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Tuesday, December 6, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Homosexuals hold symposium while Anita crusades
By SHIRL KASPER Staff Writer
TOPEKA - A homosexual state legislator from Minnesota said here last night that the gay rights movement was not an isolated movement in a national struggle for human rights in America.
State Senate. Allen Spear, who won election in Minnesota as an openly homosexual candidate in 1976, spoke at a symposium at Washburn University enudent Center. The symposium was open to sexuality. The symposium was offered as an alternative to Anita Bryant's Resful Fires Ministries Crusade held here in Municipal Auditorium last night. The symposium was cosponsored by the Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship of United Campus Ministry, both of Toneka.
Spear told approximately 150 persons, many of them homosexuals, to think of Anita Bryant as a challenge and an opportunity. He said the Bryant campaign had worked to the gay rights movement and provided a clear look at the nature of the opposition.
THE SAME PEOPLE who are opposing rights for gay people are opposing rights for women and frequently rights for racial minorities. The seeing is the emergence of an increasingly militant block of traditional Americans engulfed by changes that confuse and scare them.
Spear, who has a doctorate and is an answer professor of history at the University of Chicago.
"More now than ever before there's a need for people with a stake in society—who command the respect of their fellow citizens and fellow workers—to become involved in the movement for gay human rights," he said.
homeoxides in the professions meet the Bryant challenge by coming out of their
Spear said it was a myth that homosexual teachers malt their students.
He told homosexuals to master the techniques of politics and to organize. He said the movement would "not get very far by throwing pies in Anita Bryant's face."
HE LAUEDD EDUCATIONAL meetings such as the symposium and said a massive educational effort was needed to counter ruthys about homosexuality.
*Every piece of data we have shows gay people are no more prone to molest children than are heterosexuals. Data show the vast number of child molestors are heterosexual men.*
SPEAR TRACED THE history of the gay rights movement from its birth in 1968 at a Greenwich Village bar, where for the first time a homosexual fought back against police harassment. He said the gay rights movement was the last of the major movements of the '60s to develop and the last to hold in the public consciousness.
He spoke about a special problem with bornesque onression.
"Gay people are not able to show their numbers and strength in the same way as other minorities," he said, "because most don't want to be identified.
Revival . . .
"We shouldn't let the film be released anywhere," he said.
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At the end of the sermon, Todd called on the congregation to make contributions so that a Revival Fire Cruises could be televised nationally. It would cost $200,000. Collection buckets were passed for conservation while the congregation prayed silently.
"All of hell is watching and all of heaven is watching." Todd said.
After an hour and a half, Todd finished his sarmon and introduced Anita Bryant as the drummer.
She sang the Florida Sunshine Song.
She was given a standing ovation.
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Bryant is the spokesman for the Florida Citrus Growers Commission but nearly lost the position because of the controversy over her stand against homosexuals.
She said she would remain the spokeswoman because 'you were no longer
"We have to see how we're brainwashed and our children are being trained," said Mr. Tiffany.
she said it was time America got back to what was important.
Stressing the role of the family in America, Bryant said, "The family is to America what the cell is to the body. If one is infested you'd better get concerned."
Bryant pleaded, "Oh people, wake up to what's happening to you and your family and the indifference that's hardening your hearts.
in a quavering voice, a teary-eyed Bryant related the story of the premature birth of her twin children and was applauded by an emotional audience when she said, "We should be in the business of saving babies' lives, not aborting them."
...Wake up to what the real values are in
in material things, but in
in spiritual things.
Bryant closed with the Battle Hymn of the Rising, and another standing ovation by the congregation.
Athletes pay big for small rides
NEW YORK (AP)—Two of the National
scholarships still pay a good price to learn about,
and apply to.
FITCH'S TAXI fare came to $18. Wichman got off lucky. His fare was only $12.
Tom Fitch, a defensive back from the University of Kansas, and Mark Wichman, an offensive lineman from Bowling Green State University, arrived in town Sunday for the foundation's annual dinner and tournament taken for a ride—an expensive taxi cab ride.
Both Fitch and Wichman, arriving separately, took a low-cost bus from LaGuardia Airport to a midtown airlines building and then hopped a cab to the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, roughly one-half mile away. It took 10-minute stroll even with a suitcase or two.
They compared notes about their cabbies yesterday at a luncheon honoring the 11 scholarship athletes who qualified for $1,000 foundation fellowships, as well as past greats being inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame tonight.
"Was he about ye tail?" asked the 6-1 Pitch from Topeka taking his hand at about
The 6-4 Wichman, who hails from the Chicago area of Talladge, Ohio, nodded affirmatively.
"WAS HE wearing a blue windbreaker and looked like Robert DeNiro?" Fitch pressed on, mentioning the actor who played the title role in the hit film "Taxi"
Wichman said that he was and he did.
"I had no idea where the Waldford was," said Fitch, whose only visit to Fun City was as a child. "There were some other people in the cab and he dropped them off on me, and I got all over it. I sat This is ridiculous. I paid the money but I got his name and number."
"It had luggage and I didn't know how far the hotel was," Wichman said. "It was the first time I'd ever been to New York and I went up there at all the buildings kind of in amazement."
"It wasn't until later that I found out the hotel was within walking distance."
Wichman said his driver mentioned something about a break in a nearby water main that part was true enough—and said he did not. He took the route. It must have gone through Talmadge.
"So gays face a kind of impossible choice. On the one hand they can stay in the closet with all the internal psychological oppression that implies, or they can come out and face open discrimination. Neither is a particularly happy choice."
spear rebuked those who said homosexuals were not discriminated against as long as they did not flaunt their sexuality.
for homosexuals through improved images in the media.
were a teacher was fired after a school
actor found out he was harsomexus
HE CITED A CASE in Tacoma, Wash
The homosexual had taught in Tacoma for 13 years, was well liked and had been teacher-of-the-year, Spear said. The fact that he was homosexual became known accidentally, he said, not because of anything he had done or said in class.
not he lost his job and the courts in Washington upheld the right of the schools
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal.
HE SAID THERE WAS a move toward legal equality with the passage of civil rights laws in employment and housing. He brought in Wichita, Wichita, had laws protecting homosexuals.
Today Spear said there were three streams emerging in the gay movement.
Also, there are attempts to educate society and create a more positive identity
Finally, Spear said a homosexual community had developed with political arms and resources.
"So we have made progress," he said.
"But the gas rights movement is facing
protests."
"As Martin Luther King used to say—'We've come along, long way, but still have a long way to go. The struggle is far from won.'"
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