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- - - - Saturday, December 17, 1988
FYI: City of Dallas will auction
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WEATHER B-2
DALLAS ROUNDUP B-3
Judge's comments stir outrage, protestBy Scott Sunde
OF THE TIMES HERALD STAFF
State District Judge Jack
statement that he gave a sent
ly 30 years to a convicted mi
part because his victims wer
set off a torrent of emotional
day, not only in Dallas but
nation.
The judge's office, gay org
and local media were swam
phone calls from people oul
anguished by Hampton's deci
give the maximum life senman who went to Reverchon Park to
"pester the homosexuals" and ended up
killing two gay men in what was de-
Hampton's scribed as an execution-style slaying.
ence of on- Gay and civil rights leaders planned
murderer in protests - one at the Dallas County
e "queers" Courthouse on Monday, another at City
protest Fri- Hall on Tuesday - and said if Hampton
across the didn't resign they would force him out.
Hampton, a two-term Republican,
ganizations told the Dallas Times Herald in an inter-
mped with view published Friday that the two
raged and shooting victims of 18-year-old Richard
sion not to Lee Bednarski "wouldn't have been
tence to a killed if they hadn't been cruising thestreets picking up teenage boys. I don't
care much for queers cruising the
streets."
The reaction was quick and angry, re-
sounding from Dallas to Washington,
D.C., from the East Coast to the West
Coast.
In Dallas, debates about Hampton's
statements dominated radio talk shows,
and angry callers jammed the telephone
lines at the Dallas Gay Alliance and
AIDS Resource Center.
"To me, he has declared open season
on gay men and lesbians," said Kay Vin-
son, an Oak Lawn shop owner who isorganizing a protest scheduled for noon
Monday in front of the courthouse.
Kay Morse, a Dallas AIDS volunteer
worker, said, "I can understand igno-
rance on a certain level but not from a
judge, a district judge. It's horrifying to
think that [gays] can be murdered like
this. What if we declared war on all the
red-headed, blue-eyed men or all bald-
headed judges?"
Official reaction was just as distressed.
William Waybourn, president of the
Dallas Gay Alliance, said his group will
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Sunde, Scott. [Clipping: Judge's comments stir outrage, protest], clipping, December 17, 1988; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1584626/m1/1/: accessed June 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.