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vol. 2, no.10 au ust 1978
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_contents_
San Francisco Dreamin'
Travel Notes by Scott Lind
Illustrations by David Dole . . ...... 6
VIEWPOINT
100,000 Wimmin March for ERA in DC
By Amme Hogan .... ...... . .•..... . .. 3
Stepping out .. . and out ... and out
By Calvin Uoucet ......... .. .... .•. 4
NEWS
Kinsey Issues New Report on
Homosexuality ...... ...... •. ...... 11
Austin Briefs .. .... ...... ........... ••... S
State Briefs .......... .......... , . .. ..... S
National Briefs ... ...... ...... . ....•.....
International Briefs .•••..... •....... •.. 10
Calendar ................ ... ....... ..•. .. 1 2
STAFF
EDITOR
CONTRIBUTORS
David Dole
Ammc llogan
AllVIJRTISING
REPRESl:t\TATIVI.
Kelly Kay
Scott Lind
Harvey Neville
Art ,\ferris
~EWSHRIEFS arc taken in part from The
Advocate , community news releases anJ The
New York Tir.1es.
nm OPl~IO~S expressed herein are those of
the writer or editor, and not necessarily
those of Gay Community Services nor the
advertisers.
GAY AUSTI~ is published by Gay Community
Services of the University Y, 2330 Guadalupe,
Austin , Tx . , 78705. The coordinators
of Gay Community Services are:
Art Morris
Trov Stokes
(vacant)
(vac:int)
Bruce Alcksander
Kelly Kay
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Finance Coordinator
Office Coordinator
Speakers Rureau Coordin-ator
Media Coordinator
Publications Coordinator
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viewpoint
100,000 wimmin march for ERA
By AMME HOGAN
From across the nation we descended upon
Washington, D.C.; Sunday, July 9, the day
before Congress was to meet. Many wimmin
would be staying on for lobbying efforts.
But on Sunday few of us were thinking of
lobbying. We were too busy being amazed at
the power of 100,000 wimmin, gathered together
for the ERA.
I say wimmin generically, of course . Men
attended. On the bus I rode, the breakdown
of who-was-what went: three men -- one of
whom was straight, two non-lesbian wimmin,
4o dykes. On• womon was not yet out, but
neither was I at age 16. Certainly, she
got an education in wimmin caring for and
about each other; which is not to say anything
particularly graphic occurred. Or
maybe I wasn't looking.
We rolled into Washington at an absurd hour
on Sunday morning, after about 36 hours in
transit. Staying at the Church of the Pilgrims,
we renamed it. "The Waylaid Pilgrims,"
and marched in to face our rickety bunk
beds . Some of us ran for the showers, where
we thought, "42 wimmin per one shower, three
men per one shower." And was that nice gay
~an surprised to find several vimmin in the
men's room? Only a little; he stripped down
und showered just like a real dyke.
When we were awakened too soon the same
morning, it was time to go to the Mall and
assemble. Texas was toward the back of the
line, of course . Some Dallas wimmin had permission
to carry a sign that said "Dallas
Dykes Demand Democracy," with the letters
e-r-a in "democracy" emphasized. A womon
vho said she vas a gay from California came
up and asked us if we were going to carry
that sign. "Of course," ve said. One does
not get permission for a sign and then not
carry it.
"Everyone froo California is upset about it.
We're gay and we don't want to march behind
a sign that says 'dykes.'"
"Oh," we said. "You don't want us to carry
it?"
"Dykes shouldn't be before the ERA. Why,
you didn't even write out ERA. This is an
ERA march, not a dyke march . "
You will im~ediately note the number of
politically incorrect things in this dialogue.
Besides the obvious exaggeration of
"everyone from California" being upset , notice
the womon is gay , not lesbian, identified.
Need I say more about the need for
wimmin to have a separate identity from
men? Perhaps the end or this episode will
explain.
"You're gonna carry it anyway?" We nodded.
The gay vomon jumped the womon who vas
holding the sign. In the following flurry,
our sign vas torn. The ''gay" looked pleased
as tried to hurry avay. Always slov, yours
truly vas just about ready to get involved
and somehow managed to trip on the womon.
Uo matter the slowness; our "gay" was
squarely vhopped with a pocket instamatic
across the brow. She got angry again and
tried to jump me (and I'm not even a Dallas
dyke), but was led away by a huge Dallas
dyke dou\ling as a parade marshall.
Instincts tell me I was right . Suspecting
as I do that she was sent to see who-vouldrespond-
r.ow, certainly I responded correctly.
But a lingering doubt that she may
have meant what she said , makes my mental
picture of hov funny we must have looked go
away.
A fev minutes passed as we stared in dismay
at our sign, now in two parts. A womon from
Georgia came up and offered a couple ot ,
Band-Aida. Immediately, the little stickies
appeared from everywhere, and our sign vent
in the parade with us.
The !ine of vimmin stretched from the Capitol
down Constitution Avenue, back to the
Washington Monument and halfway up the Mall.
The wimmin at the front of the march could
be seen arriving at the Capitol before we
started moving. That's almost two miles ot
wall-to-wall wimmin.
We marched inrows of 24 across (or is that
abreast?); chanted up Constitution Avenue;
cheered the vimmin speaking at the Capitol.
Media reports on numbers varied, but with
24 across no estima~e should have been as
low as 50,000 (reported in the Statesman).
