Queers Against Terror
& Gender Apartheid
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QATGA is a global collective of activists against hatred, incitement terror and violence directed against members of the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Transgendered & Bisexual) community by oppressive regimes such as Syria, Saudi Arabia & the Palestinian Authority and other tyrannies and by terrorist groups. Through our diversity we find unity. Through truth to power, we fight bigotry & oppression. Our members are gay & straight and include people of all races, creeds, religions and political colors interested in sexual rights, human rights, civil rights and building a world of peace, beauty, peaceful coexistence, dignity, respect & pride for all people.
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Remembering 9/11
The memory, the horror, the sheer madness of it all is indelibly ingrained on ouor All of us, now matter where in the world we happen to live, remember clearly exactly what they were doing when the first heard the news of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.  The images of 9-11 and the aftermath of the terrorist attacks have impacted, in one way or another, all of our lives.

The total GLBT number of deaths may never be known.  Not all of the victims were 'out'.  But, the list of those who were 'out' is a cross strata of American life: From Mark Bingham, the ad agency owner who joined his fellow passengers on United Flight 93 to take on the terrorists to Mychal Judge, the gay Catholic priest who died while giving the last rites to a fallen fireman at the World Trade Center, to a gay couple on their way home.

We remember all the victims, gay and straight and we stand alongside the families and survivors.
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Gays Attacked
At Palestinian Protest
(London)
Members of two British gay rights groups were attacked when they attempted to participate in a demonstration for Palestinian rights.

OutRage and Queer Youth Alliance went to the protest march at Trafalgar Square to show their support for people of Palestine. But they also urged the Palestinian Authority to halt the arrest, torture and murder of homosexuals.

As soon as they arrived at the square members of the two groups were surrounded by an angry, screaming mob of Islamic fundamentalists, Anglican clergymen, members of the Socialist Workers Party, the Stop the War Coalition, and officials from the protest organizers, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC). 
They variously attacked the gay activists as "racists" "CIA and MI5 agents";, "supporters of  Israel and America" and accused the gays of "dividing the Free Palestine movement with Western values".

PSC organisers asked the gay activists to "stand at the back of the demonstration" and when they refused blocked their placards with their own banners and shouted down the gay campaigners as they tried to speak to journalists and other protesters.

"We call on the PLO and Palestinian Authority to condemn homophobia, uphold queer human rights, and to order an immediate end to the abuse of lesbian and gay Palestinians" said OutRage! protester, Brett Lock.  

Another protester, Peter Tatchell, said: "Gay Palestinians live in fear of arrest, detention without trial, torture and execution at the hands of Palestinian police and security services. They also risk abduction and so-called honor killing by vengeful family members and vigilante mobs, as well as punishment beatings and murder by Palestinian political groups such as Hamas and Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement."
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