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DALE'S WORLD
By FRANCIS R DALE
THANK YOUI
Before I get into the meat of
my column this month, I would
like to take the time and space to
thank everyone of my readers.
First for all those who wrote to
me and had such kind words.
Second for supporting our
advertisers and tne people I
mention in my column. 1 have
gotten very good feed-back from
various companies. When you
support our advertisers, you are
in effect helping keep The Barb
alive and supporting the gay
movement in general.
1 received many letters for
my photo and the “Drawing of
Tom of Finland - and I’ll send
them out as soon as possible. I
am always surprised at all the
places I receive letters from - I
guess I shouldn’t as I even
received letters from behind the
Iron Curtain in the past where
my material was smuggled into
the country.
HOMOSEXUAL
INFORMATION
CENTER
I have just come across an
organization which I believe
many of my readers will be
interested in and might want to
support. It is the Homosexual
Information Center, 6715
Hollywood Boulevard, Suite 210,
Hollywood, CA 90028.
Let me quote something from
one of their letters to me.
“Popular myth has it that
homosexuality is a state of
being. That‘homosexuals’area
body of community of persons
with a life style of their own
outside the ordinary process of
living. Actually, homosexualtiy
is a sex act, the same as any
other anal or oral activity. Under
our laws all sexual activities of
the sort are considered
E erversions whether performed
y persons of the same or
opposite sex or by married or un
married persons.
“People engage in
homosexual acts as a matter of
personal choice. Socially
speaking these individuals may
have nothign in common. For
instance, outside of specific
unorthodox sexual behavior their
general style of living is the
same as heterosexually-oriented
singles or childless couples. In
other words, there is no
collective behavior pattern that
stems from their common sexual
proclivities per se. Thus, the
word ‘homosexuals’ used as a
noun to describe a class of
people is a misnomer. The word
describes sexual behavior and
choices rather than
persons . . . ”
The Information Center
Library is one of the most
unusual in the country They
have over 4,000 books,
periodicals and pamphlets, many
of which are otherwise
unobtainable. While the Library
is mainly for use by schools and
students they also offer books
and publications to the general
public, plus their interesting
Newsletter. If interested drop
them a line and if you can send a
contribution. It will enable you
to receive the Center’s
publications and related
materials, and it will help insure
that the policy of free
distirbution of their message to
those who best can use such
material, such as legislators, law
enforcement officials, educators
can be continued.
THE BIG FIRE
Here in New York, fir®
destroyed one of the most
popular cruising spots - an
abandoned dock area on the
Hudson River. The dock was the
scene of countless accidents
(people falling through rotten
floors, etc.), pick-pocketing, and
small fires throughout the past
year. in spite of its many
drawbacks it remained one of the
most popular spots and a
constant irritation to the local
police and a sore spot to the city.
CHAMBERS GAY?
One of the most famous spy
cases in the history of this
country was the Hiss Chambers
case. Now 26 years later after
Alger Hiss was convicted of lying
about passing secret documents
to Communist agent Whittkaer
Chambers, in a TV interview
Hiss claims that Chambers was
picking up homosexuals, not
documents.
Hiss said on the taped Mike
Douglas show to be shown April
26, “We had reason to believe
that Chambers had been
bisexual . But he confessed to
the FBI that he had been a
homosexual and that there had
been aten year period of pathetic
pickups in empty streets.
“Many or the stories about
the pickups of secret documents
seem to have been pickups of
men. It was pathetic. l,tn not
bitter. The people I’m supposed
to be bitter about have suffered
more than I.’’
GAY CARE
A Pennsylvania State health
department physician, Dr.
Walter J. Lear, said that he is
willing to publicize his gayness
to focus attention on what he
called inadequate health care for
gays.
Lear, 52, and father of two
grown children from a seven
year marriage, held a featured
place on the front cover of the
inaugural edition of the
Philadelphia Gay News. Dr.
Lear explained; “I have had a
male lover for the past 22 years,
a homosexual.I’m coming out of
the closet because phsycians and
people in the health industry
need to be educated,
“homosexuals can have different
medical problems from
heterosexuals.’’
PROSTITUTION IN
THE BIG APPLE
Male prostitution has been
big news around New York City
lately. Chicken prostitution was
the latest headline material, with
8 year olds working the famous
Times Square area - nothing
new, its just that its being made
more public during a city clean
up.
Also in the news wa$ the
arrest of five men who had been
advertising in the classified
section of the Advocate.
REMOVE YOUR HAND
Deputy Mayor
Maurice Weiner, 45, resigned
his position in Los Angeles after
he was convicted on a charge of
lewd conduct. His conviction
was for “twice massaging the
groin area of an undercover
policeman.” Weiner, a
bachelor, said that he was
innocent and that he was at the
heterosexual porn theatre where
he was arrested to investigate
the charges of police harassment
of the homosexual communtiy.
