Homosexuality Among Adults No Crime in D.C.

L.A. Times/Washington Post Service

WASHINGTON Homosexual acts between consenting adults in private will no longer be subject to criminal prosecution in the District of Columbia, under terms of an agreement between the city government and the American Civil Lih erties Union.

In a stipulation filed in U.S. District Court and stemming from a lawsuit against Washington police by four homosexuals, the

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that the D.C. sodomy statute 'does not apply and cannot be applied to private consensual sexual acts invoiving adults." The stipulation defined adults as persons 16 years old and over.

Dr. Franklin E. Kameny, founder of the D.C. Mattachine Society, hailed the agreement as a major victory in the struggle for homosexual rights.

Legislatures

in

five

states, Connecticut, Illinois,

city government agreed Colorado, Oregon and Ha-

waii, have recently repealed laws prohibiting homosexual acts between consenting aduits.