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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (July 25, 1972)
Gay rights sought By CYNTHIA SPINELLI Of the Emerald Members of the Gay People’s Alliance (GPA) and the Eugene Gay Women will bring their grievances before the Eugene Human Rights Commission tonight in an effort to gain legal recognition for homosexuals as a minority group under the Eugene City Code. Recognized minorities are allowed protection under the city’s anti-discrimination laws and are entititled to use the laws’ provisions for bringing com plaints against persons who discriminate against minorities. Recognized minorities are also represented on the Human Rights Commission. The GPA wants the Human Rights Commission to recom mend legislation in two main areas. First, it wants the civil rights already extended to other minorities extended to gay people, by including the phrase “sexual orientation” in listing characteristics of recognized minority groups. Second, it wants gay people represented in deliberations regarding the problems of minority groups in Eugene, including membership gay people on the Human ^iights Commission. Success predicted Allan Brown, coordinator of the GPA’s efforts, predicts success for legal recognition of gay people. He told the Emerald he is confident that the Human Rights Commission, which is an ad visory board, will approve the GPA’s requests. The group will then go to the City Council. “This will be more of a political fight,” Brown said. Brown said the meeting with the Human Rights Commission will be "education for the general public,” and that the GPA doesn’t Nudist camp uncovered SANTA ROSA, CALIF. (AP)— “I sort of dreaded this thing happening, but I really thought for a while no one would discover us,” said Barbara Flaherty, whose neighbors have started complaining because she runs a ■weekend nudist camp in her backyard For the past year, Mrs. Flaherty and her husband Lee have let fellow members of their group, the Quiet Village Nudist Club, use the pool and rumpus room behind a 9-foot ivy-topped wall back of their home in this quiet suburban town 50 miles north of San Francisco. “We played cards, did a little swimming, or played Ping Pong inside," Mrs. Flaherty said “There were never more than four or five people here at any one time on the weekends.” expect "immediate success.” He said he expects some affirmative action to be taken by fall. Similar attempts at legislation protecting homosexuals have been made in New York and San Francisco, Brown said, but they have failed. He said the closest a gay group has come to having legislation passed is in East Lansing, Mich,’ “which is a fairly liberal, university town, something like Eugene.” The GPA cites several examples of homosexuals who lost jobs or were forced to move when their employers or land lords learned of their sexual orientation. The GPA says that overt cases of discrimination are rare because homosexuality is rarely given as a reason for asking persons to leave jobs or homes. Example Two gay men were asked by their landlady to move out because the house they were living in was to be sold. She mentioned in passing that she "knew all about them.” The house was not sold and other people are living there now. The GPA says workers may be told that they “do not get along with fellow workers, rather than it is considered offensive or dangerous to associate with gay people.” The GPA says that many gays are unwilling to take action against discrimination,, because disclosure of their homosexuality may cause further discrimina tion. Even if they do bring complaints, there are no legal channels to go through and no legal protection available, ac cording to the group. The GPA describes gay people as an “invisible minority,” and says that the public’s lack of familiarity with the realities of gay life causes fear in the public. Brown said he hopes the meeting tonight will help to educate the public. He said that the gay com munity needs the support of the public to achieve its goals. VOTE : TODAY ON EUGENE CITY BUDGET! 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The judge reserved decision on whether to grant a special hearing, but said he hoped to have opening statements begin Wednesday. Attorneys for Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo accused the government of “gross misbehavior” and “dishonesty” for telling them last Friday that there was no wiretap information covering attorneys and defense consultants. The defense team, arguing a related aspect of the wiretap issue at the start of Monday’s court session, apparently was unaware of the secret government filing until U.S. District Court Judge Matt Byrne interrupted their arguments to an nounce there had been an “in camera,” or in chambers statement, on the issue submitted to him Friday by the government prosecutor. The defense said it expected the secret report revealed wiretap evidence it had not been told about. “This is an incredible development,” said at torney Leonard Weinglass. “. . We re supposed to operate at some level of trust. How can we do this when the government is not even telling us, 10 minutes before arguments, that they have made submissions in camera?” The government had been ordered to tell fi defense counsel by last Friday whether attorneys or defense consultants had been wiretapped. At 5 p.m. Friday, Asst,U S. Atty. Warren Reese gave the defense an affidavit saying there was no wiretapping "except as may hereafter be disclosed to the court in camera. . .” Apparently, Reese submitted the secret report at the same time Friday. Attorney Leonard Boudin, representing Ellsberg, and Weinglass, representing Russo, demanded a special hearing to disclose who was wiretapped, when it was done and whether there was a judicial order making it lawful. “1 consider this one of the most serious, shocking and shameful episodes in this case,” said Boudin. “1 think it’s absolutely dreadful that lawyers sitting here now should not know which one of them were wiretapped Asst. U.S Atty. 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