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PLANTATION FIRE GHARGES
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PLANTATION CLUB FIRE NO MYSTERY!
If the picture obovi,
brings bock memories of good
t i mes and fond memories think
what it does to the owners of
the business.
Gene Howell just the
other day in discussing the
subject of the P lontotion Club
expressed not on\-v regrets
ot the loss of he and Emit
Newton's club but the mental
ongu ish over the past many,
many months. Loss of business
is well over the hundred
thousand dollar mark and
personal income in excess of
fifty thousand. Many hours
spent with investigating
officers of the arson squad
and other low inforcemenl
personel .
When asked if there was
any aniimosity toward any
individuals having been charged
in the burning of his club
Mr. Howe ll said: "I om only
truly sorry that it wos people
that I had considered my
friends, having entertained
them in my home and respected
a s s ubstantial pe rsons
in our community. It is with
re gret that this has been
done by persons of the Gay
community as it is reflect ive
on all of us ."
On F ebruary 19th last
year about 5: :ll a .m. Mr.
Howell was called and told
his club was on fire. When
he arrived there were a number
of fire engines on the
parking lot and in front of
the building on the street.
Firt!men had already broke
into the club ond water was
already about ankle deep.
This started many months of
untold inconviences to the
persons directly involved
and hard work for the arson
division. On the day of the
fire the club records , in-
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d1v1dual bank accounts of the
owners and all were checked
and found to be in good sound
order, thus eleminating the
question which is sometime
asked in fires of this nature.
Following the burning
of the Plantation the Palace
Club burned followed by the
Bullseye some time later.
The P/antotion Club and the
Palace Club fires were ruled
arson and the Bullseye ruling
was not definite at the time
Mr. Porks of the arson diviswas
interviewed but he said
it was still being investigated.
In September 1970,
Ronnie Levine, owner of the
Palace Club offered $10,000
reward for the arrest and
conviction of the person or
persons responsible lor the
fire s. Emel A. Newton, Jr.
offered at the time $600.00.
In January this year the
Harris County Grand Jury
returned indictments in the
Palace Club fire first,charged
were Ronnie Levine, Palace
Club owner, Larry Shea,
former partner in the Palace
Club which was burned.
Also charged in the Palace
Club burning was Vern
Bechtel. These persons were
arrested the last port of
January and are now free on
bond pending trial.
At the time Mr. Levine
was arrested he stated: "The
charges should be dropped
against me within ~ days,
at that time everyone will
know of my innocence". In
trying to contact Mr. Levine
at the time of this writing we
were unable to do so. It is
understood that he is still
under bond and the charges
have not been dropped.
Charged in the burning
of the P lantotion Club fire
is Lorry Shea and Lester
Ogren. To our knowledge at
this time Shea hos not been
served.
Lester Ogren plead
guilty to the chorge and
hos been sentenced to five
years imprisonment.
Persons appearing before
the Harris County Grand
Jury were Emit Newton, Jr.,
Gene Howell, Mike Whiticker
and Bob Coppell. Mr. Newton
and Mr. Howell ore in Houston
available as is Mr. Coppell
when the trials ore scheduled.
Mike Whiticker it seems
hos left the city ofter alledgedly
being threatened by
persons charged in the Palace
Club blaze.
In a chance meeting with
Bob Coppell at the Farm
House the middle of May,
Mr. Coppell told of the fear
he hod for his safety and well
being. Mr. Coppell said,
"Yem Bechtel threatened me
in the lobby of this club and
told me that I would not be
able to testify in the arson
trials if I remained in Houston.
He also told me I would not
be safe on the street, driving
my car or anywhere else, that
with the connections they
had in Houston I would be
charged with just anything".
Mr. Coppell was asked
ii he took these threats
See PLANTATION - Pg. 23
RITTER ARRESTED
Terry Wayne Ritter, alias
Theodore Wayne Hall, 19
surrendered to Houston police
at 3am on May 22nd. The
former manager of the now
defunct Romulus Club was
released later in the day on
$1000 bond. Ritter hos been
charged with making a false
alarm call, a felony. Another
person, a young lady, hos
been arrested in the case,
an olledged conspiracy to
harrass The Form House Club.
Arson squad records show
Ritter was involved in an
or son case investigation in
1966 here, but insufficient
proof against him resulted in
no charges being filed.
The police received a
telephone call telling of a
fire-bomb being placed in
The Farm House Club shortly
after Ritter and a companion,
also a minor, hod been refused
service there. Pol ice investigations
discovered an
alledged conspiracy between
See RITTER - Pg. 23
AARC Church of Montrose Pickets
SEE STORY - - PAGE 23
30 ARRESTED
IN CLUB- RAID
ALA's DALLAS MEET
On the 24th of Apri I,
1971, at about 1: 15 a.m., the
manager of the Armadillo
Club was arrested with ~
minor and two adults at the
Armadillo Club. Scotty, the
manager, was charged with
serving a minor and running
an open saloon. The two
adult patrons were charged
with disorderly conduct and
interfering with an officer.
About ten uniformed radio
patrolmen were involved in
the search for minors throughout
the Annadi llo Club. The
two adult patrons have pleaded
guilty to the charges
The charges against the
minor and against the manager
are still pending and will be
aojudicated, according to attorneys
for the Club.
Later, at about 11:00 p.m.
on Moy 7th, the manager of
the Armadillo Club was driving
to the club when he saw
a large assembly of pol ice
cars at the intersection of
Tuam and Baldwin. He went
on to the club and immediately
began o check on the minors
present ond while in the process
of evicting one, the
police arrived. About 26
THE
uniformed and vice squad officers
this time went through
the club searching for breaches
of the pub Ii c weal. They
checked IDs, licences ana
health cards, arresting about
ll patrons and 5 employees.
Of those arrested, 21 were
mi no rs c horged with possession
of alcohol and 2 were
adults charged with interfering
with an officer. Vice
Squad Officers Tel lo and
Perez took 2 bartenders and
the man running the phonograph
downtown while Vice
Squad Capt. McMin ime and
Vice Squad 8fficer Posey
took Scotty, the manager and
a waiter in. Charges similar
to those previously filed were
again made. All charges wi 11
be fought in Court, according
to attorneys.
However, official records
show that only 9 of the minors
actually have been charged.
The situation concerning the
other 21 minors remains a
mystery as none of them have
been advised of their present
status.
Task Force on GAY Liberation
Coming out of the closet
for gay people might be one
step easier when a group of
gay librarians carries out its
educational program at a June
meeting of the Americian
Library Association. This
group's aim is to revolutionize
I ibraries in meeting the needs
of gay people.
Taking place in Dallas,
Texas, June 19 to 26, the
programs wi II coincide with
Gay Pride Week.
The Task Force on Gay
L iberotion of the Social Responsibilities
Round Table,
American Library Association,
is planning a series of programs
at the 90th annual
conference of the American
Library Association in Dallas.
One of the highlights of
the week wi II be an open
house, where all librarians
attending the meeting, straight
and gay, .will have a chance
to get to know one another.
On Sunday, June 19, for
the edification of all concerned
librarians, there will be
a program on the relation of
the homosexual to established
religion.
T uesdoy, in an area
generally featuring commercial
di splays, gay I ibrorions wi II
give out free kisses at a "hug
a homosexual" booth. That
evening there wi II be a program
on "Intellectual freedom
-ordial at the University of
Minnesota," with J. Michael
McConnell, fired from his job
because he applied for a
license to marry his lover,
talking on the problems of the
gay librarian.
Wednesday evening will
feature a program on "Sex and
the single cataloger; new
thoughts on some unthinkable
subjects." The prejudice of
libraries in providing access
to materials will be discussed
there.
Another highlight will be
the First Annual Gay Book
Award which will be presented
to the book recent! y pubIi
shed which presents a positive
view of homosexuals and
their life style.
The week's activities
will be climaxed by a gay
dance on Thursday night, to
which all wi II be invited.
The American Library
Association, founded in 1876,
is the professional organizotion
of librarians in the United
States, with a membership of
over 30,000. About 5,000
librarians are expected to
attend the conference.
The Social Responsibilities
Round Table, with over
ll>O members, was organized
two years ago, because it was
felt that the American Library
Association and libraries
were not responsive to the
real needs of people.
The Task Force on Gay
L iberotion was organized in
Detroit in 1970 at the Annual
Conference of the Americian
Library Association because
it was evident that libraries
were not meeting the needs
of gay people.
PROGRAM
Saturday, June 19
9:00 - 11:00 p.m. STRATEGY
SESSION - Open to all who
wish to plan an active part
in the week's activities of
the Task Force on Gay Liberation.
As with all other meetings,
one's particular sexual
orientation is no hinderance
in participating in any of the
week's activities.
Sunday, June :JI
OP EN HOUSE - An opportunity
to get to know each
other in a relaxed, informal
at01osphere. 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.
I I Private Club I
(Membership available)
H/JQ/£ Large Dance Floor
3535 West/Jeimer flt Jonell HOUSTON'S MOST UNIQUE DANCE CLUB
featuring 8/oontz Ill/ Stflr Blues Bflnd
OPEN EVERY EVENING
7 p.m. 'til 2 a.m.
Afterhours 2 a.m. 'til 4 a.m.
Friday & Saturdays -----
GENE HOWEL - Owner
LYNN HUDSPETH - Manager
MARK WILLIAMSON - Head Bartender
GEORGE ELROD - Bartender
JERRY ROSS - Bartender
LYNN GAREY - Doorman
PHONE 622-5942.J
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EXCHANGE OF IDEAS GAYBOY
opened by
I
0,11 Dtlly l
1504 Westheimer
KEG PARTY SUNDAYS
S 7
(S1.00)
5:00 - 6:00 p.m. SPEAKER
Ruth Shivers.
6:3> - 8:3> p.m. SURPRISE
A very exciting and relevant
program which will be of
interest of al I (place to be
ammounced).
Mondor, June 21 - (to be
announced).
Tuesday, June 22
3:00 p.m. - 5-.00 p.m. FREE
KISSES (at the JMRT Booth)
Alternately called, "Hug a
homo sexual''
8:3> p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
INTELLECTUAL FREEDOMORDEAL
AT THE UNIVERSITY
OF MINNESOTA - J.
Michael McConnell.
10:00 p.m. - 12 - INFORMAL
RAP.
Wednesday, June 23
2:00 - 4:00 p.m. BUSINESS
MEETING (see official program
for meeting place) In
addition to a review of the
year's activities, plans for
"new directions," and el•
ection of a new coordinator,
there wi II take place the
First Annual Gay Book Award
for the best book published
in 1970 or 1971 that most
furthers
the Gay
style.
a positive view of
experience and life
8:00 - 10:00 p.m. SEX AND
THE SINGLE CATALOGERNEW
THOUGHTS ON SOME
UNTHINKABLE SUBJECTS.
1. Classification - Steve Wolf.
2. Subject Headings - Joan
K. Marshall.
10:00 p.m. -12:00 INFORMAL
RAP
Thursday, June 24
11:00 p.m. - ? - A VERY
GAY DANCE - Open to al/
free spirits and will be held
at the King of Clubs, 2116
N. Fields, phone 741-0218.
Friday, June 25
9:00 11:00 p.m. POST
MORTEN
All meetings will take ploce
in the suite of the Task Force
on Goy Liberation in the
Adolphus Hotel, unless otherwise
noted. Please check
there for last minute chonges
and additions to the program.
The Task Force wi II al so
be participating actively in
the Free University, Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday 9 :00
- 12:00 noon, as well as
having rapping tables at the
SRRT specta.:ular program
and business meeting on
Thursday evening, as well
os being present at the
SRRT booth at various times.
Point: - Am I mistaken in
assuming that Catholic gays
conceive of themselves as a
ghetto group which would care
to worship apart from their
straight fellow-members of
the Mystical Body of Christ?
Certainly the MCC seems to
.have experienced no difficulty
in letting it be known that
gays constitute at least a
majority of its membership.
Or do Houston gays differ
from those on the West Coast?
