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r:t@J,ot!,<>I) m ft@o ~ @,, 2]/ip]/J)'j/J] b4llles for cilizcn~hlp BOSTON - Stanley Maillet of tion of federal agencies. United States for more than seven Rubino said it was around that legal Back Bay has won a sort of victory Aides in the offioes of both sena years, and that Immigration Service point that he built Stanley's case. in his continuing battle for United tors said last week that they in officials did not ask about his "ho He speculated that Immigration States citizenship as an admitted vestigated the case, and learned mosexual tendencies" until he re Service officials dropped all of their homosexual. that the Immigration Service was at cently applied for naturalization. deportation actions because "they At least the Boston office of the tempting to deport Stanley because Technically speaking, Rubino knew we would fitht." U. S. Immigration Service has tem of his "psychopathic condition." said, the Immigration Service was Rubino added, "We intended to porarily halted its attempts to deport But the senators' aides said no required to act on Stanley's citizen take it (the case) to the Supreme Stanley to his native Canada. And definite action has been taken, ship petition, and could not begin Court." the Immigration Service has agreed pending the outcome of Stanley's deportation proceedings until the pe Rubino also charged that the Im- to consider the 24-year-old man's citizenship hearing. tition was either granted or denie,d. ( Continued on page l) petition for naturalized citizenship. Aides in Sen. Brooke's office The Immigration Service's deci were particularly reticent about giv sion followed pressure from ing out information on the case, Stanley's attorney, Richard Rubino, saying they did not want to "hurt Mr. who said he was prepared to seek a Maillet" through undue publicity. constitutionalityruling from the U.S. They did not indicate wheti ,er theiy Supreme Court, if necessary, to might be concerned about how pub .-- prove that the Immigration Service licity of the gay rights issue might - had no right to attempt to deport affect the senators. Stanley. The Immigration Service was bas Attorney Rubino also had ap ing its deportation actions on a little pealed to the governor's office for known law that bans a person from help, but the governor's aides for entering the United States · if that warded the request to the offices of person admits to prior homosexual senators Edward M. Kennedy and activity. Edward W. Brooke because the gov But attorney Rubino argued that ernor has no influence over the ac- Stanley has been residing in the
NEW HAMPSHIRE - Gov. Mel Thomson, according to April, has drim Thomson threatened last week made an assumption that the views to cut off all state spending on build qf the writers of Fag Rag in some ing projects at the University of New way reflect the views of the mem Hampshire unless the Gay Students bers of GSO. April has gone so far The Lesbian Feminist Therapy shortly after the group of twelve Organization is kicked off of as to speak on local television in or· Research Project is currently pre women decided to break-down into campus. der to explain the GSO's position. paring a questionnaire to be used two sub groups in order to examine The reason behind the latest at UNH President Bonner has taker as reference material for a manual the subject more efficiently. One of tack, according to GSC president no action to date towards removing or handbook they have been work the groups geared their discussions Wayne April, was the distribution of the GSO from campus. ing on. The book will deal with les toward socio-economic class, race, the Boston publication Fag Rag on The article, which caused thP bianism as it is related to therapy and became somewhat autobiogra campus the night of the "Coming most commotion - "How to Prose and how therapy has traditionally phical. The other group spoke spe Out " performance earlier this lytize" - was written humorously been oppressive to lesbians. "We cifically of lesbian identity in general month. Cited in particular as a and explained step by step, how don't see lesbianism as a diagnosis and the survey was developed. cause of woe in conservative New today's "real men" can be changed for any mental illness and are work The group plans to begin inter Hampshire was an article in Fag into tomorrow's queens. ing from that point of view." Their views by mid January and will be Rag VI, titled "How to Proselytize.·· approach is to write a book for the mailing out questionnaires to wom en's centers and lesbian groups any news - we have arranged gay woman who is either consid As you are reading this spe across the country. They are also in cial holiday issue of the Gay that nothing newsworthy will ering therapy or already is involved in therapy. terested in mailing the question Community News, the GCN happen during that week ... ). naire to any individual gay woman staff members are packing Our regular schedule will re Initially, the idea for the project was developed as a result of a train who would like one. If you would bags and heading for their vari sume with issue number 1-29, like to participate please write: ous secret hideaways for a dated January 12, 1974. ing session three of the women were involved in. Their feeling was Lesbian Feminist Therapy short vacation. Anybody who thinks the Research Project There will be no issue of GCN staff doesn't need a vaca that the issue of gay women went unexplored and much of the time c/o The Women's Center GCN dated January 5, 1974 tion should see the picture on 46 Pleasant St. (don't worry about missing page 3. was devoted to the gay male. Meetings began in June and Cambridge, Mass. 02139 .,..,.,
ra1t•-~ A new weekly radio program for songs by Linda Lachman; book re gay people premieres this Sunday, views on gay literature; "turnabout" Dec. 30 on WCAS (740 AM). plays on gay /straight relations "- new " Closet Space" is produced by Gay ("What do you heteros do in bed, Media Action for and about the Bos anyway?") , and five minutes of con~,-,. ton gay community. The show's news and announcements . The pro regular time slot will be a half-hour gram uses a magazine format, so on Sunday mornings beginning at the content will change every week. 10: 20 (yawn!); however, this first Gay Media Action is interested in According to many Social Ser Community Health Service. week, "Closet Space" will be broad any gay material that can be used vices Agencies, changes have oc Street counseling has been bene cast at 11 :30 a.m. and will be a in the program. If you have music, curred in the type of runaway chil ficial; however, the new runaway 0J1e-hourshow . poetry, features, interviews, or plays dren that they are generally coming law will cause various legal hassles The first broadcast will feature an about the gay experience, please into contact with. At one time the av in the treatment of runaways, and in interview with Wayne April on the call WCAS (617-492-6450) or Gay erage runaway was considered to the way the state agency deals with University of New Hampshire Gay Media Action (617-868-5729). come from middle class families them. Student Organization; poetry and and were experiencing adjustment The runaway law by its appear problems; 90 percent of these ru ance is