About The Barb. (Atlanta, Ga.) 197?-197? | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1975)
DEAR ABBY Gay Rights Bill Introduced In Congress by special permission from Abigail Van Burean Dear Abby: My friend and I have a different of opinion. He says Damon and Pythias were homo sexuals. I say they were straight. Can you checkthis out and let us know? C and B Dear C AND B: I wrote to twelve leading universities. Their responses included yesses, noes and maybes. I think the Chairman of the English Department at the University of Chicago summed it up very well: igP?. , “DEAR ABBY: You asked if Damon and Pythias were gay In dealing with charac - ters of such remote anti quity. who exist more in the realm of legend, it is some times difficult to find much evidence on the most in timate details of their pri vate lives: Damon and Pythias were famous for their de votion to each other, and they were Greeks. Beyond that. I think whatever they did was pretty much their own business, and even it I knew. I wouldn't say. "One less than eminent authority said to me: 1 think Damon was okay, but I'm not so sure about Py thias.” Sincerelv. Stuart M. Tavp iiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiniiiiiniiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiigiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiii Democratic Party Chairmaa Appologizes! “Well, if that isn’t the biggest collection of fags I’ve ever seen in my life,” is a typical “fashionably Texas” putdown greeting he uses to greet acquaintances. The speaker: Robert' Strauss, National Chairman of the Democratic Party, quoted in the Washington Post’s Poto mac magazine by Myra MacPherson on January 5. “What might sound like colorful, original talk to the unitiated is ordinary socializ ing back home in Texas,” say MacPherson. And extraordi narily insensitive bigotry to the ears of gay people. Rev. Jim Snow, Asst. Pastor of the Atlanta MCC, wrote to Strauss criticizing Strauss use of the word fag. Strauss apologized to Rev. Snow as we are sure he will have to apologize to the many others who have critisized him for such statements. Introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Bella Abzug (NY). Ed Koch (NY), John Burton (Cal.). Pete McCloskey (Cal.) and Robert Nix (Pa.). HRlbh will amend the 1964 Civil Rights Act to protect gay people in the areas of employment, public accom modations. public education, anti federally funded pro grams. Already Ben Rosenthal (NY). Ron Dellums (Cal.). Michael Harrington (Mass.), Steven Solar/ (NY). Fred Richmond (NY), and Pete Stark (Cal.) have asked to have their names added to the bill. When the sponsor list is complete we will hold a major press conference featuring not only the sponsors but heads of major supporting groups, including NOW, the American Psychiatric Association, and the American Civil Liberties Unit)n, as well as gay people. NG 1 b and GAA-Washing ton D. C. have launched an intensive campaign to remind Strauss that gays don’t think putdowns are funny. Reach him at the following: Demo cratic National Comittee, 1625 Massachusetts Ave. N.W., Washington D.C. 20036. S ub sc ribe •w w w w v nt The ZODIAC LOUNGE And CLUB HOLLYWOOD PRESENT THE 1975 MR. GAYTONA BEACH PAGEANT Marct 23,1975 \ Sunday 9:00 P.M. TOTAL PRIZES: $500.00 Daytona’s new beautiful ZODIAC LOUNGE 1654 So. Ridgewood Ave. South on U.S. 1 SPECIAL GUESTS : Miss Dixie la nd Miss Florida — Roxanne Russell Mr Florida — Tarzan Miss Gaytona Beach - Laurie Del Mar Mr Club Hollywood — Brick Mason John Westhoff, winner of the 1974 Mr.Gaytona Beach Contest will crown the 1975 winner For details call (904) 767-4681 or Club Hollywood (904) 252-1237 Security parking lot for your safety. i a .1P-. a A ^ ^ •*». The term ‘‘affectiorial or sexual preference” is defined in HR-166 as “having or manifesting an emotional or physical attachment to another consenting person or persons of either gender: or having or manifesting a preference for such attachment.” The phrase was originated by Jack Baker of Minneapolis, and appears in both the Minneapolis and the St. Paul gay rights laws that passed in 1974. 1 lie phrase has won support from gay movement and feminist groups, who see it as a way of protecting the heart of our gayness--the choice to love whom we love, to be with whomever we choose, to say we’re gay and to express affection as openly as heterosexuals do. Our rela tionships and our lifestyles, yot just our private sexuality, deserve and need protection. The National Gay Task Force urges that all groups working on gay rights legislation consider using the phrase ” a fleet ion a 1 prefer ence.” National Gay Task Force Action Report THE BARJT- 5 Judge Rules Nude Sunbath ing O.K.! Hollywood, Fla.: Charged with indecent exposure after his arrest for nude sunbathing 1 near Dania Beach, a 26-year- old Fort Lauderdale man has^ been acquitted. County Court Judge James R. Holmes directed a verdict of not guilty, after a brief non-jurv trial, on the grounds that “bare nakedness” is not indecent exposure. Th# young man was arrested by Hollywood police as he lay nude in a wooded area just west of the beach, a quarter-mile north of the Dania Pier, and was charged with two counts of indecent exposure, but Judge Holmes ruled that mere nude sunbathing is not indecent under Florida law. The Judge said that if the city of Hollywood wants to prohibit people from nude sunbathing the city should pass an ordinance to that effect. The city does have an ordinance prohibiting nude bathing, but since the young man was not applying any water to this body, the Judge concluded that he was not bathing. 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