ERA foe gives lesbian book to lawmakers

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) Graphic literature on lesbian love-making was assembled by a woman who is fighting the Equal Rights Amendment and distributed in the Kentucky House.

Her action outraged some legislators and prompted demands for an investigation.

The material, delivered Friday to about 30 legislators by young House pages, contained draw-. ings of female genitals and nude women, a guide for masturbation and lesbian love poetry.

Carol Maddox of Fort Thomas, a member of Stop ERA, said she assembled the material in booklet form and had it distributed to support her argument that passage of the ERA would encourage lesbians to advertise their sexual preferences.

Mrs. Maddox claimed the material was printed at government expense and distributed at the International Women's Year conference in Houston in November.

Lilialyce Akers, head of Pro-ERA Alliance in Kentucky and a delegate to the Houston conference, said yesterday that the anti-ERA forces were "looking for controversial or non-relevant issues" to try to discredit the ERA.

"None of this material was printed at government expense," Ms. Akers said. "The delegates (to "the IWY conference) were given all that was printed with government money, and we never 'saw these materials."

Mrs. Maddox said she did not attend the conference in Houston, but received the materials in the mail. She acknowledged that she had put the materials in booklet form, using the front page of a pamphlet called "Lesbian Rights," published by the National Gay Task Force, and adding to it. pages from other sources, which she did not identify, that included pictures.

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Ronald Gold, a New York spokesman for the task force, said the NGTF had paid to publish its pamphlet, sold it at the conference and did not receive public funds. He said the NGTF pamphlet contained no illustrations.

Kentucky ratified the ERA in 1972 and attempts in the last two legislative sessions to rescind ratification have failed. The ERA has been approved by 35 states and must be ratified by three more by March 22, 1979, to become part of the Constitution.