August 20–24 Port Huron, Mich. […]
When
1979-08-20 – 1979-08-24
Description
August 20–24 Port Huron, Mich. United States immigration officers harassed lesbians travelling to attend the fourth annual Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. Up to fifty women were not allowed to cross into the United States. This happened only a week after Leonel Castillo, the commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), issued a directive on August 13 announcing that persons entering the United States were not to be detained or deported if they were suspected of being homosexual. Letters of complaint were sent to INS officers at Port Huron, United States Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti, and Flora MacDonald, Canada's Minister of External Affairs. (See also August 26, 1979.)
All Events
August 26 Blaine, Wash. Rob […]All Places
Port HuronAll People
Flora MacDonaldBenjamin CivilettiLeonel CastilloAll Organizations
Ministry of External AffairsImmigration and Naturalization Service (INS)All Citations
Yvon Thivierge, "Lesbiennes refoulées à la frontière," Le Berdache, no. 6 (1979–80), pp. 15–16."Port Huron Stops Turning Back Gays," Windsor Star, final ed., 30 August 1979, p. 37"Michigan Lesbian-proof Your Cars," Lesbian Perspective (LOOT), August 1979, p. 7Donna Marchand, "Dykes Confront American Oppression," Lesbian Perspective (LOOT), September 1979, pp. (4–5)"Des Lesbiennes refusées à la frontière Américaine," Le Berdache, no. 4 (1979), p. 12James Jefferson, "Lesbian Objects to U.S. Border Questions," Globe and Mail, metro ed., 31 August 1979, p. 5"Immigration Head Issues Order to Halt Stopping of Gay Aliens," Body Politic, no. 56 (1979), p. 16Karen Henderson, "Reflections on Michigan August 1979," Lesbian Perspective (LOOT), September 1979, p. (3)Robert J. Harris, "Policy Challenged," Gay Calgary, no. 13 (1979), p. 1"General Meeting: Border Hassles," Lesbian Perspective (LOOT), September 1979, p. (7)"Canadian Feminists and Lesbians Harassed at Border Crossings," Calgary Women's Newspaper, 5, no. 10 (November 1979): 4Chris Bearchell, "U.S. Officials Harass Women in Defiance of New Policy: Keeping America Safe from Canadian Dykes," Body Politic, no. 57 (1979), p. 9Chris Bearchell, "Michigan," Body Politic, no. 58 (1979), pp. 29–31Lowell Barger, "Bad Advice" (letter), Body Politic, no. 58 (1979), p. 5
