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The Carolmae' Moet Compreheneive Gay &. Leebian Newepaper^^^ Printed on KecyM raper
Man shot four times in
brutai gay bashing
by David Stout
Q-Notes Staff
WINSTON-SALEM—On Tuesday,
March 24, three youths in the midst of a
nighttime reign of terror attempted to shoot
Marlon Evans to death because they thought
he was homosexual. Willie Leon Walker, 19;
Cedric Jermaine Moore, 18; and Robin
Lamont Harris, 16, began their all-night crirne
spree by robbing and shooting two men in
separate incidents before their cold-blooded
attack on Evans.
Known to many by his female imperson
ator name Cass Wesbrook, Evans, not in
makeup, had spent the evening with another
impersonator and a local bar employee going
to dinner and a movie. Then he dropped off
both at separate locations and began to drive
home. Traveling down Highway 67 at ap
proximately 3:30 am, he was passed by a car
moving at a high rate of speed. However,
once the vehicle was in front of him, Evans
realized that it was beginning to go slower
and slower.
To his surprise, the car then turned length
wise in the middle of the road and completely
blocked both lanes. Evans brought his ve
hicle to a halt as three youths emerged from
the parked sedan and moved toward him.
“When they got out of the car, I saw that
they were all carrying a gun so I got scared
and started to back up. That’s when they
yelled ‘Stop!’ and shot into my car.’’
must have sounded
very effeminate be
cause one of them said
^He^s a faggot - lefs
kill himr^
Continued on page IS
Entrapment focus of
First Tuesday meeting
Self defense claimed in
murder of Shelby man
by Gordon Rankin
Q-Notes Staff
CHARLOTTE—^The April general meet
ing of the Charlotte gay and lesbian activist
organization. Firs t Tuesday, featured an over
view of the false arrest and entrapment of gay
men made by members of the Charlotte and
Mecklenburg County police forces.
^ A tongue-in-cheek reference to the meet-
\ ing as “Sunday in the Park with George” by
! First Tuesday Chairperson Dick Woodhouse
' was met with laughter by the approximately
45 people in attendance, but as the meeting
continued, the audience listened intently to
the subject matter at hand.
Don King, First Tuesday board member
and coordinator of the organization’s Dis
crimination and Violence Documentation
Committee, was the keynote speaker. Also
featured was a panel composed of three Char
lotte men who claim to have been entrapped
or falsely arrested in various Charlotte city
parks, and Anita Hodgkiss, a Charlotte attor
ney who has represented two of the panelists
in their trials.
“In most cases when a person is arrested,
he has said something illegal to a vice squad
officer,” King said. He was referring to state
ments made in violation of North Carolina’s
Crime Against Nature statutes, which pro
hibit oral or anal sexual activity between
individuals of either gender, or the solicita
tion thereof. King added that the vice squad
officers can be very persuasive in their mas-
Continued on page 29
by Dan Van Mourik
Q-Notes Staff
SHELBY—^William Douglas Hoyle was
airested Sunday, March 29 for first-degree
murder of Billy Anderson. 49. Hoyle claims
he stabbed Anderson in self defense after
Anderson made a pass at him.
Anderson, a manager at the Cleveland
County Country Club, was found slumped
over in the seat of his car near Moss Lake late
Saturday, March 28.
Hoyle confessed to Cleveland County de
tectives and SBI officials after his arrest.
“I’m not afraid to talk because I know
what I did wasn’t wrong,” Hoyle said.
He didn’t turn himself in b^ause “I was
scared. Nothing like this has happened to me
before.”
Hoyle, unemployed for seven months, had
applied for a waiter’s job at the country club
in mid-March. Hoyle had previously worked
there as a bartender and knew Anderson then.
Hoyle left that job to move to Baltimore with
his girlfriend.
Jack Abbott, country club operator, would
riot lalk about Andersori nor confirm Hoyle’s
previous employment there.
“We have been asked by police not to say
anything.” Abbott stated.
Hoyle gave the following account of what
happened the night of Anderson’s murder to
The Gaston Gazette: On Friday night, March
27, Anderson drove to Hoyle’s aunt’s house
to discuss Hoyle’s job interest at the country
club.
“I got in the car,” Hoyle said. “I told him
how bad I needed a job.”
Anderson drove to Oak Grove Road and
parked the car.
“He tried to kiss me,” Hoyle said. “I got
out of the car. He pulled a knife and ran after
me.”
The two fought and Hoyle succeeded in
taking the knife from Anderson.
“I stabbed him in the back, but he got the
knife back,” Hoyle stated.
Hoyle then knocked Anderson to the
ground and kicked him until he lost con
sciousness.
Hoyle walked home and told no one about
the stabbing.
He claimed Anderson had made advances
to hint before.’ '
Church licenses openly
gay clergy student
for approximately one year at the time and
was due to graduate from Duke Divinity
School in May of 1992, so the idea of licensure
was well within reason.
*^We were trying to
make an honest deci
sion, and now weHl
take whatever conse
quences that entails.
After discussing the situation, the deacons
and Rev. Jordan took the matter before the
members at a special congregational meet
ing.
Continued on page 28
by David Stout
Q-Notes Staff
CHAPEL HILL—For the second time in
as many months, a Southern Baptist church
has affirmed the rights of a homosexual mem
ber by a majority vote of the congregation.
Following on the heels of the March decision
by Raleigh’sPullen Memorial BaptistChurch
to recognize and host a holy union between
two male members, Olin T. Binkley Baptist
Church voted on Sunday, April 5, at the
evening service to license John Blevins, a gay
clergy student and member.
Binkley’s pastor. Rev. Linda Jordan, ex
plained licensure as “an endorsement of
someone’s call to ministry,” and stated that
church leadership became aware of Blevins’
desire for this formal sanction inAugustl991
when he approached the deacon staff with the
request. He had been amember of the church-