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VOLUME 2, Ho.• APRIL 1971 HOUSTON, TEXAS ====================~========================================
GAY CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS
FRANKLIN E. IC.AMEMY
MATTAOHNE SOCIEJY
WASHINGTON-Or. Franklin E. Kameny, president ol
the M.ituchine Society of Washington and .a candidate
for the u. s. Home of Repre.senu1illes, ms opened .a
campaign headquarters in the heart ol d<M-ntown Washington.
The anter, occupying the four floors of a former
restauranl, is located .at 1307 E S1reet N.W ., and looks
over .a sm.aH parl< onto PennsyMni.a Avenue, "Avenue
of the Presidents."
Kameny,-45, is one of six candid.ates for the position
of non-voling deleg.a1e from the District of Columbia to
1he U.S. House, .and one of four non-major party hopefuls.
In .a speed, given .al 1he headquarters opening,
Kameny referred 10 bod, the practical and symbolic
significance of the event, the practical being thal "a
serious campaign to win" necessilates facilities. He said
that the symboJic .aspect, "of .at least equal importance."
is that the office provides "the presence necessary for
an effective calll).aign."
"We !homosexuals! .are emerging openly and fully
into the life of this city .and of this country. The opening
of this headqu.aners here on 1he President's Avenue
symbolizes 1hat emergence .as concisely .as anything can.
"We .are not merely homosexuals." he said. "This is
re.ally irrelevant ... Washington is our cily. We live here
and we worl< here; we love this city; we enjoy .all of its
advantages .and benefils. and we suffer from .all of its
problems .and defects-.and know those problems and
defects.
"We are determined to er.fer 1he maimiream of our
city's life. as of our nalional life."
In the speech, t<.ameny took up an issue which. it is
believed. is causing him to lose some support within the
local gay community.
He said. ··we hope that my candidacy will, in due
course. relegate our private lives to matters solely of our
own concern, that we too shall be able 10 serve sociely
fully as citizens. nol as homosexuals. and 1hat our city
will be the beuer for ii. Without slighting the very real.
festering abuses and grievances which we feel as homo~•
uals . .and which will be brought oul in later news
conferences, this c.ampaign h.as been direned to dut
broader goal. I .am running as .a qualified W.ashingtoni.an.
whoh.appens.also.but incident.ally. to be a homosexual:·
The dissenters say 1hey feel 1ha1, since Karneny
re.alistically has no chance 10 win the election (he is one
of two whites in the campaign-the other being Republican
John Nevius-and the city's population is predominantly
blad-Kameny should use all of his campaign
rime to discuss homosexual issues.
1n reply, Kameny's supporters claim th.al by presenting
t<ameny primarily as a responsible c.andidate, .and
secondly as a homosexual candida1e, more and greater
public relations value will be gained. To support this
position they frequenlly refer to the controversy which
initially accompanied 1he candidacy of the I.ale John
Kennedy, when his religion was reg.arded by .a vocal
group .as .a potential hazard to his service as president.
As t<ameny puts ii, "his very candidacy itself releg.ated
his religion 10 its proper role as his own private concern
alone, .and he served society as a citizen, not as a C.atholic."
In a speech given .al the Pentagon a few d.ays later,
Kameny presented what he c.alled .a "major c.ampaign
position p,1per" dealing with homosexuality.
The occasion was the 1.atest in a long series of hearings
dealing wilh Kameny's own .anempts 10 obtain a
security de.arance to do defense-contracted work. He is
by training and profession .an .aslro-physicist.
The speech was given in the Pentagon Press Office.
shortly before Kameny .appe.ared .at the Defense Department's
Industrial Sea,rity Review Offices Appeal Bo.ard.
The government has not ;occused Kameny of being
bbckm.aibble-he is too well known as being .a homosexual
spokesman. lnste..ad Ibey .acxuse him ol wh.at
Kameny calls the "Seven Deadly Sins."
"They say that merely bec.ause I .am a homosexual. I
.am unreliable. untru-orthy. red.less. wanton (wl-..aitever
lhat me.ans). ircespomible. unslllble, .and have poor
judgment. All th.at. simply because I prefer .affeaional .
and sexual relationships with men inste.ad of women. In
bet. they go to the ultimate .absurdity of using my expressed
hope of entering uhim.ately into a lasting. stable
relationship will, .another man .as evidence of insul,;lity ...
Anading the Defense Department's security de.ar
ance progr.am, he said, "We do not h.ave .a security program
.at .all. We have .a wci.al .and sexual .and intellectual
confonrity program. .arising out of the hysteria al .a
quarter century ;ago which continues unab.ated-.a program
whid, is an affirmative menace to our n.atiorul
security because it squanders our money. destroys the
lives .and c.areers of our citizenry. and deludes the public
into belie~ing that our -,-ets are being protected when
rhey.arenoL
"Do you know what you need to get a de.arance
routin~ly and quidly? t~ .a dull. convention.al domestic
life. preferably in the subuths; subscnbe to the usual list
of mag.azines, and no unusual or con1roversi.al ones; belong
10 .a few non-<0ntroversi.al org.anizations; h.ave no
.arrest record; be neither 100 .afluent nor too deeply in
debt-.and you will gel your dearance in .aboul three
months. even if you .are meeting foreign .agents eve,y
afternoon to give .aw.ay govemmenl seaets.
"Bui. be a m.an and enjoy love .and sex with another
man instead of with a woman, and you11 never get your
c1earance. Nothing else about you will ever be consi<fered."
TwoPropouk
In his speed,, Kameny made two proposals for correcting
the inadequacies he perceives in the security
system.
First. "elimination of 1he existing de facto ban upon
the issuance ol de.arances to homosexuals jlhe existence
of which ban the department will deny with some of the
most be.auliful bure.aun.atic obfuscation I h.ave .......he.
ardl."
SEE GAY FOR CONGRESS page 2
Anti~ted Texas Laws
for over 100 years Texas h.as been usmg .a penal code
that was conceived and writ1enfo1 .a rural society.
And it reflects the value judgments of a frontier culture
where emphasis was plared on propeny rather than
the protection of the ir>dividu.al citizen.
Present criminal I.aw. for example. prov~ up to 10
years in prison for horse theft where.as murder without
malice h.asa m.aximumpenalty of onlyfiveye.ars;nprison.
In an attempt to rectify .an .antiquated penal code
that became almost unrecognizable after the .activity of
55 legislatures, .a state bar committee spent five ye.ars
writing .a revised code.
The revised pen.al code th.at h.as been introduced in
the amen! session of the St.ate legislature i~ the combined
effort al many different persons and organizations
including judges, law professors. defense attorneys. st.ate
prosecutors and law enforcement .agencies.
lhe go.als sel by the revision committee for the new
codewere:
• Consolidate, ~mplify .and clarify the laws on crime.
• Identify .all significant h.arrnful criminal conduct.
• R.ation.atly grade offenses .aa:ording to the harm
they cause or threaten.
No member of the revision committee has expressed
co.mplete satisfaction with 1heir ae.ation. but most .agree
with Harris County District Attomey C.arol Vance: "It is
not perfect. but it is .a gre.at adv.anoe for aimina.l I.aw in
Texas."
Now that the re,,ised pen.al code h.as been introduced
into the Legisl.ature. specul interest groups h.ave
.appe.ared in Austin to find buh with it.
Dall.as Oislricl Attorney Henry Wade.one of the mos,
vocal aitics of the revised code. has pided out seve,-.a;l
points in the code to a,gue ag.ainst ;ts ~doption.
He oonrends th.at the revised rode " h.andcuffs the
police in their allempts to enforce the law:• But in reality
the new code gives po1jce new .and unusual powers th.al
have defense attorneys .around the state bemoaning rhe
f.o1e of their profession.
SEE TEXAS LAWS / page 2
RANDY AGHEW
Randy Agnew, Spiro's
son, answers charges
of being homosexual
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SEE AGNEW page 2
Page 2
GAY FOR CONGRESS - cont'd. fro111 page I
He says that "group or class disqualifications are
fundamentally un-American."
Second. he called for a "top-to-bottom reassessment
of our security system," to include the removal of "political
hacks," including Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Security Policy Joseph J. Liebling. He described
the security system as an "exercise in political
corruption" arising out of the appropriatioo1s procedure.
"Those running these programs must make an annual
journey to Capitol Hill to get their appropriations
from committees chaired by men chosen by the 'senility
system' In order to make an impression upon these
intellectual relics of a bygone era, and get their money,
they must go through their annual fertility rite, by demonstrating
their quota of homosexual sacrificial victims."
Turning his guns on the Civil Service Commission,
Kameny said that its policy of excluding known homosexuals
from any government job is "simple supine submission
to bigotry. Many people object to homosexuals.
One would not expect our government to submit to their
bigotry, and in other contexts such as racial prejudice,
it does not. But in the case of homosexuality, our Civil
Service Commission further penalizes those who are
already the victims of prejudice.
"This makes a popularity contest out of federal employment.
The rights, pwileges, and prerogatives of
citizenship apply equally to all citizens and cannot be
allowed to become contingent upon popularity or conformity.
American citizens have a right to be unpopular,
unconventional, and nonconformist ... "
Kameny says that he has talked with the general
counsel of the Civil Service Commission, who told him
that the government is "informally toying" with the idea
of permitting homosexuals to occupy lower grade positions.
"Big deal!" says Kameny. ''The proposal is insulting
and totally unacceptable. Now that Blacks are no longer
willing to be kept in a menial and second-class role, the
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We homosexuals are not candidates for second-class
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"Government screening processes are ineffective.
Ten per cent of our civil service employees are homosexual.
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involving postal employees. Whatever problems we may
be having with the postal system, they do not arise because
10 per cent of our postmen and mail clerks are·
homosexual."
TLorning lastly to military policies concerning homosexuals,
Kameny said that "military investigative methods
are particularly offensive and are pursued with a peculiar
philosophy when homosexuality is involved." He
called military investigators " human vermin" and said
that in the past years, they "are reliably reported to have
devoted some 90 per cent of their total investigative effort
to ferreting out homosexual<."
Cont'd. page 5 GAY FOR
TEX.AS LAWS - con'd. fro111 poge I
Wade has even joined forces with gun fanciers who
are opposing the code because it tightens regulations on
carrying firearms.
Texas ranchers have gotten in the act by opposing
the code because there are no specific statutes dealing
with cattle rustlers and they do not want stolen cattle
classified as just any theft.
One of the new powers the revised code gives police
officers is the authority to use deadly force to arrest or
prevent the escape of a " highly dangerous suspect."
PRESENT LAW does not justify killing a suspect solely
to make an arrest.
The justification for killing a suspect depends on the
officer's belief in the legality of the arrest, and before
using deadly force he must identify himself unless his
identity is already known or cannot reasonably be made
known.
Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has begun attacking
state vagrancy laws police officers have used to stop
and question certain persons, the revised code has introduced
a new "stop and frisk" statute that goes beyond
existing laws.
The stop and frisk statute says that:
• A police officer may stop a person if the officer has
reasonable cause to suspect that the person has committed
or is about to commit an offense.
• An officer may stop any person he finds near the
scene of an offense the officer has reasonable cause to
suspect has just been committed.
• An officer may stop any person in connection with
an offense that the officer has probable cause to believe
has been committed.
The committee admits this gives police an unusual
power and states that an officer "can execute a stop
when he does not have probable cause at the time to
make an arrest."
ACCORDING to the statute the stop cannot last over
30 minutes and the person cannot be moved from the
place of original stop. And the officer must also tell the
person that it is not an arrest but rather a temporary
detention for investigation.
During abuse is one area where the revised code
has made significant changes but has not aroused any
opposition.
The drug offenses in the revised code deal solely
with mind and mood-altering drugs such as narcotics,
hallucinogens, stimulants. depressants and marijuana.
PENAL treatment of non-mind or mood-altering prescription
drugs has been transferred out of the penal
code and placed in the food and drug regulatory laws.
The new statute does not distinguish between nar<
otics and so-called dangerous drugs but places all drugs
into thrC'e categories-dangerous drugs. abusable drugs
and restricted drugs.
