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Homophobic Gang Forces Lesbian Couple From Home
by Peter Moore
365Gay.com Newscenter
London Bureau
May 17, 2003
9:42 p.m. ET/+5GMT/-3PT
(London) For the second time a homophobic gang has forced a lesbian couple for their home in a subsidized housing project.
In the most recent attack one of the women was beaten black and blue. A gang member is accused of beating 42 year old Maxine Julie Nelson with a stick outside the home she shares in Yorkshire with her partner Marie Moore.
During the attack, a second gang member is alleged to have thrown a brick through a window of the couple's home.
Moore managed to summon police, and when the first officer arrived gang members were still banging on windows demanding Moore come out "to face the music". The officer called for backup. It took nearly a dozen police officers to disperse the crowd.
The women - who have been together for six years - say they no longer feel safe in the housing project and are intending to move.
"We have been getting abuse and been spat at and shouted at for a year," said Nelson.
"There was this argument and this group of men gathered outside our house and suddenly turned on me. One man had a stick and was laying into me and calling me "lesbian" and slang names."
On another occasion a car was driven at speed at the women then the brakes slammed on at the last minute.
"Every time we go out we are looking over our shoulders. We have to get out."
Earlier this year another lesbian couple Emily Kendall and Donna Logan were driven out of their home in a nearby project by attacks.
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