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Press release

Queer press and NGOs disassociate from "GLA"

Johannesburg | 2002-08-05

W
e, the organisation mentioned below, hereby wish to make the following joint statement regarding the so-called Gay and Lesbian Alliance:

  1. The GLA has no proven track record of representing the interests of the lesbian and gay community;
  2. This "homosexual party" as it refers to itself,has no record of political struggle for lesbian and gay equality and they certainly do not have any record of activism for democracy in our country.
  3. The leadership of the GLA have not in any manner contributed to the campaigns for partnership rights in the workplace and in society. The GLA fails to understand that to win the equality will take more than a factional and marginalised political party.
  4. The GLAs' attempts to form a so-called Gay political party, is misguided and against the interests of lesbian and gay people;
  5. The GLA cannot point to a single gain they have achieved for lesbian and gay people in South Africa, rather, they have attempted to benefit from the reputation gained by our respective organisations.
  6. The GLA cannot claim support from any of the prominent lesbian or gay organisations in this country.
  7. We jointly disassociate ourselves from any statements and actions by the GLA and we place into absolute dispute that the GLA is "the political voice of lesbigay South Africa".
  8. We further advice all responsible media partners to examine carefully any statements made by the GLA in respect of accuracy of fact and originality of source.
  9. By example, a recent statement by the GLA implied that they had been involved in the matter of Muir versus Mutual & Federal as was heard before the Pension Funds Adjudicator. In fact, the GLA had no connection with this case whatsoever.

For further comment, contact Evert Knoesen, Acting Director, the Lesbian and Gay Equality Project.

Released by:

OUT Wellaway - Pretoria
The Triangle Project - Cape Town
The Kwa-Zulu Natal Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality
The Gay Health Centre - Durban
The Lesbian and Gay Equality Project - Johannesburg
Q.co.za - Johannesburg
Womyn Magazine - Johannesburg
Behind the Mask - Johannesburg

Issued by:
The Lesbian and Gay Equality Project
36 Grafton Road, Yeoville, 2143.
PO Box 27811, Yeoville, 2143.
Contact person: Evert Knoesen, Director.
Tel: 011 487 3810/1/2 Fax: 011 648 4204
Email: evert@equality.org.za

 
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