progressive. It no longer naways were able to be placed considers the runaway child a crimi back with their families. Now most nal. A policeman can take into cus runaways come from what are con tody a child who is thought to be ru sidered to be problem families and naway and then he is turned over to less than 50 percent are able to re the State Division of Child and Fami turn to their homes. ly Services. Before the law the The arising problems of ru Youth Services Board dealt specific by David A. DeNeef In the summer of 1973 Ed had naways are now somewhat differ ally with runaways and "problem" served 5 years and was only in jail ent. This article, in particular, will children. Now the already over Ed Rastellini died early in No- because of the abomii;:able crime deal with gay runaways. Many are burdened Division of Child and Fam vember of this year at MCI Brid against nature that is committed ev hustling to support themselves, a ily Services is faced with the respon gewater. He was stabbed by one or ery day in the prison. Relation with number of those who are hustling sibility of dealing with these cases, more fellow inmates. He was gay. the other prisoners in the various are also involved with professional in addition to their other work load. Articles and letters were written, prisons that Ed was in had always mdit card syndicates (the hostler is In addition to the legal aspects, a and there was a minor stir for sev been bad. They were convinced in a good position to obtain credit recent questionnaire issued by the eral weeks after the incident. As the that he was a child molester . . . cards). Being involved with such Homophile Community Health Cen facts of this case were investigated, there could be no other reason for credit card syndicates can lead the ter, sent to various social service it became apparent that before us such a long sentence. And although person into t;emendous legal prob agencies, has revealed an unwilling was the story of a man whom the Ed was eligible for parole it was de lems. Many are finding themselves ness to deal with gay youths. entire machinery of law enforce nied because, among other rea in situations that they don't know An effort to help runaway gays is ment and correction had conspired sons, Ed "did not relate well with how to get out of. being organized by the State Divi against from the beginning to the the other inmates." Several private organizations in sion of Child and Family Services, end. Ed was stabbed this fall because the Boston area, Project Place and in coordination with Project • Place Ed had been in and out of vari of a personal problem with another Bridge Over Troubled Water, are at and Bridge Over Troubled Water. It ous houses of correction since he inmate, according to rumor. Rumor tempting to meet the problems of would attempt to expand on the was eight years old. Neal Des also has it that Ed was not stabbed such individuals by way of on-the street counseling . champes, now an imate at Walpole, with intent to kill but he was not dis street counseling . Street Coun It is hoped to get members of the recalled what it was like when he covered for some time and bled to seling attempts to help runaways be gay community involved in this and Ed were the youngest kids at death. fore a major crisis might occur by counseling effort. All those inter Middlesex County Training School Reactions from people in a direct discussing their•problems with them ested in this program should call in a recent letter to the Real Paper. position to improve prison condi and by informing them of alterna Dick Bavely of the Division of Child Beatings and sexual abuse were ev tions and policy were practically tives. and Family Services at 442-0880 or eryday happenings . Torture re non-existent. The following is a let For example, gay foster parents, 442-1776, or write to the division at placed civilized punishment. ter sent to David Brill, HUB Director priva te fac ilities and Homophile 491 Tremont St.. Boston. To GCN, Deschampes wrote , of Public Relations, from Frank Hall, "many, many damn hurts have Commissioner of Corrections. This come into my heart with this story, letter was recei-.ed only after two let many memories, and damn it, I ters were sent to Hall and Brill has weekend don't want to see this story forgot telephoned him once. ten." A Gay Conference will be held on England Gay Newspaper by the for Ed spent more than 5 years of Dear Mr. Brill: the weekend of Feb. 15, 16 and 17, mer "Morning Glory" staff in a his childhood at Middlesex. Out on Thank you for your letter of 1974, at the University of Rhode Is Media workshop, which will also in the street he hustled. November 20th , reflecting land. More detailed information will clude discussion on the starting of a In 1968 Ed went to Charles your concern about an in be forthcoming in announcements permanent Gay Radio Show, such Street Jail and spent two years cident that occurred on Nov. before Jan. 1. as "Gay Way" in Boston. there awaiting trial on morals 7th at Bridgewater. My posi Reserve that weekend to avoid Free housing will be provided to charges. (He was caught in the act tion, in regard to any identi conflicts with any other activities those who respond to further an of putting his penis into the anus of fiable group of people housed that other New England Gay Organi nouncements. a 16-year-old boy - according to po in our institutions, is that we zations may be planning. A weekend is being planned that lice testimony . No one who knew will administrate this Depart Included in tentative events are: will be constructive and fun for Ed and his situation believed it, and ment not on the basis of, or workshops to discuss creating a those who attend and you are urged Ed denied it.) the exclusion of any particular stronger gay group for all of Rhode to do so. Come to Rhode Island, ,In 1970 Ed was convicted of un segment of our population. Island , S&M, transsexuals , Gay see another part of New England, natural and laciviou.s acts with a We will ta~ every possible Studies, Gay Parents, Men and and help us build our movement child of sixteen or under and abomi step to insure public safety as Women Workshop (to air differ there. nable and detestable crimes well as the safety of those ences between gay women and Kingston Gay Liberation, c/o Me against nature . He was sentenced who are under the super men), movies, plays coffee houses, morial Union, University of Rhode Is to 5 years on the first count and 5 to vision of the Department of welcome dances, and community land, Kingston, R.I. 02881., tele 15 years on the second. Correction. meals. Also a discussion of a New phone (401) 792-5817 . Sincerely, Frank A. Hall Page 2 •GA Y C OM M UNITY NEWS, December 29, 1973 Commissioner HAPPYHOLIDAYS, AND BESTWISHES FOR1974
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(left to right) Front row: Bill Rose, Dee White, Ellen B. Davis, Ian Johnson, David Peterson; Second row : Ronnie, John Kyper , Boots Garrett, Marty Wander, Satya; Third row: Ken Stellwa gen, Joe Martin, David A. DeNeef, Mike Rubinstein; Back row : A. Nolder Gay, Douglas Prince, Mike Procunier, Loretta lot man. (Not Pictured): Wendy Bauman, Bill Canfield, Ginny Collins, Jonathan Cross, laura McMurry, Mitch Morgan, Barbara Picci rilli, W. Emerson Smith, Dave Stryker, Dennis Thomas.
