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Open Daily 10am
1504 Westheimer
KEG PARTY SUNDAYS
5-7
($1.00)
EXCHANGE OF IDEAS
5:00 - 6:00 p.m. SPEAKER
Ruth Shivers.
6:30 - 8:30 p.m. SURPRISE
A very exciting and relevant
program which will be of
interest of all (place to be
ammoun ced).
Monday, 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
homosexual"
8:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM-
ORDEAL 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," ond election of a new coordinator,
there will take place the
First Annual Gay Book Award
for the best book published
in 1970 or 1971 that most
furthers a positive view of
the Gay experience and life
style.
8:00 - 10:00 p.m. SEX AND
THE SINGLE CATALOGER-
NEW 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 off
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 place
in the suite of the Task Force
on Gay L iberation in the
Adolphus Hotel, unless otherwise noted. Please check
there for last minute changes
and additions to the program.
The Task Force will also
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 spectacular program
and business meeting on
Thursday evening, as well
as 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
can be themselves fully only
when with gays. There may be
exception s to thi s, but the
condemnation of straight
society makes the gay retreat
and seek a subcultural social
life. Naturally, this carries
over into the life of worship.
The gay knows he is not accepted by straights at 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-tight.
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: — Irresponsibility:
this is what 1 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 responsible solid
citizens? Or is their irresponsibility 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
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 were,
come so late to the life and
am a priest. So perhaps I am
more sensitive to 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 to 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 particular
area might determine that.
Point: — In closing I should
like to include two quotations
which you might like to use
Counterpoint: - Thank you for
your consideration in sending
me quotes that you felt might
be used . . . They were good,
but I feel that they were a
little too deep for general
reading . . . They almost
demanded study and that
kills reader interest.
CHAPARRAL BOOK MART
FINEST LINE OF ADULT BOOKS AND MAGAZINES IN CORPUS
MOVIE ARCADE 25*
413 Peoples St. Corpus Christi, Tex.
GAYBOY
opened by
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 will be
the first of its kind anywhere.
European waiters 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 most interesting club.
Entertainment will be provided when the best is available.
Some really interesting live
entertainment is now being
discussed which will be a
pleasant surprise to the Gay
Community. New lighting and
furnishings also make the
Gayboy International Club
more exciting.
The first club to publical-
ly 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 International
Club has a free smorgesbord
buffet seven nights a week
for members and guests. Professional bartenders serve
anything the patrons wish
mixed at 90< up, with beer
at 50t£ and non-alcoholic
beverages available. It's a
hoot and you'll thoroughly
enjoy i
t!
GLF HALTS METHODIST
CONFERENCE
Members of the Gay
Liberation Front confronted
a Method i st 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 narrow
margin.
As the first meeting of
the four-day conference opened, members of the self-
descr ibed homo sexual group
passed out pink leaflets with
a list of ten demands-including one calling on the church
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 indet-
ified himself as Jim Digger,
24, of Dallas, demanded that
the conference give his group
an audience.
A shouting match developed between Digger and members of the audience. Including the Rev. Robert Tate,
minister of theFirst 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 are
the business of the church."
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