Counterpoint: - As I see it,
all gays think of themselves
as ghetto in this sense: they
Clln be themselves fully only
when with gays. There may be
exceptions to this, but the
condemnation of straight
society makes the gay retreat
and seek a subcultural social
life. Naturally, this carries
over into the I ife of worship.
The gay knows he is not accepted
by straights al Mass.
He feels almost that he is
there under false pretenses.
But when he can worship with
others who are gay, his conscience
is no longer up-light.
He feels he is at home. His
worship becomes freer_ And
since worship does not involve
only the act of worship, but
the social contacts before
and after, the gay prefers to
worship with other gays because
of the social contacts
that are there for him. Should
the day come when a straight
parishwill accept gays openly
and genuinely, the need for
gays worshipping apart may
no longer exist. Only time can
tell that.
Point: lrrespan sibi I ity:
th is is what I have found to
be characteristic of a notable
number of the gays whom I
know. And here, I fear, we
are confronted with an old
problem: Which came first,
the hen or the egg? Are many
gays irresponsible, simply
because, as a persecuted minority,
they have never been
regarded as re span sible sol id
citizens? Or is their irresponf
sibility a consequence of the
disturbed state of their lives?
If I have been injudicious in
my choice of words, please
forgive me. As a homosexual,
I dearly love the members of
the community and enjoy their
company. I regard homosex-
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ual ity as an addition to,
rather than a subtraction from,
the human condition: A dimension
which enables us to
see and enjoy elements of
reality which are absent from
the experience of straights.
Still, I have, as it w•e,
come so late to the I ife and
am a priest. So perhaps I am
more sensitive ta the faults
of my family and would like
to see them eradicated.
Counterpoint: - I don't presume
to have all the answers.
I can only give my opinions,
based on observation and
reading. Many times we are
tempted to stereotype the gay.
How can we say gays are
irresponsible? There are gay
doctors, lawyers, priests. It
would not be fair lo say that
they are irresponsible. They
would suffer in their profession
if they were. Among white
and blue collar workers also,
there can't be one answer.
Each individual has to be
judged on his own merits.
But when we say irresponsible,
in what are they irresponsible?
That is very
important. In some areas of
life an individual (gay or
straight) may be responsible
and in other areas very
irresponsible. The extent of
his interest in that particulc.area
might determine that.
Point: - In closing I should
like to include two quotations
which you might like to use
Counterpoiat: - Thank you for
your consideration in sending
me quotes that you felt might
be used .•• They w~re good,
but I feel that they were a
little too deep for general
reading • . . They almost
demanded study and that
kills reader interest.
Anthony/
Vecera
Soon to be one of the
most fun places in town is
the new Gayboy International
Club in the location of the
defunct Romulus Club. The
plans of Joe Anthony and Tom
Vecera for this large club
are really exciting. Fashioned
along the lines of the
Playboy Clubs, the Gayboy
International Club wi II be
the first of its kind anywhere.
European wait•• in
charming costumes, with
small tails cunningly attached
in the appropriate places,
to be known as Gayboy Bucks,
will add to the atmosphere of
this mast interesting club.
Entertainment will be provided
when the best is available.
Some really interesting live
entertainment is now being
discussed which wi II be a
pleasant surprise to the Gay
Community. New lighting and
furnishings also make the
Gayboy International Club
more excihitg.
The firs! club to publ ically
use such a name, the
Gayboy International Club
is exclusively for the Gay
Community, and the hets will
not be welcome, according
to Mr. Anthony.
The Gayboy lntemational
Club has a free smorgesbord
buffet seven nights a week
fer members and guests. Professional
bortenders serve
anything the patrons wish
mixed at 90• up, with beer
at 50• and nan-alcoholic
beverages available. It's a
hoot and you'll thoroughly
enjoy it!
GLF HALTS METHODIST
CONFERENCE
Memb.s of the Gay
Liberation Front confronted
a Methodist conference May
31 and brought the meeting
to a standstill when they
demanded to be heard.
Delegates to the Southwest
Texas United Methodist
Annual Conference first overwhelmingly
voted not to allow
the group to speak. A second
motion giving them the last
five minutes of Monday night's
program, passed by a nc.-row
margin.
As the first meeting of
the four-day conference opened,
members of the selfdescribed
homosexual group
passed out pink leaflets with
a Ii st of ten demands-including
one calling on the ch.,ch
to make "sizeable reparations
to gay people in the form of
programs, facilities and
money."
In the first moments of
business a bearded, longhaired
young man who indetified
himself as Jim Digger,
24, of Dallas, demanded that
the conference give his group
an audience.
A shouting match developed
between Digger and msnbers
of the audience. Including
the Rev. Robert Tate,
minister of the First Methodist
Church in Austin, who was
against allowing the group to
speak.
At one point as Tate
spoke, Digger Shouted,
"Pharisee."
Another Gay Lib representative
shouted, "Souls c.-e
the business of the church."
A CHRISTIAN DOPE ADDICT TELLS TRUE STORY
A couple yeors ago I was
a complete and total mental
and physical wreck. I had no
one to tum lo and no place to
go. No one cared or respected
me and I didn't even respect
myself. This was the result
of two years of being a dope
addict.
If all began in 1968. I
was nineteen yeors old. I was
engaged lo a girl who was
sixteen. She was the most
wonderful thing that had ever
happened lo me. I was very
much in love, not with her,
but with the idea of having a
descent Christian life. Six
weeks before we were to be
married Nell was killed in an
automobile accident. This
completely shattered me and
al I my dreams.
I then left my home town,
which I had never left before.
I didn't know where I was
going or what I was going to
do.
ended up in Houston.
It wasn't long before I was
approached with a new a spec!
of life, homosexuality. I had
had homosexuality tendencies
since I was twelve, but I had
been fighting these desires.
Now I knew this was what I
really wanted lo be.
In a short period of time
I met a man who I fell in love
with. We soon decided to move
to Los Angeles, Calif.
I got a fairly good job as
a cook al a truck stop. I then
began college at UCLA. It
wasn't long before I was
aware of some strange actions
from my lover. We had been
in LA for over two months
and he still hadn't been able
lo find a job. He had become
very nervous and couldn't stop
talking, even to the point
where I wasn't able to get
any sleep.
One day when I got home
after work I found him in bed.
He had a fever and was shaking
terrible. I didn't know
what was wrong but I wanted
to call a doctor for him. He
wouldn't let me call one
though, and said he would
be all right as soon as a
of his got there with some
medicine.
When his friend arrived
my lover told me he needed
twenty five dollars, for the
medicine, but I would pay any
amount so he would get well.
It was then I saw what had
happened to my lover. He was
a spead freak, and the medicine
was spead he needed
for a fix.
If I had known al I the
pain and heartache I would
have to go through before it
would be over, I wou Id have
left him then and there. But
I was young and I did love
him.
We had a long talk the
next morning. He told me that
he was hooked on spead very
badly. He was fixing twice
a day which cost five dollars
a fix. He couldn't get a job
to support his habit and he
couldn't kick it. I told him
not to worry I wou Id take
care of him.
I soon had lo get another
job besides the one I already
had. I now had two jobs plus
going to school five hours a
day. On week days I could
sleep about five hours in the
afternoons. This soon was
getting to me. I was getting
behind in my studies. I knew
I couldn't go on much longer.
It was then my lover
started lo give speed to me,
in capsule so I could keep
going with no sleep. I was
having to take more and more
to keep going.
It was then I informed my
family that I was gay. It had
just the opposit reaction than
I had expected.
My mother wrote me letters
telling me how sinful I
was. She quoted Bible passages
condeming homosexuals,
and constantly reminded me of
Nell.
Now I was tired from
working and school and
depressed by both my lover
and my mother and stil I greater
by my religion.
My lover soon found the
solution to my problems. It
came in o capsule. It was a
2500 mg Dexamyl either base
speed. He started shooting
me up. It wasn't long before
I was shooting more than him.
I started lo lose weight,
slowly at first and then faster
and faster. I was a stocky
250 pounds when I started.
In eighteen months I was
down to 150 and 145 pounds.
I looked five years older and
felt even older than that. I
had all but lost interest in
school and I knew I couldn't
continue much longer.
It was then my lover
left me. This was the last
straw. I now had no one, I
was a nobody, I didn't want
to live anymore.
This was al so a hard
time in LA for all speed
freaks. The supply of speed
coming into the city was all
but stopped. I even would buy
acid (LSD) and shoot it as
all acids have speed in it. I
even tried herion twice, luckly
I am allergic to 1t as it
made me deathly ill.
One night I decided to
end it al I. I bought twenty
Red Devi Is ( seconal s) and
shot all of them at once. This
should have killed me within
minutes.
A friend of mine found
me in o11y apartment. He
realized what had happened
to me. He called two friends
of his for help. These two
people were to become the
two most important influences
in my life.
Bob and his lover John
were both twenty some odd
years older than myself.
They were christians, and
members of a christian homosexual
church, the Metropolitan
Community Chu;ch. --
They saved my I ife that
day, and I am glad now that
they did. At f irst I could not
understand why they worked
so hard to do so, and not just
lo turn me into the pol ice.
A few days after my attempt
lo commit suicide, John
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and Bob were at my apartment
to see that I was alright. I
then asked them why they had
done al I they had. They did
not even know me. Why were
they spending their time and
energies ta help me stop
destroying myself.
Bab told me then that he
was a Christian and he cared
what happened to al I people.
That turning me into the
authorities would not do me
any good but maybe even
harm me. That a person must
receive help in the form of
love not to have it forced on
them. Bob told me that he and
John loved me as a Christian
and cared what happened to
me.
Before they left that day,
they told me if I wanted lo
qlJ it drugs altogether to come
to them and they would help
me. But I had to go lo them
on my own accord with a true
desire to stop using drugs
and ask for help as they could
not help unti I I wanted to
stop.
For the next two weeks
I continued lo shoot speed.
I didn't see Bob and John
at al I in those two weeks.
After these two weeks I knew
1-. wanted to stop and I wanted
John and Bobs help to do so.
I then went to them and with
tears in my eyes, I not only
asked but begged for help.
For the next ten horrible
days I went thru mental and
physical anguish while going
thru withdrawals. I could cry
out for help, for them to get
me some speed, then when
they would pretend they were
going to I would beg them not
to. I would curse them tell
them I hated them and i~ the
same breath tell them how
much I loved them. I hated
myself for having ever used
speed but hated trying to get
o'ff of it just as much. During
the whale ten days I was
never a lane. Jahn or Bab was
always with me day and
night, twenty four hours a
day. They would comfort me
and pray for me. I gained
courage and strength from
their presence. Knowing that
someone really cared was the
greatest thing in helping me
through this ordeal.
After those ten days I
knew I would never use dope
again. I still desire speed,
even after two years being
off of it. But I won't ever use
it again. A person once on
dope will always desire it the
rest of their lives . A person
stops using when they really
have a desire to. But they
never will be able to stop the
physical and mental desire to
use it again. You must have
the w i 11 power and. determ i not•
ion not to go back ta it.
After I kicked speed I
started working with Bab and
Jahn and people I ike them ta
help addicks.l cannot promise
them anything but the regaining
of self respect and stopping
the destruction of their
bodies'. I let them know there
are people who care and want
ta help.
I love the kids an drugs
and I want ta help. If you are
happy being a dope addict I
don't knock you, but I cannot
help you either. You have ta
have a real desire ta quit. The
only people I can help is
those who want my help.
In the near future there
is going to be a center ta
help drug addicts. In this
center there will be people
like myself who want to help.
I wish only that we could
start sooner, but it takes time
to get something like this
·started.
If you have a true desire
to · quit drugs and want and
need help, write me in care
of this newspaper. I will make
arrangements to help you all
I can. Don't be afraid of us
as we love you and want ta
help no matter if you are gay
or not, if you are an addict -
want ta help.
D. F.
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Al I correspondence strictly
confidental.
The above is an article submitted
by an individual that
the HUHTIUS feels is dedicated.
Through his work in this
line has attracted men of the
Clergy thot work with him.
