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National Showbiz Editor with jury selection on March 16, is ex- The only group of CBC shareholders Jack Varsi pected to last a minimum of three News/Sports Editor involved in the current court pro- Chuck Patrick weeks, TWT NEWS was told. ceedings in Canada are those who hold Poetry Editor One of the shareholders, Jack Camp- Art Tomaszewski stock in the Toronto clubs. No other Contributing Editors bell, had already pleaded guilty last Harry Deutsch, David Fields, Stephanie Harris, clubs in the CBC chain are involved or Christopher Hart, Paul Herrera, Harold Hoya, November to one of the charges. under investigation, TWT NEWS was told. W.J. Quigley, Steve Vecchietti The remaining five shareholders, Ray Art Director Steven Douglas Fritz Diemer, George Hislop, Peter Maloney, GAY MURDERS Production Manager Jerry Levy and Rick Stenhouse, entered Dennis Walker Assistant Art Director into trial last Tuesday with pleas of "not STILL UNSOLVED Mitch Bartlow HOUSTON - This city's two gay Graphics Artists guilty," to be heard before judge and Thom Bisping, Mike Sullivan, Frank White, jury. Some of the five are charged with murders of last December remain un- Guy Keefer, John Buschlen Typographers only two counts; others face up to six. solved. The Ben LeDoux murder of William J. Quigley, Leslie Holmes The charges, made last April, are December 19, and the John Patrick Staff Photographers Eli Gukich, Graham, Scott Taylor, Woody Keas, "conspiracy to possess proceeds ob- murder of December 24, remain a mys- .GregJillYI!;:<lll, ..AI M;lcareno,_BI/jse DiStefano tained from crime, conspiracy to keep tery to homicide . SALES Executive Sales Manager a bawdy house, and conspiracy to sell Is Houston homicide- dragging its Jim Veteto obscene matter." TWT NEWS has learned feet on gay murders, and giving higher Advertising rates are available on request by telephoning the salesperson in your nearest that sentiment in Toronto is that the priority to non-gay murders? city, from 10am-5pm, weekdays. Deadline for allegations are unfounded. Homicide says no, explaining they ALL ads: Friday, one week prior to publica- In fact, the Crown has admitted in a need more evidence before they can tion. disclosure meeting that there was no continue with the investigation and Austin real evidence of organized crime; nor issue a murder warrant. Sa/es-Chuck Patrick (713) 527-9111 Distribution-Scott Taylor (512) 926-0253 was there any evidence of laundered In the LeDoux murder, "We've reach- Dallas monies obtained through illegal ed a dead end," detective M.E. Doyle Sales and Distribution- sources within the CBC chain. told TWT NEWS. "Until further develop- Richard Rogers (214) 521-0622 Fort Worth "It is a flimsy case against the Club ments, we've gone as far with the in- Sales and Distribution- Toronto and The Barracks," said Den- vestigation as we can go." Jerry Cassidy (817) 335-0742 nis Findlay of the Right To Privacy O.R. "Smitty" Smith told TWT NEWS Galveston Sales-Chuck Patrick (713) 527-9111 Committee, which was organized within that Ben's father, who is dying of re- Distribution - Robert Gogen .. (713) 763-9435 W~'1~sil~\60\' ItALd the Toronto gay community to defend versed leukemia, said, "I did not want Houston 'OE>~etlr;,~A~RS those charged after the first in a long to die a bitter man," he told Smitty, "but Sales- Chuck Oberg (713) 527-9111 San Antonio ~'~ES & cues series of raids occurring in 1978 at The it appears that homicide has placed my Sales and Distribution- son's murder investigation on the back 0'£'" Barracks. Alan Gellman (512) 492-6894 MC»iO~'{-F~U>AY It has become common knowledge burner because of his lifestyle." ....--- --- that the conservative government in the Doyle refutes that, saying that homi- Classified Director- Cheryl Chamberlain lOAM -'I PM ............•. -- - Province of Ontario, prior to a 1978elec- cide's responsibility is on an equal Comptroller-James D. Cagle S\J•..I)~'{~• t-IQON-1 ~M tion, had initiated an undercover in- basis with any murder committed with- Assistant Comptroller- Doug Felix vestigation entitled "Project Soap," in city limits. Office Administrator-Cheryl Chamberlain which had specifically set about look- The raw data on the suspect is bas- Circulation Manager- Leslie Holmes ~1'5MAYLE g:t~;~ Distribution Manager- Brad LaMore ~ c==> <> S ing for criminal elements of gays. ed on a police file from San Jose, lWT MARCH 19 - 25.1982 PAGE 11 PAGE 10 lWT MARCH 19 - 25. 1982 California, which lists the suspect's Seventy-five percent disagreed that name most likely as Billy Dean Gillman. homosexuality was wrong. An even The two Social Security numbers Gill- larger proportion, 85%, upheld the right man used do not check out, said homi- of homosexuals to teach in public Fort Worth's cide. Homicide also knows when Gill- schools. Only nine percent felt that man arrived in Houston; last October. homosexuality was wrong! GREAT But, until Gillman makes a false The media elite interviewed revealed move, the case has reached a dead end. themselves to be one of the best Three Way!!! "Hopefully, the citizenry will not have educated groups in America, noted to wait until another life is sacrificed," writers S. Robert Licter and Stanley Smitty told TWT NEWS. Rothman. Last January, TWT NEWS published a corne composite drawing of the murder sus- pect, which was released to several key UPTIGHT ON gay magazines in the U.S. A respondent GAY NEWS il1on9 in Atlanta who saw the TWT NEWS story NEW YORK - In its MarchlApril in Cruise Magazine claimed he had Inn issue, the Columbia Journalism Review seen the suspect in a transient hotel in confirmed charges by gay rights acti- s. jennings at that city. The suspect had claimed to vists that coverage of homosexuals and be a truck driver from Phoenix. But, {he pennsylvania homosexuality by American news lead exhausted itself due to lack of con- media is by and large inadequate, unin- crete evidence, homicide said. formed and distorted. This is the main 7 am til2 am Meanwhile, Mayor Whitmire's contro- theme of "Uptight on Gay News," an ar- versial choice for police chief, Lee ticle written by former newspaperper- AFTER HOURS til 4 am Brown, is on record for having said, "the son Ransdell Pierson, who interviewed police should treat everyone the same, FRIDAY & SATURDAY nearly 200 journalists in ten cities, TWT regardless of sexual preference NEWS learned.