*******"'K'k***************jrk*********~******sex acts. Frather Shanley was ap Duberman , a historian at Lehman pointed by the Archdiocese of Bos College , City University of New .PIPYOU SEE? ton to minister to gays . York , is the author of plays and bio ~ graphies , including the recent Boston Globe, *Dec . 22: "Medley" "Black Mountain : An Exploration in By Wendy Bauman by Bill Fripps says that " Cam Community, " an Anchor paperback . and Ginny Collins bridge's New Theater canceled stag He is also active in the peace move l■ ~ ing "Tubstrip " when it got reports ment in New York. The Patriot Ledger (Quincy), from New York labeling it a "sex Dec. 19: The Rev. Paul Shanley of show and nothing more ," but Boston brought a little gay aware Theatre Two of Cambridge will ness to a faculty meeting at Sharon, present the production , which deals Mass., High School when he told with the lives of homosexuals in a teachers that suburban commu Manhattan steam bath. ■ nities general ly ignore the needs of ft·!:v!-~Nilparty l young gays, forcing gays to flee to big cities to find acceptance and un Win Magazine ,* Dec. 20 has Mar- 8 pm till ? at the M.B. Lounge derstanding . There were some gig tin Duberman 's keynote address of upstairs and down Cham pagne Fountain , B,uff et & Open gles and wide eyes when Father the first conference of the Gay Aca demic Union, held over Thanksgiv Bar Shanley exploded myths about A ll for $ 12.00 per person "butch" and "fem" outward appear ing weekend at John Jay College of ances, and when he quoted Kinsey Criminal Justice in New York City. More than three hundred people at Ellie at th e Piano Report statistic s on the large num Dancing Up stairs THE GAYGUY'S GUIDE ber of people who take part in gay tended, including students and teachers from all over the country . GAY COMMUNITY NEWS, December 29, 1973 • Page 3 REACT!! Reflection at th is t ime and space of the last year (or rather past six months since GCN's conception) seems to be appropriate rather than self indulgent. By A. Nolder Gay It ,s quite apparent that the whole game of life revolves around one YEAR'S-END REFLECTIONS theme and that is GROWTH. We have grown not only in numbers but more It is now nearly four months since the first of these biweekly columns importantly as a community. Looking back at previous issues of the paper was written for GCN . After some considerable agonized hesitation, and in we can see great advancements in gay consciousness in the straight world . response to the urgent appeal of GCN staffers for older gays to join them in Perhaps not with great success but to some degree successful. their efforts, I "came out of the closet and Gay Americans Day can into the Meetinghouse ,·· as Dave be cited as one example . A minor police liai Peterson puts it. The result has been the discovery son was formed , at age 40 , of the world through the misfortune of the Arboreteum murder . The Bos of gay liberation , and of a Boston gay community ton bureau chief of Newsweek , in Yeats' phrase, "struggl has given support and along with one part of ing to be born the press our media knowledge and ." (Is it permissible to quote Yeats and Dave Peterson in the exposure is beginning to become a same paragraph?) visible avenue through which heterosexual society can start to see us as we really are. Of course my "coming out ," if that's what it can be termed, has been in many ways an emotionally difficult experience Before we get too black and blue from patting ourselves on the back . I am by temperament an introspective, inner-directed person the recent neo-Nazi tactics taking place in New Hampshire should be men , and while I had long since accepted tioned or rather given some myself as a gay human being in that inner space where we cannot and thought and focus as we approach the New would not conceal anything from ourselves Year. , it was very scary to be for the HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND CONTINUED GROWTH IN THE NEW first time in a roomful of avowedly gay people who also knew I was . Now that I've had time to think about it, I had experienced YEAR!!! a similar gut scared ness nearly twenty years ago when I found myself the only white person in a church full of blacks . I was welcomed then as a fellow human being and I was welcomed by the GCN staff in the same way . Both encounters were Advertising is accepted from all busi important lessons for one who thought he had learnt them . nesses, non-profit organizations, and in At present, I still lead a double life, socially and spatially, which I sup dividuals at the following rotes: $2.00 pose is one meaning of being "in the closet. " To some , I am a reputable per column inch for non-profit organiza scholar-teacher in a university just outside of Boston ; to others, a pseudo tions, $3.00 per column inch for profit nymous GCN feature writer who lives in an old town house on Beacon Hill. moking businesses. Personal classified To one or two of my straight friends who know, I rotes ore listed elsewhere in this 'm out too far - you're issue. taking too many personal risks, you're potentially damaging your usefulness as a academic. To one or two of my gay friends, I'm not out far enough - STAFF your position gives you a responsibility to the cause of all gay people, and if Howard Brown and Martin Duberman can come out in The New York Times, Managing Editors : Mitch Morgan why can't you? But in general people have credited me with a measure of David Peterson News Editor : Ellen B . Davis integrity, sincerity and social concern, and beyond that are letting me work Feature Editor : Ian Johnson things out at my own pace. Advertising : Ginny Collins No one has been more conscious than I of the shortcomings of this Mitch Morgan column. It represents one person 's viewpoint Gay Community News Art/Layout : Boots Garrett , one special experience . While Douglas Prince it was hoped that this column would appeal to older gays , it has seldom specifically addressed is published weekly through the sponsorship Mike Rubinstein itself to them . Also, I have been painfully conscious of the Charles Street Meetinghouse. GCN Marty Wander that I have spoken often from the perspective of the white Anglo-Saxon Classifieds : Mike Procunier is ded Protestant elitist fifties-style male chauvinist pig that I am, and icoted to providing coverage of Distribution : Ginny Collins to that I plead events ond news of interest to the New David Peterson the circumstances of having made my first lesbian friends only within the England goy community as well as stimu Barb Piccirilli last few months . (I'd be pleased as punch if an older lesbian would do a lation of event oriented opinion within the Production Mgr .: Dave Stryker matching column.) I am also remarkably Subscriptions ignorant of many segments of the community . : Dee White