Aries - Keep an open mind,
it's safer than on open heart.
The early part of this month
is a good time for visits from
some very nice people. You
may not find entertaining as
a job as has been the case af
late. Guests in bed tend to
add sameth ing ta the fun of
it all.
Tarus - A desire for increased
authority and popularity
go hand in hand with your
need to increase your income.
So put some of your assets to
work. Don't be surprised if
you are worth more than you
thought. You are due for a
surprise benefit on the 19th
or 29th. Be careful to stay off
my corner, things are good all
over.
Gemini - If you will just try
to be more lika_ble (not pushy)
you wi 11 find that you are.
You have lots of work so get
busy. When its time ta play
give it all you hove got, b:
of good humor and it may pay
off in the end or some equally
enjoyable spat. Enjoy your
birthday.
Cancer - It's time to realize
that every trick can't be 0
lover. ~onest feelings ore
fine but when you mi stoke
heat for love you hurt everyone.
It m oy be you are attempting
to estobli sh a home
life of your own but don't
rush things. You will know
when love has found you, it
won't let you go.,
Leo - If you are not realizing
enough from your work it
could be necessary to change
profes~ions. Being a natural
whore you may be tempted to
use your ass-et. Remember
all that glitters is not gold
and it's better free not sold.
If you have a stron.9 desire
to change your environment
you may find the chance this
month. Keep cool, it's hat
enough without blowing it
and don't risk those social
ties.
Virgo - The early part of
this month will bring you back
into contact with that person
you like so much who has
been for away. Friends have
some problems you can help
with but do it tactfully and
don't get too far in. Stress
the need for more sex with
fe I low workers, it wi 11 increase
your understanding of
everything.
Libra - Around the 6th, 15th,
and 29th you will find it easy
to get what you want out of
your so-cal led recreational
pursuits (some of us call it
sex). Be able to recognize
the people who want you and
heed the cal I of the bed, floor,
or whatever is handy. Be
careful about mounting expenses,
those wild young
boys are nice but can be
costly.
Scorpio - Exercise in moderation
and curb overoptimism,
ego and extravagance, you
have been going to hard as
of late. By being too outgoing
you hove missed some very
deep emotional experiences;
give yourself a break and you
will find tricks much easier
to get. Slow down and enjoy
some home life.
Sagittarius - A tall dark
stronger, and a long trip. Oh
well, why not. Listen to advice
and be ready for that
trip or visit even if it is iust
to the beach. Summer is here
and so are the tan bodies of
all those prety people. You
gain by becoming involved
with others, don't ploy hard
to get. Wait until you get in
bed to play ... then it 's more
fun.
Capricorn - Be careful in
form,ng relations with others,
this is a good time for you to
enjoy playing the field. Watch
what you eat, you know how
those high protien diets are
in the heat of these warm
months. Keep things simple
and remember you are one of
the most needed people in the
world.
Aquarius - Problems may
present themselves having to
do with your psychological
base-home, family, or property
. The trend of events will
be favorable and you may find
that this is a fun period. Use
_your imagination and you will
find that your romantic attachments
and dealing with youthful
people produce the results
you wanted. Be of good cheer
and have a great month.
Pi sees - You wi II find support
and encouragement on the
home front, be ready for a
rapidly changing month. Keep
your wits about you and
attempt to preserve harmony
at al I costs. If you have any
unfinished work it is time to
finish. You may find tricks in
out-of-th ... way places, avoid
them. In the past we learn
what to expect in the future.
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HETEROSEXUAL WOMAN
STABS HUSBAND
Ruth Moses, 51, of 1236
West Bell was charged with
murder Wednesday in connection
with the Tuesday
stabbing death of her husband,
Willie David Moses, 47.
Moses was stabbed in
the chest with a bayonet knife
during a scuffle in the family
living room Tuesday afternoon.
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Officers said he staggered
into his front yard and fell
dead.
ANOTHER HETEROSEXUAL
WOMAN ST ABS HUSBAND!
Ocie Herbert Holt, 58,
of 10134 Porto Rico died
about 4PM Sunday as the
result of a knife wound in
the chest.
Holt's wife, Mrs. Eva
Holt, {I), told police that she
stabbed her husband during
an argument while returning
home from a tavern. She soid
that he came into the house
after they got home and was
going for a drink of water
when he collapsed on the
kitchen floor.
The couple had been arguing
about how fast Holt was
driving, she soid, and she
stabbed him with o smal I
knife after he slapped her
about the face.
Mrs. Holt was held in
city jail Sunday night.
HOMOSEXUAL LINK
FOUND IN HORMONE -
Three Los Angeles
physicians say they hove
found that homosexuals can
be detected by on imbalance
in the male sex hormone.
Drs. M. Sidney Margo Iese,
Oscar Janiger and Richard
Green discussed their pre\iminory
findings in o study of
homosexuality financed by the
National Institute of Mental
health.
They said their investigation,
based on a study of 75
persons, suggests that male
homosexuals can .be distinguished
from heterosexuals
by an analysis of the male
sex hormone, te stosterone.
Testosterone, they said
can be broken down into horomonal
sbbstances called androstrone
A and etiocholano-lene
E. Whenever the amount
of E exceeds A in a male,
Margo Iese said, there is an
overwhelming chance that the
subject is homosexual.
The only exceptions to
this noted to date, he said,
are individuals with diabetes
and severe mental depression.
This throws aff the testosterone
flow, the physicians said.
"I om close to saying
that homosexuality is genetic,"
Margo Iese added. "We
have not found anyone who is
a strongly motivated homosexual
and who is otherwise
healthy whose E level does
not exceed his A level."
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HETEROSEXUALS!
HETEROSEXUAL PAIR
SENTENCED IN RAPE,
ABORTION
A Tomball man was sentenced
to six years in prison
and his wife to three years by
Judge William M. Hatten Friday
for the rape and criminal
abortion of a 14-year-old girl
last year.
Woodrow Willtrout, 40,
pleaded guilty to roping the
girl, the daughter of a family
friend, and his wife sandra,
27, pleaded gui hy to performing
on abortion on her in
Apri I, 1970.
HETEROSEXUAL
SENTENCED TO DEATH
Lloyd J~hnson, '19,
charged with murdering his
girlfriend and her five-yearold
son November 24, 1970,
wo~ sentenced to death Thursday
by a jury in District
Judge E. B. Juggan's court.
Johnson received the
death penalty far shooting
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Parish Leon Morgan in the
head at the time he ol sa
· allegedly murdered the boy's
mother Mrs. Pritchere Anita
Morgan, 24, in her apartment
at 6364 Hirsch Rood.
During the trial, prosecutor
Rick Stover presented
as witnesses, relatives and
police officers who testified
that Johnson told them he
shot the boy and Mrs. Morgan.
After he was ar,-ested,
Johnson told police he bought
the pistol on the day of the
killings ta teach Mrs. Morgan
how to shoot.
Johnson told police he
had been I iving with the woman
and her son for about
five weeks. He told police he
did not know why he shat
them.
HETEROSEXUAL WOMAN
FOUND INNOCENT IN
MAN'S CHOKING DEATH
Mrs. Nellie Vasquez
Robles, 37, was found not
guilty Wednesday in the choking
death of her husband, a
di sabled ex-Marine, in their
home at 12715 Blue Haven.
Marcelino Robles, 43, a
veteran of World War 11 and
Korea, paralyzed from the
waist down, was found dead
Dec. 14 by sheriff deputies.
Mrs. Robles testified her
husband attacked her and
choked her and that she began
choking him in self defense.
She said Robles let
go and she I eft the room.
Later she returned and
found her husband snoring and
breathing heavily, she said.
About an hour later she discovered
he was dead and called
the sheriff's office.
The trial was in Judge
George L. Walker's court.
However, Judge William M.
Hatten heard the verdict in
lieu of Walker, who left at 4
PM to attend ceremonies in
Washington on the Brazos
honoring Speaker of the House
Gus Mutscher.
Judge Hatten explained
to the jury that he was sitting
in far Walker because Walker
had another assignment.
MOTHER, KNOWN HETEROSEXUAL,
FACES SLAYING
TRIAL
Patricia Ann Goolsby, 19,
charged with smothering her
4-month old son Sept 22, was
found sane Wednesday in
Judge Sam W. Dovi s' court,
clearing the woy for a_murder
trial. Jury selection for another
jury wi 11 begin Monday.
Mrs. Goolsby' s attorney,
John Lohmann 111, hos contended
since the start of the
trial last Monday that the
slim reception isl should have
been tried to determine whether
she is guilty instead of a
son ity hearing.
Lohmann initially asked
for the sanity hearing. However,
he later asked that she
be tried on the merits of the
case. The state said that the
request far the sanity hearing
had to be carried out.
The jury found that Mrs.
Goo Isby is presently sane and
is capable of standing trial
for murder. Under law a new
jury must be impaneled to
determine her guilt or innocence.
HETEROSEXUAL COUPLE
GUil TY IN MORALS CASE
After a quick change of
events in the opening day of
trial on a morals charge, a
Freeport couple was sentenced
to a total of 25 years on a
charge of indecent exposure
to o minor involving a teen
ager and a retarded girl.
Wallace Deats, 42, was
sentenced to 15 years and
his wife, Julia, 35, was sent•
enced ta 10 years on the same
charge. Five charges remain
against the couple stemming
from the game incident.
The couple changed their
plea to guilty after a collection
of photographs and magazines
were admitted as evidence
before a six-man, sixwoman
jury in District Judge
Paul Ferguson's 149th District
Court.
The Freeport couple were
arrested in March after three
children were picked up by a
Brazoria County sheriff's
deputy on Surfside Beach
near Freeport.
The chi I dren told of
being allegedly forced to pose
for lewd pictures and commit
sex acts with the Deatses.
In his opening remarks,
Brazoria County District Attorney
Ogden Bass warned
the jurors, "In my humble
opinion, you are about to hear
a bad, bad case. Its going to
be nasty, vulgar, obscene and
rank. Sometimes it's amazing
the accomplishments of
Laredo, Tex.
people for the sake of sati sfying
lust."
Later, as Bass attempted
to introduce the pictures and
magazines as evidence, de.
fense attorney Jimmy Wilcox
charged that the Deatses'
civil rights had been violated
when the pictures and books
were reportedly confiscated
in the Deatses' home by a
Brazoria County Deputy sheriff.
At this point, the jury
was retired and Judge Ferguson
began hearing testimony
from a 13-year-old child and
later from the deputy concerning
the events leading up to
and including the arrests of
the couple.
After his action to accept
the evidence, the couple
changed their plea to guilty
and waived their rights ta a
trial by jury.
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WITH RAPE IN
CEMETERY!
A 17-year-old cemetery
laborer was charged Saturday
with raping and robbing a 69-
year-old woman who said she
was at the cemetery ta place
flowers on her husband's
grave on their 50th wedding
anniversary.
Police arrested Nathanial
Hawkins, 17, of 4905 Picklair.,
at Forest Park Lawndale
Cenetery, 6900 Lawndale,
where the woman said she
was assaulted at noon Friday.
She said she was about
to place the flowers on the
grave when she was dragged
to a car and forced inside. A
man tried to rape her there,
she said, but she managed to
fight him off. He then dragged
her from the car, and assaulted
her twice, she said.
He a I so robbed her of an undetenm
ined amount of cash,
she said.
Police said the woman
identified Hawkins from a
photograph taken after his
arrest. He was charged with
rape and with robbery by assault.
No bond had been set
for Hawkins Saturday Night.
The woman was taken to
a hospital where she was reported
in satisfactory condition.
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IT WAS JUST FABULOUS,
really it was, and
Marbella NEVER looked
better, luv. Just EVERYbady
who IS wos there, in varying
states of undress, ond it wos
FUN. Tragically, we missed
Arthur Talk, that dear old
chubs, whose arrival in
Spain coincided with our
departure. We' II catch him
next time round ••• .
ALL MANNER OF
THINGS have been doing in
Houston while we were fr~
licking al fresco, luvs, and
thanks to so many dears who
sent in the most interesting
letters with the most interesting
people, we'll share just
about e1rerything with you.