Classification is based on an assessment of th<' P.Ot<'ntial
for harm and abuse prC'sented by a giv<'n drug.
THE REVISED drug statute does not contain all th<'
penal provisions dealing with mind and mood-altrring
drugs. but only the basic provisions dc-aling with illicit
drug traffic.
Obtaining drugs by misr<"pr<'S<'ntation or d<'<<'ption
is not an offenS<' undrr tht• r!'vised codr. All thr prnal
provision in th<' pr<'SC'nt code- for obtaining drug, by
misrC'pr<'sentation or dC'C<'ption has bren transf!'rrc-d to
the rC'gulatory statutes.
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However, after conviction and before sentencing, if
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penalty to that of a misdemeanor.
Marijuana, along with some mild narcotics and opiates,
will be classified as an abusable drug.
Next: The duplication for sentencing in the present
penal code are eliminated in the rnised penal code.
.AGNEW - con'd from poge 1
The above di.a,logue, which tool< pl.ace at Towson,
MaryL,nd, between Villilge Voice reporter Arthur Bell
and the 24--ye.ar-old son of Vice-president Spiro Agnew,
is one of a series of rnis-.adventures which h.ave ilSSailed
Randy since he supposedly walked out on his wife and
d.aughter to set up housekeeping with a friend he h.as
known for a year and a h.tlf, a h;,irdresser named Buddy
Hash.
h all began when po&lical columnist Jack Anderson,
who inherited his hard-hitting, expose style from the
bte Drew Pearson and whose column he was also deeded,
wrote an account of the situation, obviously intending
it to embarr.us Spiro Agnew. Obviously it h.as-but
not lo the degree lh.at Anderson ~ob.ably expected.
Randy Ag'1ew, it appeilrs, hais been the victim of his own
impulsiveness and inexperience in political sledge hammering.
Anderson repo,ted th.at, after leaving his family
deeply in debt, Randy Agnew obtilined a job as a weightlifting
instructor and moved into a two-story fashion.able
Bolton Hill section of Llhimore with Buddy Hash who
operate-; a beauty salon with his mother in Eilst Baltimore.
Hash has a police record; the first on a charge of operating
a disorderly house and the other, for possession of
~riPJ•n•.
Hash expbined to another reporter th.at the charge
of running a disorderly house stemmed from an altercation
between a roommate (not Randy) and a boy. "It was
ricficulous," he said, "and, of course, the ch.arge was
dis~."
According to lhe same reporter the marijw,~ charge
grew out of the indiscretion of still another roommate.
"I h.ad nolhing to do with pot and the authorities dropped
those chatrges.
So far all the snide innuendo about Randy's masculinity
has been confined to America'~ weekly newspapers
and scandal papers abroad. The daily press of
which Spiro Agnew has been so critical. has followC'<I
the respected practice of American journalism by refraining
from gossip or speculation on mailers involving
private morals. To illustrate, Bobby Kennedy. Jr. bec.ame
a headline only after he had been ch.lrged with posses-t
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sion of marijuana in a Massachusetts court.
It is probably true that the Anderson story originated
with an anonymous telephone call. At any rate, Buddy
Hash is the oldest •on of Mrs. Lee Ha,h. They are partnen
in the beauty ,hop, along with Mr. Hash who doe•
the maintenance .ind repair work. They alro have a
married daughter and another son. Both younger children
are hairdressers.
Since the Anderson story their lives have become
public property, talked about and pointed out, as it always
,sin situations like this. The underground press has
been having a field day, suggesting that Randy join Gay
Lib and run for President of the United States.
Village Voice reporter Arthur Bell found Buddy
Hash under the influence of a public relations man
whom he had evidently hired to squash the rumors.
How many mistakes Buddy had made before only he
probably knows, but dignifying snide gossip by denying
it is the first step toward incrimination.
But when interviewed by Bell both Buddy and Randy
fell into the "It's not true that I beat my wife trap."
Questioned ever so gently by the skilled reporter they
both answered the $64 question about their respective
homosexuality, giving Rich the obvious openings. He
described Buddy as "very, very nervous" when he answered,
"1,m not a homosexual. The story is very false."
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And afl,•r obtaining a comment from the Vice-President's
son what else 1/) could a smart newspaperman
working for wild, wooley, full blown liberal and Bohemian
paper like the Village Voice add but the following:
On the bus back to Baltimore, I wondered what I'd
expected Randy ro say. I suppose if homosexuality were
accepted by our society-ii Andy could say "yes' or
"no" w,rhour anyone much caring-there would have
been no reason for Anderson ro have wrirren his column
or for me ro poke around, for rhar marrer. Bur so long as
our national leaders viciously arrack non-middle American
life-styles, rumors will go hand in hand with repression.
After a//, who characterized his opponents a,
"efete?"
So what might have been an innocent case of a
friend helping a pal-Buddy taking Randy in to help
out while he got his feet has become a full blown scandal.
The young men might have avoided its dimensions
and let it die away-as rumors always do. But they made
the mistake of acknowledging that it existed-and for
that their reputations are on the line.
So two young men have been laid open to scornin
the old, old game of political muck racking.
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Lesbians Marry
FEMALE 'BRIDE' and 'GROOM'
LESBIANS' "LECAL" MARRIACE
IN ENCLAND
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Two young English women recently announced that they
succeeded in having a " legal" marriage ceremony . performed
at a Registry Office. The women are Terry Floyd.
24. who pronounced himself/ herself " the bridegroom "
and Carole Mary Lord, the "bride." They promptly set up
housekeeping, posed charmingly for photographers and
announced that they were very happy.
Legal processes quickly went to work to determine
the validity of the union. and opinion seems to be that the
whole thing was a publicity stunt to draw arrention to the
growing militancy of male and female homosexuals
throughout the world.
The idea of males marrying males and females making
legal and religious vows to other females may seem
absurd to the vast majority of people . but the implications
that such unions may eventually be possible are taken
seriously by a great many legal authorities and churchmen.
Consider this run down of some events that haw
taken place within the last few years.
• Denmark, the most permissive of Scandinavia's
free love countries, long has taken a tolerant view of
homosexu.ils and il5 1.iws recognize that people who of
the s.ime sex who live together over a long period of time
h.ive certain community rights deserving of protection
under the law. Hence, in the event of the death of one
partner who bequeaths hi• estate to the other, there is
seldom an effort to break the will by blood relatives. The
law protects the surviving partner.
• In Holland last year the disclosure that a Roman
C.itholic priest had pre.ided at the "marriage" of two
young males precipitated a storm of controversy. When
the du,t w.is ,wept away, it w.is revealed that the boy•'
union had merely been "blessed" by the prelate during
Mass .ind that the young men had exchanged vows
privately. They repaired to the "gay night club" of which
they are co-owners and did a landslide business as a result
of the controversy.
The Holl.ind incident produced reports of similar
and more discreet ceremonies that had been performed
over .i period of time by responsible religious men in
Cermany, Sweden, France and England.
In th<' Unit<'d Slat<'s. along with Wom<'n 's Lib and
othfl'r minority groups sC"ekin~ rC'cognition of their statu\
.rnd .1n c-nd to discrimination in employmC'nt. thC'rC' i\ al(,o
"G,,y Lib." a group that has sprun~ up rll'ar across th<'
< ountry. l'mbracin~ both mal<' and femal<' hom.>Sexual,.
In bi!( .-itil',, likl' San Fr,incisrn. N<'w York and Chicago.
,1r.. Wf'II ,Jr.. in thc- nation\ rapital. th<'y havc- dC'monc;tratrd
boldly on th,· ,tr<'<'ts .ind hl'ld ralli.,, in public park,.
Said Paul Breton, president of the Homophile Soci.11
League formed last yeu in ~- York, "It is tim• for society
to judge people by their individual com~t•nce as
hum~n beings ~nd not by their Ktivitie. in bed."
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of candidates in last November's election to speak our
for homosexual rights. It took some maneuvering, diplomacy
and forcing the politicians to the wall but they came
through exceedingly well.
When Candidate Arthur Goldberg was questioned
at a street rally he became instantly uncomfortabl<' and
said there were morf> i,n~rtant matters on his mind. HI'
thought better of th!' qurstion later and issued a stat<'ment:
"I believe that all "'"'' concerning consenting
relations betwl'en adults in private are mishandled when
they are dealt with adve,-cly in the ll'gal a rea . Questions
of fair employment and other related matters should not
be answered negatively for a man or woman just because
his or her private life involves homosexuality. Present
laws and attitudes are wrong. The law must change and
social attitudes will change."
On the other hand Nelson Rockefeller, who won the
election, avoided an ... i.nche of telegrams sent to him
by individual homosexuals and Gay lib groups_
John Lindsay was the first major American politician
to recognize the political power-and the complaintsof
the homo groups when. shortly after his first election
as Mayor of New York, he met in Greenwich Village with
leaders of the homophile movement.
They told him in detail of police harassment of bars
catering to deviates and of the technique of police entrapment
to perpetuate the office of the Vice Squad.
Lindsay ordered the police department to "lay off" and
as a result the situation has been vastly improved, if not
perfect from the homophile point of view. Leaders of the
homophiles. however, are the first to agree that brazen
homosexuals who use tl)e new freedom to flaunt their
sexual propensity on the streets and to solicit innocent
·pedestrians outside their Village haunts are not doing
their cause much good.
Said one leader, "Where we are making the greatest
gains is in the religious •re• of society_ In some cities we
h .. e made strides; in others not. For example one leading
church in New York permits us to hold dances once
• week; another •lows us to utilize its facilities for discussion
groups.. Our objective ultimately is to h .. e homosexuals
accepted on • fully active basis."
In Los Angeles, a segregated church for homosexuals.
seems to be the answer. The California city long has been
death on homos and homo activity although its neighbor.
Heverly Hills. probably houses more overt homosexuals
than any community its size in the world.
Formed by Reverend Troy D. Perry, who was thrown
out ol the Church of God of Prophecy. a Pentacostalist
group. the church has mushroomed from nine members
to more than 400. An attendance on Sundays exceeds
the number of members-a reversal of the usual pattern
in established churches.
A young swinger observed, "I came here for laughs.
I wanted to see what the cruising was like. Instead I've
found some good friends. When you are limited in your
friendsh,ps to other homos picl<ed up at gay bars you're
dealing exclusively with sex. In thi,, group - meet all
sorts of people-men who've Re\'er been inside ~ gay
bar_ But they've got plenty to offer intellectually. For me
it's been• revelation.''
The ho,nc,sexual church is obviously the outgrowth
of an increased questioning at,itude toward deviate sexual
behavior. For generations it was condemned as a
ma tier of course.
Reflecting new attitudes is a group of religious men
involved in the Council on Religion and the Homosexual.
Inc., based in San Francisco.
In one of their publications titled. "Churchmen
Speak out on Homosexual Law Reform" one can find an
interesting cross section of current opinion by the
religious.
The following is from the Most Reverend and Right
Honorable Arthur M. Ramsay, the Archbishop of Cantebury_
There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and
woman where he makes his choice and decisions, fashions
his character and directs his desires, a realm of his
own essential rights and liberties ... into which the law,
generally speaking, must not intrude ... Even the wise
and well-intentioned makers of law must shrink from invading
with the weapons of criminal law this region of
private rights and wrongs, moralities and immoralities,
since it is so easy to interfere unwisely and to rob men of
their proper freedoms of choice.
Discrimination in employment is the factor most aggravating
the homosexual and, of course, it begins with
the disinclination of National, State and City governments
to hire anyone with overt homosexual tendencies.
Among those not so conspicuous homesexuals in
government jobs, snooping is common practice, regardless
of the sensitivity of their positions. The State Department
is notorious for this, and there are wholesale
"cleanups" on a periodic basis.
New York City is the first to take the offici.tl stand
that• man or woman's private life is his own_
This, homophiles consider, is~ progressive step, even
though they are aware that in jobs, without competitive
Civil Service examinations, there may stiH be • reluctance
to hire known homos.
