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4 ‘Fruit Loop'' arrests
may continue
Arrests in Washington Park’s “ Fruit
Loop” will continue if sexual activity
there is not curtailed, says Police Captain
Roberta Webber of Central Precinct. On
the weekend of June 27-28, police made 14
arrests using undercover police officers as
decoys to lure some of the men into sexual
activity. Ten of the men arrested were
charged with sexual abuse (“ subject! ing)
another person to sexual contact” ) and
four were charged with Public Indecency
(“ an act of exposing the genitals with in
tent of arousing sexual desire” ). Charges
were dropped against all the men.
Captain Webber said she decided to in
vestigate allegations of sexual activities
after complaints by residents near Wash
ington Park. Webber said that “ it must be
made clear that sexual activity in Washing
ton Park is not acceptable behavior. We
will work with the gay community,” says
Webber, “ but we will continue to monitor
the situation to measure the effect of press
coverage of the arrests.”
No move is bad move
for building owners
The Cascade AIDS Project (CAP) of
fices have moved out not quite as far as
hoped. CAP had planned to move from its
offices in the Governor Building to the
Oregon Trail Building, 333 SW Fifth,
where Phoenix Rising now has its offices.
However, according to CAP’s Executive
Director, Tom Koberstein, the owners of
the Oregon Trail Building, Landsing
The Lesbian and Gay Press Association
award of Outstanding Overall Design was
presented to Just Out at the association’s
seventh annual convention in San Diego.
It was the second time in four years that
Just Out has received the award for out
standing production and graphic values.
Suit brought in Chicago
phony personals case
Property of San Francisco, withdrew a
proposed lease agreement “ because of the
nature of our organization.” CAP offices
have expanded down the hall into the old
Phoenix Rising offices on the fourth floor
of the Governor Building, 408 SW Second.
Koberstein has asked Labor Commis
sioner Mary Wendy Roberts to look into
the matter to determine if CAP has been
unfairly discriminated against according
to Oregon's handicap laws, which prohibit
discrimination in housing on the basis of
handicap. It has not been determined if an
organization that serves the handicapped is
protected by the law. An ACLU-appointed
lawyer is representing CAP in the matter.
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Three members of a Chicago group ac
cused of anti-gay harassment have been
named in a $10.1 million libel and
emotional distress suit. The three men are
members of a group called Great White
Brotherhood of the Iron Fist, which has
vowed to be “ the complete ruination of
homosexuality.’ ’ The suit has been filed by
three gay men, two lesbians, and the
parents of one of the men, all of whom
contend they were the focus of a malicious
anti- gay campaign orchestrated by the de
fendants (see Just Out [ May 1987) for more
details).
The lawsuit claims that the three defen
dants, two of whom are students at the
University of Chicago, sent death threats
to the plaintiffs; mailed “ libelous and
inflammatory” letters to family and friends
of the plaintiffs; and harassed others who
answered phony gay personal ads in a
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violence printed in the University news
paper. The identity of the three men was
determined only after an attorney for the
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phony personal ads. The University of
Chicago has suspended the two accused
students for two years.
Reagan names
AIDS Commission
President Reagan named twelve mem
bers of his National AIDS Commission
late last month. The administration appa
rently reversed its previous position that
no gays would be named to the panel and
appointed a gay man, Dr. Frank Lilly, a
geneticist, to the committee. The New York
Times claims that Lilly is “ the most con
troversial appointee.”
It is difficult to see how Lilly could be
more controversial than some of the other
“ Wise Men” that Reagan assembled:
Richard M. DeVos, president of Amway
Corporation; Cory Servaas, editor of the
Saturday Evening Post; Admiral James D.
Watkins, a retired chief of naval opera
tions; and John Cardinal O ’Connor,
Archbishop of New York and arch homo
phobe . Others on the committee are
characterized by their hawk-like views on
AIDS testing and right wing morality, and
were chosen. Mr. Reagan stated, with the
advice of wife Nancy’s father. Dr. Loyal
Davis.
The chairman of the committee. Dr. W.
Eugene Mayberry, who was named last
month, was attacked by critics for his lack
of experience with AIDS. In contrast to the
Committee he will head, he now seems an
oracle of wisdom. Mayberry, who is head
of Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, has close
friends in the administration. “ Nancy
Reagan chose doctors from the Mayo
Clinic to operate on President Reagan’s
prostate gland” reported the Times.
Mayberry may not know anything about
AIDS, but if he’s good enough for
Reagan’s asshole, he’s good enough for
the nation.
Entertainment , briefly
William Hoffman, author of the play
As Is, has completed the libretto for
“ A Figaro for Antonia,” an opera by John
Corigliano. The Metropolitan Opera of
New York commissioned the work. David
Leavit, who wrote Family Dancing and
The Lost Language o f Cranes, is asking
for $250,000 bids for two new books, re
ports New York magazine. The BBC’s
Radio I in Britain and several American
radio stations have refused to play a single
by George Michael called “ I want your
sex.” The record was considered “ too
sexually explicit for the age of AIDS,”
according to The New York Times.
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