You knew we would!
ISN'T IT JUST TOO,
too exciting about all the
changes taking place in some
of our local watering holes?
Of course it is, and especially
all those stories, confirmed
& purely silly both, about the
sole of this place and that
place. It's just so exciting to
be involved in such bigbusiness
affairs, even pre-siding
over bankruptcies,
Luv. One of the larger fleshpots,
rivalling Forest Lawn
for quietude in recent weeks,
has changed hands, actually,
and will see the advent of one
of Houston's most literary
types in the saloon business
west of Montrose. Joe Anthony
Society Scene
s already serving up daily
& nightly rations of fun and
games at Mary's ond Queen's
Haven, and we all know how
fascinating those two places
is going to be just terribly
successful in his latest
venture in the old Romulus
location, we look forward to
seeing how he does things.
Others are curious about his
newest venture, Goy boy
International, too. And you
know it . . .
SO TACKY, ACTUALLY,
just to trot in and repossess
the Armadillo's furnishings!
Tasteless, Abbey Rents, tastless!
THE Et.f'LOYES at the
Romulus have been just so
fascinated by the frequently
repeated senario where their
young manager, Terry Ritter,
keeps stuffing $20.00 bills
into the shirt pockets of
some uniformed policemen -
cheek to cheek. One can only
assume, luv, that the dear
boys in blue are collecting
for the Widow's Fund or some
other worthy cause. Surely!
THAT DEAR BOY, so
successful in all he does,
just sold his very attractive
River Oaks house to some
other dears, and we know
they're just going to be so
happy out there among st the
trees where some of the most
interesting parties hod some
of the most interesting people
over the past few years. And
Maxine Messenger, who really
appreciates a stiff price, is
just agog over the figure mentioned
in the ;,urchase contract,
and headlined the item,
complete with cameo snapshot
of dear Dick. Tasteless,
tasteless ....
THAT DARLING GERMAN
boy, Willie, <and his
associates ore about to open
another lovely addition to
the Montrose area, just down
the way from their funfunfun
Michaelangelo's. It's called
Alexander's and you just
know it's going to be boffo.
We wouldn't I ie to you!
DENNIS DAY, LIBERACE,
and just who knows who else
we run into at the Tattooed
Lady! Bock just barely and
we find the dear place just
bumpy with show-biz persons
(which just titilates Cora to
near collapse!) And wasn'r
it sweet of that dear, dear
"Shirley Ankles" to trot the
charming Liberace by to say
whatever was said! Of course
it was, and never you mind
that nasty rumour about his
PR career resting on the
prostrate bodies of so many
former friends. He hos a
charming smile . ...
THEIR FRIENDS WERE
SO drained emotionally to
learn of the divource of Jack
and Roland. Jack, poor dear,
has moved in with Jim. that
dear boy who hos those charming
apartments and townhouses
and laundries and
funny tenants, who hos moved
out. It's all so confusing,
but we understand that each
is keeping custody of a
poodle. Golly.
AND TO MAKE IT even
more interesting, and you
know we I ike it kept interesting,
Jim is also itemising
possessions for a possible
divource in his own household.
These property settlements
can be so tiresome,
luv, and then there's always
the poodle to c onsider! Yes.
THAT DEAR OLD dear,
Art, was recently inconvenienced
by a gentleman caller
who left Art's residence
carrying away cozy memories
and Art's car. Now it ' s off
to gay, exciting and pol ice-troppy
New Or leans to identify
the body--car, that is. Alter
that, it's time to revise his
guest list. Poor poor dear. 0
WOULDN'T YOU KNOW
that while we're gone new
clubs spring up I ike daisies,
in chains practically! Yes,
you know that. We went round
to see the newest, the Hi
Kamp, and thought it utterly
tasteless and noisy and
vulgar a nd sure to be a howling
success. The owners,
known to their many fr iends,
patients and clients as The
T oath Fairy and Wonda the
Witch, are such funsy dears,
really, and we know they're
going to en joy t ripping fantastically
through this newest
addition to our night I ife.
With so much help from their
friends, luv .. . . .
IT WAS UTTERLY rural
and such bumpy fun! The
Form Hou se, luv. And when
we sow that German-speaking
bartender al I tri eked out in
those clever togs, it was
all right-in-place again. So
glad to have that dear Gene
and Emit back in the soloonery.
And so g I od to see towering
Lynn lurk ing about the
pl.,ce doing whatever so well.
Dears, al I of them: and such
a funfunfun place to drink
and dance while irremedially
damaging one's inner
ears.
UTTERLY FASCINATED
by the negotiations that
Fronk Coven and his PR man,
that dear old boy Don Moore,
who is such acharming fellow,
really, are in concerning
their acquiring another of our
watering holes. Frank, so
well known in Dallas for his
clubs t here, is just terribly
anxious to come into Houston
with s i,;,ilor operations, and
we know he' ll just be terribly
successful and happy about i·
sucessful and happy about it
. a ll when he does. And so
many ore anxious to watch
him do it. And will.
NOW THAT DEAR Lanis
and h is associates hove sold
the Romulus to J oe Anthony
( it's renamed Gay Boy Internation
al, I uv, and that's
something, it has to be!), just
everyone is so curious to see
just where t he much-spokenabout
Terry Ritter wi II surface
next. It is almost too
much to expect after the past
few months t hat this 19 year
old club manager will not be
put to further commercial use
by dear Lanis. Of course, so
much of this young man's
career wi II depend upon the
dispositions of the courts, but
surely Someth ing Will Be
Done . • . .
THANKS AGAIN, LUVS,
for al I those marvy notes with
all that marvy informat ion
about a ll tho se marvy people .
Keep them coming in, and
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KILL THE QUEERS
by Don J~ckson
"Psychiatry is waging a
war of extermination against
homosexuals", said Dr. Franklin
Kameny, "The psychiatric
profession is the major enemy
of the American Gay Community."
For the fifth time in a
year, Gay Liberation i sis disrupted
a shrink convention.
This time it was the American
Association convention in
Washington, D. C. Enraged
shrinks pushed and shoved
at Gays, as the Gays forced
their way into the convention
hall. Veteran Gay Militant Dr.
Kameny "liberated" the rostrum
and told the shrinks that
the disruption could be
viewed as a formal declaration
of war. "This is a declaration
of war against you", Dr.
kameny said.
Komeny was answering
a challenge by Executive
Di rector O'Donnell of the
National Association for
Mental Health. Last November,
Gays disrupted the NAMH
convention in Los Angeles.
At that time, O'Donnell said
"if you go against us, we'll
set your movement (Gay
Liberation) back ten years".
Since then, agressive
anti· homo sexua I provocoti on s
by shrinks have increased.
In December, they pressured
the Nebraska legislature into
declaring that all incureable"
homosexuals are "sociopaths",
and as such con be
incarcerated for life in state
mental hospitals.
The American Medical
Association, and NAMH affi
I iate, launched a vicious
anti-homosexual crusade in
its magazines, TODAY'S
HEAL TH and the AMA JOURNAL.
Other shrinks busied
themselves writing antihomosexual
hate I iterature.
Costeration under various
guises came into common use
os a 11treatment" for homosexuality.
Dr. Hans Orthner,
a neurosurgeon, announced
that he had excellent results
"curing" hundreds of homo•
sexuals by destroying the
sex nerve center in the brain
with an electric shock probe.
Other neurosurgeons boasted
that their surgical methods
to destroy the sex drive with
various brain surgeries or by
cutting the nerves leading to
the genitals were equally
effective. In California, atrocious
11experiments" were
performed on homosexuals in
state mental institutions and
prisons. In most instances
these atrocities were committ•
ed without the consent of the
"patient".
Dr. H. 8. Glass, president
of the prestigious
American Association for the
Advancement of Science told
the national conference of that
organization: "There will
have to be forced abortions
to rid the world of uncontrollable
defects such as mongolism
and sex deviation". Dr.
Glass, a geneticist, sounds
more like a eugenist. His
remark is almost identical
in warding to a remark made
by the late Adolph Hitler to
the German Eugenics Assoc.
In April, 1971,Dr. Sydney
Margolese announced that he
had discovered that homosexuality
was caused by an
endorcinolog ical imbalance-an
excess of the male hormone,
etiocolanolone. Dr.
Margo Iese predicted that his
discovery would lead to a
drug for the "treatment and
prevention of homosexuality".
Dr. Margo Iese' s research
was funded by the National
Institute for Mental Health.
It provides a way to implement
Dr. Glass' "Kill the
Queers'' proposal. Since
hormone secretions begin
before birth, it wi II be possible
to detect and abort
homosexual fetuses.
Gay Liberationists take
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all this as evidence of a
monstrous conspiricy for the
genocide of homosexuals.
Gays feel that the shrinks
are angry because of the
disruptions, and because Gay
Liberation has exposed antihomosexual
psychiatry as a
hoax-nothing mare than a
semantic device to veil the
religious beliefs of shrinks
with the respectability of
scientific terms.
Shrinks say that hamosexuality
is a disease because
heterosexuality is
necessary to reproduce the
species. The fact that other
primates ore dominantly homosexual
yet sti II manage ta
have a rampantly growing
population does not impress
the irrational shrinks.,.. nor
does the fact that dominantly
featuring
homosexual human cultures
survive and florish shake
their religious conviction that
the human race will become
extinct without universal
state enforced heterosexuoli sm.
With equal logic it could
be argued that since people
need hove intercourse only
once every ten years to
maintain a O population
growth, that heterasexualism
is obviously a disease and
must be stomped out as a
genitic strain lest people
become as numerous as cockroaches.
During the early port of
this century, eugenics was a
respectable and popular
science. Eugenics is the
science of improving the
human genetic pool by encouraging
people with "good"
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genes to multiply, while discouraging
or preventing reproduction
by individuals
whom the eugenicists felt
were inferior. During the
1920' s, many American states,
induding California, passed
eugtn ics laws, which provi~
ed for the compulsory sterilization
of habitual criminals
sex deviates, the mentoll;
ill and the retarded.
But it was in Hitler's
Reich that eugenics raised
to its greatest promi nonce.
Eugenicists proclaimed that
Jewishness and homosexuality
were genii ic defects that hod
to be stomped out by the
"final solution".
Gypsies, Blocks and
were added to the
Later,
Slaves
Ii st of
"diseased" racial strains.
If the First World War
was "The war to molce the
world safe far democracy",
the Second World War was the
war to make the wa,ld sofe
from eugenics. The outrages
of the eugenicists united the
world against the Nazis.
Finally, the eugenicists
declared that all non-Aryans
were ''untermenchen'' on
inferior, subhum<S'I species.
The terrible science
reachec:I its culmination in
the extenninotion of twenty
million people in the crematoria
of Belsen and ['ochou.
Now, the disreputable science
is again raising its ugly head
under the label of psychiatry,
neurosurgery, genitics and
endocrinology. The ne•
eugenicists, being mostly
Jews, ore free from antisemitism,
but ore vehemently
anti-homosexual and to a
leseec extent anti-black. Many
of the nee>-eugeni ci sts involved
in the anti-Goy consp
iri cy ore saying that
Blocks are geneticly infecior
and hove smaller brains and
LQ.' s than coucosions.
The fact that the neoeugenicists
ere almost unonomously
Jewish is relevm,t_
The anti-homosexual taboo
con be traced to the ancient
Jews. Homosexuality was
acceptable and comlllOflploce
in all othec ancient civilizations.
It hos been suggested
that the Jews adopted antihomosexuali
sm (and circumcision)
as a national symbol,
I ike a flog, in a,dec to di stingui
sh themselves from their
neighbors - and to increase
their birthrate, thus gaining
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PAGE12
a military advantage over
their neighbors.
Anti-hom,sexvalism I,.,.
come a patriotic attitude
connected with the territorial
ambitions of the Jewish king._
It became an abcessian of the
Jews and permeated every
aspect of their culture. It
was carried into Christianity
by Saul of Tm-sus (St. Paul),
who spews forth anti-homosexual
venom in the .. Epistles
of Paul", mare than half of
the New Testament". There
is an anti-homosexual taboo
built into O.ristianity, but
it lacks the intense patriotic
fevor of the Jewish taboo.
