CHICAGO -- Yesterday the promoter of a multi-band show scheduled for this Saturday at the west side White Star Night Club confirmed with the Gay Liberation Network ( GLN ) that he has canceled the performance by neo-Nazi band "Evil Incarnate."
In response, GLN thanked White Star management for "agreeing not to provide a venue for a group that calls for the murder of African Americans and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans people." In the lyrics of its song, "Killer of Faggots," Evil Incarnate includes the wording: "N----r lovers and faggots, Bullets in your head, N----r lovers and faggots, Now your [ sic ] dead...."
The song was recently released on a compilation CD entitled "Smashing Rainbows" on the "Fetch the Rope Albums" label.
"Our thanks go not only to White Star management, but to the many in the community who called them to inform them of the situation, and to our partners in this protest, Anti-Racist Action," said GLN co-found Andy Thayer. "Activism — getting involved in your community — has once again won an important pro-gay victory."
"I myself am Mexican," said concert promoter Renato Brierio. "I don't appreciate that kind of racist or anti-homosexual b.s."
"I have removed EVIL INCARNATE from the Festival, they have officially announced that they are NOT playing this fest. Their ideology ... DOES NOT represent the views and opinions of ANYONE at White Star or any of the other bands."
Brierio told GLN that Evil Incarnate members had tried to divert the concerns he relayed to them about their "kill gays, kill blacks" lyrics by saying that the song was 20 years old. When he learned that the song was part of a months-old compilation CD called "Smashing Rainbows" on the "Fetch the Rope Records" label, he concluded that they were lying to him.
FROM A DEC. 17, 2009, GLN NEWS RELEASE