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Plain Dealer, January 7, 1978, page 2: Lesbian couples having babies by artificial insemination irks conservatives who wonder about the absence of a father figure.
Plain Dealer, January 9, 1978, page 19: Chief Hongisto moves to Cleveland from San Francisco, he has a record of broadening diversity in police ranks, letters are negative on t.
Plain Dealer, January 11, 1978, page 27: An organization in DC called Parents of Gays was started in 1974 and now has more than 30 chapters across the country.
Plain Dealer, January 19, 1978, page 31: Theater FEFU AND HER FRIENDS has two characters, Paula and Cecilia, that are lesbians.
Plain Dealer, January 21, 1978, page 9: San Francisco supervisors ready to hire 2 homosexual mental health workers, one would coordinate gay services for the city's large gay population.
Plain Dealer, January 22, 1978, page 22: Religious broadcasters meet in DC with Anita Bryant kicking things off.
Plain Dealer, January 22, 1978, page 96: Hollywood executives are awash in bribery, loans, gambling and parties for homosexuals.
Plain Dealer, January 23, 1978, page 11: A United Presbyterian task force recommends that regional units be allowed to ordain qualified gays and that homosexual behavior is not sinful.
Plain Dealer, January 23, 1978, page 25: Theater A PRAYER FOR MY DAUGHTER two big-city detectives rough up a young drug addict and his homosexual buddy.
Plain Dealer, January 24, 1978, page 10: In a previous letter Anita Bryant is held up as right when she finds homosexual child molesters, however, there are plenty of heterosexual child molesters.
Plain Dealer, February 3, 1978, page 23: The fights of blacks, unions, women and homosexuals run into the same opposition, manufactured lies to scare enough people to cause disarray.
Plain Dealer, February 6, 1978, page 13: Ohio Episcopal Diocese reaffirmed the church's exclusion of homosexuals from priesthood and marriage, they did say homosexuals are okay to be ministered to though.
Plain Dealer, February 8, 1978, page 26: New French magazine F targets women at a high socio-cultural level with a news-magazine format that expands feminism past politics.
Plain Dealer, February 11, 1978, page 26: the National Gay Task Force says there are 1100 organizations in the US providing at least telephone counseling for gay youngsters.
Plain Dealer, February 12, 1978, page 40: ERA foe assembles graphic literature on lesbian love-making to give to the Kentucky House sparking outrage.
Plain Dealer, February 12, 1978, page 296: After controversy fades, SOAPS ratings rise, Jodie, the homosexual, will soon get a new boyfriend.
Plain Dealer, February 13, 1978, page 29: California Supreme Court says a 6 year cohabitation without marriage entitles each to half of the assets, the author wonder if this applies to homosexual cohabitation.
Plain Dealer, February 19, 1978, page 221: TV CH3 TOMORROW Anita Bryant defends her stand against homosexuality.
Plain Dealer, February 19, 1978, page 225: TV CH8 PLAY IT AS IT LAYS has a washed up film star disillusionment of her marriage, adultery and the suicide of her homosexual lover.
Plain Dealer, February 22, 1978, page 7: Supreme Court lets stand a ruling where public universities may not deny recognition to a student group supporting homosexuality.
Plain Dealer, February 22, 1978, page 30: Regarding lesbianism, a Novellet was being sold at the Houston ERA convention that was obscene, disgusting and degrading to lesbian women.
Plain Dealer, February 24, 1978, page 66: Film THE BETSY shows the seamier side of people, one of which is Loren, a homosexual young man.
Plain Dealer, February 26, 1978, page 30: In Germany homosexuals are paid up to five-grand to marry Thai girls that are then sold into the slave trade.
Plain Dealer, March 7, 1978, page 11: Serial killer Speck killed 7 nurses, an 8th was killed because he was Speck's effeminate homosexual partner and was killed because he would have told the police everything if he was caught.
Plain Dealer, March 10, 1978, page 145: TV MORNING EXCHANGE CHANNEL 5 One segment has Dr Bermann taking a hard look at the lesbian woman.
Plain Dealer, March 12, 1978, page 8: Film, 33 years after Hitler, the Berlin Film Festival shows Nazi propaganda films to vast crowds, best actor was a role as a homosexual hairdresser in OUTRAGEOUS.
Plain Dealer, March 12, 1978, page 34: In Cleveland there are two programs for hormone therapy and sex change operations, one is a cooperation between CWRU, MetroHealth and University Hospitals and the other at the Cleveland Clinic.
Plain Dealer, March 18, 1978, page 4: The Standing Conference of Orthodox Bishops says homosexual life-styles disqualify from teaching and as spiritual leaders.