Sometime this year the Supreme Court may act in a
Texas homosexual case which has already been decided
in favor of the homophiles in Federal Court. If the lower
comt's verdict is upheld all morals laws on the books in
all 50 states would automatically be eliminated-thus
paving the way for a new look at our Puritanical mores.
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belongings, without warrants, without permission, and
often not in the presence of the women involved. This
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Kameny, his campaign workers, and military per•
sonnel who have gone through earlier investigations
and remained in the service, are counseling the women
involved. The basic message is: "SAY NOTHING; SIGN
NOTHING; GET COUNSEL; FIGHT .BACK." Kameny says
that when service personnel follow this advice, "we
almost always win our cases."
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AriH: You get out of life what you put into it. Be careful
about being too pushy about putting it in. Before the
20th you show a high need for accomplishment and attention.
So get off your rea r and do something. Happy Birthday!
Taurus: This month you may find that person that you
want to get into. If the feeling is mutual you have a good
policies excluding homosexuals from service."
Kameny haS: phrased this as "we don't dodge the
draft, the draft dodges us."
(2) Repeal of Article 125 (Sodomy) of the Uniform
Code of Military Justice;
(3) Equal freedom for homosexual and heterosexual
servicemen in th~ conduct of their personal and sexual
lives, without adverse action;
(4) Upgrading to fully honorable of all less-thanfully-
honorable discharges issued in the past three decades
because of homosexuality, with retroactive benefits."
chance of having a fun month. Remember you can't al• Declaration ol War
ways do what you want. Give a little.
Winding up, Kameny said that " this speech may be
Gemini: That old friend of yours may become more inter- taken as a declaration of war by us against our govern•
esting. You two may find that you missed a lot when you ment-a war which will be waged until our government
first met. Changes are just a part of life. Get into a friend comes to its senses on this question of homosexuality.
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need to stay with it if you want something bad enough viduals and by groups-resistance by former legal pro• Rev. David Wilkerson,
you can get it. cess and resistance by demonstration and other methods.
We will encourage test cases and create them by sending Teen Ch a 11 ehge Leo: You may find that a co-worker is interested in the people to apply for jobs, clearances, for entrance into
same things you are-balling. Changes are the one sure military service, declaring their homosexuality' being
thing if you find business affairs too much. Remain calm, refused, and then going to court. Founder:
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sure this month.
ment lawyers to handle our cases; we will stop them and A BIB LE BANGING Virgo: Your talents are varied and you can be very re- the courts with the tide of our litigation.
sourceful. If things are not doing as you want them to, "I predict that the heretofore unbroken silence on
you might find that it's because your thing is not in the these matters on Capitol Hill will soon be broken by BOOB
right place. Move. growing numbers of voices of members of Congress in
Ubra: Don't hold back your worth a lot more than you our favor." Wilkerson's 25 flawless ways for spotting a homo•
have been getting lately. If others understand what you Following the speech, Kameny, his staff, and a size- sexual are good indicators of his mental level. Space prowant,
you may be able to get it in the end or wherever. able group of radio, television, and newspaper reporters hibits mentioning all 25 characteristics, but it isn't necesmoved
to the offices of the Secretary of the Army, Stanley sary anyway. Wilkerson says that almost al/ homosexuals
Scorpio: You may find a great deal of success by changing Resor, where Kameny planned to demand that the inves- exhibit al/ of these 25 traits. Here are just a few:
your approach and being flexible when it's necessary. tigations at Fort Myer be halted immediately. The secre• 1. Broad, swaying hips
Associating with co-workers can be lots of fun especially tary was out of the office and at the Capitol. 2. Delicate physique
if they are cute. Resor's military assistant, Lt. Col. Charles Bagnal, 3. Hustling around, striking unusual poses
Sagiturius: You may find yourself attracted to young told Kameny that if he left his name, address, and tele- 5. A tripping gait
people. If what you .,.}doing is not satisfying try some• phone number, he would be gotten in touch with. Ka- 6. Getting excited over bright colors
thing else. A LEO wants to ball with you but usually that's meny said later that he would give Resor's office two Remember now that homosex'\Jals are supposed to
alla Leo wants. Be careful. days to reply and then would, as a local political candi· show, according to Mr. Wilkerson, not just one, but
date, insist on an interview. nearly all of his listed traits. Stop and think for a momenl.
Capricom: New developments will help you find th•t In other developments in the campaign, Kameny Can you imagine what it would be like to see such a
person you are hot for in bed. Don't hesitate to jump in made a "personal appearance walk" in exclusive George- creature coming down the street with broad swaying
and do it. You might need to improve your environment town that was witnessed by at least one senator, has hips, fluttering eyelids, a del icate physique, tripping
-this can be done by adding the right person with the received continuing good coverage in the newspapers gait. swaggering shoulders, striking unusual posesl Wow!
right tools. and on radio and TV, and makes at least five appearances What a gas! His hips would be swaying while his shoul•
Aqw,rius: Your ties and affection with people may lead a week at local civic association meetings and other ders swagered, and he'd trip along fluttering his eyelids!
you down a better path. Be decisive and show peoplt- public gatherings. Better than a circus!
what you can do. You all could enjoy it!! But it doesn't really surprise us that Mr. David Wil-kerson
is a sexual barbarian. The holy book he reads. the
Pisces: You may find yourself mixing business and per• .--------------------------------------------sonal
pleasures. Remember you can '1 do business in bed.
You r)('<'d to improve your financial outlook. 8<' carrful
that rou don't put too much emph,1sis on social activitir,.
GAY FO R - from po9e 2
latest Witch-Hunt
He mentioned the latest of the military "witchhunts,"
which began only five days before his speech.
Male members of the Fort Myer, Ya., Criminal lnvesti!
W~.E>i\'i)jo!I.JCID}werd:lhtough:the.Wop,en's·Army·
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Bible, is anti-sexual from start to finish. Its first curse is a
sexual one, leveled at poor Eve for the "crime" of curiosity
(can you hear us Eve? We'd have tasted the apple
too!).Dig:
I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception.
In sorrow thou shalt bring forth children. And thy desire
shall be to thy husband. And he shall rule over thee.
Adam and Eve were ashamed of their nakedness,
and they hid themselves. Modern theologians (who are
always trying to pour old wine into new bottles) try 10
avoid the element of sex, stressing instead that our
"original parents" merely disobeyed. No matter what the
theologians say, however, the 5ommon religious freak
has always understood Eve's punishment as a sexual one.
What the Adam and Eve story means to the man of the
street is this: Woman represents a temptation, and for
accepting her suggestions, man has become a "sinner,"
a pe,son deserving of punishment and needing repent·
ence. Not too many people know that clergymen by the
thousands fought the introduction of drugs which eased
the pain of childbearing for women. "It was part of Eve's
curse," they claimed, "to bear children in pain." Mustn't
mess up Jehovah's cruel curses!
If you think the Old Testament is bad, and that it
treats sex in a harsh, gloomy fashion, try this sample from
the jerked-off Epistles of St. Paul (a madman if there ever
was one( in the New Testament:
I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, it is
good for them if they abide even as I. But if they cannot
contain (that is, if they get too horny), let them marry: for
it is better to marry than to burn.
We mustn't blame David Wilkerson and his cohorts
too much for attitudes they've picked up from their holy
book. They are merely believers, not seekers. They are
dogmatists, not free thinkers. The " cure" for homosexuality
recommended by Wilkerson is a chilling example of
ignorant zeal on the rampage.
You must learn to look into a mirror and honestly
say, 'My body, my flesh, is worthless, wormeaten, and full
of decay and death,' Cultivate a shame for your nakedness.
You must learn to hate, despise, crucify and mortify
~esh.
Don't be surprised by such attitudes. They are the
natural production of a creedal mind. Not very long ago
we got pissed t ' f after months of bell-ringing at all hours
of the morning by the thoughtless church next door. WE
telephoned and suggested in a kindly way that ii wasn't
althogether "Christian" to ring bells so long early in the
morning, disturbing the sleep of people who work hard
during the week. "Do you believe in God?" asked the
clergyman. "We're talking about consideration for others
and about bells, not God," we replied. But he continued
bull-headedly: "Do you believe in God? Because if you
don't, you have no right to be in this world." That was
where the matter stood as far as he was concerned. His
attitude, shared by many thousands of clergymen, helped
us to decide where we stam •.
Houston GLF
It will be singing' and laughin' time while cuttin'
sugar cane far Castro when some of the local GLF
comrades go to Cuba soon. They wi II join a number
of similar retordotes, romantics and otherwise dedicated
folk in helping to bail out the Cubans' disisastrous\
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Lots of good old revolutionary companionship,
theory and procti se, with some po ss 1ble side trips
into East Germany, and then back to the bod old
USA to aid in The Revolution. Right on! And just
never-you-mind about all those vicious anti-homosexual
decrees issued by Fidel (rumoured to be the
biggest closet queen in Latin America, among other
things). They're just meant to toke gays out of the
:ubon academic and theatre communities - - gays
in Cuba ore considered by the Socialist State to be
vile, sick sub-humans who dare to deviate from
Socialist Morality. Apparently gays from the USA
con pick sugar cone for El Liberodor, but leave your
sex life bock in the decadent, Capitalist USA. You
con get your kicks dawn in the Workers Parodi se
from suckin' sugar cone and stuffin' bombs. It all
should be o hoot! It oppears also to be a classic
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march in the street. There was no time for a court
challenge of the old ordinance under which the permit
was denied (no parades on Sunday) , but agreement
was reached that the marchers would abide by the
city's request to stay on the sidewalk unless the
crowd wos sufficently large to toke the street without
o permit and without provoking a violent attack
by the cops.
Hundreds of Albany residents lined the hall-mile
march route to watch the marchers move down the
sidewalks or..,•in-orm, well organized by their
marshals, disciplined and angry, chanting: "Two!
Four! Six! Eight! Goy is just os good as straight!"
There was some, but not much, open hostility -
glares and a few epithets. "Three! Five! Seven!
Nine! Lesbiuns are mighty fine!" Most onlookers
seemed to express a mixture of awe and embarrassment,
laughing and grinning nervously.
Many people expressed their sympathy with the
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clenched fist ta each passing contingent, repeating,
"I'm with you. Too old to march but I'm for you!"
The demonstrators were spirited and colorful, transvestites
in bri Iii ant costume making up a welcome
port of the march tog ether with every other sector
of the gay community. About one-third were women,
and there was a significant number of Blacks and
Puerto Ricans.
Troy Perry addressed himself to this unity. "Some
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here Morch 14 as more than 1,500 gay men and women
surged into a throng around the steps for the rol ly
culminating the Stole Morch of the Gay Unveiling.
people soy this movement is ruining the homosexual's L----------L----------imoge.
Well, I'm here to tell you we don't have an
image. The straights don't see 'good' homosexuals
and 1bod' homosexuals. To them, we're all queers,''
Perry told the rally. But we are learning that we
don't have to live to please straights. Perry continued,
"because gay is proud and there's nothing we
can't do when we're united!"
Kate Millett, author of Sexual Politics and feminist
leader, told the rally, "To hear that chant far justice
going up against all these crazy buildings - I used
to hear it as o little voice deep in my guts far years
and years - and it feels so good to say it out loud!"
The crowd responded, "Justice! Justice" with
clenched fists stabbing the air each time the shout
went up.
A spirit of militant unity among all sectors of the
gay community dominated the entire weekend. Friday
evening, March 12, Gay People at Columbia University
hosted a Festival of Goy Unity in preparation for
the march on Sunday.
About 300 people attended the Friday rally to hear
speeches from different gay groups in New Yark
City, see films of the July 4th 1966, homosexual
picketing in Philadelphia sponsored by the Mattochine
Society and Daughters of Bilitis, and of the June,
Ernie Reaugh of the Tri-Cities GLF, who chaired
the rally, read the demands: 1) Repeal of the laws
against sodomy, 2) enactment of a fair housing low
for gays, 3) enactment of a fair employment low for
gays, 4) repeal of the solicitation lows, 5) _repeal
of the solicitation laws, 5) repeal of the loitering
laws, and 6) repeal of the impersonation laws.