Gentile scientists seem to
overcome their subconscious
hate,but even Jewish athiests
have such firmlyrooted antthomosexval
obcessions in
their cultural heritage that
it dominates their mental
processes to the extent that
it dominates their mental
processes ta the extent that
the y cannot view homosexuality
rationally.
Hapefully, American
cultural inhibitions against
mass extermination will preclude
a restaging of the last
days of Belsen and Dachau.
Mare I ilr.ely, the neo-eugenici
sts will attempt genocide
by murdering homosexuals
while they are sti II fetuses
- as they hove already imp.
ied.
EDITORIAL -
YMCA & YWCA: BAH!
The Young Men's 0.ristian
Association and the Young
Women's Christion Association
in Houston do not tum
out to be as Christian as
their legal names imply, nor
as O.ri stian is defined generally.
The Downtown YMCA
and YWCA both discriminated
against the American Association
of Christian Crusaders
(AARO and its Church of
Montrose by cancelling the
Church's reserved spoc:e on
Sunday the 23rd of May, 1971.
Both places hod accepted the
Church's reservation of space
to use for church services,
then reneged at the last
moment on their agreements.
This shabby treatment of the
O.urch of Montrose and its
pastor, resulting in financial
loes and ernboffassment, is
not ta be casually excused.
These so-called "Christion..
organisations violated
their agreements for the sole
reason that the 0.urch of
Montrose serves primari lly a
homophile community. Apparantly
these "Christian"
associations are not prepared
ta follow the lead of their
purported Master and extend
the hand of Christian brotherhood
to such as we. A sad
commentary on the basic
principles of the YMCA and
the YWCA- And rather silly
considering the universal ~
putation of both institutions!
The Gay citizen no longer
has to tolerate the malicious
opinions of the hets of this
wo,I d. Those days ore long
and mffcifully dead. As for
the YMCA and YWCA we
would remind our readers and
friends that both derive port
of their financial support
from the United fund. Even
allowing for the extortion
techiniques used by the
United Fund ta receive "Donations,.
from salaried employees
here, we would urge
the homophile community to
say N9! ta any further donations
to them. Instead, direct
yo .. donations ta the Church
of Montrose. If you wish to
support a Christian organisation,
then suppor1 one
whichhas ow genuine interest
at heart.
letters
to the editor
Don Jackson
1822 W. 4th St.
Los Angeles, Calif 90057
Editor,
I wish you would quit
using the word straight as the
opposite of Gay. Straight
means right, correct usual,
ordinory,moral truth, faimess,
honesty accurate, upright,
reliable, and candid. Its
antonyms are tricky, dishonest,
crooked, swindler, abnormal,
confused, devious,
dis solute, unnatural, and
vicious. (funk and Waggnell' s
Dictionary). When straight is
used os the antonm of Gay,
you imply that Gay is unnat..
al, and abnormal. The
continued use of the ward
straight has an undesirable
sub5onscious psychological
effect on the readers and
militates against pride, selfesteem,
etc, and causes Gays
-to think of themselves in a
negative manner.
I suggest that the non-p-
ejudical word "Het" be
used instead of straight. You
will note that most of the
underground press hos already
switched to the new usage.
I AM NOT ABNORMAL
P .S. I enclose a submission
which is also furnished to
Liberation News Service and
out of state Gay publications.
Dear I Am Not Almonnol,
We thinlc your idea is a
goad one, and in this edition
of The NUNTIUS we have
used the word "het" in
several insfonces, along witla
the ward "straight" to •
scribe a person of heterosexual
persuasion. The word
"straight" has talcen on many
mcwe meanings in CurTent
English usage over the post
few years and the dictio,wry
definitions are no longer
final. This is typical of any
living, vital language; the
dictionaries will catch CJP
/ater.J
Editor
Dear Phil,
Houston's Gay scene hos
been -,st fortunate ta have
three first class quality clubs.
Can you name any other city
in America which has three?
The aid Palace Club was
first, the Romulus, then the
Phoenix fire bird rose out of
the ashes to penthouse level
and became the new Palace
and then ca- that cut;
Tattooed Lady. The Palace
Club -s the most beautiful
Gay spat in America, even
if it did look like some
femme fetale saeen star's
kosher beclraa...
As usual, the Gay crowd
ignored quality, aost staying
away claiming the Palace os
being "too" elegant. If a
city has 20 and mare gay
bars, why shouldn't 2 or 3
of them be fine places? If
one is going out to gay places,
why be forced to limit one's
self only to dirty, uncomf«table
grubby ugly places.
Soae kid themselves that
they don't feel c-fortable in
a fine place. Others have a
mistalcen opinion that fine
places me nelly. What is
nelly about the Houston
Country Club, the Riv...- Oaks
Country Club, the Houston
Club or the Bayou Club?
These places are all fine
Either way, the genocide
of Gays will be disastrous
for the world. The ecology
probably requires a certain
pe,-centage of Gays for ecological
balance. In addition,
a high percentage of artists,
composers and literary figures
are Gay. Gays such as Shak~
spear, DaVici, Michaelangelo
and T choikowski have brought
beauty into an ugly het world. Mr. FrizJJy
3401 Milam at Franis
entrance on Francis
POLICE
"PEEK"
"The Nuntius" contacted Miss Anne
Hamadt, Assistant Director of the
Houston Public Lil><ary, concerning
the installation and use of a twoway
min-or by the Houston Police
Department in the men's restroom
at the Library.
Miss Hornack was queried cancen.ing
the mirror and she related that
its installation had been made at
the request of the Houston Police
Deportment. " . . • she didn't r•
member just haw many years ago.
.. Because of nU111erous cmnplaints
made by p-ons of the Library concerning
••certain actions., that were
transpiring in the Library's facility.
When aslr.ed if the •irrar had been
a determining factor in reducing the
number of complaints, the Assistm,t
Director stated that, "Y cs, it had
been a dete,minant in c-iling
these actions" and that such ..,._
pleasant activities had calaed down.
She went on to say that recently
the staff of the Library had received
very few ca111plaints from their
patrons and that " • . • spells of
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and you don't see many nelly
types there at all.
The Gays lend lo be
flighty and patronize one bar
over the other for silly or
ufiknown reasons ignoring
qual ity as they fly from bar
to bar.
business, but have been
deplorable in some of their
actions and lack of actions.
As flighty as most gays are,
even the most staunch customers
are not going to put up
with some of management's
abuses.
pocketbook and taste os we//
os others not having been bit
but stung by your "quality"
clubs. You haven't mentioned
nearly all the "quality"
spots where servire rather
than decor is in evidence.
Editor
Dear Editor,
Scene 1 had seventeen
arrests the 22nd of Moy which
was actually at 2: 3'.) o.m.
Sunday.
Two pl oinclothesmen
come in, sealed the door, and
searched everything and
everybody. All personal 1.D.
checked, employees al I had
health cords, all licenses
were in order. The owner
was confident that everything
wo s in good 0<der as he hod
comp I ied with every regulation.
He .stopped serving by
2 on the clock and took away
ot :i: 15. At least they thought
they had.
them with consuming or serving
after hours.
While this was probably
ncl horrossment for being a
Gay bar, the morality of these
policemen deserves a more
than cosuot examination,
because they were dead
wrong. Is it not part of their
oath of office to prevent
crime and violations of the
law? While ignorange of the
law is no ex OJ se these customers
al the bor would have
preferred to not break the law
and deserved to hove been
given the chance.
Here is a victimless
crime. Here ore two police-men
standing by idly and
encouraging the consumption
by their permissiveness and
the clock wrong.
What kind of respect for
the law does the pub I ic get
from this sort of treatment •
from the police? The police
in an orderly society are to ..
be asked for help rather than
to be feared by law abiding
citizens.
I hope that these orreslies
fight this case in court,
win, get the arrest records
di strayed, get an apology, and
gel the two policemen di sci iplined
with a lowered rank.
Dear Out,
It is port of the manage•
ments job to protect his cvst.
omers as well as his license.
The ball hos been droppea
or I misunderstand your letter.
Scene 1 has had a bod clock
for some time - "so we are
told". Do you really feel that
the po/ice are ot fault here?
Just hope management paid
the tab for the paddy ride -
neglence - !!!
Editor
The sod result appears
to be that we are well on our A bar fly whos bit.
way ta losing our finest gay
places from lad, of support. Dear Bit Barfly -
The fire department had
been in the day before asking
them to remove the rear exit
sign. This the manager did
the same day he was asked
to do so. The power was
switched off lo do this as a
result the clock lost time.
The police called the
paddy wagons and hauled
seventeen to iail, charging
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ORIGINS,
EFFECTS,
PROSPECTS:
The Sodomy Laws
Must Go
By George Schatzki
At present, every state
except Illinois has some law
which prohibits so-e<1,lled "unnatural
sex acts," usually
called "sodomy" or "the abominable
(or "unspeakable")
crime against nature," Typically
the laws prohibit one or
more- of the following: bestiality
(intercourse with onimal sl,
buggery ( anal intercourse) and
oral-genital contacts.
Almost all of these laws
do not distinguish between
consensual and non-consensual
acts, nor between pub Ii c and
private conduct, nor between
homosexual and heterosexual
relations. Most of them do not
exempt sexual acts committed
in the marriage relationship,
and there actually have been
isolated instances in which
married persons were prosecuted
far these acts.
My comments are intended
to set out very broadly the
hi story of sodomy and of its
most feared manifestation,
homosexuality; its present
status in our society; and some
of the legal ramifications.
Hebrews
While it is not entirely clear
when the first so-cal led "secular"
laws against homosexuality
or sodomy emerged,
most historians agree that
taboos on this bype of "unnatural"
sex were legislated
by the Hebrew tribes; these
prohibitions found their way
into the Old Testament. It is
generally believed that homosexual
practices - especially
anal intercourse - were common
among the Canaanites and
the Egyptians. Moreover, not
only was homosexuality common
in the "cradle of civilization"
(the Nile Valley and
Mediterranean Basin), but it
was practiced in Scandinavia,
through the land of the Galls
and the Celts, as well as in
the Far East. And, of course,
in Greece, the zenith of ancient
civilization, homosexuality
blossomed and was considered
highly desirable.
With the possible exception
of Persia, in no ancient
civi Ii zation were homosexuality
and bestiality treated with
such fierce opposition as by
the Hebrews, who were of the
view that persons practicing
such "horrible" acts should
be put to death. Still, early in
their history, the Hebrews had
practiced homosexuality through
male prostitutes who were employed
at the temples; it was
then bet ieved that intercourse
with these men produced some
sort of supernatural blessing
or power. Even today this sort
of bet ief about homosexual
relations is fairly common
among primitive tribes.
While it is true that the
early Roman Empire contained
in its laws a prohibition on
homosexual behavior, the prohibition
appears to have been
ignored. Indeed, at least one
emperor of Rome, Hel iogabalus,
was believed to have been
raised as a priest in a homosexual
temple.
Abstinence Ideal
When the Roman Empire
became Christian, several new
laws aimed at "unnatural" sex
acts were passed. The Christians
proscribed all sexual
acts which ·were not procre~
l ive. (Indeed, the Christians
urged total sexual abstinence
as the ideal but permitted sex
within marriage if it was reproductive.)
In Middle Age En gland
sodomists were thought to be
heretics. Indeed, the term
"bugger" derives its meaning
from the common be! ief that
heretics were al so sodomi sts,
and heretics were known as
buggers.
Over the years the chur
Over the years the church
lost the power to impose sanctions
such as death or imprisonment
on offenders of religious
laws. Apparently as a result,
in 1533, the first secular statute
in England was passed to
deal with sodomites. Over the
ye-ors, the substance of that
law has became enseconced in
our tradition. The Christian
taboo on all sex activities
which do not have the potential
of reproduction has resulted in
many laws prohibiting not only
anal intercourse and best iality,
but also oral intercourse.
