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Llewelyn Indited For THE BARB Murder And Arson the news monthly for southern gays February 1977 Llewelyn was in dited along with Neal Millirons (22), Larry Schneider (23) and Michael Sherwood Day (23) in connection with the execution style murders of Pete Winokur, Keith Stamm and Floyd King and the burning of two gay lounges, Mother’s and Cabaret After Dark. Llewelyn, according to Fulton County Police hired Millirons, Robbie Llewelyn Larry Schneider Michael Day Schneider and Day to burn the two clubs and later agreed to pay them $1000 a piece to kill Winokur. Atlanta’s morning paper The Constitution, erroneously called L\ewely n the owner of three Atlanta clubs citing the Locxer Room, Hollywood Hot and Union Station. Union Station has been closed for sometime and Hollywood Hot is now part of the Locker Room Baths. All three clubs were owned by Continued on pa^e 5 Registers As Gay Margo George [R] and Bill Smith [L] join Gil Robinson [C] in the well of the Georgia State Senate Chanbers. by Chris Thompson Atlanta- Robbie Llewelyn was indited January 12th by the Fulton County Grand Jury. Llewelyn was charged with three counts of murder and two counts of arson.' Request for bond was denied. Llewelyn, well known in Atlanta, operated the Locker room Bath and Disco at Neal Millirons Cheshire Square Shopping Center. The combination Bath and Disco, a unique 24hr private club r is owned by Llewelyn’s mother known to Atlanta gay bar patrons as “Mama Dee”. Robinson Lobbyest BARB NEWS SERVICE Atlanta - Gil Robinson opened the drive to repeal Georgia’s sodomy law with a speach before the Fulton County Delegation to Georgia’s General Assembly. Robinson registered with the state as a lobbyest for the interest of gay people. One third of the states in the U.S. have repealed their laws against Consentual sodomy. Only one, California, has ever repealed the law as an individual legislative act. All other states have repealed the law as part of a general code reform. Arkansas is the only southern state to have repealed its sodomy law. Robinson is op- tom istic that Georgia can become the second state in the nation to repeal its sodomy laws with out a general code reform. Robinson told the BARB that “the Georgia legislature overhauled the criminal code in the 1975 session. Waiting for . # another general code reform to repeal Georgia’s sodomy laws would be a long wait.” Robinson is currently seeking a group of legislators to introduce the bill. There is a possibility that the bill will be introduced along with a reform package proposed by the CJCC (Criminal Justice Cordanating Committee). Mayor Jackson has endorsed the CJCC package with the exception of certain portions concerning the legalization of prostitution. Robinson, a free lanq© photographer^ is working with a coalition of Atlanta gay leaders to form a funding mechanism for the lobbying effort. The job pf lobbying is difficult and will need the financial support of gay people in Atlanta and throughout the state. Lobbying is a full time job. The three months when the legislature is in session each year is the time when the other nine months of the year’s efforts either pay off or fail. Robinson’s address to the Fulton County Legislation was Continued on page 5 NATIONAL NOTES TRENTON, N.J. - This state is expected to be the next state to decriminalize private sexual activities bet ween consenting adults. The New Jersey House has already passed a reform of that state’s criminal code which includes sex law repeal. The state Senate will vote on the package soon and Gov, Brendan Byrne has prom iced to sign the bill into law if the Senate approves. WASHINGTON, D.C. - The CIA has the names of some 300,000 Americans arrested for sexual acts, in its possession. The Ford administration’s official Rockefeller Com mission Report on CIA activities suggests that the names were received from state and local police in exchange for assistance. The lists would be in violation of the CIA’s charter, as the organization is prohibited from engaging in domestic intellegence operations. SACRAMENTO, CA. - The California Court of Appeals ruled that until the legislature approves such legislation, gay people have no legal protection from job discrimination. “There is simply no con stitutional right(for homosexuals) to work for an unwilling em ployer,” said the court. The Court of Appeals decision upheld a San Francisco Superior Court decision in the case of four men who claimed they were descriminated against by Pacific Telephone Company. WASHINGTON, D.C. - The director of the United States Bureau of Prisons has officially banned all gay publications from federal prisons in this country. In a letter to U.S. Rep. Edward Koch (D—N.Y.), director, Norman Carlson stated, “The reason for this decision focuses ex clusively on the fact that homosexuality is a major problem in correctional in stitutions., .Publications which call attention to an inmate’s homosexuality can..be detrimental to the. safety as well as to the safety of others.” LOS ANGELES - The Gay Students Union (GSU) of the University of California at Los Angeles asked the university ad ministration to ban discrimination against gay people in campus organizations. GSU has asked that ROTC be forbidden from ad vertising in campus newspapers since ROTC follows military regulations which discriminate against gay people. The UCLA Communications Board has prohibited campus advertisers from discrimination against gay people. LONDON - Efforts to drop laws banning gay sex in Scotland were defeated in Parliament in early November. London’s Gay News reported that efforts to drop clause seven of the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Bill were defeated in a 37-27 vote. SEATTLE Seattle Mayor Wes Uhlman has ^agreed to seek labor contract language with all city employee unions to ban discrimination against gay • people. Uhlman indicated that police and fire fighters would be included in his proposal. CHICAGO ;- The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) narrowly passed a resolution on discrimination; against lesbians and gay men at the organization’s business meeting in Chicago on November 27th. The resolution- offered from the floor by Louie Crew, gay activist who teaches iat Fort Valley State College in Georgia-passed by a vote of 102-96. BOSTON - The ‘Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Council of Churches has voted unanimously to reject the membership ap plication of the Metropolitan Com munity Church. In rejecting the church for membership, the Council’s Board of Continued on page 4 Mayor Appoints Barb Editor To CRC * BARB NEWS SERVICE Atlanta - Barb Editor Bill Smith has been re appointed to the city’s Community Relations Commission (CRC). Commissioner :Smith was orgionally ap pointed to the CRC in 1973 by then Mayor Sam Massed. Smith was elected 2nd Vice Chairperson of the CRC in 1976. Mayor Jackson made the appointment official on January 5th and Smith’s name will be forwarded to city council for conformation. Smith said that he did not expect any problems with council conformation. “The Board of Alderman approved my nomenation in 1973 and I think the appointment of an openly gay person wafc much more controversial at that time.” Smith is also expected to be confirmed as acting vice chairperson of the Commission by hi$ fellow commissioners. The executive committee’ of the CRC voted to recommend to the full commission that Smith be named Continued on paj»e 11 ON THE COVER: Anybody wanna help me make it through the night? Singer-composer-actor Kris Kristofferson dies in "A Star Is Born.” [See GAY-ing to the Movies page 8.]