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West End Extra - by TOM FOOT
Published: 9 November 2007
 
Call to speak out on violence against gays

A CALL has been made for Westminster Council to publicly deplore all violence against the gay and lesbian community.
West End councillor Ian Wilder delivered a 200-signature petition, collected in Old Compton Street this week, to the Lord Mayor in the Council House on Wednesday.
He said: “We have the biggest and most vibrant gay and lesbian community in Soho.
“If we do not do something about this who will be next? I feel very strongly about this.”
Councillor Wilder said watching the scenes in Moscow earlier this year, when Peter Tatch­ell and other gay rights campaigners were beaten up, had led him to raise the issue.
He said: “I am not a gay rights campaigner, I don’t want people to think that.
“But I when I saw those scenes in Moscow I thought to myself this is what happened in Germany in the 1930s.
“Nobody said anything then and soon enough the concentration camps were springing up.”
A national survey on prejudice this week found five per cent of the 2,000 adults interviewed last month said they had suffered prejudice related to their sexuality.
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