"We're not asking," Owles told the rally, "We're
here demanding our rights!" The demonstration was
about more than the New York lows, he continued,
"and no one should think this will be the lost time
we march. We wil I do it again and again and again.
And each time there wil I be more of us, and we're
going to do whatever is necessary against this rotten
society - unti I we get our rights!"
1970 Christopher Street march of between 5,000 and----------------------
10,000 in New York City.
Moster of ceremonies Morty Robinson, Goy Activist
Alliance (GAA), urged everyone lo participate in the
march and in the gay I iberotion contingent of the
April 24 antiwar march, colling attention to the
Student Mobilization Committee Gay Task Force
table in the rear of the hall. Other speakers included
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Kameny's campaign staff (Komeny is the gay liberation
candidate far nonvoting congressional delegate
in D. C.), and Breck Ardery of GAA.
The main group organizing transportation from New
York City for the march was GAA, which chartered
four buses in addition to organizing car pools. But
the demonstration, initiated by the Goy L iberalion
Front of the Tri-Cities in Albany, hod the support of
vir tuolly every gay I iberotion group in the stole.
The Tri-C,ties GLF hosted a dance on Saturday
night before the march which was attended by ~
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St. Paul, Minn. - Gay Liberationists hove begun quiet
negotiations with state legislators to seek repeal of
the Minnesota sodomy law.
In its place, leaders of FREE: Gay L iberation of
Minnesota propose adoption of the American Low
Institute' s Model Penal Code, which permits any
sexual activity between consenting adults.
TheMinnesola Legislature adopted a un iform criminal
criminal code in 1963, but removed sex; law changes
from it ofter protests were raised at the lost minute.
In 1967, fellatio and anal intercourse were removed
from the felony class and mode gross misdemeanors,
with mo xi mum penalties of $1000 fines and a year in
prison.
That bill passed despite the ob jections of then-Stole
Sen. Dono Id 0. Wright, 78, Minneopol is, who said,
"I don't think that's something that even a husband
and wife should do."
Wright was defeated for re-election lost November by
a young lawyer in a di strict which includes the
Loring Park and Lowry Hill neighborhoods, which
have heavy gay populations.
Supporters of sodomy repeal hope a 1971 b i 11 con be
introduced quietly ond shepherded through both
houses with minimum debate, under the prestige of
the Law Institute' s label.
With 202 legislators in 60th houses, an observer
conjectured that as many as eight salons cou ld be
expected by law of a verages, to be exclusively gay,
and another 12 gay but not without some heterosexual
interest.
The lost publicly ident ified gay legislator in Minnesota
was Stole Sen. Richard Ferrario af Duluth,
a junior high school teacher who re s igned in 1964
ofter pleading guilty to perfo•ming sodomy on a 16-
year-old Superior, Wis., boy.
That case dropped from pub I ic attention when Ferrario,
then 33, was announced to hove entered a
mental inst itut ion. At the time, he hod a wife and
four chi I dren .
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Metaphysics
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Occultism
BENEFITS OF CLAIRVOYANCE. Thru clairvoyance
your inner mind is enabled to visualise existing
scenes without the direct aid of your outer senses.
without the direct aid of your outer senses. By its
aid, you can attune your inner senses to the vital
stream of cosmic consciousness, expanding that
abi lity as you proceed. This develops within you the
all-important self-detachment from worldy problems,
giving you the needed confidence to fix upon outward
objectives and their achievement. The development
of this clairvoyant faculty is vital to your metaphysical
work and the development of serious occult
powers.
First, you must learn how to use concentration. Con•
centration means to focus or direct all attention
upon o single objective, which in turn requires
effort of on intisensive sort. Even when things ore
drawn together in a comn on centre, that same intensive
action is present, and more so than when
directed outward. Therefore, such concentration
effort will defeat the operation of the inner psychic
mind, which must be effortless.
The secret of inward concentration is to withdraw
your inner senses from your outer, gradually and
easily, so they seem to dwell in o world of their
own. Some people term this, "making your mind a
blank," but this does not fully apply, for it requires
effort • • and sometimes quite o lot - . merely to
dismiss stray thoughts from the mind. However, the
blanking process con be helpful, for it is much like
going around o house turning out lights one by one,
instead of pulling one master switch.
The process mu st be completed, however, be fore you
turn on the nlnner Light" otherwise you may mistake
the last few glimmers from your outer senses as the
inward glow that you are seeking. Such on error
may cause you to backtrack to the physical concepts
or surroundings from which you started, which means
that you wil l hove lo start the withdrawal again.
Usually, however, you will recognise this during
the progress of your withdrawal ond con holt your
outward trend. Each new adventure inword will bring
you closer to your ultimate goal.
That goal is the elimination of oll conscious thought,
which represents concentration of the physical
senses. With that accomplished, you will be concentrating
with your inner, psychic senses alone.
Any concept that you form will come from the inner
mind and con be interpreted accordingly.
How can you tel I when you have acquired this
psychic mood? That will vary with different persons.
often to such o wide degree that it would require
a chopter to list individual reports. Some moy see
what seems to be a mental blackboard or screen,
upon which images moy appear; but this is often
deceptive or inadequate, as it may merely represent
a transition from one latent memory to another. A
stronger sensation is that of o great void; once it
seems to engulf you, your inner senses ore ready to
toke lull control. Or your thoughts may just seem
idle, then suddenly picking up as ii toking the rood
lo another reol m.
TO DEV ELOPE YOUR CLAIRVOYANT FACULTIES.
To turn fleeting thoughts into psychic impressions,
useful to you, is much tike balancing a coin on its
edge: ii set just right ,it remains upright; ii not, it
falls. You must hove the knack, the obi I ity to do it.
Hence, many people seldom have clairvoyant flashes,
or ii they do, they foil to recognise them for what
they ore. Since the purpose is to gain and maintain
o receptive mood, it is therefore best to proceed
carefully and slowly, like making o delicate balance.
Your first procedure, the gradual withdrowal of your
inner senses, hos already been mentioned. That
might be similar to setting the coin on edge. Now,
you let your inner senses form impressions; this
would be like removing your hond from the coin and
letting it stand balanced. These can be composite
impressions: latent memories, figments of your
imoginotion, flights of fancy, hidden secrets, foroff
places - - all are helpful and allowable, provided
they form o progressive chain of events, leading from
the known into the unknown and bringing back stronger
or well -fixed images from the unknown.
When using the "blockboord" method to induce o
receptive mood toward inner visulisotion, you must
stimulate your memory and imagination to open a
truly clairvoyant visto. Any shapes or splotches
appearing on that mental blackboard moy help you,
much like driving a car round on unfamiliar neighborhood
seeking o way out.
Once clear of that mental maze, your inner senses
can take over, gathering impressions from for off.
You may still have to shake off wayward thoughts
or images cropping up from time to time from your
outer senses. Sometimes, however, you may guide
your inner senses into fam i I iar channels so that
they become sychronised. Here, your clairvoyant
faculty may meet some long-standing problem by
producing on answer that would not have occurred
to you before.
Once you develop your inward visulisation, experience
will tell you which paths to reject ond which
to cultivate. Each new excusion of the inner mind
brings more certainty regarding the next, particularly
when gathered impressions prove true. With the
"deep void" method, your inner visulialisotion becomes
stronger. It is like spreading o curtain to
view scenes that take on a three-dimensional effect.
You moy start with outer pictures formed from
memory or imagination, forcing t~1em forward and
outwad; then, as they ore exhausted, your inner
senses draw in new images to supplant them.
This process moy be compared to priming o pump in
order lo start a steady flow. The deep void becomes
a vacuum, bringing you an influx of new and significant
ideas. Sometimes these may seem to form in
the bock of your head, rather than being projected
forwcrd, indicating that o transition from outer to
inner mind is under way. Once inner impressions
toke over, give them full sway, since to superimpose
anything on them would overbalance them. Try to
ovoid forcing other images on your inner impressions.
Wait for the inner impression to develop something
entirely on its own.
RELAXATION IS VITAL. Since calm reception is
vital to clairvoyance, it automatically requires relaxation,
otherwise you will find that inner impressions
simply won't develop for you. Any straining
may lead to exhaustion, which in turn produces relaxation,
but of a recuperative sort, so that any
impressions may prove feeble or otherwise unsoti
sfoctory. To counteract this, it is best to relax
at the very start of your endeavour. That will enable
you to gather confidence in the impressions you
recei ve.
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As to the impressions you will receive, I have
already emphasised that clairvoyant really means
"clear sensing." Your inner visulolisation enables
you to gain impressions without the aid of the outer
senses. This is done through imagery, or the creation
of mentol imoges, with memory as an adjunct, until
it reaches positive clarity, with the sharpness of an
actual physical perception. Often this will be pictur•
ed visually, as mentioned previously, which is why
many people regard clairvoyance as a form of inner
s ight.
But there ore times when the inner impression is
auditory, stimulating the outer sense of hearing
rather than sight. In such cases, it is technically
termed clairaudience. Indeed, some persons who
have reached a high slate of psychic development
have claimed that they frequently hear voices, often
of a guiding noture, without the accompaniment of
on inner vision.
Similarly, the senses of taste, touch or smell may
be almost exclusively involved as inward impressions,
though no special terms are ordinarily used to
distinguish them. Collectively, they are all clair•
voyonce, and so your inner impressions may consist
of any or all of them. Their significance depends on
whether they develop ..into positive concepts of
actual persons, places, things or events which can
b,- iJentified and corroborated.
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For those of you wishing to stabalise your aura
prior to any work in metaphysical areas, making the
Qabalistic Cross symbol should always be part of
your work, beginning and finish. Here is the formula:
Facing East, using your right-hand index and middle
fingers, touch your forehead, saying, IN THY HANDS;
touching the solar plexus, say, IS THE KINGDOM;
touching the right shoulder, say, AND THE POWER;
touching the left shoulder, say, AND THE GLORY;
clasping hands before you, saying, FOREVER AND
EVER, AMEN. While making the sign of the Qabalistic
Cross, visulaise the brilliant white light descending
thru the crown of your head down to the feet and
beyond, and then a cross shah of light extending
from shoulder to shoulder, towards the horizons.
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LETTER TO RR Dear former customer,
Not having an address did not know where to reach
The Red Room
612 Hadley
Houston, Texas
Morch 17, you but om answering your letter in the HUNT/US
in hopes you will see it.
Manager,
Why ore you carelessly letting your customers drift
off to better managed bors and clubs?
Until a few weeks ago you hod o nice atmosphere,
good lighting and a place condusive to enjoying
being in with your friends.
Now the service is very poor, the place is dirty,
ash troys always full and the lighting 1s enough to
make you want to leave before you ever order o drink.
The green glaring I ight by the stairs should have o
cover over it so as not to turn everyone into zombies.
The wall candelabra that is now turned on full
force gives the place o dreary, barn like atmosphere.
And what hos happened to the red candles?
If you don't think this Is hurting your business, then
check your receipts for the past few weeks.
I speak for o great number of my friends who ore
fond of the place, but hove now started going to the
Galleon, Mary's, Tattooed Lady etc. Your juke box
needed o change of records months ago also. Shope
up and maybe we wi 11 come back some day.
A former customer
Your criticism of the RED ROOM has been evaluated
as constructive. You, the customers are the only
ones that can give the owners and operators of the
Gay business help such as your letter so that we may
serve you.
I am very appreciative of this intrest you have shown
and om inviting you and your friends to drop in and
note the many changes brought about at your suggestions,
personnel, service, lighting, juke box etc.