gay experience : the world of the gay bar, for instance, or more specialized Ronr11e News and opinions reflected in "REACT!", Treasurer : Bill Canfield "scenes" and locales . The view from the closet is inherently limited, and the editorial column , represent the majority Writers (feature) : Wendy Bauman perhaps at times one most thinks he is looking outward, he is really only view of the editorial board . Signed letters Ginny Collins seeing his own shadow in the closet mirror. and columns reflect the view of the author Jonathan Cross That aside, I've gotten much personal satisfaction out of doing this col only. The material in this paper does not A. Nolder Gay Loretta Lotman umn. I am highly amused by reports of people who tax my fellow staffers necessarily represent the views of the Laura McMurry and others with "But who is A. Nolder Gay?" , as though that mattered. The Charles Street Meetinghouse . Comments, Barb Piccirilli staff has quietly and effectively protected my privacy, but occasionally I criticisms and information ore always wel Satya have had encouragement from people, straight and gay, who have ferreted come from our readers . Writers (news) : Ellen B . Davis David A. DeNeef me out to express their pleasure in something I've written . The discipline of Non -profit organization . Postage paid at John Kyper writing these pieces has been great; the iron-clad limit of space under which Boston , Moss . Subscriptions ore $1.50 for Joe Martin I (usually) work, like the prospect of hanging , powerfully concentrates the 3rdClossor$2 . I0for 1st Closs for I0issues . Barb Piccirilli imagination . At the Bill Rose same time, I don 't believe I have the right to coop! space Address for subscriptions , address chang es, W. Emerson Smith indefinitely, and I plan shortly to ask the Editorial Board to review this col letters to the editor, contributions , com Satya umn to determine whether another feature , or perhaps another person ments , etc .: GCN , Dennis Thomas c / o Charles Street Mee doing this feature , might do more for the paper and for the community . tinghouse , 70 Charles St ., Boston , Moss . Meanwhile , I am planning a series on the forms of gay social engagement 02114 . Telephone , (bl 7) 523-8729 . the first of which will constitute my next column . An older meaning of the word "closet" is as a place of meditation , a Nome ______refuge from the world , giving one time to spin the straws of experience into Street ______-· what is hopefully the gold of reflection, to explore the inner dimension of meaning and value in human life City ------~tote----2.ip---- . Activism has its place, an important one , ~ yet it must be matched by equally intensive contemplation . A wise acquaint 3rd clo" 1,t class ance of mine once wrote "Your liberator must NewO RenewalO first liberate himself . Whence 0 comes liberation if not from within?" Protest against 10 wks SI ~0 injustice and oppres 0 s2 . 10 □ sion is appropriate and right, but so Mail to GCN sub5'ription z is thankfulness for our condition and the opportunities it affords, however restricted these may appearl. 25 wL, S J. SO □ ss . oo □ 7 0 Charles Street Boston , Mass. 02114 At the end of a year whose last third has meant more for me in terms 52 ~k, of S7 ooo SI0 .000 L.1-J personal growth than many a year preceding , I am grateful for the support cc of friends, old and new, straight and gay . I am thankful for the Enclose ched or money order payable to Goy Community News or GCN . opportunities We recommend Cl!:: we have in this newspaper and in our community to forward IS T CL ASS for : oil of W . Mou .. Bo,ton 021 12. 1 l , 15. Io, I 8, Brootl ine , the work of gay , Belmont Somerville . SE Mou .. N & S Shore . 019, (Lynn! and mo,t of Cambr idge . 3RD ~ nay of human liberation . In the middle distance we can see a CLASS Bo,ton 02 vision , calling 114 (Beacon H ill!. 02115 (Kenmore) , Roabury , Dorchester , Framingham , c,':, Waltham ond o us to transcend our present limitations, our rationalizations and our il out of ,tote . Third clou del ivery 1n some oreos is qu ite poor ; if in doubt , first cc closets cl an 1s recommended . ::::, and our public ego-tripping , to respond to the task of making a new and FRH CLASSIFIEDADS with wbacription. S.e clauified od order form. ~ higher consciousness come true for each of us, individually and together. Poge4•GAY COMMUNITY NEWS, December 29, 1973 As Tiny Tim says in Dickens' Christmas Carol , "God bless us, every one!" Next Planning Meeting fo r the N E G ay Conference Committee w ill be held Saturday Jan . 3 at 2 p .m JIIX,) at t he Worcester Gay Un ion office . QJJUI t/,e lif,tJ, t (at Worcester Com Ok cf 78 Franklin S mon near the public library .) by Jonathan Cross And the clothes! Donald Brooke A Commentary on Area Enter concocts a svelte collection of tainments of Gay Interest pleats-on-pleats, fitted jackets, porn-porns, and crushed violet fe There will be a New Years Eve Varisty Drag doras. His incredible sweater-de party at th e Women s Center in The latest example of 30 's camp lollipops and ice tarting at 9 p m Please signs (patterned in A OU CEME T Cambridge s nostalgia opened last week at the cream cones), and his vibrating win bring your o wn food and ,drink and Karen announce Colonial for a three-week run; it is a dow-pane plaid football coats in pri Geri Bidwell Women only. The address Is 46 brati on of co m big, flossy , stylish revival of Good mary colors are dazzling and de their wedding , a cele Pleasant St , Cambridge News (vintage 1927), with Alice licious . The tousled, good-hu mittm ent , to be held Monday, Decem Faye, John Payne, anc would yoo moured young cast seems delight ber 31, 1973 at 7: 00 pm at Old * ' exagger ncy believe Stubby Kaye? Actually, fully at home in Brooks West Church. The Reverend a When you patroni ze our adv erti s Good News was carefully cratted ated images and glide effortlessly Wilson will officiate. ers, please tell th em y ou s aw nostalgia back in '27 . It is a harm through Donald Saddler 's devilishly They extend an invit ation t o the ad in Gay Commun ity N e ws . less, sentimental fantasy of college choreography. A sexy their elaborate Gay Community . life, and it shamelessly milks all the football-practice ballet and the man American Joe College mythology - ic athleticism of the "Varsity Drag " !he whole football-hero, Sweetheart soda-shoppe number are especially of Sigma Chi, John Held, mildly vivacious . flaming yooth schtick . Movement, color and melody TUBSTRIP , But somehow, despite wooden keep Good News alive; the tunes unfunny diaglogue, rigid character are old Broadway stand-bys: "But DIRECTED by ization, and the dreadful mindless ton Up Your Overcoat, " "You're the DOUG RICHARDS meaninglessness of it all, Good Cream in My Coffee, " "The Best News manages to divert us for its Things In Life