They had only to count rows. Most of the
(male) reporters did not want to believe
that 100,000 vimmin vould leave jobs,
nomes and travel long distances to march
for the ERA . You better believe it.
And when the speakers, to a womon, told o~
our disenchantment with tais system, with
this society which vill not allov wimmin to
be human -- the vimmin spoke of revolution,
and the wimmin who were listening agreed.
Congress better listen.
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4 Gay Austin August, 1978
Stepping out
By CALVIN DOUCET
(Editor's note: The following address was given June
24 in Wooldridge Park during Gay Freedom Week.)
While we must never slacken in our efforts to achieve
equal justice, equal rights and equal privileges under
the Constitution and its ensuing laws -- which as
taxpayers, voters, workers, producers, consumers, and
citizens of the United States of America we are entitled
to -- we must not forget that however much we
share in common with every other non-gay citizen we
are, nevertheless, different.
And because we are different we have different -- or
perhaps additional -- responsibilities.
Our battle is not merely whether or not we have, for
instance, the right to teach in schools -- though
that is a fierce and primal battle. Having gay
people as teachers of the young is a great privilege
any society has the honored benefit of; the non-gay
majority of our society must be brought to understand
our participation in its educational systems
affirmatively, that they need not fear or destroy,
but should nurture and praise our involvement.
Our battle is not merely whether or not we have, for
instance, the right to participate (once appropriately
qualified) in any profession, trade, occupation,
avocation, art or science that any other citizen has
the right and privilege to -- although that is a
battle that, as courageous women and men become more
and more voluntarily viRible as lesbians and gay men
in their public life, we will have to fight more
strenuously than I suspect any of us now rcaliie.
Our battle is not merely whether or not we have, for
instance, the right to live where we wish and with
whom we wish; to associate publicly or privately with
whomever we wish; to go wherever we wish; and to do
all this openly and visibly and as lovingly as we
wish; without fear of economic, legal, personal or
social reprisal, or religious and political persecution;
and without being cowered ~y accusations of
"flaunting" behavior -- although this is a battle all
of us by being here 1n this park today acknowledge
participation in.
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Th en e<rll us. We"ve been h1 t t\e
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Rather, the fundamental struggle of which all these
battles are subsumed is towards an alteration of
consciousness which will transform the character and
function of our culture .
Indeed, we are a threat to the social, philosophical,
theological and cosmic order which Anita Bryant,
Phyllis Schafley, Jessie Helms, John Briggs and
others tenaciously cling to.
We are participants in a revolution of morals, in perception
and behavior which renders them to history
the way Copernicus and Galileo rendered flat-earthers
and geocentricists to history. And we can expect similiar
harsh resistance.
In our most radical, in our llK>St significant natures,
we arc -- and must visibly and vocally be so --
equal companions to the feminist, to the holistic, to
the cooperative and to the human rights movements.
We participate in redefining what it is to be a man,
what it is to be a woman, what it is to be human in
an interdependent and non-exploitative planetary environment.
And our greatest and presently most historical responsibility
is in becoming visible: for our own
self's sake and dignity, as well as for the grea~er
societal good.
As we have stepped out of our original closets, we
step lnto larger closets which we again must move out
of, and stepping, with each opened door, into greater
freedom, into greater self-esteem, into greater knowledge
of whom we really are collectively and individually:
The more visible we are to the world, the
more visible we are to ourselves. The more visible we
arc to ourselves the more visible we are in the world .
And as we see ourselves with greater clarity, the
greater clarity we bring to transfonuing the oppressive
and intolerate conditions of our own and of·
everyone else'b, lives. '
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news
HCC DEDICATES MISSION CHURCH,
INSTALLS INTERIM PASTOR
Metropolitan C0Dm1unity Church of Austin will celebrate
a landmark event in its history Aug. 6 when
the mission church dedicates its building and installs
its interim pastor.
Jeff Bishop, approved for licensing as UFMCC minister
by the South-Central District of UFMCC at its meeting
in Houston in May, has served as worship coordinator
of the Austin congregation since April . Bishop will
serve as interim pastor until the congregation is
granted chartered church status, at which time the
U¥MCC bylaws will require a new issuance of a call to
min isl ry, c i th er to Bbhop or to another MCC minister.
The R~v. Don Eastman. District assistant co-ordinator
and pastor of the Dallas MCC, will officiate at hoch
ceremonies during the regular service of worship beginning
at noon. The South-Central District includes
<'tmgregat ions in Texns, Lousiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma
imd sou them Missouri.
Formal dedication of the building at 614 E. 6th St.
ls one st••p in the locnl congregation's development
from study group to mission status. The church planR
to submit its application for full charter membership
in UFMCC when the national church's Board of
Elders meets in Los Angeles in late August or early
September.
Since Bishop's arrival at UFMCC Austin, the church
hos undertaken m.1jor expansion of its activity ro
inclu~~ a variety of educational and social events.
The congregation hos also accelerated its efforts to
1mprovv Its building, which has been renovated complclt>
ly In the Inst six monrhs .ind now is air conditioned
In Its sanctuary and office area.
MCCA worship services are conducted every Sunday at
noon and 7:30 p.m.
Christ ion cducot ion clnsst>s now in progress are
"Romo exuality 11nd th•• Bible," Tuesdays; "I ;1m Somebody:
a Christian Search for Identity and Self-Acceptance,"
Wcdnesdnys: and "Survey of thC' New Testament."