Thanks,
"Big George" (owner)
DIXIE DISTRIBUTING COMPANY
DIXIE DISTRIBUTI~G (~O"IPANY Ken Paul hos just recently been made manager of
the popular Red Room Lounge. He hos established
a new policy for the lounge and has announced that
beginning April 4th, female imper/onotors will be
performing each Sunday from 3 to 6 and Wednesdays
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Congratulations and best wishes to the ARMADILLO CLUB
and welcome to Houston! We know the gay community will
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EDITORIAL
fhe Texas Legislature is currently studying a
,roposed new Penal Code for the Stole, and the
,ubl ic are called upon to express their opinions on
he first significant change in Texas penal law in
115 years. The NUNTIUS hopes the public will
ake advantage of the opportunity and do so, es,
eci ally with reference to the proposed Code's
;ection dealing with consensual sexual relations
,etween adults.
)verall, we think the proposed new Penal Code is a
l iant step ahead in comparison with the present
system. But The NUNTIUS is alarmed at the pre>
osterously thoughtless attitude taken by the sub:
ommittee involved in drafting the new Code towards
sexual relations of a homosexual nature between
:onsenting adults_
The new Code, would in effect, toke the State and
•ts officers out of the business of monitering the
sexual preferences and activities of adults in
,rivote - - but only if they conform to the biases of
he heterosexual majority! Homosexual behaviour
is to be considered illegal and punishable by law.
This is blatant discrimination against a substantial
ninority of Texons1 and a defiance of reason in
,;hat frequently is hailed as a more enlightened era.
1'nd it is cruelly stupid.
the
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We submit that the sexual acti vities of consenting
adults of any sexual orientation is not the proper
concern of the State. And we submit that honest
elected officials in the Texas Legislature know this
to be true. The prejudices of the Legi s lators concerning
sexual preferences should not, in the light
of recent social development, be en shrined into a
nonenforceable law, making criminals all over again
of thousands of taxpaying, voting citizens, solely
because of their natural sexual needs_
The NUNTIUS hopes further that all those people
in our society who have so often in the past, and
frequently with such vigour, sought ta change unjust
laws and conditions wil I now address thems elve ta
this most personal, most vital matter. Write to your
Legislators, demanding that they erase from the
proposed Penal Code the unjust sections which
make criminals of anyone engaging in homosexual
activities with a consenting adult. And you might
begin with the Hon_ James E. Nugent, Chairman of
the Subcommittee of the House Jurisprudence Commitllee
that is studying the proposed code. Then
write to Senator James S- Bates, Chairman of the
Senate Jurisprudence Committee. Both these gentleman
are currently surprised at the lack of any real
interest in the new proposed Code_ Surprise them!
and quickly!
beauty, sophist icated charm and social awareness,
and with on instinct for the devious. Bravo, dear_
THAT DEAR OLD BOY from El Campo, the French
Riviera and the McGregor area with occasional stops
in Acapulco has opened a re staurant in the Tatooed
Lady Club, and that' s a good thing, see? He' s a
marvellous chef, really, and his food has always been
superb_ Unfortunately, the dear young things working
in the Tatooed Lody as waiters are NOT exactly
dedicated to serving the public, and the food is
sometimes late in arriving from the kitchen to the
table_ Comes from hiring ladies, we suppose _ . . _ : •
WrllLE AT THE Tatoaed Lady recent ly, luv, we were
entertained by one of the more incredible sights of
the season, that of the Dowager Duchess being
carried out, feet first, through the door to her car_
Yes, luv, tootsies first! Seems the dear thing had a
FEW too many that memorable evening and weren't
we oil glad some friends we,e available to be of
assi stance? Of course we were,
AND WHAT, PRAY, has happened to that dear, dear
Terry who did such a remarkable job of managing
both the T atoaed Lady and The Romulus Clubs until
recently? - could it be a promotion to general
manager - if not - what is Jim Wilksberger doing
in authority at the Romulus?
THAT DEAR OLD LUY, Lynn of Mosonstrosse, was
~ recently at the Sunday afternoon drink-in at The
-? . , Round Table, and looked wonderfolly _ well, really r,v: he did. It was so amusong hearing h, s comments
\,;-, about a former tenant of his, known far his spurious
h..•=»-"'lrllllUIH social status and less than solid financi_al position_
• This former tenant hod the ODDEST ideas about
Browne Breckenridge
Gay
Society Scene
rent payments, borrowing money and the like, luv, and
it was NO surprise when he deported the premises,
actually. Lynn is a dear, really~ and we always
wondered just why he put up with this situation for
so long_ So fascinating.
IT WAS JUST ABOUT the most serious shock of
their lives when some of the local A-Groupies dis-covered
one of their alumna was back, after a
lengthy stay as the guest of Mrs. Nixon (and prior
to that, of Mrs. Johnson) at several of the country's
fi nishing schools_ Yes, Luv, Pally WAS really back,
and you know all her old friends were just agog
about it_ Why, we heard several telephones were
temporarily disconnected for the occasion! Polly's
in the travel agency business or something, and
Why Not? One must remember haw much Polly travelled
before her close association with Federal and
State officialdom . Just ask any of the Mason St.
Matrons, luv: THEY know! And tell - - - -
WHB-1 MILLIE HURLEY decided that Collier's
THAT DEAR TV STAR, Joame King, Houston's
answer to Roz Russell in "Mrs_ Polifox, Spy," has
been recently publicised as on important figure in
the re cent attempt to get Texas soldiers released
by the North Vietnamese. The dear girl, such a dear,
helped arrange the groundwork for Mayor Louie Welch extracurricular activities were just a bit TOO much,
and others to take petitions to Paris. It seems much she took it all to Court, luv, and didn't it surof
the secret undercover work was done in her River- prise us all! Imagine, dears, how di soppointing it
crest palace, described by that expert an architecture all is, really, and how much it is going to cost! We
Maxine Messenger as a "swonkiendo" and which is remenber those dear old cloys when Collier hired
an adequate recreation al the Moscow Subway, on that PR agency here ta Do The Right Things and
aid English pub and Versailles. Well. luv, it didn't how he ond Millie !,\ode It Sig in local Society. Ah,
come as any great surprise 10 us, for we• ve o I ways well , these straight unions ore, just so unstable,
known dear Joanne to be a woman al - d-bl actuoUy, and it is such o pity, no_
tncre ~ ~rn ,nl _
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AND ISN'T IT JUST A thrill to see al I those attractive
young men who come and go with such frequency
al the toney flat of Baroness de Portacana out in
Post Oak environs? Certainly it is, if you're alive
and can appreciate the sight of a beautiful young
man! Not la mention those really exquisite young
women It's all so confusing, really it is, but such
fun! But such a PRIVATE little group, actually. Eat
your heart out, Maxine .....
MINI PIHi THEATRE
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HOUSTON'S ONLY GAY THEATRE
THE RED LION'S owners, George and Marjorie
Crowder, so well-known in Houston and elsewhere,
celebrated their whatever anniversary not too long
back. Isn't THAT something? Naturally, they wanted
ta be with each other for the occasion, according to
another column, but Fate had it otherwise La.
It's so exciting when you realise they must be
Houston's most prominent ex-bartender and woitres sl
Remember Mad Tony's .•. ? Of course you do!
BE STILL MY HEART! Randy Agnew says he's NOT
that way and that's the end of it. And that cartoon
about him and J. Edgar Hoover in the National
Lampoon was in Bad Taste and we all know it.
Besides, J. Edgar is MUCH too old for frolicking
al fresco, actually, and just because he's still a
bachelor means NOTHING, luv. After al I, Oscar
Wi Ide was married .....
RANDY AGNEW IS SO DAMN BEAUTIFUL! And we
don't care what they THEY say!
WASN'T IT JUST grand, that party out Memorial way
with Rock Hudson and all? Such an intimate, interesting
gathering and not ONE newshen in sight!
Except us, that is. But we won't tell you a thing
more! Couldn't!
THAT DEAR THING, socially prominent in Corpus
Christi, New Orleans and Houston, and such an
important contributor to the advance of plastic
surgery, was seen the other afternoon scooting off
into the afternoon with a charming young thing from
the Round Table, whi I st the gallery watched with
mixed emotions. And we're glad, too, because everyone
has a right lo happiness, see? But is polyandry
fashionable now? We ask you!
ONE OF THE HIGH moments at any party these days
- - or nights • - is sight of that dear old sweetums,
Harris Masterson, all tricked out in his simply
fabulous costumes or whatever they are. So colourful,
so avant grade and so expensive! It just livens the
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ALL-MALE films. A suggestion book
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in suggesting films that you want to see.
Please take advantage of this book and
help us bring to Houston the films of your
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its all about.
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sorta, luv. It would be such a shame, actually, far
this opportunity to pass to make so MUCH of the
Legislaturs' activities legal, now wouldn't it? Of
course.
SO TRAGIC, LUV, about all those local persons
who have been arrested ond charged with The Crime
That Dares Not Speak Its Name. And in all those
public places, too! It's SO embarrassing, actually,
to get caught in one of those public comfort stations
by someone with a badge! And just THINK of all the
publicity about ii eventually! Really, luv, it ' s all
one can do to keep her guest-list up-to-date as it is,
without some people doing the most TACKY things.
And believe me, sweets, it WILL be in just ALL the
papers eventually. Every lurid detail ... Ugly, ugly!
"RINNY, INSPIREDEXTRAORDINARY
111 their
A,::-.. tlc City or G•11•tln
thel• :-~•••t HIiis or
dreg-th••• ge11t1eme11
In br ■ s, dl ■ pll ■ nou•
gowns, llpstlck, h ■lrrells
■11d huffs-di••
cussing their husb■ 11ds
In the mllltari, 111 J■pa11,
or describing their
OWII problem• wltll
th• draft-on■ grows
fond of ■II of them."
-Renata Adler, N. Y. Times
the ueen An Evergreen f,lm
Presented byG,o-..e Press
CoJo,
THEATRE
held al the U of Houston were seen having a splendid
time at both some clever private parties and al some
of our more interesting watering holes. One in
particular, that fascinating historian who was so
chummy with JFK & Co. during the days of Camelot,
and who hasn't gone a step past those holcyon days
and won't, was just too, too token with it all,
actually, although his opinion of dear, dear Houston
is just about the some as it was before he come~ To
Town, that is, you nasty thing!
WHERE IS MEL VIN? Just everyone wanted to know
when dear Candy popped into the Palace the other
evening for a nippie-poo with o dorl ing young protoge
or son or something. She's such a beautiful
thing, really, and so was he! Every frump in Texas
place the moment Harris walks in, rea:ly it does, and SOME OF THE NOTABLES in town recently for one feels threatened by her, and we're glad!
we're just thrilled to know al least ONE man is of the most interesting, if pretentious, conferences AND SPEAKING OF the Palace, puss, it's just all
brave enough lo wear all those darling things right the thing nowadays wondering just who is this Mr.
out in public. It's about time, luv, and you know it! ,--------- ----------• Bleike who has bought our favourite poshery! Of
THAT DEAR BOY from Argentina, Fernando Segura, ·r }■IE even more interest lo many, many people is just what
along with Joanne Winston, who are billed as "social all this means with reference lo some of the most
.. b h I f f h .. o 1 ~ 'r ,. ~ U a ites y anot er co umn, unusual cheques ever presented for collection by the 0 ten, gove one O t e r' . - -· ,_ -· r
MOST fascinating parties at his lovely townhouse former owner, and currently held by some of the most
(where some really CLEVER parties have been 5201 BAYARD impressive people hereabouts. We're sure it will all
given, luv, and not ALL of them shared with YOU) (off Montrose & Bissonette) wook out for the best, of course. Don't you just
with quite 0 mixed bog of people: just all sorts, see, know it ... And those rumours about The Palace
of EVERY persuasion and that's FUN when you're Club going straight in the near future: aren't they
really with-it. One .of the big experiences of the PRIVATE CLUB & RESTAURANT INTERESTING! We knew you'd just LOVE to hear
evening was when the dear old telly star (ex), Chris Steaks and Lobster Tails 10 hear it, luv.
Chandler did a belly dance to the music of the gypsy
musicians, and just EVERYONE, including John
Callas said he was a wonderful belly dancer. For one
career into another, luv: so frequently the case with
the Beautiful P's.