Plain Dealer, March 19, 1978, page 129: An exclusively homosexual ballet troupe LES BALLETS DE TROCKADERO from New York City performs in a comedic fashion old favorites of ballet.
Plain Dealer, March 20, 1978, page 65: DR JOHNSON: Within recent months there are new reports of infections in homosexual males caused by an organisms in the GI tract, and manifesting as giardiasis, shigellosis and amebiasis.
Plain Dealer, March 21, 1978, page 3: Anita Bryant says her show business career is over because of her opposition to homosexual rights.
Plain Dealer, March 21, 1978, page 14: The Florida Supreme Court ruled yesterday that a homosexual could not be denied admission to the state bar because of sexual preference.
Plain Dealer, March 22, 1978, page 6: San Francisco's supervisors have agreed to ban discrimination against homosexuals in employment, housing and public accommodations.
Plain Dealer, March 25, 1978, page 24: Undercover police arrest 90 men cruising the men's room of the Boston Public Library, one of the nation's most respected libraries.
Plain Dealer, March 26, 1978, page 180: TV ASK STACY Billy Crystal, who plays a homosexual on Soap, gets mail from kids to gays thanking him for representing them on TV.
Plain Dealer, March 29, 1978, page 45: Theater PS, YOUR CAT IS DEAD portrays a washed-up performer whose frustrations are interupted by the arrival by a street tough homosexual burglar.
Plain Dealer, April 2, 1978, page 220: Billy Crystal gets tired of people asking if he is a gay since he plays Jodie on SOAP, but he guesses it means he is doing a good job in his role.
Plain Dealer, April 6, 1978, page 31: Novel PERJURY, THE HISS-CHAMBERS CASE says Hiss perjured himself and Chambers revealed his homosexual adventures to the FBI.
Plain Dealer, April 7, 1978, page 52: Richmond confessed to his constituents but pleaded innocent in the courtroom to having solicited sex from two young men at his capital home.
Plain Dealer, April 8, 1978, page 28: The convention of the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists has formulated a code of ethics for their profession.
Plain Dealer, April 9, 1978, page 116: Most people will marry several times in the future and as we live to 125, we will find more group living, more homosexual cohabitation and more alternate lifestyles.
Plain Dealer, April 9, 1978, page 232: TV CH11 Theater PLAY IT AS IT LAYS sees a washed up film star, the disillusionment of her marriage, and the adultery and suicide of her homosexual best friend.
Plain Dealer, April 11, 1978, page 26: Dobama Theater revives the play CHILDREN'S HOUR with its accusations of a lesbian relationship between two teachers.
Plain Dealer, April 15, 1978, page 13: A Massachusetts judge was suspended after he attended a lecture held to benefit men awaiting Superior Court trial on homosexual offenses.
Plain Dealer, April 26, 1978, page 2: Vote deletes from the human rights ordinance protections due to sexual and affectional preference.
Plain Dealer, April 27, 1978, page 7: Encouraged by a victory in Minnesota, forces fighting legalized civil rights for homosexuals prepare for new offensives in Kansas and Oregon.
Plain Dealer, April 30, 1978, page 132: A Presbyterian pastor says he wants to be moderator of his denomination as he thinks he can prevent a split in the church over homosexual issues.
Plain Dealer, May 4, 1978, page 57: Ballet is popular in Cleveland, but we need to get it out of people's mind that male ballet dancers have to be homosexual.
Plain Dealer, May 7, 1978, page 132: Theater A PRAYER FOR MY DAUGHTER is set in a grimy office where a detective questions an emaciated, ascetic homosexual about the murder of a woman.
Plain Dealer, May 13, 1978, page 30: Presbyterians wrestle with the study of a task force concluding gays should be eligible for ordination.
Plain Dealer, May 14, 1978, page 140: An exclusively homosexual ballet troupe LES BALLETS DE TROCKADERO from New York City performs in a comedic fashion the old favorites of ballet.
Plain Dealer, May 14, 1978, page 145: Opera THAIS has had patrons leaving in the middle of the production mumbling about the homosexual overtones.
Plain Dealer, May 16, 1978, page 3: The Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal on the authority of states to outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults in a review of a North Carolina sodomy law.
Plain Dealer, May 20, 1978, page 17: United Presbyterians elected a clergyman that is neutral on approving ordination of practicing homosexuals, he beat out two that were opposed to the same.
Plain Dealer, May 21, 1978, page 19: Residents of Eugene OR become the latest to consider repealing a homosexual rights ordinance.