Thursdays. All classes meet at 7: JO p.m. MCCA
sodal activities include a 7:30 p.m.-to-midnight
Games Night on Fridays (dominoes, cards, board games,
movies, refrcRhments) and pot luck suppers every
other Saturday evening.
Bi hop indicates the other Snturday nights arc currC'nt
ly open but will be filled in the near future.
The Board of Directors of the Austin Church also has
approved establishment of a Deacon's fund to be used
for human assistance nnd support programs in Austin.
"MCCA hi growing and seeking to expand its activities
to our brothers .:md sisters in Austin." Bishop soys.
"The doors of this houst> of the lord are open to nll.
Tho~~ whu never have attcndrd or have not attended in
some time nre particulnrly invited to ~nrship with us
and LC• join us In our f1'l lowship."
The church al>Jo has a small bookstore with a number
nf items available including mnny publications of
recent authorship concerning homosexuality and American
society ond homosexuality and the Bible, as well
as Because He Lives, a musical album of religious
songs produced by MCCR, Houston.
August, 1978 Gay Austin 5
texas ...
TEXAS WOMEN'S POLITICAL CAUCUS TO MEET
The annual convention of the Texas Women's Political
Caucus will be held in Brownsville, August
11-13. The Women's Caucus of the Texas Cay Ta!ltk
Force will sponsor a Hos pitality Center in Room
101 of the convention hotel, Ft. Brown. TGTF has
taken out an ad in the TWPC Convention program
commending the cnucus for th~. past efforts in
the legislature on 0ur behalf .
CIVILIAN PREPARING FOR SEX CHANGE SUES
KELLY AIR FORCE BASE SUPERIORS
A cl vil isn Kelly Air Force Base worker preparing
for a sex-change operation filed a civil-rights
suit in San Antonio against his supervisors for
refusing to let him dress in women's clothing.
Dorthy J. Parker, who changed his name from Ray-mond
1,loyd Parker, said in the suit that the decision
by Kelly officials has caused him severe mental angu:
I c:h.
GAY PUBLICATION DENIED TRADEMARK
GAYSWEEK. a publication from New York City, in
June received word from the Patent and Trademark
Office of the U.S. Department of Coim:iercc that they
have rejected .GAYSWEEK's application to register
the propo ed tradt'mark because the name fo; "immor-al
or !.candnlou"." GAYSWEEK intends to challenge the
decision.
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By ~COTT LlllD
5.\11 FM.•tlSCO A.•
Jmc 26, 1rca 8• P•
Y DAY PU.A
1 arrived he.r• ttifl night t:>..-fore lh• J:me .ZS gay par
ade going by vay of Hl~y 1 up t ~ C'OS&t. meet log
along the vay two frimdly lovers !roe Ontario.
Al I trATtlltd on Highway 280 bordering th• city pro·
per, [ bt:t•'° to fitcl a aur&tn, exhlluatton you c.annot
tcoglne uolc~tt you. your•elf. have alito encroached
on thi1 vorld'1 boundartea. I felt •• if t
were on tl:IC't vrrc~ or aomethlag "pecial. for the
:1:cuin1 of San Franchco 1 already Md int~rnalii~d
looa beforo I hit Au1ttn,
Hy bca<hbathln& in San Diego -- all the IMl\Y thou•and1
of young peuplo jamming the ahorelin@. not to
mcnt ion Lu Jolla -- and e1'pcdic lt>n~ inside LA wen•
only tt·.e prelude to vho.t I expected to be a typ~ of
cltuxtng tn S"n Fr1ncl11co. Thi• clo11f"r t c.,ine1 to
seeing, trona" dh1tlln<.'tt, downtown, fhf' aiore meRning
and mood tn~trib••d lt11elf in my he.urt. For. I !l'lt,
l ""'''" 11bout to trnter th• hnJ or freedom, ltmitltss
po!Oibilltic_,, vhtrt'! rtny hu in clrcu l.htanc~ con bcriad•
or dhce>•ored. Thei lfoly Lftnd, thl--. <Jpect.11
heaven, Ji1 • t "'OIDC Iles ahe•d. and with qulckenln&
speed I rC".achcd t~f' apot where I vle1o1ed for the ftr' t
tlM th objt'Ct of my uptratton• or montil 'I ' drea
enJ plannln&!!-· B"fore st pping, t er :'!Std the Colden
CatC' Bridge. l had ftnal .. y arrl••d
lhC' next d117, 5unday, va~ tbl" gay parade. If vou re-
San Fran.cisco dreamin'
\
-=!>er, Anita had countC"red ,gays' calltng for a celebration
with bcr call for pray<r and fa11lni1. On thh
day, tbOu• a.nds ot conaervat i•• c.hurcbc..s pre.ach"'11 aer
moo.s on homosexual tnfUtrotloo aod the llbC"ral oou:.
by and large, reulnod tot1lly "'11\:IH, So much vith
dependable •111cs. We hlivo to do it ouuelvu ••
But lo thb c.Jty, 240.000 •trong ca• out to yf..-.,, thr
thousands marching. chanting or ~haply Ct>lebrat ing
their pres~c•. Col••• you. yo-.&r,.eU. ha•~ h-fl•n thia
parade or tho ono the yea• boforo. you -- lcply cannot
tna&lnc the rcnl lty o' "'u•lng bl•fC"rc your Vl•ry
,tartlcd eye!'. m.tlc• of ~P•etotora. • whole dovn·
tovn area compri~"d of p"'upl~ like you in on ... slgntfi(
anl rcspet:l. And, Ht the puraJe' oi l~nd. after
hi:•ing viudtd Jown H..rkt'!l St.. at Brook• HHll vtch
It"' orniilV gnum dnnw ln tlw tnltuJ N.1Lio11K Plata.
tht: gathering of •ll tu w1t1h:I' two bllnds. on~ of \o'(1-
m1o1n &ind th,. uth••r of 1i.n, .aklnJI, u,.1<'. allracttvt•ly
guy.