Usually it is homosexual
behavior rather than 11devian•"
heterosexual behavior, that
incurs the wrath of the government
and the society in general.
Kinsey
Exact stati sties as to the
frequency of homosexual practices
in our society are not
available. The Kinsey reports
of the late 1940' s and early
1950's are considered the best
sources we have. They indicate
that more than one-third of the
white male population aver the
age of 16 has had at least one
orgasm due ta homosexual
relations, and that approximately
one-half of that same population
has at least recognized
some strong homosexual instincts
or yearnings. About
10 per cent were exclusively
homosexual for a period of at
least three years in their adult
lives, while four per cent remain
homosexual throughout
their adult I ives.
Kinsey and many others
have noted that homosexual
behavior is not limited to the
stereotype, that is, to the intellectual,
the artist, the effete
and the effeminate. Persons in
all walks of life (truck drivers
and interior decorators, athletes
and professors, doctors
and candlestick makers), per-
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sans with all personality traits,
engage in some homosexual
acts. Many are married and
have children but seek other
sexual or emotional outlets,
perhaps only from time to time.
Most "homosexuals" at
one time or another if not regularly,
engage in heterosexual
relations also. Thus, the ward
"homosexual" may be misleading.
It may have reference
to those who are exclusively
homosexual; it may refer to
those who prefer homosexuality;
or it may refer to anyone who
has engaged in any homosexual
acts, or hos even recognized
homosexual instincts within
himself. (If the definition is
the last, approximately onehalf
of the white male population
is homosexual.)
Activism
However defined, homosexuality
is much more in our
society's eye today than in the
past. This seems true not only
because of the increasing academic
interest in the subject,
but al so because of the increasing
activism of a number of
homosexuals and their organizotion
s.
These institutions have
taken many roles for themselves.
Some are attempting
to make society more tolerant
and to change laws which repress
sexual "deviants." Some
hamophile organizations are
attempting to give homosexuals
M.C.
a sense of identity and a selfimage
of which they are not
ashamed. This is accomplished
through meetings and discussions
of mutual problems and
experiences. These organi zation
s may take on a somewhat
"militant" facade, such as
Gay Liberation, which proclaims
that "gay is good." Or
they may be more passive. But
al I try to be unashamed.
There are, for example,
homophile churches springing
up in different parts of the
country. These churches provide
all the usual church ceremonies
and counselling, including
performing marriages for
their parishioners. (While there
are no statistics on the subject,
apparently homosexual marriages
are not so stable as
heterosexual marriages. But
in all likelihood, one of the
major factors for this apparent
difference is the lack of legal
sanctions for the homosexual
marriage - there is no divorce
procedure to inhibit permanent
and legal separation. Nor is
there any children to hold
together a couple who otherwise
would part.)
The sense of strength and
determination of the homophile
movement in our country is best
illustrated, perhaps, by the
newspaper reports that homosexuals
intend to "take over"
same small towns in the hope
of finding peace from harassment
due to their sexual preferences.
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There are other institutions
that exist to satisfy the sexual
appetities of the homosexual
and that are necessary because
of homosexuals' inability to
make safe liaisons as readily
as heterosexuals. Homosexuals
ore forced to such places as
gay bars, which are much like
"straight" bars, except that
their atmosphere is usually
more predominantly sexual;
baths, where homosexuals con
retire with others and obtain
what con be described as impersonal
and satiating sex; and
porks and restrooms {"teorooms'').
These locations make it
possible for many people who
otherwise lead "normal" lives
to engage in some quick, im•
personal sex, much as their
fathers made use of the neighborhood
bawdy houses. How
many people use these foci 1-
ities? No one knows. However,
one writer has estimated that
between 50,000 and 100,000
persons use the gay bars of
San Francisco to make sexual
liaisons.
Because there ore laws
against sodomy and against
solicitation to engage in sodomy,
many of these meeting
places ore patrolled or spied
~pon by the police. Typically,
the police either spy through
poles in the walls or other
openings of suspected teorooms
or individual police
officers ore charged with le.oding
{seducing?) suspected
homosexuals into making posses.
As a result of these police
practices, which vary in style
and intensity from locale to
locale, none of the homosexual
meeting places ore very safe.
Other Forms
As for heterosexual sodomy,
the statistics, again, are
not complete. Kinsey estimated
that nearly 60 per cent of the
white male population has
engaged in fellatio (oral-male
genital relations); that about
17 per cent of the rural mole
population hos engaged in
bestiality. It is also clear from
the Kinsey statistics that sodomous
activities increase with
married couples.
However, while many psychiatrists
and psychologists
are of the view that sodomous
octs ore often desirable and
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beneficial for marriage, many
times they ore intimidated from
so advising patients because
of the low. Moreover, educated
persons, married and unmarried,
often refrain or hove guilt
bee I ings because they know of
the lows.
While it is true that some
people ore incarcerated for
sodomy {in Texas in 1969, 39
persons were committed to the
state prison for sodomy offenses),
according to Kinsey and
others, almost all of us would
be in jail for sexual offenses
if the lows were enforced. This
lock of uniform enforcement is
itself a problem. For example,
police can discriminate against
interracial couples or against
other '"undes irobles." Moreover,
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Repeal
Even if one ignores entirely
the rude invasion into
people's privacy which is imposed
by sodomy lows, it is
submitted that whenever a low
prohibits conduct in which
large numbers of persons engage,
absent some very strong
reason for keeping the low, the
low should be abolished. When
dealing with "antisex" laws,
and sodomy in particular, there
ore many reasons for removing
the laws from the beaks:
arrested for the offending conduct
only when the. police have
evidence of Q violation, the
po I ice ore forced to engage in
conduct which is undesirable,
such as spying on restrooms
or soliciting sexual contacts
with others.
3. In those communities
where considerable police effort
is put into apprehending
sexual deviants, there would
appear to be misallocotion of
police resources.
4. The lows reinforce the
mores which compel the presence
of a deviant subculture
in our society.
1. Given the widespread Job Sanctions
practice of sodomy and the
relatively small number of pro- 5. These laws also provide
secutions, the danger of abuse a retionalization for private
of pol ice and prosecutori ol sanctions again st "sexual
discretion is greatly enhanced. deviants," such as refusal of
2. Since persons can be employment.
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.,.
6. The threat of criminal
sanctions encourages extortion
and pol ice corruption.
7. There is injury to the
institution of marriage, c reated
by the "threat" of prosecution
(no matte r how unreal istic this
may be), the establishment of
sexual taboos and the possible
inability of married couples to
o btain good professional advice
because of statutes outlawing
the ve ry conduct which pro•
fessional s might adv ise.
8. One intu its that the
moral c I im ate and sense of the
notional community does not
adamant ly insi st upon punishment
for sodomous behavior.
9. The re is no e vidence
that there is an iota of functiona
l harm caused by any of
the se practices.
10. It is not des irable to
deve lop the disre spect for law
that is engendered when it is
violated with impunity by million
s of pe rsons.
The key to constitutional
a ttack on so domy statutes is
the lack of any secular or
fu nctional interest in society's
preventing th e condemned acts.
There is no evidence that· bugge
ry, oral-genital relations or
best ial ity adversely affects
the physical or mental well
being of the parti cipants. If
there were some ev idence, only
then would we be faced with
the more common dilemma posed
by stat utes that purport to
protect
selves
laws).
individuals from them(
such as marijuana
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Sodomy laws are really
nothing but laws on morality,
with no substantive bas, s other
than h istory, founded almost
entirely in religious beliefs.
Some have argued that the
government has a legitimate
interest in protecting the peace
of mind of the many people who
object strongly to sodomy -
that these people feel safer by
knowing that those who perform
sodomous acts ore commrtting
crimes. This position would
justi fy any legislative act
desired by a majority. A majority
could always restrain a
minority, whether or not the
conduct of the minority interfe
red with the conduct of the
majority. Sodomy laws do not
further the majority interest,
for the majority is in no way
affected by what others may do
with their private sex lives.
Given the basic premise
that there is no rational, let
alone compelling, secular or
functional j usti fi cation for
sodomy laws, one can begin to
construct a constitutional
theory for attack. This is not
the place to go into the ramifications
· of constitutional
theories, but a broad out I ine
suggests that the F lrst Amendment's
ban on the establishment
of religion, the due process
clauses of the Fifth and
14th Amendment, the Ninth
Amendment, and the ~oncepts
of privacy all can be uti Ii zed
in attacking sodomy laws.
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She had the sort of open, largefeatured
face that never loses
its beauty, and a figw re that
was extraordinary for a woman
of fifty years. Mrs. Hartley felt
a sudden surge of pl ea sure,
brought on by the familiarity of
the station house and the vo-from
Dartmouth, the boys enter;
ed the Columbia school of Law
where they studied for three
years. It was after those three
years that the boys started going
in different directions,
although they did remain in
New York and share the same
At a t ime when some
courts are ready to knock down
restrictions on hairstyles, anti•
abortion statutes, and require•
ments for motorcyclists to wear
helmets, the sodomy statutes
should be easy prey. Indeed,
if it were not for the emotionalism
that surrounds the subject,
these anachronisms would probably
have been laid to rest long
ago.
cant lots and the warehouses. apartment on the East Side.
They took her back to the early Glenn became a junior partner
years of her marriage, when she for a new vigorous legal firm,
and Mr. Hartley and Glenn had -while Rick became a salaried
lived in a duplex just four
George Schatzki is on the blocks from the station' and
faculty of the, University of right across the street from the
Texas School of Law and is Lev~rid-ges: The Leveridges
vice president of the Texas were good neighbors who soon
CLV Board of Direc tors. He became their best friends. They
wrote the CLU's amicus brief had two children: a daughter,
in a lawsuit last year" that Louise, whom Mrs. Hartley did
successfu1ly challenged T exas- not see· much of, since she
' s prohibition of sodomy ~be- played with the girls from a
tween married couples. "" different block; and a son;
The NECKTIE
' Rick, whom Mrs. Hartley saw
almost as frequently as Glenn,
for the two boys were constant
companions. Mrs. Hartley and
her husband had always opJohn
E. O' Connor proved of Rick as a playmate
For, her " trip down to the for GI enn: they seemed pretty
evenly matched in strength, in
railroad station Mrs. Hartley
intelligence,and in disposition,
had put on her lightest summer
without either tending to overdress,
a white skimmer silhou- whelm the other. After school
ette with open collar and brass
and during their vacations, the
buttons. She had better dresses,
boys would go off together,
but none more cool. Tho\Jgh on
usually to the lots by the rail-a
day like this, Mrs. Hartley I
road, which had been unofficia -
decided, coolness was simply
ly designated as the neighborimpos
sible. Nothing less than
hood playground. They were
air conditioning could have
saved her from the murderous inseparable. Even after the
Hartleys had moved from New-
Houston heat, and by the time h
the taxi had reached the station port News out to Warwick, 1 e
she was prespiring freely. It
wasn 't much better inside the
station house, despite the
noisy working of a fan perched
upon the cigarette machine.
The clerk on duty informed. her
that the train from New York
would be fifteen minutes late,
so Mrs . Hartley went outside
to the station platform, and
there she waited.
There was a meager breeze
on the platform and the air was
heavy with the smell of salt
and loud with the shouting of
three negro children playing
tag on the vacant lots between
the railroad and the warehouse
district. With o handkerchief
Mrs. Hartley patted away the
I ittl e slivers of perspiration
from her upper lip. She didn't
mind her discomfort. What wor•
ried her was the possibility of
her looking a fright by the time
the train arrived, bringing home
her son Glenn, whom she hadn't
seen for years. Mrs. Hartley
wanted lo look good for Glenn.
boys would commute b_y bus or
bicycle to each other.' s home,
and that soon became unnecessary
when the Leveridges them-selves
moved out to Warwick.
The boys attended grade school
and high school together, took
the same courses, doubledated
with the same girls, and chose
to attend the same college.
They had chosen Dartmouth.
Each week Mr. and Mrs.