Plain Dealer, May 21, 1978, page 279: Letters: Tom Lippitts says homosexuals ought to be hanged on the public square, however, I believe homosexuality is an illness, not a crime.
Plain Dealer, May 21, 1978, page 310: TV FOR KIDS CH54 WATCH YOUR MOUTH reviews TANGLED WEB where Melvin floats a rumor about a homosexual advance by the substitute teacher.
Plain Dealer, May 24, 1978, page 8: Residents of Eugene, Oregon vote to repeal a homosexual rights ordinance to become the fourth community to do so.
Plain Dealer, May 28, 1978, page 223: TV CH5 DONAHUE Gitchoff discusses the problems homosexuals face when their sexuality threatens their right to work.
Plain Dealer, June 4, 1978, page 99: Dr Menninger: Homosexuality is nowhere near the potential danger to society or to children as portrayed in the scare rhetoric of Anita Bryant.
Plain Dealer, June 4, 1978, page 324: TV CH45 THE NAKED CIVIL SERVANT is based on the published autobiography of Quentin Crisp, a flamboyant British homosexual.
Plain Dealer, June 5, 1978, page 29: All kinds of mothers, including lesbian mothers, discuss what is important in their lives.
Plain Dealer, June 14, 1978, page 24: Southern Baptists voted decisively yesterday against making Anita Bryant their first vice president.
Plain Dealer, June 25, 1978, page 92: Novel on Rodgers and Hammerstein story includes Lorenz Hart, a brilliant, maladjusted homosexual lyricist who was Rodger's first partner.
Plain Dealer, June 25, 1978, page 259: THREE'S COMPANY is a sitcom where two females live with a homosexual male loses sponsorship from Sears.
Plain Dealer, July 6, 1978, page 88: Theater CALIFORNIA SUITE highlights a series of complex humans struggling through real problems like a marriage with a homosexual male.
Plain Dealer, July 15, 1978, page 35: Lutheran's pick a new leader from the top two candidates that both approve of softening homosexual statements and the ERA.
Plain Dealer, July 16, 1978, page 71: Leopold and Loeb kidnapped and killed Bobby Franks in what they thought was the perfect murder. They were both convicted and jailed, and Loeb was murdered in prison after refusing a homosexual advance.
Plain Dealer, July 28, 1978, page 6: An ordinance protecting homosexual rights was vetoed by the Hartford, Connecticut mayor.
Plain Dealer, July 30, 1978, page 81: A new study concludes many homosexual men and women lead stable lives without frenetic sexual activity and are happier than some heterosexuals.
Plain Dealer, July 30, 1978, page 97: Actress Glenda Jackson says she thinks most of the time they put a strong heterosexual woman in to prove that the hero is not homosexual.
Plain Dealer, July 30, 1978, page 210: Film THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW cements itself as the midnight movie and it is full of gays and transvestites, and even the Plain Dealer.
Plain Dealer, August 4, 1978, page 8: Gay Bob is a homosexual doll with his blue earring shining bright. He also totes around his very own closet, .
Plain Dealer, August 5, 1978, page 11: Former British Liberal party leader Thorpe is charged with conspiring to murder former male model Norman Scott, with whom he had a homosexual fling.
Plain Dealer, August 10, 1978, page 29: SCOTUS defines in part obscenity as what a common person would think in the current era, a Cleveland jury acquitted a homosexual magazine publisher using this standard.
Plain Dealer, August 15, 1978, page 4: Former British Liberal party lead Thorpe is charged with conspiring to murder former male model Norman Scott.
Plain Dealer, August 17, 1978, page 29: A former British Prime Minister would not comment on the homosexual scandal swirling around Thorpe, the leader of the Labor Party.
Plain Dealer, August 19, 1978, page 25: Homosexual periodicals are coming out of the closet and at Coventry Books they put homosexual material front and center.
Plain Dealer, August 19, 1978, page 26: Film OUTRAGEOUS is well done and a unique film concerning the struggles of a homosexual hairdresser to become a female impersonator.
Plain Dealer, August 25, 1978, page 98: Film OUTRAGEOUS is well done and a unique film concerning the struggles of a homosexual hairdresser to become a female impersonator.
Plain Dealer, August 26, 1978, page 23: This film explores the relationship between a gay man and lesbian woman that becomes deep enough that they marry and have a child.
Plain Dealer, August 27, 1978, page 95: Despite high crime, dirty streets and kinky homosexual goings-on, tourists are packing San Francisco this summer at a record clip.
Plain Dealer, August 31, 1978, page 38: Babel of dissent sees a District of Columbia march of all kinds of minorities, including lesbian Dykes and Tykes joining senior citizens and veterans, all of whom are unhappy.
