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Puzzle of the Month Why did the San Francisco Gay Crusader come out strong for the election of Dr. S.I. Hayakawa as U.S. senator from California when Hayakawa said on May 7 as reported in the Sunnyvale Valley Journal: "I am deeply, deeply, deeply, prejudiced against homosexuality and I will vote that way".....

New Hampshire has become the eighteenth state to repeal its sodomy laws. Oregon's American Civil Liberties Union has listed gay rights as one of its 1977 legislative priorities. In 1975 the bill lost by only one vote in the state legislature.....

According to U.P.I. Lesbianactress Maria Schneider who has appeared in Last Tango In Paris and was again co-starring with Marlon Brnado in Gore Vidal's new flick recently walked out on the production when her woman companion was reported "upset" about the extent of selected nude scenes.

G.P.U. News Via Chicago Gay Life reports that Mario Cuomo, Secretary of State in New York Announced that his office will no longs discriminate against homa xuals in the annual issue of more than 175,000 Occupationa! licenses. The new precedent setting policy affects real estate brokers, public notaries, barbers, COSmetologists, private investigators, boxers, wrestlers, billiard parlor operators and hearing aid dealers.....

Detroit's Metro Gay News reports the Michigan State Police are cracking down on the use of highway rest stops (particularly 1-75) for sexual purposes....

Washington's Blade indicates reporter Lynn Rossellini has been recommended for the Pulitzer Prize, journalism's most prestigious award by her newspaper The Washington Star for her four part series last December on homosexuality in professional athletics. Ex profootball player Dave Kopay I came out as a direct result of reading it...

While on the subject of athletes, GCN reports a survey

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by the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex shows that 27 out of 82 college athletes interviewed have had anal or oral sex to orgasm with another male at least two times during the past two years. The survey, made by two researchers at the California State University at Northridge questioned members of athletic teams active in the National College Athletic Association sanctioned sports at five Western Universities....

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Ageism in San Francisco The Gay Crusader reports that

city's Eight Street Club Baths is turning away patrons considered "too old." Accounts from four 40-45 year old vacationing New Yorkers indicates admittance was denied solely because of their age. A boycott of the business was called by both the paper and the Gay Liberation Alliance. Said a GLA spokesperson: "It is today

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not. It's going to be terrible with my football club. The club's so hetero, it's unbelievable. But I mean who cares! I just think. people should be very free with sex they should draw the line at goats.".....

Elton John, whose favorite N.Y. gay night spots include 12 West said he and lyricst Bernie Taupin have never been lovers but "Bernie's whole situation is up in the air as well."

Gays for Carter! report Walter Mondale, Minnesota Senator and running mate to Democratic presidential nominee Jimmy Carter has reaffirmed Carter's stand supporting gay rights. According to Robert Ryger who asked Mondale about his position on gay rights at NYC's "One World Festival," the Senator's response was, "I'm opposed to discrimination."

An out of town visitor to Cleveland wrote us to rave about the live Disco and Company shows appearing at the Adonis Theatre Friday and Saturday nights between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. The all male show includes dancing with plans for skits and comedy spots reminiscent of vaudeville and burlesque. No actual sex acts, guys, but as Mr. Millcord said, "Let's leave something to the imagination."

N.Y.'s Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. (Lambda) has announced that Representative Elaine Noble of the Massachusett's State Legislature has received its first annual award. The Lambda Award is given in recognition of a significant contribution to securing the civil rights of homosexuals....

Former Judge (and rightwinger) G. Harrold Carswell whose nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court was rejected by the Senate, has been fined $100.00 after pleading no contest to a battery charge involving alleged homosexuals advances to a policeman...