Hartley would receive one of
Glenn's good long newsy letters,
which always contained
much mention of Rick: how he
and Rick enjoyed their double
in Richardson Hall; how Rick
had received a bid from Zeta
Psi and Glenn had not, while
Glenn had received a bid from
SAE and Rick had not, and so
they'd decided not to join any
fraternity (that dee is ion had
bothered Mr. Hartley, a good
SAE man}, and how they were
both developing ambitions for
for the lega l life. The ambitions
held, and after graduation
consultant for an insurance·
company. Mrs. Hartley had al•
ways wanted to go to New York
to see them, but she had been
tied down· by one thing or
another in Newport Nev,s: her
husband' s death, the time-con•
suming task of managing his
estate, her presidency of the
·Women's League, and other
matt.ers. During those ' years
Mrs. Hartley had seen Glenn
only once - ages ago it seemed,
and that was du6ng the
frantic ordeal of Mr. Hartleyt>,.
funeral. Only recently had she
found herself, for the first time
in her adult life, without any-.·
thing important to do. Whe had
finally resolved to visit Glenn '
at the end of summer when,
yesterday morning, she had
received a long-distance phone
c all from her son. What he said
had given her a great shock.
He was coming home. He had
given up his practice and was
leaving New York for good.
Why? He wouldn't say over the
phone. "But what about Rick?"
Mrs. Hartley had asked. It
seemed that Rick was staying
behind. Glenn's voice had hall
an unusual matter-of-factness
about it, and Mrs. Hartley hod
listened for some clue, some
indication ...
"He' come de train," the
negro girl announced. Mrs.
Hartley lookec:I uown the tracks.
Sure .enough the train was
coming. A smal I crowd had
gathered on the platform, and
now they moved out from beneath
its shade over to the
place where the passengers
would alight. Mrs. Hartley
could feel her excitement
mounting as she accompanied
them.
As the train groun'd and
c lattered to a stop, Mrs. Hartley
scanned the windows for
Glenn's face, but it was not to
be found. Anxiously, she
watched the passengers as they
filed out, and was beginning to
think that Glenn must hove
been de layed when she felt
someone squeezing her arm.
She turned around. It wa s
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lenn. temperature rose to one hundred
"See how sneaky I've ond how I survived I' ll never
gotten?" he said, grinning. know_ And the n Leona Price
"Why Glenn! You should and her beau from Richmond,
by spanked, surprising me like and George Minor and that girl
that." he courted at Mary Washington .
He dropped his suitcase Oh, we've been keeping our
and they embraced. When he preachers busy t his summer."
picked up his suitcase again, She hesitated.
she had her first good look at
him in over two years. He was
different - much more so than
she had expected . His hair was
thinner, he was wearing glasses
and the skin on his angular
face had become dry and slack,
as though he had just recovered
from a serious illness.
"Your old room is all fixed
up," Mrs. Hartley said, as
they slowly made their way
towards the stationhouse. "Yesterday
was Mildred's day off.
I had ta beg and bribe her to
help me get ready."
"Good old Mildred. I'll
make it a point to be extra
nice to her for the first few
days."
"She' ll be glad to see
you," Mrs. Hartley said_ She
nodded at someone she knew,
then continued, "Do you want
ta check at the baggage room
ta see if your trunk has arrived?
I'm sure it hasn't, not if
you sent it yesterday. You'd
better be prepared to rough i I
far the rest af the week. "
"I think I will check,"
Glenn said. He did, and Mrs.
Hartley's prediction proved
correct. "That just goes to
show - Mam knows," he said.
They went outside, climbed
into a cab and gave the driver
their address on James River
Drive.
"Go sh sakes, what heat!"
Glenn said. "I'm glad you had
the common sense not to drive
down yourself."
"I guess you New Yorkers
are getting a fair shore, too,"
said Mrs. Hartley.
0 Yes, Yes indeed."
·'Oh, by the way, did you
know that Mahlon Phelps has
become engaged to a girl from
Petersburg? I mentioned it in
my last letter, which I sent two
days ago. It probably missed
you.
"It did. So Old Mahlon
has finally taken the fatal step,
huh? What date have they set
for the marriage?"
"Sometime in October, and
what a blessing. A wedding
where everybody won't be boiled
to death after the first ten
minutes."
" Yes. Lord, I'd forgotten
how grueling those summer
weddings could be.''
"And haven't there been a
lot of them this summer!" said
Mrs. Hartley, getting onto her
favorite topic. ' 'Bob Lambert
and Beverly Ann Osbourne,
Troy Gordner and Winnie Diresen.
The Gardners were so
unhappy that you couldn' t show
up and usher at that wedding.
And then there was Herb Bai rd
and Ellen Singleton, when the
"What are you thinking
about?"
"Oh, ju st about Mahl on
Phelps and Bob Lambert."
Mrs. Hartley nodded knowingly.
"Yes, they've all gotten
married, or soon will be. Your
old gang."
"It makes me feel very
. .. out of it. 1
'
"Speaking of your old
friends, I saw Joe and Tessie
Mallory the other day with their
little boy. Frankie?"
''Freddie.' '
"Yes, Freddie. He' s such
o darling . thing, and so bright.
Texxie' s expecting another in
a few months, and they're both
happier than a pair of clams.
But here, I've been doing all
the talking. You tell me some
things. How is Rick? Is he
staying in the old apartment,
now that you've left, or what?"
" Rick is fine, said Glenn,
looking out the window. "Apparently
his new apartment hos
worked out very satisfactorily.''
"Oh, he'• moved already?"
Mrs. Hartley asked, and when
Glenn nodded, she continued:
"I see. I had gotten the impression
that you boys had
left simultaneously."
"No. He left before I did.
Several weeks ago. "
"Well, I certainly hope he
didn't leave you in the lurch,
without paying his share of the
rent.' '
" Now, mother, you know
Rick better than that. Would
he pull such a . . . "
41No, no, Of course not.
Where is he staying now?"
"He's got a nic e fourroomer
over on the East Side.
Nicer than the one we hod,
although ours was o five-roomer.''
''A four-roomer?" Her
eyes narrowed_ "Has he got
another roommate?"
"What?" he said, burning
away from the window and facing
her. "I 'm sorry. I was looking
at the new Sears building."
They struggled to hold
their balance while the cab
swerved <1round the corner and
into Huntington Avenue. Then
Mrs. Hartley repeated her question:
"Has Rick got another
roommate?''
"Oh yes, he's got another
roommate.' '
"I hope there hasn't been
any trouble. You d id port good
friends, didn't you?"
"Yes, mothe r, ye s. Rick
and I ore still ... on the best
of terms_ Yes. The best of
terms. "
With a shock, Mrs. Hart ley
noticed that her son was fight-ing
bock tea rs. Quickly, she
changed the subject ond told
him about the new downtown
Sears store, which they had
ju st pa ssed, and the new Hiddenwood
shopping center, which
wos sti ll under construction.
She carried t he bulk of the
convers ation unti I the cab
bro ught them to their de stination.
Glenn parked his suitcase
next to the stairwell and walked
side by side with her into
the I iving room. Mrs. Hartley
t ried to visualize in what ways
the room had changed since he
had last seen it. The main d ifference,
she decided, was in
the greater number of framed
photographs. Her favorite was
hung an the wall over the sideboard.
- a color print of Glenn
and Rick at age ninet een,
standing before snow-cavered
Vermanl liill s, 'their arms ·on
each other's shoulder, wearing
knitted caps and blue skijackets
with the round scarlet
medallions earned at a recent
ski-meet. Two smiling pictures
af youthful health and foo: i shness.
" Why don't you fix us some
drinks?" Mrs. Hartley said.
"Gin ond tonic for me. There's
some bourbon toa, if yau'd
prefer thot."
"Gin' s the thing for a day
like this," Glenn said. They
went out to the kitchen, and
Mrs. Hartley watched him prepare
the drinks. He brought the
drinks over to the form icatopped
kitchen table and sat
down across fram her.
" Well," said Mrs. Hartley,
" this is just like a id time s,
isn't it?' ' I don't mean our sit•
ting and drinking, but just . . .
you and me, sitting and talking
over the same .,"Id table. I e at
all my meals in here now. Only
when I hove guests do I eat in
the diningroom, which isn't
often.' 1
11 lt's time to change that,"
Glenn said. " We' ll have some
meals out in the diningroom,
and we'll have some people
over for dinner, too. You
shouldn't be alone sa much,
mother. 1 1
"Oh, it isn't so bad.
There' s Mildred, and there's
Mrs. Mackey. She' s pretty much
alone too, she a nd her husband,
ever since Anno L oui se got
married.''
"Anno Louise is married?
Oh yes, I'd forgotten."
Mrs. Hartley took several
refre shing swallows from t he
metol c up, studying her son a ll
the while.
11Glenn, now that you've
left New York, what are yaur
plans, or haven't you decided?
Do you wish to remain in Newport
News?"
the room in the world, it's
economical, and i t ' s a nice
neighborhood. Unless, of course,
you'd rather I ive in an apartment?"
"I'd rather stay here, if
you can stand having me
around.''
Mrs. Ha rtley smiled. Now
that the most important thing
had been s ettled, s he went on
to the next most important
th ing. " Hove you thought yet
about where you'd like to work?
I hear that Mr. Hastings in the
sh ipyard's legal office is ret
i ring, so perhaps there'l l be
some room there.' '
" Perhaps. But I still don't
want to work for a ca rporation.
Have you seen Herb Hoyle
Hayle lately?"
"As a matter of fact, I
was just tal king ta him los t
night. I ran into him over at
the Mockeys. Naturally, I ta ld
him you were coming back to
town. And he was ve ry enthusiosti
c. He sa id that if you were
going to stay, he'd be more
than happy to take you on os
a junior partner, provided you
could pass your Virg inia bars.
It sounds I ike a wonderfu l
opportunity. ''
" It is a wonderful opportunity,
Mother . Good old Herb.
That's one f irm I'd be proud to
join anyday. "
"Well, you just hop r ight
over there, and you talk with
him. Incidentally, Herb J un ior
has just graduated from U. Va.,
and he's going pretty steadily
with Bitsy Sullivan. You remember
Bitsy, don't you? No,
I guess not, since her family's
only been he re less than two
years. Anyway, she's a darling
girl and just perfect for Herb
Juniar. And wa it a minute. I' ll
bet the Hoyles invite you a ver
for d inner. Oh, I hope they do,
because then yau con meet
He nodded. " Yes, mother,
I'm through will all t hose ...
carpetbaggers." He utte red a PHONES 526-4402 528-1000
I ittl e la ugh. "I'm home to sta y."
' Well then you might a s
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their youngest niece Beth, Who'
s slaying with them for the
summer. I'll bet you'd like her.
She's not very pretty, and she
wears glasses, but she's very
vivacious and lots of fun to
talk to and ... why, I' ll bet
you'd really have a good time
with her. And then there's
another girl I'd like you to meet
- Lindo Gresham. A friend of
Doi sey Sansamino' s. She's a
widow and probably a few years
older than you, but she's so
sweet and a real beauty, and
just dying to be taken places."
The Year of the
Middle-Class Junkie
"The Year of the Middfe-Clo11 Junkie," i• whot two
pfOlllinent doctors ore colling 1971. Dr. David J. Bentel
end Dr. David E. Smith ore co-directors of the University
of J:lellfornio'1 Drug Abuse Information Project.
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In this article by Dr. Bentel ond Dr. Smith, they report on
the ,apid sp_reod of drug abuse beyond the ghettos, into
the more affluent homes of America.
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Heroin, recent newspaper headlines proclaim, is no
longer limited to the "lower classes," but is now infecting
the sons and daughters of respectable, well-to-do citizens
of middle-class and upper-class America.
Mrs. HC"rtley was about to
describe another eligible girl,
when for the first time whe
noticed the necktie her son
was wearing. She had been
nagged by its familiarity, and
now she remembered it. It was
the striped red and black tie
Rick Leveridge hod given to
Glenn for Christmas - oh,
nearly five years ago, yet it
seemed almost brand-new. Mrs.
