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FOR the past two years Australia has seen massive demonstrations rivalling those of the Moratorium, for peace and disarmament. Last month in Sydney 70 000 people took to the city streets to express their horror and concern at the prospect of nuclear holocaust. The range of groups participating has been enormous; churches, professional groups, political parties, and the women's and gay movements have all been visible and vocal contributors.
Last year 150 of us marched with the El Salvador contingent showing solidarity with gays in Latin America, not just on issues of sexuality, but also on the life and death questions of physical survival.
Suppression of democratic rights and escalation of US aggression are THE questions for those, whatever their sexuality, caught in the military maelstrom of Latin America. Strong support by the gay communities in Australia and the US is not an academic or abstract question. The links between military build up and moral conservatism have always been strong.
The Guatamalan dictator, for instance, is a born-again Christian with links to a fundamentalist Church in San Francisco. That Church is interring American homosexuals to "cure" them, and in the process charging large amounts of money. That money, in turn, is finding its way back to Guatamala where the dictatorship is financing a growing military engaged in, among other things, a policy of selective genocide.
It is also the case that the most fervent advocates of rearmament in the US, are the far right Christian groups. These Moral Majority type groups link together demands for nuclear terror and "support" of the family. Homosexuals and women are most often the cutting edge in the propaganda attacks. We are the first to be hit and the first to fight back.
But the resistance that is made to military build up and moral tyranny can and does cut both ways. Our actions are noted by those in the front line of the struggle elsewhere, including third world gays.
The Consul of the El Salvadoran FDR (the political wing of the coalition opposing the present regime) has spoken at a San Francisco Gay Freedom Day march. The Nicaraguan Consul in San Francisco sent greetings to a Washington Conference of Third World Gays.
Such moves signal a major advance in thinking from a part of the world that has traditionally been dominated by machismo and homophobia. This kind of public gesture must surely mean a corresponding improvement in the position of sexual minorities within those governments or organisations.
This year in Sydney three gay organisations took their banners and chants to the Peace March. All three groups would probably argue that their presence lays the basis for a better understanding and attitude to, for instance, law reform, by the many other contingents taking part.
Not that anyone expects or even wants a peace and disarmament rally to take up the specific demands of each of its participants. However, a strong movement for peace can only be built on the basis of mutual respect and solidarity by all groups. There are many parts of the world where gay organisations cannot help build a peace march for the simple reason that they are not allowed to openly organise at all. And we are not the only ones in that situation.
If the world is obliterated by nuclear war there will not be much point in having democratic rights, gay or otherwise. On the other hand, unless we are all prepared to stand up for each other's democratic rights we will never be strong enough to avert such a holocaust.
John Cozijn