Gays under attack man mankind as be leth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death. That is what the Bible has to say on the subject of homosexuality. It is abo the favourite text of Anita Bryant, the anti-gay rights campaigner in the USA.
Like Anita Bryant, Mary Whitchouse says that she does not oppose gays. Like Anita Bryant, Whitchouse. SUCT against Gay News through the Courts, is spearheading a camp aign in favour of the morality of the family which, on the was threatens to strip gay people of their lives without discrimination.
only the punload anaces oo gays in tal has been the series of harrassments that gays have encountered from Bradford police, after a series of raids, have boasted that they have enough evidence ta bring charges against & thousand gay neonic. INSINS SUCH A WAVE DI police prosecutions against say In the North of Ireland, the Royal Ulster Constabulary have seized over a thousand documents Ibe more dangerous since under the laws pertaining to the Six uality remains totally illegal.
Discrimination against homobeing rectified through incustrial relations machinery as the dismissal of the anpeal of Louise Boychuk, sacked for wearing a "Lesbians Ignite' badge, has rec ently emphasised Further the Whitehouse trial has itself acted as a physical attacks suffered by gay people. The scene of particularly has been the Women's Diseo held in South London.
The lahour movement should add its weight to the defence of Gay News, to defend all labour WHICH P MR. JOHN SMYTH, the proJONATHAN HAMMOND ON THE Royal Commission Report and the journalists union forward the views of the oppress But a more positive approach is nasan was met with the segest Viewers and Listeners AssociaTHE ROYAL Commission on the Press. set up drearily predictable conclusions.
Its £730,000 cost has not oaly produced such illuminaring gem! as that The Times and the Doiv Telegraph devote more space to editorial matter than the Dail can in the one fre reing Carrac course by the meticulously fair nd hal aced media coverage of Dally Mirror industrial correspondent Geoffrey Goodman, has oration, with sufficient funds to help small Wint actics many NUJ because — although undoubtedly mobilisations in the LISA since the anti-war demonstrations. During a week or international acton. massive demonstra place in France, Spain and Ttaly.
GAY NEWS Snapshots of Anita Bryant's better-known face in America - sa Hollywood star and as Miss Okighoma teal subject underlying the trial in 1974 by hus come ic Tory in their politics Inost Lists members.
per want pose sops MINORITY Trapped groups gain access to aper militants for years reformist — it would start to make a reality of press free excusive preserve of live or six NUJ newspaper groups in London and The overwhelmingly The Commission's findings on the closed shon and the rested issue of press Ireedom' are o is.
significance to rank-no could continue Tie Nabona Union o Joacosl In its carefully worded draft, the Commission's for the present NUJJ policy of backing chapels which want 100 the A vocal and widely-publicised minority of (NUJ) members ar using "lighly coloured language' in pursuit of their aim to change society and the role of neas within it. Neverthciess he Commission reluctantly re NUl was the only union ni allowed to form closed shops In Britain, the gay movement s heginning to reorganise and dis cuss strategy, Resisting the offenSIVe In JaVDUr Or LIC FirtUCs Or taC family and the capitalist order liberation would be anomalous, mending two "safeguards"
_- IL view unacceptable-to the first is that no member ary should he in ans waw disciplined for writing according to his or her conscience. This means that For anti-trade wion cop to do so wit code of conduct, the editor of the Newham Recorder has just been and complaints against other members are pending.
The second "safeguard" is that union must accept into membership any journalist, irres pective of what they write. If this bad been enforced in 1975 for inscanoe, the NUJ would have admit into membership David McCalden National Front journalistic col leagues on that paper.
M.Calden" application was rejected by Magazine Branch ame cole accision narrows up held by the national executive means huilding the widest support for Gay News. It also means giving every aid to the building of movements for gay and worsen s tive The publication of the repor at an interesting time for the NUT. Thent his inse boon ai secto reine enlarge to replace Morga about to join the Press Council which the Royal Commissicn is aLcious to see strengthened. Ken Ashton, generally considered to be the mosr right-wing of th candidates to succeed Morgar scored a Convince win 1o So He was helped by the enthu an ABILE DESIREES ionary Bernard Levin in Th who implored his NUI readers, not just once but thre times, to vote for Ashton and four other candidates in descending order of preference (on the single transterable vote system) to emit Michael Bower -0 and TOUTE WHOSE HER LUISE Levin's eyes, appeared to be that he opposed Levin's conception or "ores freedom' This course, encails using acres of Th Times to promote bis candidate A right-wing backlash, master minded by Levin And fen sypaphantic cranies in the NUJ's London Freelance Hranch, has undoubtedly takco place within making the need for a genuine rank-and-file movement particularly in the lower-paid area of magazine, book and provin cial newspaper journalise, all the more urgent. Up until now Journalists Charter - tbe NUJ raok-and-file grouping has failed to fulfil its potential in this respect.
EFFECTIVE It has been wondertully effec organising around the
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