LA’s Mayor Bradley
corroborated his story and
Weiner will appeal.
NO GAYS IN SWEDEN
A special Swedish
government committee has
recommended that the word
homosexual be banned from
legislation dealing with sex, so
that all homosexuals would be
treated in the same manner as
heterosexuals. This committee
also hadrecommendedthat incest
be legal except in the case of an
adult and a young boy or girl
under his or her care and that
sexual inter couse be legally
permitted as early as age 14.
GAY SHOPPER
If you are on the K. R.
Enterprises mailing list you were
lucky enough to get on their
special Inventory clearance
Sale. Sorry if you missea out on
that one, but be sure to get on
their list and maybe you can take
advantage of their next one.
Meanwhile they are offering
BARB READERS ONLY a five
dollar discount on their newest
item, The Commander. A form
of cock ring. It coities in a
complete set in three sizes and
and is used in cases of failure to
produce an adequate erection;
premature ejaculation and
inability to maintain an erection
following ejaculation.i The
Commander was selling for
$24.95 but for readers the price
will be only $19.95 from K. R.
Enterprises, Post Office pox 636,
Department Barb, 1 San
Francisco, CA 94101. 1
SPECIAL ITEMS
Yours truly is putting out a
newsletter called, The Better
Way and is devoted to helping
people live longer, look younger
and stay ’ in good health. It
covers everything and anything
useful for promoting its goals.
The first two issues offered
features such as “Yogurt - Can it
help you live longer?” “Power
or Belief’ and “Bran and
Dieting.” In the future issues
will carry such items as Fantastic
Energy When You Need It,
Organic Cosmetics You Make At
Home, Honey A Miracle Food.
You can obtain copies and I hope
you will free of charge by writing
SERENITY, 310 E 72nd Street,
New York, NY 10021. Please
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for “The Better Way.”
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ed’s note: The rise of gay
service organizations and
churches in roe late sixties and
early seventies was greeted with
large doses of public media
exposure. Little is known about
the early gay movements and
those courages people who took
the first steps. Father George
Hyde is one of those early
crusaders. Until I received his
manuscript I had no idea a
church reaching out to gay
people was organized and
flourished in Atlanta and several
other cities in the mid-fourties.
Hie story of Father George Hyde
is facinating. Due to its length
we wOl present portions of It over
the next three month. Follow it
closely it. It is a bit of gay
history that we must preserve,
use, and grow with.
The Eucharistic Catholic
Church was organized in July
1946 on the initative of a small
group of gay Christians in
Atlanta, Ga., and whose first
priest attended their spiritual
needs not because of their
homosexuality, but because of
their Christianity.
The Reverend Father George
Hyde, formerly a member of a
Roman Catholic Religious
Community, Became the first
pastor of this open ministry to
and for gay Christians, and with
less than twelve individuals
established Holy Apostles
Parish. Fr. George later became
the first Bishop of the
Eucharistic Catholic Diocese of
the American Missions, and was
the motiviating force which
established siiniliar
congregations in four other
southern regions.
While the formal
establishment of the Church is
dated as July 1946, with its first
worship service in December
1946, its foundations were being
laid from at least a year
previous.
THE QUEST
For centuries the,
‘established church’ has denied
homosexuals the right to partake
of ths Sacramental Presence of
Christ- the Holy Eucharist, the
Communion of the altar,
Officially it is stated that
homosexuals are “grave
sinners.”
In early 1945 a roman
Catholic seminarian began to
openly question the doctrine and
theology of Christianity-at-large,
but especially the Roman
Catholic Church, which denied
an open homosexual the fullness
of fellowship in the Church and
the right to recieve the other
Sacraments of the Church. His
basic argument to the
theologians was this:
11-THE BARB. June 1976
Cl -vt&A&'vlaJ.:
“... if the Eucharistic is what you
teach it to be... the means
whereby souls are nourished; if
it is to the soul the same that
medication is to the physical
body...how can yon justify
denying this healing grace to the
Homosexual...?“
This seminarian, the
Reverend George Hyde, always
concluded his questioning
argument with the firm
statement:
“...I do not believe that the
homosexual, because only of the
very nature of Ms or her
homosexuality, has anything to
fear bom God... nor does the
particular affectlonal orientation
or any sexual epressslon arising
form it, have any direct bering
on Ms relatkmsMp with God or
his salvation...no more so than
. the affectlonal orientation of the
heterosexual and any resulting
sexual expression...”
Needless to say, such
statements were not welcomed,
and loudty were condemned not
only by the Roman Catholic
Church, but other of the
b” mainline-established
churches .”
At first protesting and
questing within Moral otheology
Continued on page 12.
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