July 4, lndcpcndrnce 0.1v
l stand g.itJng out a tld rd·"ltory h.iy 'Window o( .1
house ,,ituated on one of thi!! tty'' hi&hc ·H hillf!.
A atrutch ot brighlcntna,, da1;mln& bluo ~ k.ic • cootrD~
t"' with ·H~ttlcd bldi.:k-gray fog d utl"', and ftt"\r
glow• bathe hou• • of hill• below and beyond. l
cot.1ld bv looki 1 upon ~ o i;.g 'WdltorrAIHtan S~nt•h
c.ovn. t e t.yp v r d l pofll r , but the
v • .., here 1• ;f.mi•h and very
.,,.aopol ti11n "'Pi' t,r.: dt ,
lend for t t at p rtl lor r.
so tar. l havo apont a vc t.. ti:i 4':3~ Franctaco, no, a
vf'~.t and two Wtye, und 1 am not at "l t sorry to b<"
here instead of Au1tln. I face thr tn1 vltabflity of
having to leave thll h•.iven. but l pu1h that S.dea
aside and g&ze out .pg.al, nt W.1t th~ rising liUl1 and
newly rolllng fog c.loud1, appeortn& ovor the wc1tcrn
hllla and Clowln& downv.arda, Aro do1aa to thh reMrk.
able world. Pn·»cntly, thla luxurin.nce of 11lghc
••tiat.•• ... t at.all go lo the kite.hen Wld wrltc a
while..
Huw nicr It Is, on lndflprnd1•n' t'I l>.-ty, not lo h.tv., lo
Rt!t~ evrn onf"< Amt9tican £Ing. Amrdl"A t-. out thrrf'! 1 aod
San rranclaco h l)Hlnk!ully her• , A world totally
apart. lo huve to rulurn to ~·r l1'4• , to ltuivt• Sun
Fran~t11<"0, ha p1tnlnK lhcn11{ht. Rul 111,•anwhfle l
eh.all •nJoy ooJ rctut"n LO Dann\) 111J •lci.:v. Ht:rt1
'Wiah time could l 1St fot\!Vllr. WhJ.t a otr:mgu aiKht
lt • t sec licnthcr ptoph: 'l ard buaea to Cawl ro
Street, a etrangc but extremely lntttro•tina. •l&ht.
And to 1ee all the other p'1'oplo. 1trons 111 their un-ty
of Pxpertenc , and war• und canual. And the hundr<
tdt, nay, th thousando, putting up with ~1&h rent•
and 11 ple food for the pleos r• ot relating in absolute
nftdC'ncic and aasurance I 1 tta• ' -odnt•aa of lt e
itself.
Say SOiie to 11e: "Don't ovC"rt"stimate San Fr.nci1co.
It's Mecu., but different 1f you Uv" horo." Oh, 1
know that, but vould any of those bc.autlful •oul•
luve in order to liv@ in Houston? I doubt It very
acrioualy.
July 9:
I am taking one last vi~ of San frn.nctS('O from Snustltto
across thei Cold•n G.at«"". I c nf••• that I f••l
an ii.ens~ sadnr:.sa upon lt•.aving hPr. 1 con(<"e& II)'
eoul werp~. But 1 shall rPturn to you, df"l'lr ctty of
hills •nd whfr•-gl•am1ng '-"•· N()V I journ•Y upward
and '1ope to aake Port land vh the ICtodwood Hfchvay
tonf-ght.
ON TH~ WAY ro VANCOUVER
July 11. 6:00 P·"·:
This l'!M)rning around l:OO a.11. l reach~d Portl.Jnd. 1
r.'lpidly mPt a guy nmn<"d J('Rfir C. S1 ntt. a mud~l whosP
pictur<' hn"' app~.ut'd In Am-"'rknn J\trltnee .od•. llit
shoYed lllf' around town. thc-n took. ~ to tho home of
onP o( hte thr«-f" rn1g.,r d.1ddt1•,;, I do11 1t c.ur whi1H
\U~UH, 191ti ... ..J t ti 7
dfaparaxtax r .. markJO peoplt- makP 1ttw\br i:l1.1Arll'rt or
model• getntog their liv.-lthood for thf'tr p;Prvt<"t"8,
but Jk.""Oph: Ulu.' Jt.>a» ... p.ay and psy and pay for CVf'ry
llOflNary reward they r..-ceiv•. Tbeteo people ar• except
!00111 y atroo3 and except ioaally weak: •trong for
ondurtng vhatevPr alight to tht"tr dignity tb*lr benefactor
throv• out 1a. additioo to bi& 90-tH;ry; •nd exct"
pt ioo•lly l.l~ak for having traded their fr•edo= for
this lnhlbltiog security.
JP:S!lf'! vaa chrown out of the bous• by hi• adoptive
pa.r~nte at th~ •ae of 13. He rapidly learn" that
'th· bette-r, -..ch better~ to hunl• than to 1t1rve.