IT'S JUST A SHAME THE WAY things are going
up Austin way just now, what with all that tacky
business about stock manipulations and the somewhat
less than permanent moral mood sweeping the
Legislature, ducks. Why, it is just a PANIC lo heor
I some of the best-suspected closet-queens up there
espousing all manner of mediaeval nonsense about
the newly proposed Texas penal code reforms: and
we DO mean those sections dealing with sexual acts
between consenting adults, luv. Well, we understand
that they DO have PROBLEMS, really we do, especially
with all the Bible-bangers banging away
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and so are the owners, luv. And we just knew you'd
want lo know, and now you do. Live with it.
AND THAT ODD element on Westheimer who have
introduced nudie shows have finally been matched,
in a way, by the new Mary's Lounge, luv, and it's
about time, loo. And won't it be just ducky, really,
when one of those mental mosterbators wander dawn
from the girlie joints and fall into Mary's - - or the
darling Entree, for that matter! - - and get a sight of
the strip shows going on for the OTHER side of
life! Well you must admit you know it will be a bummer
for some! And you ' ll love it, every moment of it.
With luck, they'll bring their wifey-poo!
BUT ENOUGH OF THIS for now, pets. Keep it up!
It's ~11 going to be discussed by the most interesting
people all over town when you do. And we're going
nasties presently enshrined in our venerable penal to be terribly anxious to help in any way we can .. .
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An OPEN LETTER to the
of the Houston area:
Homosexual community
On Sunday, Morch 21st, the Metropolitan Community But "prodigal" means "wasteful." A spirit of
Church of Houston held its first worship service. On humility motivated the "pradigal's" return to his
that same Sund~~ the Ro,':'an Catholic Church cele- father's house. That same spirit might well have
broted Laetare ( Rejoice ) Sunday. Also, this year, spark e d h ·1 s ack now I e d gement t h at h e was " a f ree
in all Roman Catholic pl-,ces of worship, the Gospel,looder." Only 0 single statement in his sto,y
reading of that some Sunday was the Parable of . d· 1 th 1.1.. T 1 f th " Th p d" I So " v1n 1co es e I e o at story : . . . e younger
he ro ,go n. son got together everything he hod and left for a
Now, it is owing to this poroble of "The Prodi·gol
Son" that the original meaning of "prodigal" hos
been lost. Who of us does not think today of the
hero of that story as wayward and wondering, the
block sheep of his family? Precisely because he
Sl.•ggests this to us, may we see a certain significance
in the coincidental first Sunday service
of MCC-Houston and the reading of the parable of
" The Prodigal Son."
di stont country where he squandered his money on
a life of debauchery.'·
Some of you may soy that the father comes closest
to being guilty of the vice of prodigality. After all,
he not only " divided the property between them,"
i .e. the two sons. He also disposed of .. the best
robe,'· a ring, and a pair of sandals; ond had the
fatted coif prepared for a ' feast of celebrot,on
As for the older son, his complaint to his fothe,
seems legitimate: •• ... You never offered me sc,
much as a kid for me to celebrate with my friends."
Yet, for the life of me, I foil to find even on excuse
for his celebrating anything . Surely he is the type
of so-called Christion the little girl hod in mind
when she prayed God to make al I the bod people,
good; and the good people, nice .
And yet maybe the older brother is the reason for
the younger brother being called "prodigal." Alter
al I, the younger son was capable of both ascending
the heights of holiness and descending to the depths
of degradation. The older was capable of neither: he
was in a rut; he simply stayed put.
But in view of MCC-Houston's first Sunday worship
service, I think we all owe the older son o debt of
g,~titude. I say this because of his father's w~rds
4\"anks
ROUND
of pacification: · •My son, you are with me always
and all I have is yours.'· In every age and every
place, these words can be addressed to the "safe,"
conforming "silent majority" of people who wallow
in "comfortable piety and well-fed virtue and support
generously any cause, so long os it neither hurts
their pocket-book nor dislodges their prejudices.
Furthermore, there was something significant in the
manner in which the parable of "The Prodigal San"
was read to Romon Catholic congregations this
yeor. It is now prefaced by the first three verses of
its chapter in the Gospel of St. Luke. "The taxcollectors
and the sinners were oil seeking the
company of Jesus to hear what He hod to soy, and
the Pharisees and scribes complained, 'This man,'
they said, 'welcomes sinners and eats with them.'"
And here I would remind you of three of Jesus'
statements concerning His coming among us. The
first two ore from the Gospel of St. Matthew: " ...
I did not come to call the virtuous, but sinners"
and " . . . The San of man come not to be served
but to serve ... " And the third, from the Gospel
of St. Luke, is both o question and on on swer:
"Do you think I hove come to give peace on earth?
No, I tell you, but rather division ... "
In conclusion, I should I ike to soy I know you wi II
join with me in wishing well to the Reverend Thomas
Markham in his pioneer efforts to establish the
MCC in Houston.
Yours for an increase of co-operation,
A Goy Romon Catholic Priest
HELL IS HEAVEN
COMPARED TO THIS
REVEREND'S GOD!
YOU JUST KEEP ME HANG IN' ON
A few months ago we noticed a peculiar ad in the
Village Voice inviting the public to hear a speech on
"God and the Homosexual." The speech was to be a
"personal testimony."
The speaker was a non-descript man in his midthirties
who had heard the word of Jehovah and renounced
all earthly sins. The biggest sin. it seemed. was
his being a homosexual. Now. he said. thank, 10 the
grace of the I ord. hP was reformed. He had married and
was now traveling from spot to spot dragging his poor
wife into one meeting after another while he told about
his wicked past "with the boys."
His audience was stacked with some prrtty ,harp
gay thinkers. and the evening was not an r,isy on,• for thr
poor frllow. Evrn his fellow Christians brg,,n to abandon
him in drovrs. and only a few die-hard rrligious fanatic,
stuck to hi, Biblical litrralism ancl tried dr,prr,11rly to
drfrnd him ag,1in,1 ., rising chorus of riclicul<· ,ind l,1ughl<'
r W<• fplt r,lltwr sorry for thl' guy. •" tu,111,. ,,It hough
hC' w,h .1sking for wh.1tf'v(•r 1t w,1<. ht> gm hy pulting him-
T A B L E
self in such a weird position. Truthfully. he was a bore.
because he had defined all the limits of the discussion at
the beginning of his talk. basing everything on Biblical
literalsim. One cannot have a discussion with a man who
clings to a closed interpretation of a so-called holy book.
The speaker revealed a great deal about himself.
unfortunately. in only a few minutes. His life as a homosexual
had been tawdry indeed. "I used to go home with
guys and steal their money," he confessed. "I used to
hustle (work as a male prostitute), and when I took a male
lover I discovered to my dismay that he'd been unfaithful
to me." So now the poor jerk was engaged in a dreary
round of Bible-thumping jamborees, muttering Biblical
curses against homosexuals in a wrathful tone. and giving
whole audiences a dreadful picture of the homosexual
community. Why was he engaged in this thankless task?
He thought that he'd been called by God. He was a convert
to Teen Challenge. he told us. The founder of Teen
Challenge, David Wilkerson, a self-appointed messiah to
homosexuals, had touched his miserable life with the
message of God.
Teen Challenge started in a small office on Staten
Island (which is no surprise) and is now a nationwide
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movement. David Wilkerson, a loud and ignorant Bible
thumper of the worst sore, is its fanatical "Executive Director."
Capitalizing on several social issues about which
there is a great deal of controversy. Wilkerson earned
himself a certain amount of notoriety. He still enjoys
large crowds in the intellectual Sahara below the MasonDixon
line. We once saw ads for his evangelical meetings
in the Orlando Senrine/, a cracker-barrel paper run
by a prudish rednecked barbarian, if ever we saw one.
In other parts of Florida. such as Miami. Wilkerson had
even bamboozled the Sheriff's office into distributing
his silly little hate pamphlet. "Help for Homosexuals,"
Wilkerson•s anti-homosexualism causes genuine
embarrassment to truly seasoned enemies of the homosexual.
It is easy for them to see his lack of sophistication.
He is like a bull in a china shop, and his writings show
him to be thrashing about waving ignorant. unconnected
statements. These would be amusing were it not for the
fact that lots of people actually believe what this evangelist
says. Oh well. Thar's the world for you.
The causes of homosexuality he dreams up are hilarious
examples of his freaky approach: Homosexuality Is
caused, he says. by rejection of God, rejection of His
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cause, he assures us, makes homosexuals " feed ,heir
minds on filt hy literature, dirty pictures and lewd novels."
Wilkerson says that homosexuals are given over to demons
of lust.
Hold on, Mr. Wilkerson! What about all the gay
clergymen you are always worrying about? They evidently
don't reject God or his revealed word, do they?
You seem to be quite annoyed by clergymen you suspect
are homosexuals.
Wilkerson has invented a foolproof way of te lling
which ministers are, and which are not, homosexually
inclined. It's a paranoid's dream. Straight ministe rs, he
says, will never stay in the same hotel room with each
other when they travel on missions. They will always
insist on separate rvoms. They'll be glad to spend the
extra bills no matter how expensive. But woe betide the
evangelists who dare to take a room together. Wilkerson
points the finger of scorn at these lust ful degenerates
and says they should be exposed and expelled from the
ministry. Have you ever found any and exposed them,
Wilkerson?
NEW ORLEANS
CONFUSION IS NOT A 'PART OF THE GLF ..... .
. SO LET'S END THE CONFUSION
In order to clear the air, let us assure you that the
New Orleans Gay Liberation Front is not a violent
organization. We are not a port of the SNCC, ADA,
SDS, INS, UPI, AP, CBS, NBC, MBS, CIO, AFL,
CIA, FBI, IRS, nor on)' other "letter" group ... not
even the PT A. NOR are they a part of the New
Orleans Goy Liberation Front, and rest assured that
we ore not affiliated with the Black Panthers, White
Panthers, pink or purple or any other color panthers.
The Gay Liberation Front of New Orleans is IN
The Goy Liberation Front of New Orleans is in spirit
aligned with Women's Liberation, the American Civil
Liberties Union, the Notional Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, and others which
are against all forms of oppression whether it be political,
social, economic, racist, sexist, or chauvin•
istic--ond for the right of all people to live their
lives in their own fashion as long as they respect the
rights of others to do likewise.
We ore a peaceful and peaceable organization of gays
and homosexuals, moles and females, dedicated to
the peaceful and lawful and strictly legal processes
of abolition of outmoded, harmful, and unconstitution•
al laws and ordinances so that we gays and homo·
sexuals may exercise our constitutional rights and
the right to "life, liberty, ond the pursuit of happiness."
Also, be aware that by peaceful negotiations, we have
accomplished more in the four months of our existence
than many other homophile groups have accomplished
in their cities in their years of existence.
New avenues of redress ore opened to us, and we in
New Orleans, ore seeking your help in promenading
down one of these avenues ... that of .:loss action
in Federal Court. No city or state courts will be
petitioned. If you were hassled or arrested in New
Orleans or elsewhere in Louisiana within the last 10
years, on any gay charge from wearing a wig to
attempted crime against nature, we strongly urge you
to accept this opportunity to fight back and strike
your blow for freedom.
Our attorney is accepting statements taken by the
GLF to use in filing class actions. Please contact
Goy Liberation Front, P. 0. Box 19001, Mid City
Station, New Orleans, Louisiana 70119, and we will
send to you the form to fil I out. Rest assured NO
individual action will be instituted . CLASS ACTION
ONLY and in Federal Court. Join hearts and hands
with us now, and let us all march triuphontly across
the pages of history.
Closs Action means that we are grouping many state•
ments of people together and filing suit in Federal
Court to abolish the low which is oppressing this
group or class of people. Federal law allows us to
do this without going through lower courts first;
therefore no lower court action will be instituted.
Also, by using the CLASS ACTION method, any progress
mode in New Orleans will affect and be binding
on all city and state low which falls under the 5th
Federal District. Therefore, your name will not be
mode public, and your privacy will be respected.
