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NEWS
Counseling Center loses
lease on 3 properties
Officials urgently seek newsite for PWA House
By Dennis Vercher
The landlord for three properties cur-
rently leased by the Oak Lawn Counsel-
ing Center — including the building
used for OLCC’s PWA House — has
notified OLCC officials that the proper-
ties must be vacated within
thirty days, confirmed OLCC executive
director Jay Johnson.
Besides the PWA House, OLCC of-
fices affected by the lease terminations
include the Annex, which houses the
offices of OLCC volunteer coordinator
Gary Swisher and most of the center’s
AIDS-related programs, and a separate
building which houses additional ad-
ministrative offices.
The original 2-story OLCC building
located at 5811 Nash St. is owned by
another landlord and is not affected by
the lease terminations, Johnson said.
The main building is leased through
September 1987.
On Tuesday, OLCC appointed a
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search committee composed of mem-
bers of the board of directors to locate
new rental property following notifica-
tion of the lease terminations on Monday
See OLCC, Page 5
Gay nominee
rejected by
Council vote
Vote follows Rucker’s
questioning of morals
By Dennis Vercher
The Dallas City Council voted down the
appointment of a gay man to the Cable
Access of Dallas board Wednesday after
Councilperson A1 Lipscomb changed his
previously-announced support of the
nomination.
In a straw poll taken at an executive
session, Lipscomb joined Council mem-
bers Bill Milkie, Lori Palmer, Craig
Holcomb, Diane Ragsdale and Annette
Strauss in supporting Palmer’s nomina-
tion of Michael Milliken to the board.
Lipscomb changed his vote after Coun-
cil member Jerry Rucker questioned
the moral implications of appointing a
gay man the day after the city’s Parks
director was found guilty of exposing
See Council, Page 5
Reports of anti-gay
violence doubled in
1986, says survey
By Dennis Vercher
Reports of harassment and violence
against gay men and lesbians more than
doubled in 1986 over reported levels the
previous year, according to a newly-
released report prepared by the
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
(NGLTF). Reported incidents include
murder, police abuse, arson, assault,
intimidation, verbal harassment, van-
dalism, arson and bomb threats, perpe-
trated by individuals, gangs and or-
ganized hate groups — including the Ku
Klux Klan and several neo-Nazi organi-
zations.
A total of 4,946 incidents were report-
ed to NGLTF in 1986, as compared with
2,042 reports in 1985. According to
NGLTF spokespersons, however, the
actual number of cases may greatly
exceed those reported. “These numbers
do not measure the actual extent of anti-
gay/lesbian violence, as the vast major-
ity of such attacks are never reported to
NGLTF,” stated Kevin Berrill, director
of NGLTF’s Anti-violence Project. “Nor
do these statistics measure the physical
pain, the anguish, the humiliation and
the loss experienced by the victims and
the larger lesbian and gay community.”
The report cites generalized homo-
phobia as the prime generator of anti-
gay/lesbian violence, but also identifies
“AIDS backlash” as a significant cause.
The reports were based on complaints
made to NGLTF, the National Gay/
Lesbian Crisisline and 41 organizations'
IT $ A CYCLICAL T^iNG—
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representing communities in 27 states.
In Dallas, the Social Justice Committee
of the Dallas Gay Alliance investigates
local complaints and forwards a report
of each incident to NGLTF.
Although the NGLTF Anti-violence
Report confirmed a doubling of report-
ed andi-gay and lesbian activity, it was
not clear what portion of the increase
was due to more aggressive reporting of
crimes rather than a crime increase.
Including 732 assaults and 80 homi-
cides, the anti-gay/lesbian attacks re-
ported in 1986 included the following:
■ In Stockton, Calif., the well-known
gay minister of the local Metropolitan
Community Church was found dead in
the trunk of his car in February. His
skull was crushed, his throat was slash-
ed, and he had suffered multiple stab
wounds in his chest.
■ In July, the bodies of two pre-
operative transexuals were found in a
ravine fifteen miles north of Philadel-
phia. The two men, who were dressed in
women’s clothes, were badly beaten,
shot and dismembered before their
bodies were soaked with gasoline and
set aflame.
■ In Morristown, N.J., three men
beat and slashed a gay man, extinguish-
ed a cigarette on his face, tied him to the
back of a truck and drove the truck,
dragging him along a dirt road.
■ In Portland, Maine, an assailant
espousing anti-lesbian epithets attacked
three women, leaving one of the victims
See HOMOPHOBIA, Page 18
Friday, May 1, 1987
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