Plain Dealer, September 3, 1978, page 76: A year after Anita Byrant's crusade began, she has brought the gay community together in activism, but she also touched of the pro-family crusade.
Plain Dealer, September 6, 1978, page 83: Two lesbian lovers were sentenced to 30 years each in a murder-for-hire of one partner's husband to collect insurance.
Plain Dealer, September 7, 1978, page 46: A babel of protesters flock to the District of Columbia in marches of all kinds, including lesbian organization "Dykes and Tykes", and other gay organizations.
Plain Dealer, September 10, 1978, page 109: Film A DIFFERENT STORY explores the romantic love between a gay man and lesbian woman that flounders and they grow more into friends.
Plain Dealer, September 10, 1978, page 127: Prior to allowing women on Navy ships, the only thing to worry about was crew with homosexual tendencies.
Plain Dealer, September 10, 1978, page 220: TV CH8 Theater PLAY IT AS IT LAYS sees a washed up film star, the disillusionment of her marriage, adultery and the suicide of her homosexual best friends.
Plain Dealer, September 17, 1978, page 9: Avowed lesbian State Rep Elaine Noble seeks Democratic nomination for US Senate from Massachusetts along with the incumbent and two others.
Plain Dealer, September 22, 1978, page 84: Novel DANCER FROM THE DANCE displays shocking homosexuality set in an unreal world of the doomed queens dedicated to the pursuit of physical pleasure.
Plain Dealer, September 24, 1978, page 72: Free university classes are popular in Kansas, you can learn anything, even homosexual lifestyles.
Plain Dealer, September 30, 1978, page 19: Dear Abby: I came out to my best friend, he never wants to see me again, and now I am suicidal. Abby says friends worth having accept you.
Plain Dealer, September 30, 1978, page 36: Film CHEECH AND CHONG is an unflattering piece recycling lesbian stereotypes and seeks comedy through wasted men and women.
Plain Dealer, October 1, 1978, page 81: Why people leave the US, reasons are many, one left as a closet homosexual to Australia while he sought his sexual identity.
Plain Dealer, October 5, 1978, page 47: A broad new equal opportunities ordinance that would ban discrimination on a wide range of factors including sexual or affectional preferences will be on the ballet for Miami and Dade County.
Plain Dealer, October 6, 1978, page 108: TV CHANNEL 25 THE WORD IS OUT is a special episode that zeros in on Cleveland's gay scene featuring frank descriptions by 26 homosexuals on their lives and feelings.
Plain Dealer, October 10, 1978, page 27: TV CHANNEL 25 THE WORD IS OUT is a special episode that zeros in on Cleveland's gay scene featuring frank descriptions by 26 homosexuals on their lives and feelings.
Plain Dealer, October 11, 1978, page 13: Homosexual rights are on 8 California ballots, one would allow school districts to refuse to hire teachers for public homosexual acts.
Plain Dealer, October 18, 1978, page 42: Film MIDNIGHT EXPRESS has Hayes, a heterosexual, in a homosexual relationship in prison.
Plain Dealer, October 20, 1978, page 47: Statistically the person with the greatest risk of taking his own life is a late middle-aged homosexual.
Plain Dealer, October 23, 1978, page 40: Dear Abby: Everyone assumes I am a lesbian because I never married, I feel that I've missed out on things that even a widow or divorcee that can have, including a good relationship and children.
Plain Dealer, October 23, 1978, page 44: Theater STREAMERS is set in an army barracks during the Vietnam war with vague serious and humorous homosexual approaches.
Plain Dealer, October 25, 1978, page 23: Novel RELATIONSHIPS is a collection of candid interviews with people about their heterosexual, homosexual or bisexual relationships.
Plain Dealer, October 28, 1978, page 55: Theater THE NAKED CIVIL SERVANT has Crisp, an aging, effeminate homosexual will play in this one man show.
Plain Dealer, November 3, 1978, page 92: TV PHIL DONAHUE CHANNEL 5 interviews a lesbian couple and review their custody battle for their combined six children.
Plain Dealer, November 7, 1978, page 4: Only 40 percent of voters are expected to vote and on the ballot in California is a vote on homosexual teachers.
Plain Dealer, November 8, 1978, page 35: In Dade County it looks like voters reject gay rights again, in California and Seattle voters also decide homosexual rights, but no results reported.
Plain Dealer, November 12, 1978, page 44: The Episcopalian Diocese of Southern Ohio voted against sexism and homosexual prejudice within the church.
