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individuals involved in thie court
cases and not to homosexuals as a
group.
While barring federal job
discrimination solely on the basis
of homosexuality, the new rules
still say “a person may be
dismissed or found unfit for
federal employment where the
evidence establishes that such
person’s conduct affects job
fitness.”
Oeiesby said this means a
homosexual could be dismissed if
he disrupts work by “putting his
hands all over all the fellows in
the shop.” He added that a man
similarly bothering women
employees also could be con
sidered to be disrupting work!
Dr. Franklin E. Kameny,
president of the Washington
Mattachine Society, an
organization for homosexuals,
said the new rules mean a
homosexual federal worker
“doesn’t have to worry as he did
in the past that if the government
found out about • his
homosexuality he would be
dismissed;” ,
Dr. Kameny, who once ran for
D.C. delegate on a platform
espousing homosexual rights and
who now describes himself as a
‘.‘functional gay community,
resource,” said that 18 years ago
he was dismissed as an
astronomer for the U.S. Army
Map Service because of his
homosexuality. He added he
unsuccessfully fought his
dismissal in the courts.
He said he considers the new
rules “the successful conclusion
of an 18-year battle on my part,
which should never have com
menced had the Civil Service
Commission observed basic
American practices from the
beginning.”
Oglesby said that in the past
homosexuals generally were
barred from federal jobs under a
«rule /forbidding “immoral con
duct.” The new rules do not bar
“immoral conduct, ’' but do forbid
“infamous or notoriously
disgraceful conduct.”
The new rules define “in
famous conduct” as relating “to
those few individuals whose
social behavior is so bizarre or so
clearly aberrant that the conduct
in itself evidences depravity.
Such things as incest child abuse,
bestiality, self multilation and
similar acts, are of such a nature
that the employment of the in
dividual clearly would not
promote, the efficiency of the
service,”
‘‘Notoriously disgraceful
conduct” is defined as “shameful
in nature . . and talked of in a
scornful manner* . , ,
Disqualification in such cases is
warranted only [when the
notoriety accompanying the
conduct can reasonably be ex
pected to adversely affect the
person's ability to perform his or
her job or the agency’s ability to
carry out its responsibilities. ”
Dr. Kameny said] he is con
cerned about the “infamous or
notoriously disgraceful conduct”
section of the new rules.
“If by that they mean it’s
perfectly all right to be
homosexuals and work and
remain in a closet, my answer is
no .. they’re not going to relegate
us to a closet in 1975,1 assure you
APATHY
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Good-so accept us.” We must
live our faith by reaching out to
our brothers and sisters, both
straight and Gay, by expressing
the love of Christ that is within '
us, letting them see us care for
the lonely and rejected, the ill and
dying, the poor- and hungry, the
Gays who have been alienated
'from the Church , by individuals
unequipped to understand them,
and the education of our total
church about what it really means
to be Gay.
Another area is the Political
Arena. We must support bills that
will end the oppression of the civil
rights of Gays. We can do this by
writing our representatives in the
government in support of laws
which will ensure that Gays have
the civil 'rights that should have
already been ours. We must help
get the Atlanta Gay Community
(potentially 200,000 mind you)
registered and active as voters. In
doing this, we will be showing our
whole society the civic respon
sibility of the Gay Community.
We, above all other minorities,
should realise what we would
stand to lose if our democratic
system ever failed. If our whole
society, both straight and Gay,
can defeat apathy the future will
be much brighter.
In summary, if my proposal, r
make me sound like an Ah
American Pie, Flag Waving, Gay
Catholic Christian, then you have
my message! Down with apathy!
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of that,” Dr. Kameny said.
Bacil Warren, another , com
mission spokesman, said he
doesn’t think great numbers of
homosexuals will now enter the
civil service. “I think it will be
gradual,” he said.
Oglesby said “there’s ‘no
question in anyone’s mind that a
few of them got through the door
and a few of them are in the
service. I don’t know who they are
or where they are, but in a force
as large as ours there must be
some.”
The new rules say that persons
may be barred from federal jobs
for misconduct in past em
ployment, criminal conduct,
refusal to give testimony required
by government, rules, habitual
use to excess of intoxicating
beverages, abuse of narcotics and
drugs, and “reasonable doubt as
to the loyalty of the person in
volved” to the government of the
United States.
Bit
Sues Navy
To Stav In
SAN DIEGO (A% - Gay Santa
Barbara educator who says he is
bisexual has filed a federal court
suit to stay in the Naval Reserve. ’
Gary Newton Hess, a Naval
Reserve commander at Point
Mugu in Southern California, is
asking that his dischargee be
blocked and the the Navy’s
regulations barring homosexuals
from service be struck down.
Hess also sought $10,000 in
damages.
Hess is a member of the Santa
Barbara County Board _ of
Education and assistant director
of learning resources at the
University of California, Santa
Barbara. He is also vice president
of Santa Barbara Educational
Television.
At 44, he is divorced and has
four children.
A three-man Navy fitness panel
recommended last week that
Hess be discharged honorably as
a homosexual. , j
Hess denied engaging in
homosexual conduct while in
service and says hi$ 23-year Navy
record is spotless.
He has said puplicly that his
private life is none of the Navy’s
business arfd has accused the
government of persecuting him
for public statembnts made in
[(defense of homosexuality.
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