Hartley gazed al ii in silence.
. 1971 has become the year of the Middle-Class Junkie.
Shocked, distraught, unbelieving
parents who discover
that their son or daughter is
a heroin addict are demanding
government and community
response to deal with
the crisis.
Glenn wrinkled his brow,
his bewilderment obvious. He
started to soy something, but
then the bewilderment voni shed
and gave way to realization.
.He gave her a sheepish, painful
· smile.
Investigations reveal that
young, teen-age white kids,
just like the kids in the ghetto
slums, rob, steal and prostitute
- "hustle" - on the
streets to support drug habits
of $25, $50 and even
$150 a day.
An 18-year-old son of a wellto-
do Mill Valley, Calif., resident
committed 376 burglaries
of local homes to support his
,150 a day habit which required
that he steal and
"fence" $500 to $600 a day
"Yap, yap, yap, " said worth of merchandise.
Mrs. Hartley. "How I do babble
on! " Slowly, almost hesitantly
she finished her drink, and
then she smiled bock at him,
but said nothing.
Selling drugs to other kids in
school is another common way
tu finanoe a drug habit. In
some high schools, the boys'
lavatory is called "the drug
store" because of the volume
of illicit business done between
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young heroin addicts desperate
to get enough cash together to
make their "connection."
Dr. George Gay, Chief of the
San Francisco Haight-Ashbury
Medical Clinic's drug detoxification
section, feels that the
new style heroin users are sick
because their lives and their
world are sick, in spite of af.
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and their society. So they
drop out, sometimes literally.
Heroin, they feel, is their best
or perhaps only path of escape.
Drugs are the current "in"
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more prestigious or affluent
the parents - the less they
seem to know about what their
kids spend their time doing.
They typically lament afterwards,
" I just can't understand
what went wrong. We did
everything we could for our
kids, gave them everything
they ever wanted. I just don't
for the life of me, understand
how they could have gone and
done what they did."
The upper-class parent, like
the lower, may not even realize
for months that his kid is
chronically addicted to heroin.
He may only find out after
his child's behavior and life
patterns have so deteriorated
that the youth's waking hours
are spent on a bizarre compulsive
search for the n~xt fix.
Typically at that point, parental
reactions will be irrational,
emotional, full of hostility
and misgivings and no help in
solving the problems.
Community drug treatment
programs often employ young,
experienced ex-ilrug users on
whom the needy can rely for
treatment and advice.
Unfortunately, such projects
usually receive very little
financial support and are
severely limited in capacity to
handle the thousands of new
young addicts being "born" on
the streets every month.
Fortunately, however, there
is evidence of a slow shift in
the attitude of the general public
and the official agencies
toward drug problems. There
is a gradual but beneficial
shift in attitudes regarding
education and treatment.
Only when we accept a combination
of the social and
health care approach to drug
addiction and reject the crime
and punishment logic, can progress
be made toward resolving
middle-class heroin addiction
and the broader problems
of America's Drug Epidemic.
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Lanis Thompson, former
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and the Tattooed Lady Club,
lost both enterprises in the
first week of June in what
must be the most incredible
debacle in business circles
since Robert McNamara promoted
the TF X as an economy
measure.
At 11:37 pm Wednesday
June 2nd, Mr. Frank Arnold,
owner of the Tattooed Lady
Club marched into the club
with his wife, a formidable
couple, and pronounced the
closing of the club. Mr.
Arnold made it clear that Mr.
Thompson, operator of the
club, was in serious arrears
and that from that moment the
Tattooed Lady Club was
closed. Guests were advised
af the closing and asked to
leave at once.
Later in the evening a
meeting was held in the club
between Mr. Arnold and employees
af the defunct Tat-
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tooed Lady Club ta determine
the reopening of the establisl>ment.
Hapefu II y some arrangements
wi II be made to
continue the city's most
charming gay club in operation
·under different management.
In the meantime the
former Romulus Club, now
named the Gayboy International
Club, was opened by
its new owners, Joe Anthony
and Tom Vicera. However,
this transaction was clouded
by an interesting assortment
of facts and non-facts. Mr.
Anthony said there was considable
difference between
siderable difference between
what he had been told by Mr.
Thompson as to the financial
circumstances of the defunct
Romulus Club and what the
creditors of the Romulus Club
claimed. Mr. Anthony said
that Thompson's p-esentation
of the facts suffered bad I y in
compori son with the facts as
determined by his attorneys.
In fact, Mr. Anthony said
Thompson's statements were
patently false, albeit in
somewhat more colourful
language.
Arnold's actions and
statements would indicate
his basic agreement with Mr.
Anthony's observations.
Thompson, whose reputation
for frequently selfprofessed
integrity hos been
sorely wounded by the lal>yrinthine
manoeuvring of the
past few months, was unavailable
for comment.
Mr. Arnold when contacted
June 3rd stated:
"Lanis Thompson is a soft
con artist and a thief. I let
him operate the Tattooed
Lady for s ix months with an
option to buy, ta date he hos
not paid anything to me."
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seriously and he replied:
"I om afraid to get into my
car without checking the
hood, trunk and underneath
it and hove been doing this
for some months. I don't
walk out a door without
looking each way before
passing through it. My
friend and I do toke these
threats seriously."
Mr. Coppell then asked:
"Check around and see what
hos happened to Mike Whiticker?
He hos not been seen
since lost Friday night when
he left very suddenly and
there is no one that knows
what hos happened to him,
not even his roommate Dusty.
Mike hos received the some
threats that I hove".
bondsman that if he received
a coll from Coppell and the
charge was extortion and
nothing else that I would
pay the bond fee".
Mr. Thompson was then
asked what he thought about
the threats and he answered:
"these threats ore most
serious".
RITTER
R i tier and another person to
make the fol se alarm report,
supposedly taking place in
the Club Romulus.
Ritter's record includes
other previous arrests with
convictions.
Witnesses have also
alledgedly implicated Ritter
in recent harrassment tactics
against The Armadillo Club,
resulting in police raids in
search of narcotics. In each
In checking THE NUNTIUS
found that Mike Whiticker
did leave Houston rather
suddenly. It is understood
that he is with his family instance anonymous telephone
out of state but we do not calls were received by Hou-know
his exoct whereabouts ston Police. No charges
but are led to believe he is have been filed in connection
all right. ;~::. this investigation to
. .Mr. Ccippell then volun'. ._
teer;il: "Ronnie. Le.vine hos ~rior )9 becoming man-offere'd.
me $10,000. to leave ager of Clob Romulus, Ritters
town and not testify at 'the ~.b~si~c,ss,-,,erience included. •
f th · t • I b posing in ·n,e nude for beef-or
coming arson. no,• ut,.. , t:.Cke - n:Jagozine pictures.
I have refused h,! . offer. I ,A ...,.
d • d h • " cco,.1~ • to employees,
on t nee t e1r money . membe~; ·~nd guests, his
Mr. Coppell then said: management of the Club
"I have I ined U? an attorney .Ro1J1ulus 'l'OS marked by
and bondsman recorr,.;encfed·· exotic checking account pro-by
Lannis Thompson to bcu,1 ceedyl!l';:5, ,unusual bookkeep-me
out and act in my
0
defence 1· ng met h c, d s and steadily
in the event Ronnie Levine • , qeclinin • business. After
ofkte rh ' my having refused to •s ever·a · 1~w e• ek "s of v1· rtua II y no
ta e ,s mon~y filed extortion business, the Club Romulus
charges against me in retal- Id M J A h
iotion". was so to r. oe nt ony
The NUNTIUS contacted
Lam is Thompson and was
told: "Yes! I refered Bob
Coppe II to on attorney, one
of my ex-partners and ol so
to a bondsman. I told the
ond Thomas Vecera. It is now
goyboy International Club.
AARC PICKETS
HOUSTON On the
afternoon of Moy 8th the Rev.
Dr. Billy Hudson and the Re~.
Don Flanders of the AARC
Church of Montrose went to
the Downtown YMCA of Houston
to arrange for a church
service to be held on Moy
23rd. A meeting hall was
reserved for the newly farmed
Church of montrose and payment
was deposited and duly
receipted by the YMCA authorties.
The AARC (American
Association of Religious Crusaders)
ministers then proceeded
with their plans for
the first service by printing
announcements and contacting
supporters of the hom~
phile community- Circulars
were distributed giving the
dote and place of the first
religious service and response
was impressiveM A number
of professional and religious
leaders of the area expressed
support for the Christion
ministry of the two mioi sters,
and were pleased that the
YMCA had for the second
t ime made space available to
a primarily Goy rel itious
organisation. (The Metropolitan
Community Church
was the first such group.) ·
On May 20th Mr. A. J.
Firkessen of the YMCA
telephoned asking for the
Rev. Dr. Hudson. Dr. Hudson
got in touch with Mr. F irkessen
the next day and was
odvi sed that the reserved
space would not be made
ovoi fable to the Church of
Montrose because "the air
conditioning was out and the
assembly hall hired by Dr.
Hudson was full of construction
material." Dr. Hudson
asked if another space would
be made available on such
short notice by the YMCA
since it would not be possible
to notify the people who
were coming for the service
on the 23rd. Dr. Hudson wo s
advised this would not be
possible ot the YMCA. It
was suggested he contact
the YWCA.
Dr. Hudson telephoned
the YWCA and was told space
would be avoiloble on May
23rd. Arrangements were then
made for the YMCA to transfer
the money deposited to the
YMCA and o poster to be
placed in the YMCA announcing
the change of location.
About four hours after
these arrangements were made,
Dr. Hudson received a call
from the YWCA and was informed
the spoctl promis,:,d
was now unavailable to him
and his religious group. Tlie
YWCA now claimed the spo~e
had been previously reserv,:,d
but that the reservation hod
not yet been posted in their
ledg, r.
Dr. Hudson in desperation
called the YMCA (at about
5:00 p.m.) seeking assistance,
but was told by Mr. Firkessen
that "I'm sorry but there .is
nothing I con do." When oskl.d
if the YMCA would reimburse
him and the church for the
circulars Dr.Hudson was told,
"No." Although this amount
it is a strain on such a small
church's budget.
Upon investigation on
Moy 23rd The Nunti us discovered
that the space in
question at the YMCA was
not filled with construction
material and it's air conditioning
was functioning. The
regularly scheduled YMCA
Sunday Service was held i11
the morning. Of course, this
is no great surprise to The
Nuntius. The YMCA simply
did not want the Church of
Montrose to use their hollowed
facilities and lied to
arrange the matter.
The space previous I y
reserved at the YWCA was
of course, empty unti I abou~
4:00 p.m., two hours post the
2:00 p.m. time set lo.- the
Church of Montrose services.
The YWCA also lied its way
out of permitting the use of
its sacred premises by the
Church of Montrose.
On Sunday, Moy 23rd, at
2:00 p.m. , the Rev . Dr.
H,,dson and the Rev. Mr.
Flanders along with two
associates in the Church of
Montrose (one of whom is o
resident of the YMCA) picketed
the Downtown YMCA at
1600 Louisiana fo.- about an
hour without incident. They
arrived at the YMCA in o
VW bus bearing signs of
protest ot their unjust treatment
by the YMCA. After the
picketing, the bus was then
driven through the Montrose
area of Houston to call
attention to the YMCA dupl
icity.
The actions of the YMCA
and of the YWCA would indicate
the misuse of the name
"Chri stian" in their legal
titles. These organisations
simply lied and cheated the
Church of Montrose because
the church ministers especi11lly
to the homophile communify
of Houston. Period.
Probably the most ridiculous
thing about this
is the well-known reputation
of the YMCA in every country
of the world as a virtual male
brothel. Hardly everyone working
or living at a YMCA is
Gay, but at the same time,
quite a large number who do,
are. And if this information
starts a witch-hunt by the
usual sexually mal-adjusted
yahoos interested in such
bizarre things, so be it. In
the meantime, the YMCA and
the YWCA might consider
changing their names to avoid
further abusing the name
" CHRISTI AH."
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