With ht1 earoed 1100ey. he! vent to one of tbl" two
be-et llOd~lUog "chool• in the country and graduated.
Though "11th hfs early aucc•ss -- signified by the
pteturo the Airl ioea ad paid for -- ht' C'ould cerutnly
bave goae farth-:r, •de a good I tvtng in N~
York or ~hert"ver he hai. swttlf>d for this lift. Thts
nnn b31 written hie into hie •h~able vlll. but he
could just as easily write hi• out ontP Iott" &<"ts
t Jrrd of Ma.
Jfi'tS• <!o"sn 't see11 to care anymore to hold on ro tbu
ll)('.'lnt"y 1 for now he in&ps back At ht!'i prim.'lry f\enefaC'tor.
and today wlll cut hts hstr in the style •hovn
In hltl ptccurew. Perhaps h~ 1Jfll return to 1DOdc:lUng.
' ,,. .at Timh~rllne Lodgr '" tht• enowlin<" of Mt. Ho\)J.
I Nh41 I go onward to s .. atr 111.
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all ~trat1ons by David Dole
8 Gay Austin August, 1978
continued from page i
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA
July 12 :
Today is my birthday. I am 24, a good age to live. I
have yet to worrv about the possibility of non-existent
wrinkles. But how quickly time moves!
July 15:
Ah , Vancouver. how I fold my heart to you. Wreck
Beach directly behind the University of R.C., where
one may sunbathe nude and venture into the waters and
smoke some recreational weed and meet and relate. And
all your other beaches. And a few mile~ north, Highway
l weaves on the landward side of the forested
cliffs and down below the islands and channels of an
incredible deep blue offward and rich forested growth
to snow-packed summits. Horseshoe Bay and its ferries
which lead you through the waters and about the islands
to wherever in the late evening fog or day-sun
you wish to go.
July 16:
Last night, l snt myself at a picnic table overlooking
the waters surrounding Stanley Park. On three
sides the harbour waters. The sun at about 10:00 p.m.
began its slow descent, that orange gold goblet. 'I\Jilight
gleams, that intercessory prayer, like sonorous
globed goblets. A hue of tan moist orange red keening
behind the west-edged mountains, the low mountain
hills dropping into the waters, the bay's end. The
tanned cool heat of desert sandy sky red contrasting,
setting off blue steepness of pin- hills. Twilight,
o chant, that gold goblet circuiting the hills and
the boy over-reaching it and passenger cruising ships
moored amongst the waters, sun long gone, but not
that incredible glow slowly dissipating, and moon already
risen hours or days or weeks ago .. .
I watch ship lights promenade. I feel com-lete. It is
10:45 p.m. The white sheet in front has altered to a
pale, now darker blue. I feel at peace. I shall not
forget where I am; I thrust myself to feel. I know I
shall eventually return to Vancouver to witness thiq
all a ain and this peace.
I am seated with t e blu~ sh~c befor c when the
t1>0 arri11 . On asks me what 1 am doi.1g with that
sheet of paper. They arc lovers from Montreal who
had moved to escape the political dilemmas there.
We speak on issues, on American and Soviet propaganda,
and I listen attentively as one tells me hi
experiences in a Montreal that once had included
him.
They are waiting for friends to appear and I have no
doubt that I shall be inc1u5ed. It is cool, cold,
perhaps, the temperature 55 with the ocean wind
streaming. We shiver and watch the IDOVing lights on
the waters. Their friends, their straight friends,
arrive. We all shiver and say we wish to go and
hove a coffee somewhere, but we remain at th~ hay,
commenting on the lights and the political situation
and the moon's full-moon-shine and a harborlight-
house across the sound bleating and deep
throaty calls of ships. I mention that all businesses
Ln Canada shoul- be 100 percent Canadian. One of the
lovers gives me a suspicious look, then assumes I
have not slmply p."lrroted the line and the group
discusses the Can."ldian situation.
With his friends seated about his stance he points to
the sky. There, above u~ all, a thin sheer of wh1te
like a maple leaf shimmers. He opens his arms and
cries, "O Canada ... ", and again, "O r.anada ..• " and
the group basks happily in his words. He turns back
at them and says, "Now if the government should
start dropping maple leaves over Quebec, you can be
sure something is about to hap pen that might not be
very pleasant." He turns his face to1.1ard the apparition
of the leaf and smiles another, "O Canada ... "
and rejoins the group. "Besides," his lover informs
me, "if Quebec secedes, Canada woald lose such
beauty." Looking upon the site of the maple leaf and
the people. I wish to alter my circumstances immediately.
To carry a bottle of wine out and build a
fire and watch the sun setting on the beach, ah ...
July 17:
A sweltering 25 degrees centigrade (77 degrees)
hrlngs everyone out to the heach. And especially with
tlw strikes going on the heacheR are packed. At
Wrecker Beach, I meet a guy. Tonight, we have gone to
sec COMING HOME and to hold each other tight with
i-ach successive horror. tole walk arm-in-arm on th••
downtown &trects and watch liberals avt!rt their eyes.
How we enjoy it!
July 18:
&his night we sec a mediocre (well, alright) co edv
after having toasted over steak and wine. How w nn we
ar with rach other, and how beautiful.
July 19:
I cross th border and return to a monstrous America.
I shall slop in San Francisco before leaving the We t
Cod t entirely. I shall find means to retuITI.
