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News briefs

New York, NY. Don Imus, a WNBC radio personality, has been fired. The reason for his termination is that he announced that Speedie Alka-Seltzer and the Pillsbury Doughboy had come out of the closet and admitted that they were lovers. Courtesy of THESE TIMES

male homosexuality. The core research about lesbianism and collection consists of materials gathered by curator Jim Kepner over the past 36 years, with additional donated items. The Archives stil seek materials of all. kinds documenting the gay experience, including books.. periodicals, trial transcripts, photographs, artwork and newscourt briefs, diaries, memoirs. letters. Volunteers are also needed to help with cataloging. sorting, photocopying, fundraising and mailings, as well as to record oral histories and to prepare readings for the blind.

San Francisco, CA Frameline, a nonprofit gay film collective, will be accepting entries this spring for the Fourth Annual San Francisco Gay Film Festival to be screened during the Gay Pride Week in June of 1980. Entries will not be limited in length or format. The Archives, located at 1654 The Festival has been estabN. Hudson St. in Hollywood, are lished by Frameline as a non-open to the public from 9 a.m. to competitive showcase for films 6 p.m. Monday through Friday: by and about gay people. Last (213) 463-5450. Mailing address year's event included a wide varis Box 38100, Los Angeles, CA iety of films from across the 90038. nation. For aplications or further information, write Frameline, 330 Grove Street, San Francisco, CA 94114.

courtesy of GPU NEWS

The National Gay Archives, containing more than 10,000 volumns and 20,000 periodicals relating to lesbians and gay men, have officially opened their doors in Los Angeles.

The Archives function as a resource center for those doing

courtesy of THE ADVOCATE

Publications

NEW YORK N.Y. Gay People in Christian Science has published a pamphlet named after itself.

Said spokespersons for the group. "this pamphlet is now being distributed throughout the Christian Science Church in an

of gay people held by many." attempt to change false concepts

obtained by writing to Gay Peu A copy of the pamphlet can be Rodwell, 15 Christopher Street, plen Christian Science?" c/o New Yox. N.Y. 10014.

San Francisco, June 19-22, 1980. Copies remaining after the conStates and Canada at a nominal ference will be sold in the United Gay Health Coalition. charge to benefit the National

courtesy of GCN

Lambda Resource Center for the Blind has formed Among the services are cassette and braille cassette magazine. For details materials and a quarterly contact by letter, braille, or tape LRCB, Box 1319, Chicago, IL 60690 or phone (312) 274-0511 or (312) 929-4357.

San Francisco, CA-A new journal has ben launched here, and its primary focus is on lesbian and gay hotel, restaurant, and bar employees. Its name is Dishrag, and its first issue was distributed during 'the October 14. National March on Washington. For information, write: Dishrag, Box 11735, San Francisco, CA 94101.

Prosecutions

NEW YORK, NY. The National Gay Health Coalition is issuing a call for listings to be The National Gay Health Direcincluded in the second edition of tory. This directory describes services offered by individual gay health professionals, clinics, walk-in centers, counseling and referral agencies, AA meeting for etc., throughout the unit Comic Works is currently gay people, help lines, etc.. States and Canada. included, all a group or an indiground comic book entitled Gay Each listing is free: to be assembling a 32-page undervidual has to do is to send the Howard Cruse: A number of called Billy Howe Gilvin's murder Comix, to be edited by cartoonist name, address, and phone number of the facility or service, pages are still open for short pieas well as a description of services by newcomers who can hances offered, fees charged, days and hours available, an indica-

tion of whether an appointment is necessary and any other perti-

nent information, to Jeanne Brossart, 80 S. Elliott Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217 as soon as possible.

The second edition of The

National Gay Health Directory

will be distributed free to each of the anticipated 1500 participants at the third annual National Gay Health Conference to be held in

PRINCETON, WI Krupp

.dle the comic strip craft with

Brooksville (Florida): Hernando County Circuit Judge L.R. Huffstetler overrode the jury's life imprisonment recommendation for a man accused of killing a minister who made sexual advances to him. Huffstetler

of Episcopalian vicar John Hunt "heinous and atrocious," and sentenced Gilvin to die in Flori-

humor and skill, Payment will be da's electric chair. $30/page for black and white art.

ownership of their material. The individual artists will retain

Lesbian and gay male cartoonists with a point of view to express about the lesbian or gay experience are invited to inquire about details. Send a stamped. self-addressed envelope to Krupp Comic Works, P.O. Box 7

Princeton, WI 54968. Courtesy of GCN

-courtesy of The Advocate Tulsa (Oklahoma): A 26-year old man was sentenced to nine years in prison for killing a man who had made sexual advances to a friend of his. John Franklin Wills was convicted of killing John Donald Rogers, who was found dead of massive internal injuries in his room at the down-

town YMCA.

Courtesy of The Advocate

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