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Vice Harassment Investigated

OTTAWA, ONT-A local citizen's group is investigating charges that arrests of 14 men in connection with an alleged "homosexual vice ring" involving juvenile prostitutes may have more to do with police harassment than with vice.

The Social Planning Council's community soulsearching was apparently triggered by the suicide of one of the men. He jumped from the roof of his apartment building the day the press published the names, addresses and occupations of the 14. He had been charged with gross indecency, which carries a five-year pri-

son term.

Gay people of Ottawa launched a protest after the arrests, charging that customers of female prostitutes of any age are rarely arrested. In this case, not one of the teenage prostitites has been charged.

Housing Reform Suggested

SACRAMENTO, CA-Atty. Gen. Evelle J. Younger has proposed that the state's Rumford Fair Housing Act should be amended to prohibit discrimination in housing on the basis of sex or marital status.

The Rumford Act now only applies to race, color, religion, national origin and ancestry.

Younger's proposal is one of a series of recommendations made to him by his Women's Rights Task Force, which was created last year.

Fire Guts Boston Bars

BOSTON, MA-Two of Boston's most popular gay bars were heavily damaged in a fire of "undetermined origin" early Saturday morning, Apr. 5. Twelve Carver, a complex housing a bar of the same name, as well as Herbie's Ramrod Room, a recentlyrenovated leather/western bar, and the Hound's Tooth, a gayowned restaurant, were all tenants in the building.

Damage was estimated at $80,000.

Kenneth Bruynell, public relations director for the Boston Fire Department, said the blaze started in the back of the building and spread to the upper four floors. Twelve persons and three cats from the adjacent apartments had to be evacuated. The building is located in the middle of Boston's Park Square, a large commercial area well-known for its nightclubs, both straight and gay.

IN COURT

Sodomy Ruling Appealed

SAN JUAN, PR-A decision by the U.S. District Court here not to review the constitutionality of Penal Code sanctions against homosexual relations has been appealed to the First U.S. District Court of Appeals in Boston.

On Mar. 11, Chief U.S. District Court Judge Jose V. Toledo ruled there was no "real or immediate" threat of prosecution against the two homosexual couples which brought the suit, so the court could not convene a three-judge panel to review the constitutional questions involved.

In an appeal filed Mar. 17, attorney Santos P. Amadeo argued a threat of prosecution does exist because the two couples-William Cieslak and Edwin Ruiz; and Carmen Doe and Luisa Roe-have publicly admitted they engaged in homosexual relations.

Therefore, he added, they are liable to arrest and prosecution at any time.

Newlyweds Jailed

PHOENIX, AZ-Superior Court Judge Irwin Cantor, in a declaratory judgment, ruled that the January marriage of two men, Sam Burnett and Tony Secuya, is void.

"Marriage is and always has been a contract between a man and a woman. [It] is as old as the book of Genesis.

"Marriage is an institution which is the foundation of the family and society," Judge Cantor noted in his ruling.

Secuya and Burnett were not represented at the hearing. They were in jail on charges of armed robbery stemming from a reported $35 holdup of a Phoenix resident who told police that Secuya, who was dressed as a woman, threatened him with a shotgun.

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