| "Kink against racism" | 01-Jun-05: No Nazifetish at GearFetish.com ![]() People of all colours at Folsom Street Fair Europe in Berlin 2004, picture right. The big street fair also included a "Leder Gegen Rechts"-boot. Photo: Svein Skeid
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Leather and SM people against nazism Europride 2002 in Cologne. Photo: Svein Skeid ![]() The European leather/SM movement has a long tradition against rasism and nazism. As early as in 1978 the AGM of ECMC the gay "European Confederation of Motorcycle Clubs" - discussed how to stop Nazi elements from infiltrating their member-clubs. The ECMC member club MS Panther Köln, in 1993 started "Leder gegen Rechts", and decorated an "anti-nazi fleet" during the CSD (Christopher Street Day) parade that year. Illustration right:The German ECMC-club Rote Erde "Leder Gegen Rechts" 1993. In 1998 the ECMC AGM, with their 50 european member clubs included an article in their Constitution against "Racist and Nazi attitudes, manifestations and actions, as well as membership in corresponding anti-democratic organizations". Several ECMC-clubs, included British ones, has put the decision on their web pages: See for instance: msc bournemouth antinazi http://www.ecmcinfo.org/MSCB/antinazi.htm Fetisch gegen RechtsMore than one million people saw the five km long Europride parade 2002 in Cologne, included the huge anti-nazi-wagon from the big Cologne leather bar "Chairs". Picture left, Photo: Svein Skeid. There was also a Leder gegen rechts-booth during the Folsom Europe Street Fair in Berlin in September 2004. HERE IS THE TEXT OF THE 1998 ECMC RESOLUTION:
The Government has announced its intention to set up a new Commission for Equality and Human Rights. The new body will oversee new laws prohibiting discrimination on grounds of religion, age and sexual orientation, as well as enforcing current anti-discrimination laws. The new laws mean that charities and voluntary organisations also must obey these laws as everybody else must ... The Race Regulations also abolish the exceptions from the prohibition against discrimination where it relates to discrimination on grounds of race or ethnic or national origins in the Race Relations Act for: ... charities in their role as employers; ... |