THE HATE TIMES
a subsidary of the Gay Defence League
all contents (C)1998 the Gay Defence League
Issue no. 1, November 1998
FREEDOM FROM
FEAR!
FREEDOM FROM
HATE!
GNN--PHOENIX AZ, 22Nov98
The Gay Defence League announces the creation of 'The Hate Times', an on-line newspaper.

"I hope that the Times will be able to function entirely on volunteer energy, with most submissions comming from the people who
E.L.WILLIAMS, CEO. eric lee williams experienced them, or who have personal knowledge of them.", said Williams, founder of the Gay Defence League.
"Through this new addition to the electronic media we intend to create a place where people can come to get the latest news on hate crimes and hopefully to find out what has been done about them.", he said.
"The emphasis here is to be on those crimes which don't make the national media splash as the Shepard case has done, but to point out the large number of lesser crimes which happen on a day-to-day basis. Of course it all depends upon people sending in their stories and photos.", he concluded.
SUED FOR SELF-DEFENSE
From the "Letters" column of the November 24, 1998, edition of NORTHERN EXPRESS, published at Traverse City, Michigan

"This morning, I awoke to the sounds of childish delight and childish disgust. Curious, I went to my front door to see the object of the children's interest. There, on the sidewalk to my home, lay a dead squirrel, obviously flattened by a car tire. Too far from the street, it had to have been put there. I can only imagine by whom. And if they think that they're only antagonizing me, what about the impression it must have made on those children?

"My name is Doug Bradley. Perhaps you've heard about me. On October 2, 1998, as I was leaving Union Street Station [a local eatery and bar in Traverse City], my friend and I passed Dillinger's Pub [just a couple of doors down from Union Street Station] where two men started following us, and as we crossed State Street, they began yelling obscenities at us.


"The closer we came to my home in Central neighborhood, the more intense their onslaught became until at one point, I asked them why they were harassing us and they responded, 'Because we're going to kill you faggots!' "We naturally quickened our pace, but they caught up, for the first time becoming physical, tripping, kicking, and hitting us. As we came into my front yard, one of the assailants viciously hit my friend in the back of the head and, unable to stand the blows or the abuse any longer, I blindly struck out with a beer bottle from the six pack I was carrying, at the nearest attacker. The prosecuting attorney said that I 'escalated' the crime by retaliating in this manner, but I ask the prosecutor and you, what would you do in the same situation? Now I find out that, even though I was the victim, I am being sued by one of my attackers for defending myself! Is this justice? "I ran into my home and called 911. The assailants began throwing rocks from my rock garden at the front of my home, bashing in my door. I ran back outside, clutching my cordless telephone, both to check on my friend and to hopefully frighten the attackers away by informing them that I'd called 911. One of them responded, 'I don't care who the f--- you called; I'm going to kill you, faggot!' "I dialed 911 again. Still holding the telephone, I was attacked from behind, being choked until I almost lost consciousness and pummeled with fists until I fell to the ground. One of them picked up a rocking chair rocker from an old chair in my yard and savagely beat me about my head, shoulders, and back, resulting in a broken nose, loose teeth, abrasions, cuts, bruises, and swollen lips. I distinctly remember a third person standing there, coldly observing as I was beaten, then giving his friends a ride away from the crime scene, yet he was never charged with anything. "I would like to say that Sgt. Joe McCarthy was by far the most efficient, caring, and sympathetic police officer I have ever encountered in Traverse City. I honestly believe that he did his job to the best of his ability. "Now, whatever happens is up to the court system, but I firmly believe that it's high time the residents of Traverse City wake up and realize that it is no longer the wonderfully quaint all-American storybook town that my ancestors hailed from and I've loved all my life, but a city of thinly-veiled hatred."

M. Douglas J. Bradley
Traverse City Michigan

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