Are Free," "Keep ALL MALE CAST! three hours . Part of the fun is sheer Your Sunny Side Up," all familiar ON E N.Y . CRIT IC SAID celebrity-watching ; Alice Faye looks and hummable . Between songs, ev " the scene ,n w hich nine nu e y oung marvelous - SCULPTURED AND eryone does endless battle with the men fr oli c ,n a r eal sw,mm,ng pool 1s Dietrichesque. The middle-aged pre empty-headed , senior-class skit dia tasteful and fun. " view audience went wild whenever logue and an impossible, turgid plot A Women 's Sleigh Ride to be OPENS Alice moved, even a little. If Alice line. And just think, they've got to 28 Faye can still dance, can still fall mouth all that nonsense for nine held in February , is being spon FRI. DEC. . The tentative date is , believably in love with big-shoul months before opening in New sored by DOB thru 10 at 1 p .m. The cost dered John P ., we can all believe in York. The real question is: will Alice Sunday, Feb . SUN. JAN. 13 includes skating , eternal youth and that nothing has make it to the big city? of $5 per person , a bonfire really changed . sleigh riding , tobogganing and barbecue. Bring skates, tobog BOX-OFFICE OPEN gan, warm clothing , food and liquor DAILY! (if desired). There will also be a dance in the barn, with Deadly Nightshade performing . THEATRE TWO The event will be held at Ellen- dale Stables , Rte. 27, Sherborn , 196 Broadway . (People will meet at Gross Mass Cambridge • Near Kendall Sq. mans in Wellesley on Rte. 16 at 12 noon.) Call DOB office for more in PHONE RES. 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Mitch & Rod 5 GAY COMMUNITY NEWS, December 29, 1973 •Page Dave Peterson ,.__ CITACENTER NC . .,,.- The word of God soys "you shall not lie wilti a - : 1 en with o woman it is an abomination" Also it says ,.__ "DO NOT IE DECEMO NEITHERTHE WI'~ .,,.. ANO IMMaAL Nat IDOi.ATERS Nat AOOI.ff...... RERSNat THOSE WHO PNlTICPAlf N HOMOSE- ,.__ WHAT WE RE .,,.. XUALITYWILL INHERITat HAVE ANY SHAii£ N .,,.. ~ THE KNGOOM ~ GOO . Only dv-ist can deli_. } "f" you from this bondage Don't beli- the lie. Call or * -it• for help . Box 545 Low, Mau . 01842, UP AGAINST *•1t**** ****"Irle CITA CENTERINC. GCN responded to the copy of the ad appearing on this page which was run several times in the Boston Phoenix. The letter also appearing on this page was returned, along with a copy of The Goy Blade, which also appears in this feature. GCN sent two reporters to interview the director of CITA, Rev. R. Burns. Another reporter called CITA as a homosexual. The following stories are their experiences and reactions. NOTE: The Gay Blade is not produced by CITA. Like many other groups, they purchase them in bulk from a Bible tract company, in this case Chick Publications, P.O. Box 662, Chino, Calif. 91710.
Dear Sir: Viet Nam; I had sex with sev Righteous Rev. Burns and his guilt machine Would you print something in your paper eral men and with my brother are waiting for Massachusetts ' young Gays to that shows that the Homosexual needs help when I was young. But II Tim come a tapping ... gently rapping, rapping at and that only Christ's death on the cross is othy 3 tells us it is without natu their chamber door .. . Quoth the Raven (GCN), the deliverance for the Homosexual. ral affection. " Nevermore." In The Master's Service GCN: Do you feel guilt abol rt that? Rev. R. Burns Cita Center Inc.: Of course 1 felt guilt, but now I Interview with CIT A know that God has this beautiful The Not so good plan for me . . . a woman . I by Satya have claimed the blood of Tom Morganti and I had the task of inter Rev. Burns Christ. My sins were washed viewing Rev. Richard Burns, Director of CITA, away; all my sins have been the group which has been spreading anti-gay lit and his Guilt Machine lost in the sea of forgetfulness. erature throughout New England. Expecting a GCN: Some people say that Jesus may have by W. Emerson Smith vicious person, we were surprised to find him slept with men. warm, open, and in some ways even radical. To get rid of nagging limp wrist or swishing Cita Center Inc.: True, it says in the Bible that Why, then, would a person like this be so anti-, torso call 686-0434. Jesus was tempted in every gay? The problem is common to Christians, Guru In Lawrence, Mass., Reverend Burns of Cita way , but he overcame these Maharaji freaks , and Krishna devotees. Rev. Center Inc. has a homosexual hotline which he temptations. Burns simply feels his mind to be too impure to and his followers have set up to curb "the homo GCN: Wasn't Sodom and Gomorrah the sin of in- think for itself, so he becomes a computer which hospitality? sexual tendency. " Mr. Burns advertises his mis is programmed to a book, the Bible. Our ques Cita Center Inc.: You're from Boston? sion on the Phoenix newspaper . .. Do not be tions to him were like buttons which when push GCN: Yes. deceived those who participate in homosexuality ed caused words of scripture to mechanically Cita Center Inc.: You've been talking with the cof will not enter the kingdom of heaven. A GCN flow from his mouth. He can no longer think for fee house minister? staff member called . himself. GCN: No. We wouldn't be concerned over someone like GCN: I have homosexual tendencies and am un .GCN: Why do you distribute the publication Gay this except that he is in a position to influence sure of my sexuality. Can you help me? Blade? some of our guilt-ridden brothers and sisters. In Cita Center Inc.: We all have these tendencies, Cita Center Inc.: Rev. Burns gives them out. We one of CITA's pamphlets , a young gay person brother but Jesus tells us he don't question our elders. Gay writes that he used to lead the "sinful life" of ho can s~ve. It says in I Corin Blade is the truth about ho mosexuality, but has now turned to Jesus . thians 6 that no effeminate shall mosexuality. Jim Gervasi who was also interviewed said enter the kingdom of heaven. GCN : Wouldn't such propaganda have a real that he personally didn't like the approach of the Sodom and Gomorrah tells us negative effect on a young gay person, if Gay Blade pamphlet. Nor did he consider ho that the angels of God came taken seriously? mosexuality any worse than other "sins." "We're down and destroyed those men Cita Center Inc.: We had one hard core homose all sinners." who were practicing homose xual who went through our pro Burns and Gervasi a_re interested in particip~t- i xuality. gram. He still has the move * ing in a panel discussion and open forum with GCN: Have you had any similar (homosexual) ex ments and actions of a homose Gay Christian leaders and the gay community. periences? xual but he's found Jesus now Anyone interested should write GCN, c/o Feature Cita Center Inc.: Yes, I was an opium addict in and he knows it's wrong . Editor.
THE GAY REVOLUTION IS UNDERWAY!
TO MOST PEOPLE,IT'S A BIG JOKE .. . BUT IS IT, REALLY?
