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CBS program on gays gets blasted
Response to the CBS television documentary "Gay Power, Gay Politics" (broadcast April 26) has been overwhelmingly negative in San Francisco and across the United States.
The program; an hour long news special, dealt with gay voters having the swing vote in last year's mayoral race in San Francisco and portrayed local gays as being able to dictate how the city is run.
George Crile lii, who produced the program and appeared in it as a roving reporter, has been described as being biased, patronizing, and deceitful.
The San Francisco Board of
Supervisors voted to send a letter to CBS objecting to the show, demanding equal time, and requesting an investigation by the National News Council.
In a news story in the April 24 issue of the San Francisco Chronicle by Marshall Kilduff, Mayor Diane Feinstein and Quentin Kopp, her opponent in last year's election, are both described as being furious at Crile's conduct while interviewing and collecting information for the
program.
cynical distaste at drag balls, said that Crile .is a "non-professional."
Bill Mandel, the TV critic for the San Francisco Examiner called the show "electronic McCarthyism," and Terrence O'Flaherty, the TV reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle, called the show "poorly researched and inflammatory." O'Flaherty in his review of the
program in the April 26 issue of the Chronicle pointed out various inaccuracies involved in "suggesting that a gay hammerhold on Mayor Feinstein is responsible for some of the more raunchy aspects of the city's gay life style."
He quotes, for example, a release from the CBS Information Service that says, "Feinstein promised to appoint a gay police
chief." This, says O'Flaherty, is "about as likely as the pope promising to make Farrah Fawcett a cardinal." O'Flaherty points out that Mayor Feinstein was not "locked into" her office during the riots following the.. Dan White verdict as the show reports, but came and went by an entrance on Van Ness Blvd.
"The Castro neighborhood is depicted by CBS as being a con-
tinuous carnival," O'Flaherty writes. "Virtually all of the film used to show this lively, highly diversified area of San Francisco to a national TV audience was taken on Halloween and on the day of the Castro Street fair. You can take cameras into an Irish neighborhood on St. Patrick's Day and you'll see some outrageous things because this is a COM(Continued on Page 7)
Big plans for Gay Pride Week
Commemorations of the 1969 Stonewall riots promise to be the biggest ever this year, with parades, rallies and other events scheduled in various cities around the country. Here's a sampling of 1980 pride celebrations:
ATLANTA
Lesbian-Gay-trans Pride Week will be held June 21-18. Kick-off is a march and political rally June 21. Cultural and religious events during the week will lead up to a big festival June 28. For more information call the Atlanta Gay Center, Inc., (404) 876-5372. BOSTON
Feinstein Complained that Crile "was obviously trying to show San Francisco as Sodom The annual parade starts at and Gomorrah" and kept trying noon, June 21. Many activities to "twist around" her answers. are planned for the week before Feinstein said that Crile is the and after the march. For the only reporter, that she ever, latest information, call the Lesbiordered out of her office in the an/Gay Hotline (617) 426-9371. middle of an interview.
Said Feinstein, who was refused an opportunity to see the show in advance, after reading a copy of the script. "Based on my reading, this thing is like doing a documentary on Italians and only showing the Mafia."
Quentin Kopp, who was depicted in the program as someone seeking gay votes with
CHICAGO
Gay Pride Week is set for June 20-29. Rev. Troy Perry will speak June 20 at a dinner called "Celebrate! The eighties are, 'ours!" Events during the week include an open forum, Loop rally, awards night, community dinner and women's dance, culminating with the gay parade and post-parade rally. It begins
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By Bob Roehm
GAY AWARENESS WEEK OSU/Columbus Gay Alliance celebrated Gay Awareness Week April 21-27 with a variety of
events.
April 22 was an open house at the G.A. office in the Ohio Union, 1739 N. High St. That evening, Rhonda Rivera, OSU Law School, spoke on the topic: "Our Straight-Laced Judges: Gay People and the Law." She described her work to further the legal rights of Lesbian/Gay people, as well as those of nonmarried people living together.
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A Gay Community Dinner April 23 at Casa di Pasta Restaurant was followed by an April 24 volleyball game planned for the Gay Community. Gay Blue Jeans Day was Friday, April 25, when people supportive of Gay rights wore blue jeans.
A "Gay Day at the Zoo" was held April 26. After the bars closed, the "Off The Wall" coffee house was at the Northend Community Center, a short distance from "the wall," a Columbus Gay cruising area.
Gay Awareness Week ended during MCC's Sunday worship service, at its regular meeting place, 12th & Indianola, at 2:00.
Gay Alliance is currently making plans for Gay Pride Week, celebrated each June across the country to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall riots. For information, call Gay Alliance at (614) 422-9212.
