Blackmail and beatings

The second speaker Dick Morrison said that sodomy laws were directed against gay men, and that this repression was driving many neurotic. "The cops have broken in on gay couples at two in the morning—they have to if an anti-gay neighbour complains. And then, if they won't admit to the 'crime' of being homosexual, they must submit to a degrading physical examination. Cops also threaten gays with arrest under indecency laws."

He said there was no acceptable place for gays to meet, which left them in the degrading positon of having to frequent public toilets to meet their own kind. Gays are continually harrassed by police; there are cases of blackmail and beatings, and some have tried—even succeeded—to kill themselves after being arrested. Gays must live in continual fear of the police.

All of these laws have been set up for a definite purpose: to maintain the heterosexual nuclear family unit which present society depends on. People must be forced into definite sex roles to maintain it. "The law is oppression codified and enshrined"; and of course it reinforces peoples' prejudices—"Well, if it's against the law, it must be wrong."