Love and peace from the coordinators of New Orleans
,-----------------------------------------------._, GLF: Dionne Kiesling, Lynn Miller, and Rev. David
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The question is often asked, "Is Metropolitan Community
Church the Gay Church?" The answer is no, it is
a christian church for the gay community. A person does
not have to be gay to go to M.C.C .. but most of them are
and the others who attend our services are people who
understand our cause and decide they too want to be
part of it.
M.C.C. was founded by Rev. Troy Perry, a minister
who found that being gay didn't separate him from God.
The separation was from the individual church a group
of hetrosexual people who didn't understand and didn't
want to understand what made a person homosexual,
this was the separation not from God. kev. Perry and all
the others who have become involved with M.C.C. are
finding that God didn't cast us out but that the so-called
christian people in the various denominations were the
ones who said we couldn't be christians and be gay.
Jesus never questioned a person when asked how
to be saved, Jesus only said " Ye must be born again,"
this was to all people not a select few. He also said "Love
God," and "Love your neighbor," if he had qualifications
for salvation He would have said so when asked.
Can a homosexual be a christian? Sure he can! It 's
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By Rev. Tom Markham
Pastor M. C. C. Houston
GAY ACTIVISTS ALLIANCE SUPPORTS NYC FAIR EMPLOYMENT
Bill: Members of GAA demonstrated March
1 in front of severa I branch offices of the Household
Finance Corporation (HFCJ in support of a bill before the
New York City Council banning unemployment discrimination
on the basis of sexual preference. GAA president
Jim Owles said HFC not only won't employ gay
people, but refuses to loan gays money. Th<' picketing
followed similar demonstrations in rrcPnt w!'rks for job
equality at the Board of Education office< and against
snooping practices by FidC'lifact,. Inc .. a private' agC'ncy
that investi11ates prospC'ctivC' C'mploy<'<'S wxual prC'fPrrncrs.
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STRAIGHT-GAY DIALOGUE FOR L.A. WOMEN: An allday
program cosponsored by the Los Angeles Women's
Center and Los Angeles Gay Women's Liberation last
month drew over 100 women to discuss "Sexual Politics:
A Dialogue between Gay and Straight Women." The
women discussed lesbian-baiting of the feminist movement
and the sexua I sickness of what is considNed
"normal" by this society. A new group, the Lesbian
Feminists, was formed at the conference. It projects a
Southern California Lesbian Conference in April. For
more information. contact the Lesbian Feminic;ts. r/ o
Women's Center. 1027 South Crenshaw. L.A. California
'l()()lq or, all 1)1ll 937-3964.
GOP DROPS CASE AGAINST ALLIANCE
NlW YORK CITY-Criminal trC'spass charl(<'S ••~••imt
fiv<' m<'mbers of th<' Gay Activist, Alli.inc<' h,lV<' b<'<'n
withdrawn by the Republic .in St,lt<' Commit!<'<'.
Th<' charges J(rew out of a sit-in by )Im Owl<',. M,irty
Robinson , Tom Doerr. Arthur Evans. ,ind Phil R,1i,1 ,ll
p.irty headquarters last Jun,• 24 whrn GOP offi, i,11,
r<•fu,"'I to m<'et with thrm to discuss th<' is<u<' of homo"<'
Xlhtl rivil right,. The• fiv<' c l,,imPd 1ht1t p.1r1y offic i.11,
h,1d r<•nc•g<>d on .Hl .ippointmPnt.
ThP rh.ugc•, wc• rt• wi1hdr,1wn whpn the• < ,I..,<' fin,tllv
< M'll<' to< ourt r c•bru.1 rv 2!
EQUAL RIGHTS WITH THE MALE
TORONTO. Ont. (APt-Tht• l,1w ,hou ld hr c h,lllgl'll to
111,, k,• wivt•, <•qu,1llv l i,1hlt• with hu,h,ind, lor tht> p,1\·nwnt
ot ,tlimml\. ,1 C,m.uli,111 ,1 u1hor i1v on t.1111i l\ l.1~ ,.tid .
Pru t. Julit•n I>. P,1v1w ol !ht· l 'ni\'(' r,it\ ot \\ t>,1t• 11l
Clnt,11111 ,,1i<l 1lu• l.1,,.\, ·h i< h ,1 lw.1v, h.,, rt•g,1n h•tl 11w 11 •"
prim.11 ii\ 1t·,5HuP,ihlP trn pJ\ ing , upporl. ,hoold Ix·
hr->t1L:ht Ill lint•\\ 1th ··11•14,d .,nd t•t 01 u 1111u t•ltl,IIH •fl.Ilion
o l m,11ru-tl ,,ornt•n"
ACLU OFFICIAL HAILS GAYS
NEW YORK CITY-The new executive director of the
American Civil Rights Union (ACLU) has hailed the "rising
expectations among historically repressed groups,"
including gay people.
The new d irector. 33-year-old Aryeh Neier. warned
in a statement for 1971. however. that "an anti-libertarian
mood jisj in the nation both reflected and stimulated
by actions of the federal government.
"The present mood of repression runs h<'adlong
into a r.zvolution of rising expectations among historically
repressed groups.
"Soldiers , prisoners. welfare recipiPnts. women,
farm laborers. homosexuals. racial minorities. c;rhoolchildren.
have just begun to assert their rights.
" In the past these individual, wPre larg<'ly cont('nt
with their roles. But lately thPy hav<' hpard th<'y h,w<'
rights, and having heard. they want to C'xNcis<' thos<'
rights." Neier said.
Local ACLU affiliates have .,lready tak<'n ,1 numbN
,.f gay-nghlS cases to the courts.
ThPy ,ncludP: seeking sec unty cl<'.ir,rnn• for ,1 priV,
11<' firm that holds fedNal contracts: th<' civili,rn joh of
an administrator in the Dc-parlmC'nt of th<• Army; ,1 driVC'r\
lir<"nc;<" for (1 Connf'rtirut auto mf'ch.inic. dC'niPd
b<-caus<' he is gay: and th<' job of ,1 MinnNpolis libr,Hi,,n,
d<'ni<'d aftN h<' filed for a marriag<' lic<'ns<' with his lov<'r.
"'Discrimination .1~ain..,, homo"iPxu.il, foo;tpr<. Pxtor'•
tion. h,trr,lS"imC"nl and inju,tin•." thC' ACLU ,trguf'd in
lhP f PclC'ral <,h<'"'· "Punitiv<' ,Klion ,lgdin'1 homo"'Pxu.il,
puni,hc•1, condu< I th.II rf',pond, to on<' of th<• mo,t comJ"'
l ling of .ill hum,111 urgt•,.
"Th<· driv<• 10 ,.ui,fy ,pxu,d impul,t•, < .in not lw
d,1mnwd up." th,· AC'l l ' ,1ddPcl., ,ring "th,· f<-w puhli,
t•mploy<'<'' who h.1vt• tht• rni,fortun<• to ht• found out."
Thi· AC! l' h,is ,w,1dilv ,irg, ... d for 1h .. hro,111 .. ,1 pm,
it,lt• inlPrpr<'t,1tmn of thP Bill of Right,. on l><'h,1lf ol
dr.1ft rt•,i,tt•r,. long- h,1ir<·d joh-,t•Pkt•r, .. ind polilic ,11 t'l(t11•
111i,1, of th<· t,,r lt·ft .ind thP f.ir right.
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PRACTISING HETEROSEXUAL ARRESTED
AND CHARGED AS SOUTHWEST RAPIST!
Harold Wilson Jarre ll. 39. of 130 So uth Avenue in Pasa dpna
. Texas. has b<-en arrested aftc,r a wild chas<' through
SW Houston by Houston Police officers. Polin• ,·aught
J.ur<'II aftN he wrecked his car in the 5100 block of
Richmond. H<' was chargPd with robbery by firc-arms in
th<' robbNy of a 66-year-old woman in the parkinl( lot of
,1 grocNy stor<' on Richmond AvPnue. with th<' robb<'ry
of ,, driv<'-in photo processinl( booth at 3800 N. Bra<', wood
on March 16th and with the attPmpted robb<'ry of
a 22-y<'.ir-old woman in her car in the 5200 block of Dashwood
March 21. A 17-year-old woman has idPntif i<'d Jarr<'
I ,I< th<' man who atl<'mpted to rape hN in a parking
lot n,•.ir h,•r home on March 16. She escap<'d his h<'terost•
xu.11 ,lll<'ntion, when sh<' rnnvinc<'d him sh<' had VD.
J.irr<•II. th<' fathN of 5 with anoth<'r du<' in Jun<', ha,
,in((• lht•n b<'<'n id<'ntified in 9 of 19 SW Houston rapt•
c,1,t•,. HP i, prt'\<'nt ly in jail on 7 rap<• charge•\. 3 t;Odomy \i
< h.irg<'' ,md 14 olh<'r rharg<'\ ranging from rap<" to rohh,•
ry to misd<'m<',rnor th<'ft. Jam•JI was quot<'d by Poli,<'
f><'IPctiV<' ),Kk Hamt•I ,1' ,.1ying h<' is "guilty and w,int,
th<· dt•,11h p,-n.,ltv." Jarr<'II <'Xpr<'sS<'d con<Nn th.II Iii,
f.1mil\' might ht• Pmh.irr,1'wd ,1hout th<' puhli< ity conn1•<
tt•d wirh hi" .irn•,t.
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15 years in ais.,.
The investigating officer, Police Detective Sgt.
Charles Wagner, said Wallace Deats, 42, and his wife
Julie Ann Dears, 35, were being held in lieu of $11 ,000
., bond each on charges of conrriburing ro rhe deliquency
of minors. Dears has since been charged wirh 3 counts
of indecent exposure, one count of fondling, one count
of srarutory ·,ape and sodomy, and one count of contributing
to rhe deliquency of minors. His bond has been
now raised to $22,000. Mrs. Deats was charged wirh 3
counts of indecent exposure, 1 count of fondling and 1
counr of contributing to the deliquency of a minor. Her
bond has now been increased 10$12,000.
Sgt. Wagner said the investigations began airer
sheriff's deputies found 3 of the girls on the beach late
at night. They said they had fled from the Deats home.
He said the investigation had also turned up 144 photos
of acts involved in the charges against the heterosexual
couple.
JURY CONVICTS IN HETEROSEXUAL RAPE CASE
~ Chickyee Rsoi , a 24•year•old U of H student from Hong
Kong, was found guilty of rape here and sentenced to
20 years in prison. The trial and sentencing of Chickyee
has produced headlines in Hong Kong and a dontigent
of Hong Kong newspapermen covered the trial.
The verdict came after an all-male jury (!) in the
court of Judge had deliberated for several hours. The
alleged heterosexual student had been charged with
raping a 22-year-old U of H co-ed on January 2.
The jury had earlier heard testimony from the victim
that shw was raped 4 times in an hour(!) after Chickyee
Tsoi gained entry to her apartment posing as a maintenance
man. During the trial's final arguments, a 23-yearold
mother of 2, Mrs. Rosaland Ellis. testified that Tsoi
had attacked her and had beaten her with a pistol 3
days after the January 2 rape. Tsoi also faces a chargP of
assult with intent to murder Mrs. Ellis.
US JUDGE REFUSES INJUNCTION TO STOP
RAIDS ON NOTORIOUS HETEROSEXUAL CLUII
U.S. District Judge Ben C. Connally has refused to
enjoin county and state officers from raiding the Outf.'r
limits lounge, 10102 N. Shepherd, a club which features
nude female dancers and isa known gathering pla,P
for practicing heterosex~ls.
USTER Musterman. the lounge operatpr, sought a
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temporary order pending a hearing on the constitutionality
of the state statutes on indecent exposure and lewd
dancing. The Judge also denied Musterman's request
for a three-judge panel to weigh the issue and refused to
interfere in a Texas Alcoholic Beveridge Commission
hearing in connection with the lounge's beer and wine
license.
NOTORIOUS HETEROSEXUAL ENTERTAINER QUITS
Frank Sinatra has announced he is retiring from show
business.
AllEGW HETE110SEXUAl GUILTY IN SLAYING
A former operator has been found guilty of murder without
malice in the pistol slaving of a customer during an
argument over 24-cents worth of pickled pigs feet.
