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Skinheads target London pride parade
Last updated Jul 11 2005 09:42 AM EDT
CBC News
Skinheads and anti-racists traded taunts before London's gay pride
parade on Sunday.
About 10 skinheads arrived at the parade, carrying a bullhorn and
signs reading "Go AIDS Go." They were quickly confronted by
anti-racists who had bused in from Toronto afterhearing rumours that
white supremacists would be at the parade.
There was no violence, thanks to more than a dozen police who kept a
close watch on events. There was, however, one tense moment when two
men from opposing sides stood eye-to-eye for a brief stare-down.
Police quickly separated them.
During the protest, some of the skinheads raised their arms in a Nazi
salute. The group was later joined by several bikers wearing jackets
with the name Bandidos on the back.
Most Londoners who turned out for the parade were unaware there had
been any protests and called the boisterous event one of the city's
best gay pride parades yet.
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Day of pride and protest
Police keep watch as demonstrators trade barbs before a vibrant gay
pride parade.
JONATHAN SHER, Free Press Reporter 2005-07-11 01:57:07
Skinheads and anti-racists taunted each other but exchanged no
blows, kept apart by more than a dozen police safeguarding marchers
and spectators at London's gay pride parade yesterday.
Londoners lined downtown streets to watch a boisterous and colourful
parade some called one of the best ever, many of them unaware of the
tense standoff earlier.
Several dozen anti-racists, many bused in from Toronto, marched from
Victoria Park along Dufferin Avenue to Richmond Street, where 10 or
so white supremacists waited.
Wearing a pink mask, Guy Fogel of Toronto approached Tyler Chilcott,
a white supremacist and member of the Northern Alliance.
"What do you want to do with homosexuals? Put them in concentration
camps?" Fogel asked.
"No. Actually, I think we should kill them where they stand," said
Chilcott, toting a sign saying, "Anal inflicted death sentence -- Go
Aids Go."
The confrontation was a repeat performance for some who've crossed
paths in Toronto over Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel, adversaries
calling each other by name.
"Procreation makes a nation," Tomas Szymanski, of St. Marys, shouted
into a bullhorn until an anti-racist walked directly at him,
stopping centimetres away.
The stare-down was brief as police separated the two.
An anti-racist the size of a football linebacker taunted several
white supremacists, yelling, "Come on -- hit me. You think you're
tough."
For a while the out-numbered white supremacists were mostly silent,
the target of taunts more often than the source, until a sympathetic
group of bikers arrived across the street.
The skinheads crossed the street to join the bikers, who wore shirts
identifying themselves as Bandidos, carried a Confederate flag and
raised their arms in a Nazi salute.
A biker who appeared to be their leader pooh-poohed the use of Nazi
salutes, saying it was meant to draw attention.
"We don't believe the fags should be walking down the street," said
the biker, who wouldn't identify himself.
Watching the events unfold were two Jewish women who didn't want
their names used for fear of retribution.
Both said the skinheads had an agenda beyond homosexuals that
included Jews and other minorities.
"I'm absolutely disgusted. The anti-gay protests and their signs --
it's despicable," one said.
The confrontation took media attention away from the parade itself,
but that seemed of little concern to participants and spectators,
who revelled under a cloudless sky.
Thousands of people lined the route, some spilling over from Sunfest
in Victoria Park, entertained by a rainbow of coloured balloons,
rhythmic music and dancing.
A stopped motorist, Holly Malo, was happy just the same. "It's
awesome," she said.
On Waterloo Street, in the shade of a tree before Central secondary
school, an elderly couple sat on lawn chairs, watching the parade.
Don and Pat Ashton, both in their 70s, have been to gay parades in
London since the first in 1993, the year their son, Mark, died of
AIDS at 36.
"We're here to think about him," Pat Ashton said.
The parade has grown bigger and better and so has the support for
homosexuals, they said.
"I hope people don't think that all seniors are against
(homosexuality)," Pat Ashton said. "They're not. God made them that
way."
