HIGH GEAR/JULY 1977

OHIO GAY RIGHTS PETITION

PLEASE MAIL FORM TO: OHIO GAY RIGHTS COALITION BOX 30, WILDER HALL, OBERLIN, OHIO 44074 ONLY REGISTERED VOTERS MAY SIGN THIS PETITION WHEREAS, we, the undersigned, recognize the discrimination perpetrated in American society against homosexual individuals, and

WHEREAS, we affirm the inalienable civil rights of all people, as exemplified by the United States Constitution and its amendments, and

WHEREAS, we strongly feel that the lifestyle of an individual as well as her/his sexual and affectional preference when conducted in private between consenting adults is solely a matter of personal conscience,

WE, THE UNDERSIGNED HEREBY CHARGE the federal, state and local legislative bodies to PROHIBIT DISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF SEXUAL OR AFFECTIONAL PREFERENCE in employment, housing, public accommodations and child custody-visitation rights, through statutes and administrative action. We hereby also state our strong support for United States House of Representatives bill H.R. 2998 and encourage its passage in the 1977-78 session.

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workshop on Lesbian/Straight relations. The purpose of the program will be "to explore, express, and deal with our fears and misunderstandings of each other as well as our larger commonalities as women." They request that you pre-register by August 6...

religions or political parties."... Hank Giaretto, director of the Child Sexual Abuse Treatment Program in San Jose (the only such program of its kind in the nation), told a U.S. House Committee on Select Education that the amount of homosexual abuse in his program, which deals with 600-700 cases of child exploitation a year, is negligible. According to Giaretto, as reported in Newswest, the homosexual A resolution recently in"chicken hawk", a man whose troduced in the Illinois house attraction is directed toward congratulating Anita Bryant for young boys, represents less her "courageous" campaign than one per cent of the hunagainst the Dade County gay dreds of cases handled at his rights ordinance provoked sharp center..."Most sexual abuse is criticism. The resolution backbetween the child and someone fired. "Next we'll be passing a the child knows," Giaretto says. resolution congratulating the "There are very few 'dirty old Nazis who want to march men' involved through Skokie," said Rep. Paulsen, a UCLA psychologist, Harold D. Byers. Attempting to also told the subcommittee, "the resolve the battle and reach a great majority of sexual abuse prompt adjournment, Rep. occurs in the home."... James Von Boeckman admonished his colleagues, "It's five o'clock, and we get into an argument over a bunch of queers."

By a vote of 7-0 the San Francisco Board of Education has allowed the inclusion of gay life-style studies in high school family-life curriculum. According to Newswest, board unanimity was achieved because the resolution was placed in the context of teaching "respect for human diversities and complexities.' Commissioner Peter Mezey said the major intent is "to eliminate stereotyping and name-calling in schools." Added Superintendent Robert Alioto, the plan is "an attempt to sensitize

Dr. Morris

The Body Politic has published the first English translations of four long-lost documents of Sigmund Freud. All show the Viennese founder

of psychoanalysis to be a

lifelong opponent of homosexual oppression, despite the attitudes of many of his later followers. In 1903, a Vienna newspaper quoted Freud as saying, "Homosexual persons are not sick...they also do not belong in a court of law." In 1921 and 1922, Freud wrote in letters to other analysts that homosexuals should not be excluded from the young psychoanalytic profession. And in 1930, Freud signed a statement calling for the repeal of German sodomy laws...

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Gloria Steinem, feminist founder and editor of MS. magazine, was one of many who spoke against repeal of the gay rights ordinance in Miami at rallies in that city. She urged all women and all who support women's rights to join the struggle for gay equality, according to The Sentinel. Others who stumped for gays include television personality Ed Asner, singer Paul Williams who took out a full page ad in a California newspaper stating he and his wife were boycotting Florida orange juice, National Organization of Women Vice President Arlee Scott, actress Jane Fonda, comedienne Phyllis Diller and singer Chita Rivera...

In San Francisco, Rosalynn Carter was pressed about her views on homosexuality. "I don't think they should be harassed," she responded. When asked if she would object to her daughter's being taught by a gay teacher, she said, "I think

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