and
bisexual characters have killed someone during
their lives, and most are killed by the movie’s
end.
•April 1991: Dr. David Viscott, a late-night
sex and relationship adv ice personal ity on KNBC
radio in Los Angeles, stated twice on the air that
gay and lesbian relationships were not normal. A
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i woman called Viscoit’s program, complaining
about her broken heart because she fell in love
with an older woman who was “playing games.”
In counseling the woman, the doctor said, “This
woman would taunt and tease you just to pull you
along,” and added, “It’s part of that lifestyle a
little, isn’t it?” Later that month, an obviously
distraught young gay man was told that gays are
basically “unhealthy” and that he should seek
help to change his orientation.
• July 1992: Syndicated columnist Cal
Thomas suggested that at the Republican Na-
tional Convention, ‘The gay rights agenda should
be challenged. Former homosexuals from groups
like Exodus should speak of the lifestyle as
abnormal and immoral, of the availability of help
for those wanting to change and the danger to
society of accepting homosexual practice as valid
and healthy.” In August, h<* HJastpd spousal
rights for gays, saying, “If people can abort,
divorce or engage m homosexual sex without
being held accountable and made to conform to
moral standards that society deems best for its
members, why should anyone be concerned about
the rights of others?”
• August 1992: Pat Buchanan said at the
Republican National Convention, "The agenda
that Clinton and Gore would impose on America
— abortion on demand, a litmus test for the
Supreme Court, homosexual rights, discrimina-
tion against religious schools, women in combat
units — that’s change, all right, but it’s not the
kind of change America needs. It is not the kind
of change we can abide in a nation we still call
God’s country. There is a religious war going on
in this country. It is a cultural war, as critical to
the kind of nation wc shall be as the Cold War
itself.” Enemies cited in the “war” included
homosexuals, feminists and defenders of abor-
tion rights for women.
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