UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, April 13, 1994
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Leader of human-rights group addresses gay, lesbian issues
A touch of Irish in downtown Lawrence
By Ashley Schultz Kansan staffwriter
Audience members were asked to sign two petitions at a presentation by Meg Satterthwaite last night at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
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One called for justice in the beheading of a Brazilian politician who had acknowledged that he was gay in a radio broadcast. The other called for the release of three Romanian men imprisoned because they were homosexual.
Satterthwaite is co-founder and chair of Amnesty International Members for Lesbian and Gay Concerns, which formed in 1990. She is co-coordinator of the "Breaking the Silence" campaign, and she co-authored its report on human-rights abuses based on sexual orientation.
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sion of Amnesty's founding principle, "Satterthwaite said. "Those who can speak must speak. Those who can make their voices heard must raise them for the forgotten prisoners, for the forgotten dead.
"I think that it is going to make a very big effect, just in terms of governments realizing that a large organization like Amnesty is watching them and that there will be effects if they abuse people. It's like a first step."
The campaign is really an exten-
The United Nations Human Rights Committee only recently handed down its first decision about gay, lesbian and bisexual rights, she said. It ruled that a Tasmanian sodomy law violated a fundamental right to privacy.
Five states, including Kansas, have laws aimed specifically at prohibiting homosexual sex. Satterthwaite said that the group recently had received permission from Amnesty to work on
sodomy laws within the United States.
Ben Zimmerman, professor emeritus of social welfare, passed out forms for the "Simply Equal" campaign, which is intended to alter the Lawrence city code to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
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"I am old enough to remember Nazism, and I can smell fascism," Zimmerman said.
He said the fundamentalist right had become a worldwide phenomenon to address.
"I don't believe that it can't happen here. Because I see Colorado, I see Oregon, I see Michigan, I see Fred Phelps, I see what's going on in our Legislature with the far right, with the conservatives. So, I say in Kansas, 'Wake up. The enemy is on our doorstep."
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Another of his assailants asked Lovegrove where the rest of his money was. Thinking it would get them away from him, he said it was in his car. Two of them took Lovegrove's car keys and went to the gas station to check the car.
"If you're lying, we're going to kill you," they told him.
But Lovegrove was lying. There was no money in his car.
When the two returned, angry at finding no money in the car, the beatings started again.
"I'm going to die," he thought. "This is it. I'm going to die."
"Are you a faggot?" they kept shouting while they beat him.
Finally, he couldn't take anymore.
"Yes, Lam!" he shouted.
The six pleaded guilty to the charges. They were forthcoming about what they had done, and because they had no prior arrests, they were let off with probation.
the police, and the story was out. Everyone knew that Lovegrove had admitted he was gay.
Lovegrove decided to switch high schools and finished out the year at Coldwater High School, where he made friends and graduated.
Lovegrove does not remember how long he lay there. It began to rain, and mud mixed with the blood that was covering his body. Finally, he mustered up the strength to walk the mile to the gas station, where he called his boyfriend to come get him and take him home.
As soon as he had said it, the beatings stopped. They took Lovegrove's credit cards, threw his wallet at him and drove away, taking his car.
His parents were shocked when they saw him. They rushed him to an emergency room, where he was treated for a broken rib, cuts and bruises.
Eventually, Lovegrove admitted his homosexuality to his parents. They had had their suspicions and were supportive of him.
When Lovegrove returned to school the next Wednesday, he was greeted by some sympathetic and supportive looks but mostly by jeers and snickering. By that time, all six of his assailants had been apprehended by
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Today, seven years later, scars from the beating are still visible — some on his forehead, and one on the back of his neck where one of the men, who had spurs on his cowboy boots, had kicked him.
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