
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, March 20, 1992                   TAG: 9203200025
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-12   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

VIOLENCE AGAINST GAYS UP 31%, REPORT SAYS

Hugh Callaway of Dallas wept at a news conference Thursday as he told the story of being beaten, stood up against a wall and shot by a gang of youths who called him and his lover "faggots."

Callaway survived; his partner did not.

The attack was part of a surge last year in anti-gay violence, a gay rights group said.

The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute released a survey counting 1,822 reported incidents of anti-gay violence in 1991 in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston and Minneapolis-St. Paul. They ranged from reports of verbal harassment and police abuse to arson and murder.

The total was 31 percent more than the 1,389 reported incidents in the same cities in 1990, the group said. It counted incidents reported by gay victim-service agencies in the five cities.

by CNB