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GAYING
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Maximilian Schell in “The
Man in the Glass Booth.”
only by subscription, is
starting to be released to
theatres on a regular per
formance basis.
First up is “The Man in the
Glass Booth,” starring
Maximilian Schell as a man
living as a wealthy Jew in
New York, who may or may
not have been an SS colonel
in the Second World War. It’s
what I call an “intellectual
thriller”-- there are no car
chases or other action
sequences, but it has the
same impact on your mind as
if there were. This was the
best offering of AFT’s second
season.
The eight features of the
first AFT season will shown
for one week each this fall, at
regular prices, with the most'
successful coming back at the
end of the series. The best of
this lot are “Butley,” ‘‘The
Homecoming” and “The
Iceman Cometh,” which we’ll
talk more about next month.
Playing in the “Casino of
Gold,” Cleopatra Jones
(Tamara Dobson, seated 1. at
the end of table) and Tanny
EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK
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Police tactics throughout
the South from Miami to
Washington from Atlanta to
New Orleans remain op
pressive and heavy-handed.
Progress is being made. Jack
Campbell’s candidacy for
city council in Miami, the new
administrative policy of
Mayor Jackson in Atlanta
and the rough new civil rights
law in Washington with long
time gay activist Frank
Kameny as a part of the
enforcement mechanism.
That progress did not
return the warm euphoria of
the July fourths of the 1960’s
and 1970 that once were en-
tertwined with that date. It
seems perhaps that age and
cynicism have destroyed the
possibility to return to the
happiness of naive faith. July
4th, 1975 did bring with a few
moments of that old warmth
and faith. Micky Day, the
Onyx Lounge Show Director,
along withMissGay Atlanta,
Roski Fernandes, Samantha
and R. C. Cola put on a show
that highlighted all the good
things that have l5^en a part
of our history as Americans.
As Roski sang Ameri<*Suny
mind forgot the anguish trfot
is also a part of America and I
found myself caught up in the
crowds attention that was
riveted on Roski. A quiet
unity, faith in* a system, a
togetherness followed
through the audience.
(c.) are watched by the
“Dragon Lady” (blonde
Stella Stevens ,r.).
The term faith that we as
gay people have in the
American system was
widened there. .No political
speech, now show for the
straights, just an honest hope
and yes a naive faith in
America.
As I left the Onyx there was
a good feeling in my head for
the first time in a long time. A
feeling not from liquor but
from people.
The fall came the next day
as the realization hit me that
we, as a community, do not
act on ouT faith in America.
We dream about it, we sing
about it then we go home like
bats to fly again only when
the lights have dimmed and
darkeness allows us a tunnel
to our sometimes secret
world.
Karl Marx closed the
Communist Manifesto with
“Workers of the world arise.
We havejhothing to lose but
our chafes.”
•'J’h&t statement was not
true totally for workers or if
applied to gay people. Gays
and workers in America are
• not in chains, plastic bags
perhaps, but not chains. The
call to unity by Marx or any
other activist is the key to the
action’s success. Unity with
others and Other groups
seeking to throw off gover
nment intervention in the
private lives of individuals.
Unfortunately I&arx’s
followers today are more
oDDressive to gay workers
Emotional Virginity
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selves to emotional virginity -
isolation and solitude in the
midst of the crowd. I firmly
believe this to be the reason
gays lay such claim to being
selfsuffiecient and satisified
though alone. Society’s script
dictates that we will keep
away from our own kind and
thus not embarrass by being
seen in public together
(“Look at those two holding
hands - Hey Officer”). And
what could we tell the
children if Aunt Salley or
Uncle David should bring a
lover home for Christmas?
Interestingly, the script allows
us to deviate if we are ob
vious, and restrict ourselves
to quarters where we are
accepted. By living a
stereotype we remain in
visible from society, and then
we can be together. It’s
tougher to live a life moving
exactly where and when we
wish, for then we violate the
scripts mat say essentially,
“Fa'ggot, stay in your place.”
