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Friday, December 2, 1977
University Dally Kansan
Liberty Memorial
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Alban said it was perfectly legal for the police to use that method.
"ITS NOTHING but a trick," he said. "Some of the gays that are arrested don't exercise the greatest caution. The Supreme Court requires the police to identify themselves if you ask them to. If they don't it's entraction."
Meyer denied that members of the vice sound used the tactics Alban described.
"We don't get involved in entrapment," he said. "We only send in people in response to a complaint. Now, we may get several calls a night, so we might end up in bateau."
"If a detective sees illicit activity once he has gone to observe the situation, he will arrest people, usually for disorderly conduct." Mever said.
"ITS VERY easy to spot a plainclothes cop at the mail." agreed Rick, a frequent visitor to the area. "The cops always use extremely good-looking cars and put them in unmarked cars with out-of-state license plates. You can't miss them."
Alban said the police had been forced into indiscriminate arrests of homosexuals at the Memorial because the undercover detectives were too easily avoided.
"Gay people are so scared of being exposed and becoming subject to public attention that they don't fight for their cases and wind up being convicted," he said.
Still, arrests made under the most questionable circumstances will usually get convictions. Alban said, because homosexuals are afraid to fight the charges.
ANOTHER PROBLEM facing those who frequent the mall is the threat of violence. Women who have always existed around the Memorial, most gays say the violence has increased since singer and orange juice promoter Anita Gandhi anna her campaign against homosexuals.
Doug, a homosexual who works near the mall and goes there frequently, was robbed and beaten this summer, suffering a double fracture of his jaw.
"You learn their reactions," said another mall veteran. "The cops are always real anxious to start something. They push you hard. You learn to stay away from them."
"I was standing by my car talking to this guy when suddenly three more men came up and herded me over a hill into the bushes," he said. "The four of them made sure I didn't see them." They were calling me a faggo and a queer and welling that this was for Anta."
Mike, an 18-year-old who has been going
email for two years, had a similar
expression.
"I WAS STANDING AND talking to this guy, and the next thing I knew he punched me in the stomach and hit me with a beer bottle," be said.
"I fell down and he kicked me and it some more. While I didn't hit me that me
most of those who frequented the mall thought the violence was brought on by heterosexuals who were upset by homosexuality.
Vorster sees endorsement of apartheid
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP)—Prime Minister John Vorster yesterday hailed his record-breaking election victory as a resounding endorsement of his white-power policies and rejection of foreign "medding" in South African affairs.
The leader of the liberal opposition warned of a "hardening of race attitudes."
"I'm deeply thankful, very very deeply thankful, that this has happened," said Vorster as election results indicated that white voters had answered his summons to behave in his government at a time its increasing power are coming under increased fire abroad.
"I think the electorate has spoken louder than any man could ever have spoken in any other country."
The final tail in Wednesday's election gave Vorster's ruling National Party 134 seats in the 165-seat parliament, more than they have ever held in the nearly 30 years since he dominated South African politics. The party won 116 seats in the last election in 1974.
SECOND PLACE, and the status of official opposition, passed from the centrist New Republic Party (NRP) to the liberal Progressive Federal Party (PFD).
The PFD, which advocates sharing power with the country's 19 million blacks, won 17 seats while the NRP dropped from 23 to 10 seats.
The conservative South African Party won three seats, while the ultraleftist and open racist Reformed National Party failed to bring in any of its 58 candidates.
Monday has been proclaimed as KU ROTC Day by Chancellor Archie Dykes. The day is sponsored by Angel Flight, an auxiliary service sorority of Arnold Air Society, which wishes to recognize the KU ROTC program makes to University life.
KU ROTC Day set for Monday
Army, Air Force and Navy ROTC cadets will be in uniform. There will be a semi-formal tea from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Centennial Room of the Kansas University.
"The way gay life has opened up and come out of the close, I think straight people have become threatened," says Don, who was mugged on the mail this summer. "Strangers are now becoming vigilantes and in the way they did in the 1960s with blacks."
Although some homosexuals thought there was a lack of interest among the police in solving crimes against homosexuals, Doug disagreed.
"AFTER I WAS beaten the police tried to do everything they could for me," Doug said. "They treated me like the President of the United States. I'm sure there was a lot of snickering behind my back, but to my face I got nothing but proper treatment.
"I think part of the problem is that a lot of the kids haven't grown up yet. They don't know when to open their mouths and when to keep them shut. They can't be polite."
"After Anita Bryant's crusade that seemed to increase, but I think it has
"On the other hand, I've seen gangs of straights come through the mall throwing rocks at people and taking tire irons and breaking windows. I see police stand back and do nothing about it."
violence at the mall clinaxed in July with the murder of an Oklahoma man. The
"WHEN THE boy was shot, he rode with the police to try and keep everyone off the mall until things were under control," one church member said. "I think that really opened up lines of communication with the police."
Metropolitan Community Church, a gay activist church in Kansas City, immediately joined forces with the police in an attempt to head off further trouble.
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There are still some pig-headed vice officers, see reality, but their numbers are being reduced.
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Despite the inherent dangers of spending time on the mall, there are still many that remain unexplored.
The maw crowd is very different from the people who go to the bars." Doug said. "Obviously there are more young people who aren't old enough for the bars, but it seems that unless the people at the mall know you, they won't associate with you."
Rick agreed, adding that there was more sex involved at the mall than at the bars, where people socialized more by drinking and dancing.
"IT'S A WEIRD bunch at the mall," he said. "They don't communicate until they are dead sure that you have your pants down."
"That's not true," Don said. "There is a large social aspect there, but I do think the
"At the bars, once you walk in you're announcing that you're gay. Everyone can see you and you have no assurance that you're going to somebody who doesn't know you're gay."
people at the mall are slightly more closeted and less open about their homosexuality.
"But at the mall it's more of a one-on-one experience. It's dark and people can't see
The violence and continuing arrests of homosexuals at the mall have driven away many of the homosexuals who used to frequent the area.
"The GAY newspapers have warned everyone about the mail. It's not just worth your while when there are plenty of good gav bars in Kansas City." Don said.
are male members of our society, we are
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he is a resident.
"The whole experience opened my eyes up some," he said. "It was very traumatic to be treated like a common criminal. I would like things like that would ever happen time."
"I would advise against anyone going there."
But according to Mike, homosexuals will continue to congregate at the mall and places like it until gays are no longer treated as outcasts.
"Gay people need a place to go and be together. It gives us support," he said. "Sure, there are lots of problems there and people that don't like it, but it's important to be with other gay people."
So, on cold winter nights people continue to cruise the drive near the Memorial, using one of a myrid of signals to make contact with others.
"My favorite is to go past a parked car and stop, scratch the back of your head and pull down your sun visor," he said. "That means you are interested."
"Of course, it's all really stupid, but then what do straight people do? Go up to someone and say, 'Hey, baby, wanna dance?'
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