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"proliferation of homosexuality" on television. The caller claimed this was due to Communist infiltration. Ms. Fuldheim responded: "Homosexuality is not a disease. It is not contagious. It's a deviation from normal expression only because most of us are not homosexual. Homosexuality is not an evil thing, it is an abnormality. I have no objection to homosexuals appearing on television, but frankly, the constant media obsession with sex in general is boring."...Interestingly, Ms.

Fuldheim's remarks are significantly more pro-gay than last year at this time when she chastised Cleveland gays for "pushing their views others.".

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Yes, it's true!! NBC's the Gong Show is coming to Ohio! On a recent broadcast, the host of the campy "talent show" told viewers in Akron, Columbus, Dayton, Cincinnati and Cleveland to write to Cleveland's WKYC-TV, 1403 E. 6th St., 44114 to schedule auditions for a series of shows to air from Cleveland...Hear ye, hear ye!! Lotta Goodbody, his is your chance for national notoriety....

Communist Party USA Presidential candidate Gus Hall was quoted thus by San Francisco's BAR on the question of gay rights: "We are on a principal basis against discrimination against gay people, whether it's in jobs, professions, and so on...We disagree I think in the sense that the gay movement tends to say that the problem and this movement is on an equal basis with the struggle against racism or the class struggle...Of course, it's

not; and it's really counterproductive to raise it that way."...??...

Holly Near, popular feminist singer, told a crowd at Women's Music Festival at Mt. Pleasant, Michigan last month that she was now involved in a lesbian relationship. Rumors had been abounding that Near was involved with singer Meg Christian...

Anders Munk, professor at the Royal Danish School of Educational Studies claims "desensitization" to nudity and erotic photographs by many Danes is a by-product of the country's legalization of pornography. Says Munk in the Guidepost, a publication of the American Per-

sonnel and Guidance Association, "Pornographic availability works like a vaccination

one eventually becomes immune to it and it means nothing." Munk and other speakers brought up desensitization as one effect of pornography during sessions of the Community and Morality Seminar Aug. 18-22 sponsored by the Danish Institute. The Danish Parliament legalized the sale of pornographic magazines, films, and objects in 1969. Today, according to Munk, most of Denmark's pornography is bought by foreigners.....

On September 5, the American Psychological Association reccomended a policy that a parent's sexual orientation "should not be the sole or primary variable" considered in cases involving disputes over child custody or inplacement of foster children....The decision could prove an effective tool in gays securing child custody rights......

The Chicago Gay Life reports Dr. Laud Humphreys, sociology professor at Pitzer

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A Call to Fight Racism!... The Youth Against War and Fascism has announced Anti-Apartheid march on Public Square Saturday, October 16 at 1 p.m. YAWF has been visibly supportive of past local area gay marches and asks that gay people come out to fight the oppression of others....

The bar at Painesville's Rider's Tavern has closed. The owner would like to thank past patrons for their support. There was, however, not enough general backing from the larger gay community to warrant further operation. The restaurant, which Cleveland Magazine called "Northeast Ohio's most superb smorgasbord" will continue to operate during dinner hours.

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The Dayton Gay Community Center is venturing into two new support groups for young gays and another group for parents/spouses of gays. If interested call the center during October for groups in November, 278-3963 or write D.G.C., 665 Salem Ave., Dayton, O. 45406......

College in Claremont, California BANTAM

has concluded a study which shows gay men are far more likely to be murdered by hetero-

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sexuals than by fellow gays. A FIRST

Humphreys studied 111 murders and found that the murderers

were often people with a strong fear or hatred of homosexuality. He further speculates most murders of gays are an indirect result of society's attitudes toward homosexuality. These attitudes cause some people to feel they have the right to beat up gay people: Gays are no more likely to be murdered than straights, Humphrey argues, but murders of gays are extremely brutal, leading the media to sensationalize them......

Quotable Quote from The Advocate... Duke Smith, openly gay aide to Republican California state Senator Milton Marks: "By not paying attention to the Republicans, we're closing the doors on ourselves."

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And one more quote from pop music artist Lewis Furey: "The criminal aspect was one of the first attractions of homosexuality for me Partners in crime that I was one of the appeals of! having a male lover." Lewis Furey will be featured on Archie Rothman's Time Machine, Sunday, October 10 on WMMS radio, 101.1 on the FM dial....

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NEW YORK-In what appears to be an educational distributor

first, Bantam Books is offering a comprehensive package on sex roles and relationships for high schools that includes a lengthy section on homosexuality.

Any secondary school instructor can receive the unit on gays for only $11.00. One will receive a teacher's guide and one copy each of the following paperback editions: The Front Runner (Patrician Nell Warren), Gay World

(Hoffman) Lesbian Woman (Martin and Lyon) Man. Without a Face (Holland) Run Softly, Go Fast (Wersba) and Trying Hard to Hear You (Scoppetone).

Prepared by Gene Stanford and Barbara Dodds Stanford, the series also includes 1) Sex and Identity, 2)Myths and Social Pressures, 3) Sex roles and perception and jobs and 4). Relationships.

All interested schools and instructors are encouraged to write Learning Ventures, A Multi-Division of Bantam Books, 666 5th Avenue, N.Y., N.Y. 10019 for further information. The question now is: Will it play in West Virginia?

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