•THE GREEKLETTER LAMBDA THEGAY MILi IS THIS SOMETHING NEW UNDER TANTSSAY SYMBOLIZESUNIT Y It~ THE FACE THE SUN? - NO , l'M AFRAID NOT! OF OPPRESSION LESBIANISM RECEIVED NATIONWIDE HOMOSEXUALS ARE NOW INVITED TO COVERAGE ON DAVID SUSSKIND'S SPEAK AT CLUBS AND RELIGIOUS TV TALK SHOW- ESTIMATED AU MEETINGS. DIENCE OF 32 MILLION VIEWERS.
OUT OF SATAN'S SHADOWY WORLD OF HOMOSEXUALITY,IN A DISPLAYOF DEFIANCEAGAINST THEIR CRY IS FOR EQUAL RIGHTS - SOCIETY,THEY COME FORTH- THOSEWHO SUFFERTHE AGONY OF REJECTION, THE DESPAIR MILITANTS BOAST THAT HOMO SEX OF UNSATISFIEDLONGING - DESIRING- ENDLESSLUSTING AND REMORSECRYING THAT GAY UALITY IS NORMAL, HEALTHY, EVEN A IS GOOD - THEIRTRAGIC LIVESPROVE THAT THEREISN'T ANYTHING GAY ABOUT BEING GAY. DESIRABLEFORM OF SEXUAL OUTLET.
LIFE, Dec. 31, 1971
•THERE IS AN ESTIMATED NUMBER OF U.S. HOMOSEXUALS THAT RANGES YOU SHALL NOT LIE WITH A FROM 2 TO 20 MILLION . THEIR POWER STRUCTURE MAN AS WITH A WOMAN; IT IS AN ABOMINATION. Lev 18 72 IS WIDESPREAD-THEY Amp v~, OCCUPY ALL KINDS OF YOU MUST JOBS. UNDERSTAND " ... DO NOT BE DECEIVED THEIR IDENTITY FOR THE THATl'M SICK (MISLED); NEITHER THE MOST PART IS CAREFULLY ANDYOU IMPURE AND IMMORAL, NOR HIDDEN. SMOULDHAVE IDOLATERS, NOR ADULTER ·soME HAVE BEEN REPORTED COMPASSION ERS, NOR THOSE WHO PAR ON ME! TO BE VERY ACTIVE IN TICIPATE IN HOMOSEXUAL WOMEN'S LIB ORGANIZATIONS ITY, ... WILL INHERIT OR AND EVEN HINTED TO BE IN IT'S LIKE A DEMONIC POWER THAT CON HAVE ANY SHARE IN THE HIGH GOVERNMENT POSITIONS. TROLS THEM - ONLY CHRIST CAN OVERCOME IT: IF THEY'LL RECEIVE HIM KINGDOM OF GOD." AS PERSONAL SAVIOR . I Cor. 6:9 & 10 Amp . Ver •uFE, Dec. 31, 1971
IF YOU ARE EXPOSED TO THIS SIN ROMANS 1: 27, AMP . VER. - THEN YOU MUST TURN AWAY FROM IT. ONLY JESUS CHRIST CAN "AND THE MEN ALSO TURNED GIVEYOU THE STRENGTH TO CON FROM NATURAL RELATIONS QUER IT. WITH WOMEN AND WERE SET ABLAZE (BURNED OUT, CON SUMED) WITH LUST FOR ONE ANOTHER, MEN COMMITTING SHAMEFUL ACTS WITH MEN AND SUFFERING IN THEIR OWN BODIESAND P~RSONALITIESTHE " FOR THIS CAUSE GOD GAVE THEM UP INEVITABLE CONSEQUENCES THOUGH THEY ARE FULLY AWARE OF UNTO VILE AFFECTIONS; FOR EVEN GOD 'S RIGHTEOUS DECREE THAT THEIR WOMEN DID EXCHANGE THE AND PENALTY OF THEIR WRONG DOING AND GOING THOSE WHO DO SUCH THINGS DE NATURAL USE FOR THAT WHICH IS SERVE TO DIE, THEY NOT ONLY DO " FOR THERE IS NOTHING COVERED, ASTRAY. WHICH WAS (THEIR) AGAINST NATURE;" THEM THEMSELVES, BUT APPROVE THAT SHALL NOT BE REVEALED; AND Romans 1 :26 ; Scofield FITTING RETRIBUTION." HID, THAT SHALL NOT BE KNOWN." AND APPLAUD OTHERS WHO PRAC Matthew 10:26 STUDY ROMANS l '.:JO3'.:' TICE THEM. Romans 1 :32, Amp. Ver.
WHEN *THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE JESUS LOVES YCU AND WILL CLEAN UP ON THE **DAY OF JUDGMENT,ALL OF DIED ON THE CROSS - IT WAS FOR YOUR LIFE FOR YOU , Al'!D WILL MAKE THE LOST W ILL STAND BEFORE GOD - YOUR SINS- THAT'S WHY HE SHED HIS IT WHOLE ALL OF THOSE WHO DIED 1N THEIR SINS. BLOOD.