Folks can’t handle us looking
and behaving exactly like one
of them. Making a public
emotional commitment to
another (or perhaps, others)
is simply not allowed. “We
can’t tolerate it, for they’re
trying to get us too.“ But
whose lives are these - ours or
their??? Will we follow the
scripts that say
“Homosexuals, you must live
as we say,” which means
spend so much time in late
night places playing games
avoiding one another that we
wreck our health, waste our
time, suffer from alcoholism,
and still lead painfully lonely
lives from embarrassment.
I recently received a letter
from a reader stating that ‘I
have met relatively (sur-
prisingfy) few men who are
glad that they’re men-
lovers.” Glad to be a
man lover? What are we
ashamed of? There is no
more worthwhile gesture
than loving another person. If
my society tells me I cannot
iove another man, they lie-1
can, and I do. They may try to
keep me from him, but they
will never prevent me from
loving him. I will not be
scripted (could that be
conscripted) into a life of one-
night stands and loneliness
than the capitalist. Tht,
capitalists have not sought to
retrain or brainwash the
. behavior of gay people.
The call for unity is still
valid for without it July 4th
will remain just a day to
celebrate warm memories,
to forget for a moment that
the person standing next to
you could be a police officer
and if you ask him to come
home with you he could arrest
you. A time to wrap ourselves
in the empheral fluff of a
butterfly cocoon that at any
moment could be ripped open
and kill the beauty of coming
out of opr small fuzzy
cocoons.
because any/segment of
society, (gay included) tries to
tell me how it must be. Hie
bonds of emotional virginity
must be broken - lpve and
happiness are the rewards,
and he is the alternative.
Gay liberation is at a
critical point. Much political
groundwork remains to be
done, but even more personal
change must come about if
gays are to look society
straight in the eye and say “I
am as good as you are.“ Let’s
face it- most os us don’t really
believe that at all. Virginity is
a mark of adolescence.
Adulthood brings com
mitment. Will we continue to
live our solitary - communal
lives, or will we grow up?
LOUIE CREW CALLS
SEX LAWS
MADNESS
The University of South
Florida (USF), Bayboro
Campus, was host July 12th to
a conference on victimless
crimes. The two part con
ference an sponsored USF,
the Americal Civil Liberties
Union (ACLU) and the
Florida Endowment for the
Humanities.
The conference attempted
to deal with the continuing
question of “deviant”
behavior and what society
should do: continue attempts
to control it or end such ef
forts.
Gambling, prositution,
'narcotics and homosexuality
were bandied about among
the police and elected of
ficials with sup porta tion and!
critical comments from a'
group of scholars.
University of Tampa’s
professor of philosophy
Herman Saatkamp argued
that, “I have the right to go to
'hell in my own fashion. If I
victimize my self, the state
has no right to interfere.”
St. Petersburg vice control
head Lt. Larry Rees coun
tered with “Society must pay
the price. If the individual
chooses to go to hell in a heap,
fine. But who’s gonna take
care of him? Invariably,
society.”
Georgia’s Louie Crew,
founder of Integrity (nation
gay organization of
Episcopalians) and a
professor of,
English at Fort Vaiiey state
College spoke for the rights of
gays.
“Your laws are madness
and your behavior is
inhumane to the extreme.
You won’t arrest my husband
and me because it would
expose you.”
The volitile Crew blasted
the hypocritical lifestyles and'
morals of the heterosexual
population. “I personally find
Doris Day obscene, but I
don’t want to outlawiher. ’ ’
USF political science
professor Sotiros Barber
countered with “The com
munity has to exclude cer
tain lifestyles. The task then
becomes to determine which
ones.” Barber drew support
from Ernest Van Den Haag,
DALE’S WORLE
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professor oi social philosophy
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contributor to National
Review. “Societies are moral
communities: they must
share values,” argued Van
Den Haag, “I see nothing
wrong with trying to preserve
those values by law. ’ ’
The conference’s second
half held the following
Saturday delt with gambling,
abortion, isuicide, euthanasia
and prostitution. The con
ference is part of a con-,
tiniuing program at USF of
community involvement
sponsored by USF and The
Endowment for the
.Humanities,
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