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at noon Sunday, June 29 at Clark and Wacker Drive. For information call (312) 348-8243. DENVER
Lesbian/Gay Pride Week activities are set for June 14-22.
Events include the fourth annual Rocky Mountain Lesbian/Gay Symposium, candlelight vigil at the state capitol, fundraisers, rally and parade, for information write Lesbian/Gay Pride Week 80 Planning Committee, Box 2024, Denver, Colo. 80201, or call the Gay Community Center of Colorado, Inc., (303) 831-6268. DETROIT
Lesbian/Gay Pride Celebration is scheduled for June 12-22. For information contact the Michigan Organization for Human Rights, 940 W. McNichols, (313) 863-7255.
HOUSTON
This year's Gay Pride Week Celebration is scheduled for June 20-29. A variety of events will culminate in a march and rally June 29. For information contact Gay Pride Week Coordinator Grier Price at (713) 626-5921.
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meet at the same time and place. An OSU regulation states that "student organizations" may serve only students. A change was necessary so that Gay Alliance could remain open to all people. Even though G.A. has been a registered student organization, both students and nonstudents have been active in the group.
Now, only OSU students may be members of the OSU Gay Alliance; while any person may become a member of Columbus Gay Alliance. Separate books are kept, and elections for officers are separate, but the groups are, in all other ways, one organization. The combined group, officially known as "OSU/Columbus Gay Alliance," meets Tuesdays, 9:00, in the Ohio Union, 1739 N. High St. For information, call (614) 422-9212.. UNITARIAN GAY CONCERNS Rev. Robert Wheatley, DiUnitarian Office of Gay Concerns, spoke May 13 at First vistimen
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with the annual Christopher Street West Festival on Saturday, June 21, and the parade Sunday June 22. This year's theme is "New Horizons of Gay Pride and Unity." For information contact C.S.W., 7985 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 109, W. Hollywood, CA 90046 or call the Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center, (213)464-7400. NEW YORK
The annual parade and street fair will take place Sunday, June 29. For further information call the Christopher Street Committee at the Gay Switchboard, (212)777-1800. PORTLAND
GayFair '80: In Celebration of Oregon Lesbian/Gay Artists will be held Saturday, June 21 in Waterfront Park. If you are interested in participating in this celebration as an artist/craftperson/performer for know of
someone who would be), or can help organize the event, write Portland Town Council, 320 SW Stark, #506, Portland, Ore. 97204 or call Mark or May at (503) .227-2765. SAN DIEGO
The annual Gay Pride Parade will be held Saturday, June 21. For more information call the Gay Commulty Center at (714) 232-7528.
SAN FRANCISCO
The 1980 Gay Freedom Day Parade and Celebration will culminate a week's activities on Sunday, June 29. The night activites on Suday, June 29. The night before the parade features. a joint concert by the various gay musical and vocal groups. For more information on the week's events call the parade committee at (415) 641-0100.
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Gay services
The Care Institute and GCGC . have established a weekly rap group for those gay men and women who would like to partic-
ipate in an ongoing serious discussion of personal issues relating to gay concerns. The group meets every Monday at 8 p.m. at CARE, 50 E. Hollister St. (side door).
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CARE has added a professionally trained counselor, who is gay, to their staff. The counselor is available for phone counseling at 621-CARE or for face-to-face counseling by appointment.
Gay Community Switchboard (formerly Gayline) has reorganized, with its operators now at a Central location, to facilitate information referrals. Its new hours are Monday thru Friday from 7-11 p.m. More volunteer operators, men and women, are still needed. The Switchboard is building up its services so that it can be a central source of information for upcoming events and for referrals. If you have information of interest to the community, call 241-0001.
Lesbian/Gay Pride Week
. Plans are being made for an active 1980 Lesbian/Gay Pride celebration during the last week of June. This celebration will ten-ainerstry or the
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Stonewall riots in New York City, which led to gay and lesbian activism across the nation. GCGC. and LAB are cooperating to plan another rally on Fountain Square, as well as a full week of social and political activities. To volunteer to help plan this important week, call David (559-9594) or Millie (721-2134). Musical notes
GCGC is sponsoring the formation of a gay chorus, to be, directed by a CCM graduate, beginning in early June. If you are interested in participating in such a chorus, send your name, address, and phone number to GCGC and we wil contact you when the group is together.
LAB's lesbian chorus is also still looking for members. Call Holly (281-2347).
Community Center plans
Jan Scholler, a gay insurance agent, has generously agreed to donate up to $500 a month from his insurance commission sales to gay men and lesbians, for the purpose of establishing a fund for a Gay Community Center. This example of generosity should serve as a model for other gays who can donate to a Community Center. Contact GCGC for information or ways that you 1959 ad or quot dubne enoilasinismo coivien