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Soviet laws. homosexuality is punishable by up to eight years of imprisonment."...
The Naiad Press, a women's collective offers some extraordinary publications. Among them is A Woman Appeared to Me by Renee Vivian. This is the first time this 1901 autobiographical account of Vivian's love affair with Natalie Clifford Barney will be available to English-speaking readers. For more info on this volume and many others write The Nalad Press, Box 5025, Washington Station, Reno, Nevada 89513....
According to GCN, the founding of the Syracuse Gay Freedom League in 1971 (New York) is one of twelve subjects to be featured on a "People's History" calendar for 1977, issued by the Syracuse Peace Council.....
Did you know you have disease number 302.0? GPU News reports the World Health Organization lists homosexuality as a "disease" under that
Also from GPU News: The Industrial Security Clearance Review Office of the Department of Defense recently issued a Secret-level security clearance to Don Kimberling, an open gay employed in private industry.....
Arizona Headed for the Nineteen Century Judge Ben Birdshall has placed three youths who beat a gay activist to death outside a Tuscon gay bar on probation. The judge cited the youths' past admirable number.... records in high school activities in his decision.....Arizona legislators also are considering enacting into law a bill which would impose a one year jail term and $10,000 fine on persons convicted of having sex with a member of their own gender. In addition, the lawmakers might also make it a crime for a male to have an erection in public that showed through his pants or if the covered male genitals showed themselves in a turgid state.... An international Gay Jewish convention in New York is set for April 21-24, 1977. The collage of gay synagogues and social groups from the U.S., Canada, Britain, Israel and Australia will meet at the home of Congregation Beth Simchat Torah, P.O. Box 1270, G.P.O., N.Y. N.Y. B.S.T. members are providing housing for out-oftown participants. Discussion topics will include relations with the gay and Jewish communities, Jewish education, gay iiturgy and ethics and homosexuality and Judaism....
Boxed in the U.S.S.R....A London Gay News reader wrote to Moscow News (a cultural exchange publication available in England) asking for the attitude toward gays in the Soviet Union. Their answer: "Homosexuality is not in the least a problem. And should there be any individual cases. they are dealt with stricly. Under
The Sentinel reports L.A. Police Chief Ed Davis is fuming over the slashing of $2 million from his budget request for Vice Squad personnel and equipment. The L.A. Police Commission scratched Davis' budget request after protests from gay persons in L.A. during. open hearings on the budget. Davis had argued that reducing police repression of victimless crimes would lead to an upsurge of organized crime activity in L.A. The commission, much to Davis' ire, instead chose to concentrate on violent crimes.
rates, muscular tension and anal and urethral contractions. Erections lessen slightly and then build to another orgasm. Jensen and Robbins say the technique can be taught by verbal instruction...When The Sentinel reports on how to obtain relevant instructions we'll be sure to let you know....
London's Gay News is being charged for violating the Blasphemy Act of 1697 by British anti-pornography campaigner. The woman, Mary Whitehouse, has persuaded a
High Court judge to allow criminal proceedings against the Gay News because of a poem that allegedly blasphemes the life of Christ. The poem, written by James Kirkup, is a fantasy wherein the speaker
In Sacramento, Dr. Gordon Jensen of UC-Davis and Dr. Mina Robbins of CSU will soon publish their research on 15 multi-orgasmic men. The Sentinel reports the men who include 2 gays, are capable of ejaculation prior to a final repeated orgasms without climax with ejaculation. Aged 22-56, the men each experience 3-10 orgasms before coming. The Blade reports the D.C. One said he could have as many Gay Activists Alliance is orgasms before initiating a "gay awareness ejaculation! All the men stop campaign." Eye-catching thrusting as the orgasm begins posters will be placed on and are able to feel all the Metrobuses, trash cans and sensations of orgasm, including other locations throughout the increased respiration and heart.
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imagines a series of homosexual acts in which Christ is accused.....
city. One poster is a picture of a group of people representing all walks of life and wearing clothing ranging from business suits to casual attire. The headline reads: "Someone in your life is gay" with a caption at the bottom of the picture stating, "Think about that the next time you hear us called something else." ....
Another Movie First!..... From Gay Scene: In Gore Vidal's "Caligula" Malcolm Mcdowell who plays the mad Caligula takes his horse to bed with him and snuggles down for the night....
A national "Lesbians and the Law Conference" is scheduled for March 24-27 at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Massachussetts Rep. Elaine Noble who recently won reelection with a whopping 90% of the vote is scheduled to keynote. For more info. write Women and the Law, Univ. of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, Wisconsin 53706......
Carroll O'Connor (who plays Archie Bunker on "All in the Family") extended his character role in real life when he won a half million dollar libel suit against Swank magazine for
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publishing a fabricated interview with him. According to the Blade, O'Connor stated he was "deeply distressed by the willful, unilateral misues of his national prestige to promote a lurid magazine" because the purported interview was situated among photographs of nude women in "lesbian aspects.".... Gay Life reports Chicago civil rights activist, Reverend Jesse L. Jackson has started a crusade to stop radio stations from playing music with suggestive lyrics. Jackson cites the following examples as causing the national crisis in
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morality": "Shake Your Booty." "The More You Do It," and "It's All Right To make Love on the First Night." A conference is planned to "Clean up the airwaves" through boycotts and pressures for voluntary censorship....
Lorretta Lotman in a recent article in The Village Voice claims Gloria Hodes who
appears as Bertie in Eve Meriam's The Club (at The Circle in Times Square) is on her way to being the first major sex symbol for lesbians......
PBS (WVIZ-TV, Channel 25 here) plans to rebroadcast The War Widow. a brilliant play about two women who redefine their lives in accordance with the new-found feelings they share for each other. This is a must show for every gay person to view. It is not about lesbianism, but rather about two women who just happen to be lesbians...Keep checking local TV listings for exact time of broadcast. It will be well worth your while...
QUOTABLE QUOTE....."Gay people are much more oppressed by their own conditioning than they are by society as a whole." Fellow gay Charles Reich, author of The Greening of America and The Sorcerer of Bolinas Reef from an interview in The Advocate....
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Gay Community News (GCN) reports Women Against Violence Against Women has announced a boycott against seven Warrier Record labels Atco, Atlantic, Asylum, Elektra, Nonesuch, Reprise and Warner Brothers until the record companies stop depicting women as victims of sexual and other violence. Spokeswoman Julia London said: "Our emphasis at this point is on the use of abusive sex in sexual relationships as a selling technique. Of course, we're not interested in seeing women objectivized in non-violent sexual ways for purposes of selling anything, but the immediate protest is to get rid of the violence. The images on album covers are part of an environment that trivializes brutality against women...
Mayor E. Clay Shaw of Fort Lauderdale has recently sounded the battle cry of -Gays Must Go" in this resort city. GCN reports the mayor is alarmed at growing numbers of gay people reflected in hotels being taken over by "homosexual interests." Shaw also has linked Fort Lauderdale's gay community with male and prostitutes drugs. Apparently, "for the first time" the gay community of the city itself organized and demonstrated at City Hall, demanding a retraction from the mayor and his resignation. The feeling of some was that the mayor's action was "just a political stunt" in preparation for the upcoming Feb. 8 primary election. Nonetheless, it stirred a typically apolitical, apathetic Ft. Lauderdale into action.... Philadelphia's Gayzette American
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reports Association of Retired Persons is actively soliciting information