FCC CONSIDERS GAYS A SIGNIFICANT MINORITY
TO BE CONSULTED IN Ll C.ENSE RENEWALS
The Federal Communications Commission has agreed to
propose that leaders of all significant community
groups, in a broadcast area, must be interviewed by
local broadcasters to meet their community ascertainment
requirements •.. whether or not such groups appear
on the 'checklist' of groups in the Co111111unity
Ascertainment Primer.
This represents a change from previous policy which
required that only those groups on the checklist be
contacted, leaving other community leaders to be contacted
as an option of the individual broadcasters.
It is yet to be decided if the burden of seeking out
leaders of the gay community wi 11 be placed on broadcasters
or whether it will be up to gay organizations
to present themselves for ascertainment.
The federal Communications Commission has agreed to
propose that leaders of all significant community
groups in a broadcast area, including leaders of the
gay community, must be interviewed by local broadcasters
to meet their cormnunity ascertainment requirements
... whether or not such groups appear on
the checklist of groups in the Community Ascertainment
Primer.
National Gay Task Fore~ cochairpersons Jean O'Leary
and Bruce Voeller said, "It was clear from the discussion
by FCC that lesbians and gay men were considered
by the Commission to be a significant minority
in many American communities. FCC has at last
recognized our right of access to the public airways,
on a par with all other major segments of
American society.
NGTF RECOMMENDED FOR PARTICIPATION
IN 1981 WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON FAMILIES
The National Gay Task Force has been recommended for
inclusion on the Advisory Council of the upcoming
White House Conference on Families scheduled in 1981.
The White House Conference has been the suject
of considerable political controversy as to whether
lhe conference should rcflect"the actual diversity
of Alncrican family I ife or confine itself to the
concerns of t rad it Iona l nuclear f amililes."
NCTF has recommended Kerry Woodward of Minneapolis
be appointed a member of the conference advisory
panel and would welcome support for that nomination
from religious and family-service groups around the
country. It urges local gay groups to attempt to
obtain such support.
Woodward, an administrator of the Minneapolis
Committee for Cay Rights, is a former tea~her
and day-care worker, and has served as a delegate
to three Democratic-Farm Labor Conventions, and also
served as a delegate to the International Women's
Year Conference in Houston. Recommendations should
be :icnt to:
M:... Joan Rattery
White House Conference on Families
Department of Health, Education, and
Welfnrc, Room 541F
Hubert llurnphrey Building
Washington, D.C.
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS VOTE BRYANT. HITLER
"PEOPLE WHO HAVE DONE MOST DAMAGE IN WORl.D"
The Ladies Hom Journnl uskcd 800 junior and senior
high chool students to n me the man and woman who
"hav don th most damage in the world." fhe majority
cho"e Adolf Hitler and Anita Bryant. Bryant,
long with Richard Nixon, also won out in response
to the qu stion, "Who makes you angriest?" Asked
"lf you could giv a prize for achievement in re-
'112ust, 1978 Gay Austin
ligion, to which famous person would you give the
prize?", the young people named Billy Graham their
first choice, while God was their second.
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What has been termed "the nation's first in-depth
survey of an urban gay population, aimed at finding
out more than 'bedroom behavior'" is underway in
Seattle. Washington Public Information Research
Group (WashPIRC), a university of Washington research
group sponsored by the Associated Students
of the University, has mailed 10,000 questionaires
containing 100 items asking for information about
everything from voting habits to parenting and marital
status. WashPIRG is also mailing a different
questionaire to a random sampling of 900 business
people, industries, physicians, employment agencies
and others who might be dealing with gay people as
employees or tenants, in order to find out what the
impact of the city's gay rights ordinance is . A
third survey is designed to measure gay rights enforcement
practices in the approximat~ly 40 cities
and counties in the U.S. that have such laws. Responses
to the surveys should be available to the
media by October.
EARTHA KITT DENOUNCES ANITA
According to United Press International, entertainer
Eartha Kitt has denounced Anita Bryant's anti-homoc:
exual crusade as "dangerous to this COWltry."
The news service reported that Kitt told a reporters"
conference: "I think that her attitude for
America is a very dangerous one. Oppression of any
kind is dangerous to this country. ~ long as we
allow this kind of opprc~sion to go on, we are not
fulfilling what this country means. That is the
main issue: human rights."
The news conference was reportedly sponsored by the
Gertrude Stein Democratic Club. for which Miss Kitt
g~vc a benefit performance.
EDITOR IN VIRGINIA PRINTS RAPE VICTIMS' NAMES
One of the more controversial stances in recent
times is Herman J, Obermayer's decision, as editor
and publisher of the Northern Virginia Sun, to publish
names, ages and addresses of women who are rape
victims. Obermayer's position, printed in The Bulletin,
which is the journal of the American Society of
Newspaper Editors, as well as in his own nevpaper,
is that "protecting the accuser's anonymity, while
fully identifying the accused, is tantamount to a
pre-trial presumption of guilt." In response to
critics who say that it is cruel and harsh to im-pose
additional pains on innocent victims of crimes,
Obennayer repl:les, "Justice is cruel and harsh. A
man convicted of rape can go to ~ail for life."
Obermayer cites the Supreme Court's decision in
Cohn vs. Cox, which protected the right of the
press to print names, even in rape cases. Attorney
Alan Schlosser of the San Francisco American Civil
Liberties Union acknowledges Obermayer's right under
the First Amendment, but adds that having the right
to do something and deciding whether or not it
should be done arc two different things.