" . . . *BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND THOU SHALT BE WHEN YOU SURRENDER TO HIM , YOU "THE LORD IS NOT SLACK CONCERNING FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD, THAT HE SAVED , AND THY HOUSE." WILL BECOME A NEW CREATURE. OLD HIS PROMISE, ... NOT W 1LllNG THAT GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, THAT WHO Acts 16:31 THINGS W ILL PASS AWAY , ALL THINGS ANY SHOULD PERISH, BUT THAT ALL SOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM SHOULD NOT PER BECOME NEW. SHOULD COME TO REPENTANCE" ISH, BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE." John 3:16 'TRUST. CLING TO, RELY UPON 11 Peter 3-9 • John 1 I 3-Hebrews 1 ,2 ·Matt hew 25:41 • - Reve,ahon 20 This feature is the first in a series to provide the community with a better understanding of the level of consciousness outside our sometimes small spheres of influence and chosen ghettos. GCN feels that this will aid us in our attempts at ·changing these attitudes - and you can't change what you don't know. THE GCN FIRST ANNUAL BOUQUETS& BRICKBATSAWARDS GCN has chosen this method of acknowledgement of those individuals or organi zations outside the core of the gay community who, through their tireless or tired efforts , have become worthy of the gay community's applause or con demnation. We have undoubtedly missed many deserving entities and your ad ditions are enco uraged. v THE GCN "SOME OF OUR BEST FRIENDS ARE STRAIGHT" AWARD to Bob Getz of Two Penny Press and Joan Cameron , our printer and typesetter, who have aided us immensely . Bob Getz taught us GCN HOOF IN MOUTH SILVER what a newspaper physically is and helped v get us started when we didn't even know the PRINCESS PHONE AWARD technical use of the word "layout." to the Boston Police Dept. Homocide Division . v THE COMBINED "O OH, AAH, Despite the fact that it has been more than ICKY POO, NASTY, TISK-TISK" v THE POISON PURPLE PROSE five months since a gay brother was brutally OR THE OMINOPTENT PSYCHE murdered, there have been no convictions to PENDANT date . The latest quote from the Homocide MOTHER OF THE YEAR AWARD to William Loeb, publisher of the Manchester Dept. was that police "just keep walking the to Ann Landers for her constant use of ho Union Leader, for his great example of turning streets and talking to people." (GCN #9) mosexuality as sensationalism, snide re a newspaper into a vehicle for one's personal marks, self-righteousness, and at her utmost vendettas . best - aloof condescension . V AND A BOUQUET to Rev. Alberts, ex-pastor of Old West °",CLA.~KfWl-\'-1C/\WT Church, who was fired for marrying two gay V THE JACK THE RIPPER ME too ~Et-. ~AL MAM male parishioners. He now writes for the Bos ORIAL HETEROSEXUAL SAD- AME>fi,.'J ,\ROUND Iii ton Ledger. IST CITATION Tl~Hit,/ to Newsweek Magazine for their response to v THE BEIBER MEMORIAL "AND irc1t0 letters about their coverage of the YOU THINK WE'RE SICK" Corll/Houston murders . "By referring to Dean AWARD Corll as a homosexual sadist, we are only to the anonymous wealthy Boston Brahmin pointing out that he was a homosexual, as THE LOIS LANE SELECTIVE v neighbor of the Charles Street Meetinghouse well as a sadist. " (GCN #19 Letter to the edi- ACCURACY AWARD who, in his passion to rid the neighborhood of tor) to United Press International and the Boston fags, voiced hope that "someone would be Herald American for their blatant misquoting killed at the Meetinghouse so that the place v A BOUQUET AND MANY and use of an interview with Dr. Brown of Bay would be shut down." VOTES lor College of Medicine in the aftermath of the Houston tragedy. In a feature story he was to Rep. James Collins (D-Amhers t) who not quoted, "The actual murder was a part of the only agreed to support future gay rights bills syndrome of homosexuality, sexual abuse but also agreed to co-sponsor them as a re 'l--1or-t ,._,-Ju«>( and eventual homicide, which must be carried su It of Gay Americans Day and letters from ..J11'1t M~1''-tl lJlr out. They all add up -you don't have one with his constituents . He was a former opponent. out the other ." Although Dr. Brown was pub MEGl<&Arvo (GCN #17) licly outraged by the misquote , neither UPI J/ nor the Herald American have seen fit to cor rect the situation - even with an acknowledg ement. (GCN # 11)
V A BOUQUET AND BULLE TPROOF VEST v A TWO TON ANCHOR WITH to UNH President Thomas N. Bonner and the ANKLE STRAP UNH B_~ard of Trustees for their struggle in to Chuck Scarborough , pretty boy, such-a oo o@ the pol1t1cally and financially difficult task to stud, anchorman for Channel 7's Mass Reac THE JOE McCARTHY PRO keep UNH a citadel of learning , understanding tion. "We've given the faggots their fair share v and freedom and not a citadel of "moral per of air time ." (GCN #10 Media Message) GRESSIVE GOVT. AWARD suasion (oppression)." (GCN #24) to N. H. Governor Meldrim Thomson for his single handed attempts to rid N. H. of any V THE I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU gays. Some of his most memorable quotes: DO TO ME JUDGE, I JUST WANT the U. of N.H. ··should not be run for the ben TO DANCE A WARD efit of persons who suffer from the social dis to Father's Three Bar on Charles St. for their abilities of the gays," "we don 't have to put up July 31 physical eviction of three lesbians for with this spectacle ," the University should be the "obscenity " of dancing together . (GCN · a citadel of moral persuasion ... not a hospi #8) tal for the disturbed ." His most recent re sponse has been to threaten to veto all fi V THE STRANGE BEDFELLOWS THE DOWN ON ME AWARD nances to UNH unless the trustees kick the AWARD v gay group off campus . (GCN #22 23 25 27 to Dinah Vaprin for trying to show WBCN that 28) ' ' ' ' to William Loeb and Governor Thomson . women and their music do exist in a sexist world . Page 8 •GAY COMMUNITY NEWS, December 29, 1973 '1 THE "IF THEY DON'T KNOW '1 THE BOUQUET FOR SWIFTEST '1 THE LOEB MEMORIAL SILVER ABOUT IT, THEY WON'T TRY IT" CONSCIOUSNESS CHANGE OF BLUDGEON BUTTON THE YEAR to the Brockton Enterprise for its printing of to David Wilson, Boston Globe columnist , who to George Frazier, who went from a June 24 names, addresses , occupations and places of withdrew as host of Channel 56-TV 's October quote on Mass Reaction that gays shouldn 't employment of the eleven men arrested in a Point of View show rather than appear with "scare the horses" by "protesting too loudly or police entrapment drive billed as "a crack Elaine Noble of Gay Way Radio and Rep. making themselves too public" to writing a down on alleged homosexuality along road Barney Frank. "I felt that I could not partici very fine and up-front column in the Boston side rest areas on Rte. 24 ... As a result of the pate in a show which might have the effect of Globe supporting Gay Americans Day. publicity many were fired, intimidated or har rassed, including two area school teachers . making the gay choice appear attractive and 1 thus influence people into their choosing of a ~ ~~! HE'l!WM6'> Pf,..Y11l (GCN #16) gay life style." (GCN #17) t~~ '~e,1;),11.