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I il ■•I National News judge rejects leniency pleas A Superior Couirt Judge in Newark, New Jersey, rejecting pleas for leniency from petitioners and letter-writers, has sentenced a Passaic, NJ, police officer to a minimum of two years in prison for his part in the deliberate burning of a gay Hackensack disco theque in 1976, according to Community News. The Newark Star-Ledger reports that Judge Paul R. Huot told Thomas Trotta that he would not be swayed from his decision by ’’sentimental concern for the family of a crooked cop. You stand convicted of arson for money — a paid torch. This is a serious crime made more serious by the fact that you were a police officer. *’ Trotta has been suspended 'from the Passaic police department without pay, pending his appeal. sage publishes anthology For the last year, a group in New York has been working on a history of the experiences of gay men and women in the- decades of the 20's to the 50's. The Senior Action in a Gay Environment (SAGE) collective has published their work, which includes a diverse niimber of stories. The anthology focuses on the experiences of four women and four men ranging in age from 4? to 78. The volume, entitled SAGE WRITINGS, is available for $2.50 fromj Teachers’ and Writers’ Collaborative 84 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10011 ’ guild sponsors writing award The Feminist Writers' Guild has announced its first annual Woman of Promise Award for previously unpublished women writers, according to The Front Page. The award will be sponsored yearly for various literary forms and will be administered- ty different Guild chapters on a rotating basis. The I98O-8I award will be in poetry and will be administered "ky the New York Chapter. All Guild members will be eli gible t'' become candidates for the award. First, second, and third- place poets will be listed in the Guild's national newsletter and published in a women’s small press magazine or Journal. Honorable mentions will be listed in the newsletter. A three-member Judging panel selected by an advisory committee and approved by the local steering committee of the spon soring chapter will choose the winners. Manuscripts for the I98O-8I award in poetry may be sulanitted until November 15, 1980. Winners will be selected by January 15, 1981. For more information on qualifi cations for entry or on the Guild, write: The Feminist Writers’ Guild P.O. Box 9396 Berkeley, CA 94709 first congressional hearings set The Gay Rights National Lobby announced that the first Congressional Hearings in history on a lesbian and gay male civil rights bill, H.R. 2074, will take place on Oct. 10, in San Fransisco. The hearii^s, which were requested by Rep.Ted Weiss (D-NY), will take place before the ^ual Employment Opportunity Subcommittee of the •Committee on Education and Labor. The chair of the subcommittee is Rep.Augustus Hawkins (B-CA), a co-sponsor of H.R.2074. Among those testifying is support of the bill are: Dr.Judd Marmor, former president of the American Psychiatric Association; Dolores Huerta, vice president of the United Farm Workers; Gwen Craig, vice president of the Harvey Milk Democratic Club; and Raymond Hartman,• CO-chair of the Gay Rights National Lobby Board. Political and religious leaders are also espected to speak for the legislation. Additional Congressional Hearings are expected next spring, probably in Washington, DC.
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