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ill! :: i!' r J; i : ii' I*: - 1 I ! I| ) III Ii 11 » !■: ri;!| • I - ■■? !#• Ohio on the Air A recent conference of the Ohio Gay Rights Coalition heard reports cn two on-going gay radio programs and a Lima, Ohio, TV talk show's effort to balance an earlier appearance by Anita Bryant. Oberlin College's radio station airs a l5“niinute Sunday program on gay concerns, while Cincinnati's V/AIP turns over an hour each Sunday to Gaydreams,” a ’’magazine for the gay community,” The Lima talk show host asked Oberlin’s Christopher Morrissey why gays resort to bathrooms for sexual meetings. Morrissey made three comments in reply: 1) that a very small fraction of homosexuals ’resort' to this type of encounter; 2) a much larger proportion of heterosexuals would engage in this type of activity if bathrooms weren't^segregated; and 3) societal oppression is such that quite often this is the only place where homosexuals can encounter each other. 'What’s Going on in America?’ AT Huijsen, president of the Netherlands-based Foundation for Free Human Partnership, told report ers last month that the prejudice toward gays in the U.S. is shocking to most Europeans. He spoke after his group took out a full-page ad in ’’Time” magazine’s Jan. 9 issue (p, 73)-which said that despite Carter’s human rights stance, gay rights are abused. ”We are alarmed by the campaign of Anita Bryant, who preaches discrimination in the name of God,” the ad stated. A Request from Tokyo V/ataru Morikawa, a Japanese student at the University of Waseda has asked the CGA to announce his desire to communicate with an American student on gay and world topics. He writes that Jaoan has a long tradition of gay oUitnre but very few of them are IntroOmvoO to America, Some famous gay works Page 6 to by Japanese writers are being published in America.” Address correspondence Wataru Morikawa 2-2JL{.-8 Naitou Kokubunji-shi Tokyo, 185 JAPAN BERN HO LI ON LAW, cont interest Current credit regu lations do not ban such pract5.ces Similarly, employment regula tions do not prohibit employers from hiring or firing based on sexual preferences. Moreover, professional associations that require members to have good moral character often refuse to admit gays because the associa tions feel that being gay is evidence of moral turpitude. Just as gay organizations are seeking equal rights for gays. some liberal groups are work5-ng toward the same ends. The American Civil Liberties Union, for example, is opposed to the us of criminal sanctions to regulate sexual activities between con senting adults. It also opposes, as a denial of equal protection, discrimination based on sexual preference. Wichita Updated Opponents of the anti-dis crimination ordinance enacted last sumr-ier in ITichita, Kansas, have obtained more than suffi cient signatures to force a repeal referendum—though gay- community leaders and supporters are challenging the constitution ality of this 5-n court. Gay-rights laws in St. Paul, rinn., and Eugene, Oregon now seem to be similarly threatened, ““from the National Gav Task Pore A Word About Costs One copy of LAMBDA costs 17^5 cents to produce and mail. Pleas' contribute to the CGA with these oonts '1n mind. See address, p. 1
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