Burdett Stills, 40, a former manager of Retta's lounge,
1106 National, a known heterosexual hang-out, was convicted
by a jury in District Judg~ Wallace C. Moore's
court for the August 17, 1968 murder of Euguen Kinney,
Jr., 20, of 3115 Center Street, at the lounge.
Stills. now a crane operator, said he shot Kinney in
self-defence during the argument caused by Kinney's
refusal to accept the pigs feet he had ordered.
HETE110SECTUAL OFFICIAL
CHARGED WITH FORGERY
Patrick E. Kronin, director of finance of Deer Park since
1967, has been charged with forgery involving an undetermined
amount of city funds, and is now being sought
by police.
City Administrator Clovis D. Mann confirmed that
he had ordered an audit of the city's books after discovery
of an unauthorized cheque , drawn on the ci1y 's account
and amoun1ing to "about $300." Kron in has been charged
wilh forgery in Judge V. l. (Bud) West's Justice Court al
La Porte.
The unauthorized cheque was discovered after
Kronin failed to return from a personal leave of absPn,P
from his $12,400-a-year job. The matter was reported to
police airer Mrs. Kronin became concernPd bPcame
concf.'rned about her heterosexual husband's continuPd
absen,<'.
HnEROSEXUAL VIOl.fNCE COMES TO
POSSUM TROT
A week-end dice game ·which erupted into a shooting
match claimed a second victim with the death of Otis
Randall at Panola General Hospital in Carthage, Texas.
Laurie 8. Moore, an alleged heterosexual, was dead at
the scene. Louis Grant, another alleged heterosexual,
was in serious condition at a hospital in Shreveport, la.
James Ayers, said by many to be a practicing heterosexual,
was treated and released from the hospital. Roy
McCowan, an admitted heterosexual, was shot, but not
seriously. He has been charged with murder and is being
held without bond.
HOW MARIJUANA USED MAKES A DIFFERENCE
The first substantive information on marijuana and its
effect on users is contained in a report to Congress by
the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMN).
Based on a long-term study, the report states that
he drug is generally used in a rather weak form in the
U.S. Though as yet little is known about the chemistry
of its active ingredient, Delta-9-tetrahydrocannobinol
(D-9-THC), the study shows the effect varies, depending
on whether it is absorbed through the lungs or through
the intestinal tract.
Common effects include alteration of t ime and space
perception, a sense of euphoria, relaxation and wellbeing,
a lowering of inhibition, dulling of attention,
fragmentation of thought, impaired memory, altered
sense of identity, exaggerated laughter, and increased
suggestibility. less common effects are dizziness, lightheadedness,
nausea, and hunger.
Most users smoke only to a point of pleasurable
" high," according to the report. Few are' adversely af
·ected. Social users show very few physiological changes
except for a heightened pulse rate, reddening of the
eyes and dryness of the mouth, however, the effects are
less predictable.
Acute psychotic episodes are precipitated by extremely
high dosages, but may also occur with mild
usage. Preliminary results of the study on drivers' use of
marijuana show decreased performance similar to that
caused by alcohol usage.
There is no evidence so far to suggest that marijuana
causes birth defects, and death due to taking the drug
is extremely rare.
DRUG FILMS DISTORTED
The National Coordinating Council on Drug Abuse Education
says that many documentary films designed to
scare youngsters away from the use of drugs overly distort
facts so that the viewers won't believe them.
MARIJUANA USE DECLINES-The National Institute of
Mental Health points out that the use pf marijuana fell
off markedly in California in 1970. Since the drug first
gained popularity there, he feels that perhaps there will
be a similar decline in irs use elsewhere in the nexr few
years.
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AUSTIN-The Senate approved and sent to the House
a bill permitting immunity from prosecution for scientists
doing research on the effects of marijuana.
The Senate also approved Tuesday a bill that would
tighten up laws relating to the possession of paraphernalia
that could be used to inject drugs.
The marijuana research bill, by Sen. Oscar Mauzy
of Dallas, would permit the State Department of Health
to license researchers who might want to explore the
physiological effects of marijuana and exempt them from
prosectuion for either possession or sale of the weed.
Mauzy said the purpose of his bill is to allow qualified
scientists to do research on humans without the
fear that they might be prosecuted for possession or sale
of marijuana. The term "sale" is now defined as the passing
of marijuana from one person to another without
the necessity of any money being exchanged.
However, Sen. Henry C. Grover of Houston objected
to certain provisions of the bill during brief debate.
Grover complained that Mauzy was including too
many types of scientists in his bill, when the intended
purpose was medical research.
Any physician, pyhsicist, pharmacist, biologist,
chemist, psychologist or sociologist could apply to the
health department for the permit to do research. He
would have to comply with any rules set by the department.
"As long as the permittee and any other person
act within the authority and in compliance with these
terms' and conditions of a permit issued under this act,
the permittee or other person is immune from prosecution
for a violation of the Uniform Narcotic Drug Act,"
the bill states.
Violation of the drug act is a felony.
However, the bill ;>rovides that a violation either by
exceeding the scope of the permit or by experimenting
without a permit would be a misdemeanor.
Msuzy also won passage of a bill making it a violation
of the law for a person to carry on his person paraphernalia
that could be used for injection of dangerous
drugs.
BOOMING
HOMOSEXUAL CHURCH BUSINESS BOOMING
Los Angeles-The nation's first church for homosexuals
is doing a booming business.
It has moved out of temporary quarters in a movie
theatre into its own building and may have to move
again because of the crowds of worshippers.
The theatre had 385 seats. The new church has 600.
And 1000 persons showed up at the dedication last week.
The collection plate was passed-once-and the contributions
totaled $12,000.
"That's not unusual," says the pastor of the Metropolitan
Community Church, Troy Perry, 30, an ordained
Pentecostal preacher from Tallahassee. Flordia, and an
outspoken homosexual.
"Our congregation is very serious about the church."
Perry estimates the membership is 70'X, male homosexuals.
15'X, female homosexuals, or lesbians. and 15'X,
heterosexuals, some of them relatives of church members
or people "who just like our kind of service."
Perry said he was ejected from his own church after
it was discovered that he was a homosexual. Most of his
present parishioners also were ejected from their previous
churches. He decided to found a separate church
two years ago and met with three others in a private
home.
"I ran into some of them today and asked them what
they thought about the new church building, and they
said, "I can't get a seat," Perry laughed.
He explained the popularity of his church this way:
"You reach a certain age when you 'come out,' as
we homosexuals say, you come to terms with your homosexuality
and you go to your priest, your minister, your
rabbi. You say, 'I think there's something different about
me.' And you tell him about it.
"So many ministers get awfully upset. They make it
sound like you can't be a Christian or a good Hebrew
and be a homosexual. You're ostracized and cast out of
the church. You drift away from the church and you feel
that God doesn't love you.
"But people find out later in life the church left
them. They didn't really want to leave the church."
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The term "country furniture" is used to describe
those pieces fashioned by the rural cabinet maker in
imitation of the formal designs used and made by the
prominent manufacturers of the period in the metro-politan
areas. These articles were usually made of local
woods such as pine, maple, oak and birch which were
readily available in the rural community. The lines of the
pieces were simple in design and tended to be les,. formal
in feeling as contrasted with those made directly from the
cabinet-makers directory from which the original styles
were obtained.
Today most of the country furniture comes from the
New England states. New York, Pennsylvania and the
Massachusetts and Maryland areas. although in each
city there can be found a number of pieces from the
surrounding counties which can be classed under the
INm. Thrse pieces were usually made by those people
who settled the land in the early part of the 19th century
from necessity for use in the home.
Local pieces of this type have long been relegated
to the attic because they weren '1 of the more classical
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more informal type prevalent today. The history of each
table, chair and sofa began with a formal design, so it
must be understood that these beginnings are really the
work of gifted city furniture makers. The most elaborate
as well as the simplest of country pieces are shown with
little attempt made to help decide which piece might
be better. Country furniture was the work of an individual
with a specific need in mind.
Dating country furniture i; difficult because design
ideas and methods of construction remained for many
years in rural areas, while the style and construction
methods changed in the city.
The southwestern furniture is rare and the number
of collectors few. Here in Houston there is a shop that
specializes in this particular type of furniture from the
German communities in the surrounding counties.
Painted furniture also comes under the realm of
country furniture. These pieces are highly decorative
and make a particularly interesting accent piece in any
room of the house.
Whatever period you have in mind study it. Country
furniture is beautiful and you might be surprised as to
what you may find.
JURY ACQUITS LOCAL GAY Of RAPE CHARGE
Robert Milton Byrd, 25, whom the local press has
repeatedly referred to as an "admitted homosexual."
was acquitted here of a preposterous charge of rape
filed against him by a notorious heterosexual woman. It
was claimed by Mr. Byrd during his trial that this immoral
woman was being vindictive and had filed the outrageous
charge against him as a result of her failure to break up
the relationship between himself and his male lover.
Mr. Byrd admitted having been intimate with the trollop
about eight times. but denied the heinous accusation of
having intercourse with her on November 23. as she pretendrd.
The jury in Judge Lee Duggan Jr.'s court found for
thr defendant after the testimony about the precious
intimacy between Mr. Byrd and the woman of loose
morals was accepted into record.
Mr. Byrd has been returned to County Jail to await
trial on a sodomy charge in connection with the same
incidrnt. Which is about par for the course in such
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ST. PAUL, Minn.-An appeal 10 the Minnesota Supreme
Court has been filed by two M inneapolis men-lovers
for four years-who have been denied the legal marriage
license they applied for.
The two are Jack Baker, 29. a University of Minnesota
law student, and James (Mike) McConnell, 28, a
librarian.
They were refused the license they applied for last
May by the county clerk of court in Minneapolis. and
two district court judges rebuffed their suits demanding
i t-Judge Stanley D. Kane in November and in a second
suit contend ing that stra ight-only marriage laws amount
to unconstitutional discrimination, Judge Tom Bergin in
January.
While M innesota's marriage laws don't specify that
legal weddings must be between men and women, the
two judges ruled that, taken as a whole, this is what is
implied.
And State Rep. Thomas Ticen , a Democrat-FarmerLaborite
from suburban Bloomington, has introduced a
bill in the current legislative session to make that manand-
woman only implication specific.
Baker responded by using a legisla tive hearing and
a TV debate with Ticen as a platform to proclame the gayrights
cause.
No date has been set for arguments before the State
Supreme Court, but Baker said he has prepared a 100-
page brief which discusses both the sociological aspects
of homosexuality and the contention that forbidding
legal gay marriages is blatant, unconstitutional prejudice.
Ticen introduced his anti-gay-marriage bill shortly
after the Minnesota Legislature convened early in Jan-u
a ry.
" I am not arrempting to interfere with your personal
.------------- ---------1 rights," he told Baker on a TV debate broadcast ,n th<?
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Twin Cities Jan. 30. " I just don't think the state should be
put into the position of blessing your relationshi•p, that's
all. It's foreign to the whole idea of marriage.
" It would open Pandora's bos," Ticen said on that
Saturday noon talk show- moderated by Henry Wolf.
Baker, a law student, spent much of his time citing
the legal benefits that legal marriages bring- lowered
income taxes, inheritance r ights, the right to sue for
wrongful death and alienation of affections.
But Baker also pointed out:
" As long as the state blesses the marriages of impotent
men or inferti le wome~-for companionship-as
long as it permits couples in their 70's to marry, long past
the age where they can produce children. seeking to
wed only for companionship-then why should not the f
state offer these same lega, benefits to couples of the
same sex, who also marry for companionship/"
Two weeks later, at a hening on Ticen's bill before
a state House of Representatives committee Feb. 11, Baker
testified that banning gay marriages may boost the
1
{> divorce rate by leaving heterosexual marriages the only ....:Q legal avenue for compan ionship, even for gay people.
~ Minnesota already grants 22,000 d ivorces a year, I Baker contended. because society tries to force all individuals
to conform to fixed standards that may not f,t
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