Plain Dealer, November 12, 1978, page 108: Novel THE MAN EVERYBODY WAS AFRAID OF sees a local gay charged with murdering a brutal police chief who hated homosexuals, but may have been one.
Plain Dealer, November 12, 1978, page 362: TV Film WALK ON THE WILD SIDE has a man go to New Orleans in search of a girl he let get away, unfortunately he finds her in a brothel and lesbian relationship.
Plain Dealer, November 15, 1978, page 9: A first was recorded in an Ohio court as a woman filed for a divorce from another woman, her common-law mate, after being married in 1972.
Plain Dealer, November 19, 1978, page 334: TV CH53 VANISHED highlights the FBI's private advisory to the President stating that his top advisor is a homosexual in this exciting political suspense drama.
Plain Dealer, November 26, 1978, page 124: Cult leader Jim Jones made everyone say they were homosexual demonstrating that he knew the power of sex over people.
Plain Dealer, November 26, 1978, page 288: TV CH5 QUESTION OF LOVE is a 1978 drama of a lesbian mother's fight to keep her young son when her ex-husband sues for custody.
Plain Dealer, November 28, 1978, page 1: San Francisco city hall endured threats by radical groups and so visitors have been screened by a police guard and metal detector, unfortunately they missed White, a former employee, that shot the mayor and a homosexual supervisor.
Plain Dealer, November 28, 1978, page 16: After the mass suicides involving Jonestown, a former San Francisco supervisor shot to death Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk.
Plain Dealer, November 28, 1978, page 17: The man who killed Mayor Moscone and homosexual Supervisor Milk was said to be quite a hot-head.
Plain Dealer, December 2, 1978, page 18: Acting Mayor Feinstein will appoint a homosexual to replace slain Harvey Milk.
Plain Dealer, December 5, 1978, page 16: Diane Feinstein replaces assassinated San Francisco Mayor Moscone and names a replacement for Supervisor Harvey Milk, she supports ERA and homosexual rights.
Plain Dealer, December 7, 1978, page 57: A federal court ordered the Air Force to reopen the discharge of Matlovich, an admitted homosexual, and do the same of a discharged Naval officer.
Plain Dealer, December 8, 1978, page 30: Thorpe's homosexual affair lasted until 1963, by 1968 the affair is following him like a black cloud and he conspires to murder Scott.
Plain Dealer, December 13, 1978, page 50: TV CH5 FOOTBALL AND MALE SEXUALITY interviews Dr. Dundes who believes that football is an outlet for male-to-male affection, complete with homosexual imagery.
Plain Dealer, December 13, 1978, page 107: Former Liberal party leader Thorpe is charged with conspiring to murder Norman Scott as he was worried Scott would go public about their homosexual affair in the early 1960s.
Plain Dealer, December 16, 1978, page 4: The United Methodist Church has started a move to petition their governing conference to delete derogatory language about gay people.
Plain Dealer, December 21, 1978, page 62: Henley's sentence in the 27 homosexual sex-torture killings in Houston was overturned due to inadequate consideration of a change in venue.
Plain Dealer, December 21, 1978, page 64: Henley's sentence in the 27 homosexual sex-torture killings in Houston was overturned due to inadequate consideration of a change in venue.
Plain Dealer, December 22, 1978, page 2: A Denver lesbian mother is ordered to give up her children after another woman moved into the house and the father moved to an apartment.
Plain Dealer, December 23, 1978, page 12: Mass murderer John Wayne Gacy previously served 18 months of a 10-year sentence in Iowa for sodomy.
Plain Dealer, December 24, 1978, page 6: Peoples Temple founder Jim Jones browbeat men into saying that they were homosexual in front of their wives.
Plain Dealer, December 24, 1978, page 71: All over Cleveland there are plays wrestling with homosexuality, in five of them the subject seems overworked.
Plain Dealer, December 26, 1978, page 18: Gacy, an admitted homosexual who often dressed up as a clown to entertain children at parties turns out to be a mass murderer of young boys.
Plain Dealer, December 27, 1978, page 22: Mens liberation manifests in breaking the female grip on child custody, liberation should deal with the fact that men were never social with other heterosexual men. Heterosexual male relationships can be described as a series of stories where one has a more outrageous story than the other.
Plain Dealer, December 28, 1978, page 18: Homosexual mass murderer John Gacy obscured his homosexuality using the mask of a clown outfit, two failed marriages and two children.
Plain Dealer, December 31, 1978, page 71: Dr Menninger: If you admit homosexuals develop warped feelings in the home, understanding behavior makes automatic condemnation of homosexuals less likely.
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