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PORTLAND TOWN COUNCIL OFFERS GAYS
exoP~RTY _ ARBITRATION_SERVICE FOR DISPUTES
The Portland (Oregon) Town Council, concerned about
how gay couples who are splitting up deal with property
division, is offering the gay conuounity an arbitration
service. In order to use the service, both
parties must agree to submit to arbitration as copetitioners
and agree to decide whether the arbitration
is to be advisory and non-binding or binding
and enforceable in a court of law. The arbitration
is .done by a panel of three people whose names are
submitted in advance and agreed on by the petitioners.
One of the arbitrators is an attorney. The fee
for the service is based in part on the value of the
property in dispute.
NYC GAYS, POLICE CLASH IN BASEBALL GAME
New Ycrk's finest, the championship Sixth Precinct
squad, met the finest athletes of New York's 12-team
Metropolitan Community Athletic Association in the
first annual Police vs. Gay softball game on Sunday,
June JJ. It was a day for symbolic conflicts; an
overflow crowd of some 2,000 excited fans cheered the
action in Manhattan's Central Park. Despite a suitably
macho effort and the energetic chcerleading of
four costumed pompom boys, the gay all-stars went
down in defeat, 12-4.
The game's spirit of friendly interchange follows
eight months of weekly police-gay coRDDunity dialogues
held at the Sixth Precinct station house. Precinct
Captain Aron Rosenthal in his printed welcome expressed
the hope that "familiarity can breed respect"
and said that the goal of the dialogues has been "to
help us all see beyond the labels and stereotypes
that reduce human beings ~o one-dimensional characters."
STATE OFFICIAL IN CALIFORNIA RETRACTS
STATEMENT ON HOMOSEXUAL CHILD ABUSERS
California's Secretary of State, March Fong Eu, in
a speech last March to the state Parent Teacher Association
Meeting in Los Angeles, stated, "The police
department (of Los Angeles) conservatively estimates
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abuse involving sexual activities, 70 percent of
which were homosexual in nature." Her statement, based
upon the testimony of LA police Lieutenant Donald LaGuardia
before the California Senate Select Connnittee
on Children and Youth last year, horrified gay people
in the state. Supervisor Harvey Milk, an elected San
Francisco city official, wrote to the Secretary of
State to protest the figures. Eu met with Milk and
his staff, and as a result of the meeting wrote a retraction
and a letter to LA Police Chief Daryl Gates
asking for an explanation of the erroneous figures.
Gates investigated, and responded in a letter to Eu,
that he "has reevaluated the ... figure and concluded
that although the estimate was the result of considerable
research, it was not based on hard data. Therefore
the estimate is considered speculative in nature
~nd will not be used again."
international.
EUROPEAN COMMISSION OF HUMAN RIGHTS TAKES
GAY BRITON'S COMPLAINT AGAINST ENGLAND
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The European Commission of Human Rights, headquartered
in Strasbourg, has accepted another case from
a man challenging laws on homosexuJlity in the British
Isles. Peter Wells, an English busines.!lman, was
sentenced to two and a half years in prison in 1974
for having sex with two 18-year-old men. Wells is
claiming that his conviction and imprisonment violate
three articles of the European Convention on
Human Rights. England has signed the convention, and
the government admits that its action against Wells
was interference with his private life. But, it
claims, it was justified under an article that protects
the "health and morals" and "protection of tht'
rights and freedoms of others." The commission has
admitted Well's application.
POLICE IN AUSTRALIA CARRY OUT 'MILITARY'
RAID AGAINST GAYS CELEBRATING SOLIDARITY
On June 24, during "Mardi Gras" celebration of International
Homosexual Solidarity Day, police from
the Darlinghurst district of Sydney carried out what
an Australian newsletter termed a "mil! tary-style
attack. Everyone caught in the middle of this operation
... was in danger of being bashed and/or taken
... into custody. Heterosexuals, whether sympathetic
or not, were also detained." The public address system
and truck carrying it were confiscated. According
to witnesses, police made a special polnt of brutalizing
the women in the march. When one woman screamed
at a police officer, "Let go of my tit," she was
charged with using offensive language. After the arrests
of 54 people, lawyers and doctors who tried to
enter the police station to see clients and the injured
were threatened with charges of trespass. 24
women were confined in a cell designed co be occupied
by two people.
The Gay Solidarity Group at Sydney University is
urging people to send letters to Neville Wran, Premier
of New South Wales to request an inquiry into
the police violence.
The Australian newspaper The Age has conducted a poll
that reveals that 57 percent of the public believes
that gay people should have the same status under the
law as heterosexuals for whom the age of consent is
16. Younger people and those with university education
indicate even stronger support for gay rights.
At present, consensual sex for gay people is permitted
in only two ~Cates and is illegal in all the
rest.
New report on
NEW YORK - A major new !!tudy on homosexuality concludes
that many homosexual men and women lead stable
lives without frenetic sexual activity and that some
are considerably happier and better adjusted than
heterosexuals as a whole .
According to one of its authors, Dr. Alan Bell of
the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University,
the study ' s findings contradict stereotypes about
homosexuals . He said the study shows that "homosexuality
is not ipso facto pathological and that all
homosexuals cannot be lumped together."