Representatives of nearly 1500 members and supporters of gay Jewish synagogues and organizations in 10 cities of the U.S., Canada, Britain and Israel have agreed to form closer mutual ties in order "to express and enhance their commitment

So What Else is New Dept..... In an interview featured in the October 7 issue of Rolling Stone, Elton John remarked, "I haven't met anybody that I would like to settle down with of either sex." Asked the interviewer, "You're bisexual?" Said. John, "There's nothing wrong with going to bed with as gay men and women to the somebody of your own sex. I Jewish heritage." The statement think everybody's bisexual to a comes from Beth Simchat Torah certain degree. I don't think it's and the Conference of Gay just me." Said the interviewer, Jewish Organizations recently. "You haven't said it in print held in Washington. Discussed before." To which John responat the gathering were ded with laughter, "Probably philosophic explorations of

Jewish liturgy and gay ethics, relations with the Jewish community as a whole and educational efforts concerning homosexuality...

Cleveland Arts Scene Briefs A Touch of the Poet by Eugene O'Neill will be perforImed at the Fairmount Center for Creative and Performing Arts in Cleveland Hts. October 24 Nov. 7. Call 932-2000 for reservations. The Cleveland Ballet makes its debut this month. Subscriptions and one performance seatings may be obtained by calling 6213634... Gay art film buffs will be most interested in the CWRU

film series. On October 16, Mazursky's Next Stop, Greenwich Village will be shown. On November 9, Bergman's Three Strange Loves and on November 16, Polanski's Cul-De-Sac. Each sports minor gay themes. All CWRU films are $1.00 and shown at Strosacker Auditorium. Call 368-2463 for information on these and other flicks....

CCC's Western Campus is providing a series of courses this fall on Community Services. Noticeably absent from the program was anything dealing with homosexuality, so High Gear staffer Al Morrill asked if people from Gear might be able to provide one evening of information on counseling gay people and education on gay life styles. Said coordinator John Lorion, "No!". Apparently Mr. Lorion and friends stirred considerable controversy by offering a course on Witchcraft last year. Apparently, Lorion doesn't want to buck community mores...A likely excuse...

In a researched study Mildred D. Pagelow of the University of California at Riverside estimates a third of all American Lesbians are mothers. Based on in-depth interviews with lesbian mothers who are single, divorced, or widowed, the investigation showed lesbians with children face greater discrimination in three major areas: child custody, housing and employment. In addition, they are triply oppressed as females, single parents and gays. The study came to the public's attention through its presentation at the American Sociological Association convention which met recently in New York...

Richard Zimmerman of the Plain Dealer reports. that President Ford gave this response when asked about his views on homosexuality, "The teachings of the Bible are very

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explicit on this matter and when you consider it in a biblical context, in my view homosexuality is morally wrong." Zimmerman went on to say, "While not condoning homosexuality, Carter has stated publically he is against laws controlling private sexual conduct between consenting adults. To the best of my knowledge, Ford is not against such laws.".....

Oliver Sipple, a former U.S. Marine who knocked away the gun which Sara Jane Moore pointed at President Ford in an assassination attempt, has sued the Chicago Sun Times for $9 million for publishing that he is a homosexual Now is that good?.............

From GCN; A CubanAmerican woman told ALFA Newsletter, a publication of the Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Community that Cuba is softening its policies against gays. The woman said: "In 1971 the Vice-Minister of Culture and Education gave a speech in effect equating homosexuality with bourgeois decadence and forbidding gay people from jobs teaching children and jobs in cultural fields. Two years ago approximately 50 gay men and women in Havana were fired from their jobs. All got lawyers who took the cases before people's courts. The decisions were that people could not be fired from their jobs only for being homosexual. As a result, not only were all 50 reinstated, but the people who fired them lost their jobs."....

Gore Vidal will appear in at least six episodes of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman this season...

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Television this fall portraying gays and the subject of homosexuality as it never has before. From Family to Alice to All's Fair to Nancy Walker, gay people are being brought upfront in positive manners for the most part. Our favorite line, though, came on a recent Rhoda episode where Joe and Rhoda were out to dinner and the woman half of a straight couple sitting next to them remarked to Rhoda, "The guy you're here with is one of only 3 attractive guys in here and the other two came in holding hands."....

WEWS-TV commentator Dorothy Fuldheim differed sharply with a woman who called in Sept. 30 to complain to about the recent

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