FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 19
Community To Be New
Focus, Say Gay Activists
(CPS) Jim Owles and Arnie
Kantrowitz, members of the
New York City Gay Activist
Alliance, a homosexual organ
ization, say that a "turning in
ward" will be the new focus
of the gay community.
Owles and Kantrowitz have
been touring the United States
and talking with gay groups
and individuals about the
problems they are facing and
programs that are getting im
plemented to improve their
lives.
An attitude change in deal
ing with the establishment has
emerged among gay groups.
"Mass demonstrations and
confrontation are not an effec
tive way of dealing with the
overall harassment and oppres
sion of the present time,"
Jim Owles said. "It is hard to
mobilize people for them, and
the public is not responding
positively to demonstrations".
The priority for the gay
community, as Owles and
Kantrowitz see it, is to streng
then itself by providing ser
vices that its members need.
Some of the services men
tioned are community centers,
half-way houses, and gay
owned businesses.
Presently, there are two gay
community centers in Seattle,
one in Minneapolis, and one
in Los Angeles. These centers
have been providing counsel
ing, drug, alcohol, and military
help. In addition, they give
gays the opportunity to get
together socially in a relaxed
atmosphere without harass
ment.
According to Kantrowitz
and Owles the goal is to build
an openly gay community
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that will encourage self-accep
tance. As Kantrowitz puts it,
"We don't need any govern
ment to tell us that we exist
or don't exist. We are a reali
ty, and it's up to us to make
it a decent reality."
In Los Angeles, the work
being done within the com
munity has incorporated large
segments of the gay popula
tion. Gays with conservative,
liberal, or radical political
leanings have all participated
in the community center's
programs.
The Gay Liberation Front,
a group that is still active in
some parts of the country, has
associated itself with other
left-wing groups. According to
Owles, "The association alien
ated many gays who did not
hold the same political views,
and not enough attention was
paid to the individual needs
and problems of the gays."
Owles felt that these were
reasons for a decline in the
popularity of the Gay Libera
tion Front.
The new inward focus does
not mean a halt in efforts to
end sodomy, solicitation and
lewdness laws which have been
primarily used to intimidate
gay people. Nor does it mean
an end to demonstrations on
immediate issues or injustice.
"What it means," Kantrowitz
said, "Is where we are in sub
stantial numbers, we don!t
voice the sentiments of the
gay community but we voice
the sentiments of the com
munity because we are the
community."
There are many problems
that gays encounter, as do
other groups not yet com
pletely accepted by the norms
of society. They are often dis
criminated against in employ
ment. There have been fre
quent cases of teachers being
dismissed from their jobs for
openly claiming their homo
sexuality. Courts have ruled
such dismissals illegal where
the individual has never been
convicted of a crime. This
puts a homosexual in the posi
tion of being able to say he is
gay, as long as he doesn't live
as a gay.
THE GUILFORDIAN
The states of Maryland,
Georgia, and Connecticut have
barred state universities from
granting charters to gay groups
on campus.
Gay bars and bathhouses,
catering to a clientele that is
not allowed to socialize in
public, offer high prices and
an oppressive environment in
return for an opportunity for
gays to meet together.
Within the gay community,
lesbians have the additional
burden of overcoming preju
dice and discrimination against
women, in addition to preju
dice because of their homo
sexuality. This discrimination
against women is found a
mong male heterosexuals and
homosexuals alike.
Kantrowitz feels that one
of the central problems for
gays is an ignorance among
the general public about what
it means to be a homosexual.
Theories are still commonly
held that homosexuals are
neurotic or are a result of
genetic or hormone imbalance.
"When heterosexuals start
asking themselves the why and
wherefore of heterosexual i
ty", concluded Kantrowitz,
"then they can start dealing
with homosexuality."
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