Rather, Bell and his coauthor, Dr . Martin Weisberg,
found that there were at least five types of homosexuals
, each with a different s.:t of behavioral patterns
. While some resemble the popular stereotype of
unhappy, unstable and highly promiscuous people, the
authors said , others are more like ordinary married
heterosexuals.
The new sLudy represents the most comprehensive look
at the social and psychological adjustment of homosexuals.
It is the first time , Bell said in an interview,
that a truly diverse sample of homosexual~
has been studied, that homosexuals have been compared
wilh one Another and that type:Sof homosexuals have
bl'en compared with heterosexuals. Most previou~ srudies
focused on spl'cial groups of homosexuals, ~uch as
those undergoing psychotherapy, men in prisons and
members of homophile organizations.
The findings are to be published on Aug . 28 by Simon
and Scbuster in a hook called "Homosexualities, 11
which is the product of u study begun in 1968 with a
$278,000 grant from lhe National Institute of Mental
u.-alth.
Thl' new study focuses not on the incidence of homoscxuu
1 hchuvtor -- a subject on which Dr. Alfred Kinsey,
who founded thl' InsLitute for Sex Research, reported
10 yl'ure ugo -- but rather on the relationship
of sexual nctivity to a wide variety of social
<1nd psychological chnrnclcristics.
To examine thl"'se relationships, 979 homosPxual men
nnd women 1 iving in tlw San Francisco Bay area were
interviewed . The subjects were culled from among
5,000 people who indicated a willingness to participate
in the study. Those interviewed included people
recruited in homosexual bars and steam baths, at
public and private places where homosexual "pickups"
were often made and through homosexual organizations,
personal contacts , mailing lists and public
advertising.
"WE did not just draw subjects from the 'lavender
ghetto,' where everyone is free and open about his
homosexunlity. Many of our respondents are highly
covert, and it took a long time to convince some of
them to participate in the study, " Bell said. He
added that the sample of homosexuals interviewed
could not be snid Lo represent homosexuals generally
, but that the study included substan'tiol
numben1 of nl l typus of homosexuals .
The homosexuals were intPrviewed in person in 1970 .
ln nddit ion, /j77 heterosexuals drawn from a random
sample of lhc San Francisco Bay area residents w1'ic•
questioned.
From the data, the authors categorized homosexuals
into the following types:
-- Cloaed couples, those living in quasi-marriages
characterized by self-acceptance, contentment and a
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hom05exuality
high degree of sexual fidelity. Thoqe relation~hips
tended to be long-standing and to reflect a strong
emotional commitment and a stable sharing of
household responsibilities . As a group, the closed
coupleG scored higher on happiness measures than
the heterosexuals, the researchers said.
-- Open couples, those living as partners but with a
fair amount of outside sexual activity. These couples
tended to be less emotionally attached and dependent
o~ one another, according to the study.
-- Functionals, those who were sexually highly active
and free-whee ling, comparable in behavior to "swinging
singles" among heterosexuals. ThPy were more
likely to report feelings of exuberance than the
heteros,.xuals interviewed, the researchers said.
-- Dysfunctionals, those who were also highly active
sexually but who reported re~reti ahour hP1ng homosexual
and said that they had sexual problems.
-- Asexuals, those who were more secretive and have
more regrets about their homosexuality, were less
sPxually active and less exclusively homosexual. Together
with the dysfunctional group, the researchers
said, asexuals reported less self-acceptance and more
loneliness than other homosexuals and than heterosexuals.
In general, homosexual men resembled heterosexual men
in their reports of good physical health and feelings
of happiness at the time of the questioning. However,
in response to psychological questions, the homosexulll
men indicated that they felt "less self-accepting
and more lonely, depressed and tense than did the
heterosexual men," the authors reported . The homosexual
men were also more likely to have considered
or attempted suicide and to have sought help for an
emotional problem.
'The homosc.xual women, on the other hand. differed
little from heterosexual women in many aspects of
t" 1r psychological adjustment.. But as a group they
•• "''tPd less current happiness, less self-esteem
1rnrl • orP suicidal thoughts that the heterosexual
, n • ..,, .
'Thu .iuth rs condudcd thnt "homosPxual adults who
h11v. 'omt to terms with 1 heir homosexu1tlity, who do
no1 regr~t their sexual orientation, and who can
'•m1rinn effectively sexually and socially, are no
m<•rc distressed psycholo~ically than are heterosexual
men and "1omcn." They said that it was primarily
the dysfunctionals and asexuals who were less
w•· l off psychologically than heterosexuals, "but
lwrc are certainly equivalent groups among hetero"
f''Cuals. 11
Nonetheless, the researchers did report characteristics
of some homosexuals that are likely to becol!le
subjects of controversy . For exa111ple, the authors
•ported. nearly half of white homosexual males and
'nc-third of the black homosexual males interviewed
said that they had had at least 500 different sexual
p~1rtners. More than half had had more than 20 sexual
r~~tnPrs in the year before the interview. About
t WP-thirds of t hf' men had c-ont racted a vPnereal disPlf'>
e at least once.
Among the homo~exual women, most had had fewer th11n
l<J f1>m11le sexual partners, and more than thr• efourlhR
wure involved in a relatively stable relationship
with anolhcr wom.1'1 at the time of the interview.
H1•w1•ver, Lhe majority of homosexual men said that
they had never had sex with minors or with prostitules.
The authors contend chat heterosexuals are
f~n· IDOfP likely than homosexuals to Seduce minors Or
to make objectionable sexual advances.
-- ~ew )ork Times News Service
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