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A South Bay woman who led the local effort against the anti-gay marriage amendment Proposition 8 received anonymous death threats via e-mail the Saturday following the election.

Gloria Nieto, the volunteer political director for San Jose's Billy DeFrank LGBT Community Center, reported the electronic harassment to the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department last week.

"I had death threats over the weekend from someone named USA USA," Nieto told the Bay Area Reporter last Thursday. "It was because of my work on Prop 8. I didn't even go through all of them. Most had headlines like 'Gloria must die.' One was pretty specific about putting a bullet in my head."

The sheriff's department has classified the threats as a hate crime and has an open investigation under way. Lieutenant Edward Wise, a spokesman for the department, said there is no known suspect in the case and it could take weeks, if not longer, to track down the source of the e-mails.