-/~6~ TO Tl-tlrJk°? '1 AND THE LARGEST PURPLE '1 THE MARIE ANTOINETTE "LET CARNATION WE CAN FIND THEM SODOMATE" AWARD to Rep. Barney Frank (D-Back Bay) who has to Sen. Zarod (D-Springfield) whose reaction done so much for the Massachusetts Gay to Gay Americans Day was, "Who has given Community , particularly Boston , that it is im permission " for these groups , "to use the it~~ possible to pick any one reason. He has stood Statehouse?" (GCN #16) up for us, · marched with us, fought with and '1 AND A BUNCH OF FLOWERS for us, educated us and others , given us THE McCARTHY /McGOVERN to Michelle Cote, Ms. New Hampshire 1973, needed advice and encouragement . used his '1 own initiative , and through it all remains a real POLITICAL ACCUMEN AWARD who publicly expressed her support for wom en's and gay movements during the Atlantic person and friend. Thanks . to Mike Amato, candidate for State Senator in last year's Aug. 14 special election who ran City Pageant, incurring the wrath of William Loeb and the Manchester Union Leader . on a platform including openly supporting pro (GCN #19) gay legislation . He lost. We lost. '1 THE I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU ARE SA YING, l'VE HAD MY EYES CLOSED FOR YEARS AWARD to the Boston Police Post Gazette which in its Oct. 5 issue editorial termed Gay Americans Day "one of the sickest spectacles on Beacon '1 INDIVIDUAL BOUQUETS Hill." to the following for their interest and aid in Gay •Americans Day: The League of Women '1 AND A BOUQUET WITH A Voters, National Organization of Women , THE COTTON MATHER PURI THANK YOU NOTE Americans for Democratic Action, C.P. Pax, '1 American Civil Liberties Union, Co-Op Metro TAN PRUDERY PLAQUE OR THE to Senator Robert Hall (D-Worcester) who, in a letter to the editor of the Post Gazette, re politan Group, the Mass. Senate President's THAT'S-WHAT-MADE-THIS-COUN sponded, "of course, psychologists tell us that Office, the House Speaker 's Office , and of TRY-GREAT TROPHY those who persecute homosexuals usually do course Rep. Barney Frank. to Dr. Harold Ockenga for his July 15 Park so because they are unsure of their own se Street Church sermon which included the in xuality." He also asserted, "Any citizen has '1 THE "WHY IS YOUR GIRL creased acceptance of homosexuality , along the right to file bills in our General Court, FRIEND LAUGHING?" RIBBON with abortion, Watergate, and pornography as whether the Post Gazette likes them or not. to Allan Briddle, UNH Board of Trustees stu "evidence of increased corruption and dege This is a part of our Constitution, which I as dent representative . Although a recent' stu neration in the nation in the areas of truth, in sume you support." (GCN #19) dent poll shows 85 percent of students in fa tegrity, honesty and dependability. " (GCN #8} vor of the Gay Students Organization on campus, his stand against GSO has been '1 ANOTHER BIG BOUQUET more reactionary than most of the other to Bernice Buresh, Boston Bureau Chief for trustees . He is appointed by the governor of Newsweek , for going out of her way to not New Hampshire . (GCN #23) only promote understanding in Newsweek but aiding the gay community in working with the '1 LOGIC IS THE POLITICIAN'S realities of the straight media. (GCN #225) WORST FEAR AWARD to Rep. Scalli (d-Charlestown) who was '1 ONE HALF A BOUQUET AND '1 AND A NOSEGAY quoted on Gay Americans Day as saying , " If I MAYBETHERESTNEXTYEAR to the Unitarian Universalist Church . In Octo were a landlord, I wouldn 't rent to a homose to former representative Michael Dukakis, ber, they became the first "straight " church to xual either, for fear of my children ." When in serious potential candidate for governor of actually ~a~e ~ commitment to gays to help formed that 85 percent of child molesters Massachusetts . He has strongly endorsed ~n~ d1scnminat1on and prejudice by estab were heterosexuals , Scalli responded with, gay rights legislation which seems impressive , lishing an Office of Gay Concerns . (GCN "But what about the other 15 percent?" (GCN but candidates seem to have a habit of forgett #20) #16) ing after they are elected . We hope Dukakis will not. (GCN #26) '1 THE WHEN YOU'RE RIGHT, YOU'RE RIGHT VIRILITY COUPON to Sen. McCann (d-Cambridge) quoted on Gay Americans Day as saying , "I voted against it in the past (gay rights bills) and will also in the future- get lost." (GCN #16}
'1 AND A LAVENDER FLORAL '1 THE AGNEW CUP FOR OFFAL '1 A GILDED TRASH CAN WITH DISPLAY ELOQUENCE ETERNAL FLAME to self proclaimed "Jesus of Dorchester, " who to radio station WCAS in Cambridge for their to Nini's Corner , Harvard Square magazine interest in the gay community with public ser determinedly shouts her heavenly insights and fruit store , which has the dubious dis vice announcements, gay programming and from the streets of Boston . Her favorite pre tinction of evicting GCN and its distributors now a gay-produced and directed weekly fixes being fagot and lesbian (as in fagot not once but twice with the message , "We show . SCAS now joins WBUR, Boston Univer priests, lesbian-nuns, fagot-doctors and les don't want that trash anyway ." sity and WBCN as three radio stations who bian, Golda Meir) which she affixes to any have not only listened to us but have shown term or person she sees as being "the devil, " (Continued on page 10) their commitment. which seems to be everyone and everything . GAY COMMUNITY NEWS, December 29, 1973 • Page 9 v THE GCN SPECIAL "GO BE GET YOURSELF" AWARD to Elinor Stout , spokeswoman for the Boston v LAST YEAR'S "WE ALWAYS Ballet, who, in the Aug. 26 Globe . was quoted GET OUR MAN" TROPHY as saying that one of the Ballers problems to the Boston Police Vice Squad for their Aug. was building a male audience . Stout blamed 15 seizing of the film Trick or Trap at South this problem on the ·•effeminate image of the Station Cinema which had already finished its dancers ... She claims higher salaries will cor run; and an earlier raid on the Art Cinema af rect this by (quoting Agnes de Mille of ··Okla ter the flick had already finished and had been homar · fame) enabling what she calls "real sent back to the distributor. men - men interested in begetting " to pursue ballet. (GCN # 11)
v THE NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD AWARD to the Boston Police Dept. for using tear gas several nights in the Fenway as "standard procedure " in locating the possible dead body of a robber wounded by the police in a local holdup. (GCN #25) •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• classifiedCLASSIFIEDclassifiedCLASSIFIED
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