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Boca Raton GAU Charges
Police Harassment
Galveston Organizes
Boca Raton, Fla. - On Nov. 13
the Community relations Board of
Boca Raton voted unanimously to
investigate a complaint charging
die local police department with
harassment and entrapment of
gay people.
The formal complaint was
handed to the City Manager by
Mark N. Silber on behalf of the
Gay Academic Union of Florida
Atlantic University.
1 The members of the GAU
dedded to take action against the
Boca Raton police department
after local gay people were
complaining of undercover police
decoys harassing, enticing and
entrapping unsuspecting in
dividuals on the beacn area. A
few months before, Silber and
Gary Lee, president of the year-
old gay group, were victims of
police harassment on the beach. .
According to the formal
complaint, the Boca Raton police
were “carrying out a campaign of
harassment” against gays. The
complaint further noted that
‘‘provocatively dressed young
police decoys” used techniques of
enticement and entrapment in
order to make arrests.
• Lt. John Oliver of the police
department denied the GAU’s
charges. As for the provocative
Governors Polled
The results of a five-month
informal survey of 53 U.S.
govemonrs on gay rights were
released by the
Philadelphia-based Gay Raiders.
The survey was prompted by
Pennsylvania Governor Milton J. >
Shapp’Si April 23,1975, Executive
Order barring discrimination in
state agencies on the basis of
affection al or sexual
preference.” It polled the
governors of the 50 U.S. states
plus Guam, Puerto Rico, and
American Samoa.
Twenty-one state executive
officials responded to the letters
sent by the Raiders (about 40
percent of the states), and the
majority of these were positive in
their support of equal op
portunities for gay women and
inen.
| Typical of many of the
responses is a letter from Arizona
Governor Raul H. Castro: “The
State of Arizona does not consider
the question of sexual orientation
in screening employees.
“We have a very strong af
firmative action program, further
enhanced by my own executive
order to our state agendes to see
Ithat discrimination on the basis of
irace, sex, religion, or any other
individual preference is not
attire worn bv the
undercover agents, he
asked, “What do vou expect
them to wear- ttixertoesy
The local press closely watched
the GAU complaint presentation
with great interest. Articles
concerning the matter appeared
on the front page of the Boca
Raton News and the Palm Beach
IVist. Additional cress coverage
induded the Miami Herald , the
ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, the
Palm Beach Times and several
area radio stations.
Silber noted that the GAU’s
action was perhaps the most
significant demonstration of gay
activism in south Florida.
practiced.”
While a few of the responses
were considered “vague &
evasive” by. Raiders Director
Mark Segal, he pointed out that
“by and large the overwhelming
majority of these letters indicates
that many state administrations
are now at a point of addressing
themselves to the rights of gay
people in their states.”
Beleived to be the first such
survey of U.S. Governors on gay
rights, Segal characterized the
results as “highly pleasing,” and
said, “this indicates that local gay
organization can and should
beging working with their state
administrations for positive
change in the status of gay
citizens ”
Straights who are sympathetic
and understanding to the gay
community and its problems are
encouraged to join Galveston’s
organization for all gays — guys'
and gals, truck driver or drag
queen, and everyone in between. ‘
The Galveston Gay Society
(GGS) is designed to give legal,
spiritual, and charitable aid to
those in need, and to enhance the
image of all gays through dignity
iand fellowship in mind.
Recently formtu, coasted
85 members on Sept. 23^ By Oct.
7, membership had increased
more than 30 percent toll L Dues
are only $1 per month. The;
society meets on the first Tuesday
of each month.
GGS’s board of directors
'Consists of two representatives
from each of Galveston’s four gay
bars. The board will assist in
making policy and has emergency
power to act on any decision by
Febnuury 1976, THE BARB - 3
two-thirds majority vote in event
of inability td, assembte~officers
and representatives in time. ;
At the time of founding GGS it
was decided to elect temporary
officers. In view of ,ifs recent
growth, however, it was decided
at the Oct 7 meeting to hold >■
elections for permanent officers'
during the first week in December
as the BARB went to press.
Mi£0lA
DE SADE
LODGING
OPPORTUNITIES
PAGE 15
Integrity Forum Sponsors
Counselors
Counselors and counselees are
invited to submit materials for a
special focus on helping
relationships in a spring, 1975,
issue of INTEGRITY: GAY
EPISCOPAL FORUM. Guest
editor for the issue is gestalt peer
counselor Dan Fee of Boston, Co-
Vice President of national
Integrity. .
Preference will be given to
materials which arise from the
Gay Christian experience, though
a work does not have to be ex
plicitly academic about either
aspect of counseling or being
counselledT
Fee would especially like to see
input from persons who feel they
have been counselled in a
distinctly positive of negative
manner by their therapists,
pastors, and/or peers.
Experiences from the whole
range of the human life span are
welcome, calling attention to
counseling as a resource for
continuing gay growth
thoughout life and relationships.
Women are strongly encouraged
to submit material.
Works which respond from a
variety of theoretical emphases
will be most welcome, so long as
the writer avoids too narrow and
theoretical a focus within the
tradition being used.
Upper limit for materials is
600-700 words, and shorter
statements arising from direct
experiential learning are en
couraged.
Send all manuscripts with a
stamped return envelope to Dan
Fee, 64 Fisher Avenue, Roxbury,
Massachusetts 02120, preferably
before 1st February 1976; the
absolute deadline is 1st March
1976.
Lobby Continues in Houston
ED’S NOTE: Hie Houston Gay
’olitical Caucus (GPC) is continuing
;’s gay rights lobbying effort in the
ity's Commissioner's Court. Daryl
liliu, an active member of GPC and a
•equent contributor to .The Barb
poke before the Commissioner’s
!ourt. His address is reprinted below.)
he time has come to stop
uestioning whether Gays are
ieserving of the rights of other
itizens. The argument over Gay
ights has fumed until the real
[uestion has been consumed.
The opening lines of the
'reamble state, ‘‘We the
leople...” and sirs, I am here
oday to confront you with the fact
hat we are people. We are
tuman beings, who, like' the rest
F you,contribute to this society.
Ye pay our taxes and vote.
All people, if given equal
ipportunity and protection can
jenefit that society which does
lot exdude a segment of itself,
however, that sodety which does
lot guarantee these equalities to
ill its' various segments is
lenying itself, as well as its
nembers, full growth potential.
In America, this potential is
yarded by law. However, not all
ire at this time so protected. As
we look back and see th e wrong of
lenying ethnic groups equal
Opportunity., and , protection, it is
very conceivable that posterity
will look back and say the same of
this generation.
Franklin Roosevelt restates
lohn Donne’s For Whom The
Bells Toil when he said, “We
have learned that we cannot live
alone in peace. That our own well
being is dependent on the well
being of o.ther nations. We have
learned that we must live as men,
and not as ostriches nor as dogs in
the manger. We have learned to
be citizens of the world, members
of the human community.’’And
gentlemen, “liberty like charity
begins at home.”
A bell will ring loud and clear
as long as it is free from ob
struction. However, just one
finger touching it will stop its
song. We can liken our com
munity t'o a bell. It will never sing
its most beautiful song and it will
never sing its loudest until the
hand of prejudice imposed by
ignorant and unthinking men is
removed.
You have been elected to the
responsibility of governing this
community. Its commerce and
physical development are im-
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