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8A Snn Jane 19, 1977 ST. LOUIS POST-DISFATCH Italian Journalist Convicted Of Contempt 1 i Vfei have homosexual relations with him. The judge who convicted Fallaci ruled tht journalists, although pledged by a 1963 law to professional secrecy, have no right to refuse to testify because Italy's Fascist-era penal code does not list them along with priests, doctors and others enjoying that privilege. This is not the first time a journalist convicted for complying with professional ethics," Ms Fallaci said after the sentence, 'i od my duty and I wm do it agaiiu whenever it proves necessary." Us Fallaci said in a story in the magazine LTuropeo that she was told Pelosi was not alone when he bludgeoned Pasolini with a plank and ran him over with an automobile on a suburban soccer field the night of Nov. 1, 1975.

The story implied that the controversial Marxist director was lured into a death trap. Pelosi, who was convicted and sentenced to nine years and seven months in prison, testified that he was alone with Pasolini and that he killed the director after refusing to ROME, June 18 (UPI) A judge in Rome sentenced journalist Oriana Fallati to a suspended four-month jail term Saturday for refusing to identify the sources of a story she wrote. Ms Fattad, who reported the Vietnam War for an Italian magazine and wrote a best-selling book about it, was convicted of contempt of court for refusing to testify last year in the trial of a youth, Giuseppe Pelosi, the self-proclaimed killer of actor-director Pier Paolo Pasolini. 1:01 qfcJO O-PAK vnw Limit I cose thru 6-21-77 HDDOBDDDOBBDIiliiiHHii 3 fymnn irv aw HOY HALF GALLON ICG CREAM mam. IN PRAISf Of ANITA) Jim Thomas (left) and Rick Garcia of St.

Louis, professed homosexuals, say that singer Anita Bryant's anhgay campaign will benefit homosexuals; in the long run. (Post-Dispatch Photo by Jim Forbes) OF ST Limit 1 thru 6-21-77 VAw WEB i I limit I thru 6-2 1-77 Limit 2 thru 6-21-77 Antihomosexual Campaign Challenges Area Gays DDBDDBBDBDDOaaDa cjjaaaaaaaaaaannaaaacai L1ES7 TOOTHPASTE WATCD WATER i OIL i i 1 Gallon Jug i Quart Quart neafiii i I 2 FOX mwum I '49 $1100 I otor on BONUS I limit 2 thru 6-21-77 Limit 1 thru 6-21-77 8 I limit I thru 6-21-77 further than himself to find discrimination in housing. Garcia said that he recently asked a St. Louis landlady if she had any vacancies for himself and a male roommate. She told him no and was not optimistic about future vacancies, either, he said.

Garcia then called the woman on the telephone and, disguising his voice, asked if she had anything for his elderly mother. The landlady said that she had several vacancies coming up at the end of the month. On another occasion, Garcia said, a landlord told him the rent would be $210 for an apartment where the going rate was $125. Another homosexual, who asked that his name not be used, said that three banks refused to lend him and his friend money to buy a house in St. Louis County.

"We were given all kinds of really weird reasons why the loan wouldn't go through," he said. Eventually the man was able to get a loan for a house in the city. In another case, a source said that within the last few weeks, a new owner took over a large apartment building in the city. He asked the former owner to give him a list of all the homosexuals in the building. When the former owner refused, the new one notified all single men in the building that he would not renew their leases.

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Louis's gay population. Such leaders point to a first-of-a-kind meeting last Thursday night, where representatives of about half a dozen local gay organizations met to discuss how they can work together. The groups, which have cooperated with one another little in the past, plan to work together in such areas as educational campaigns and lobbying efforts. The leaders point also to spirited events such as a fund-t aiser for the anti-Bryant forces held last month at the Maplewood Theatre. Hundreds of homosexuals attended, they said.

Says Fred Kerr, president of Midcontinent Life Services "All we can say is thank you, Anita, for providing this spirit of unity." There are about 10 similar organizations of homosexuals in the St. Louis area, ranging from the Metropolitan Community Church to the Gateway Motorcycle Club. The strongest of these organizations are probably the community church, which was established in 1973 and has 130 members, and the life services group, organized in 1975 and having 303 members. The life services group, which operates out of 4940 McPherson Avenue, provides such services as a hot line and a community center for gays. Neither the MLSC life services nor the community church is particularly well-financed, however, and St.

Louis homosexuals are in general not nearly so well organized as their counterparts in Washington, San Francisco, New York or Boston. There are no firm numbers for the size of the homosexual population here, but Dr. Robert Kolodny says that rough estimates are that 8 to 10 per cent of males and 5 per cent of females are homosexual. Dr. Kolodny is associate director of the Reproductive Biology Research Foundation here, directed by Dr.

William Masters and Virginia Johnson. But probably less than 10 per cent of homosexuals in the St. Louis area are willing to make their homosexuality known publicly, or, in the vernacular, to come out of the closet. One of the few neighborhoods in town where persons do acknowledge themselves publicly as gays is the Central West ErM, where discotheques such as Herbie's and bars like The Potpourri cater to male homosexuals and gawking "straights." Other bars, like the Onyx Room Bar, 3560 Olive Street, cater to black homosexuals, and still others, like the Bottom of the Pot, in the basement of The Potpourri, to female homosexuals. Not only is the gay community here liss well organized than in homosexual centers on the feast and West coasts, it is also less militant.

Gay organizations like the community" church and the life services group welcome heterosexuals, for example, And women homosexuals here are generally not organized around their homosexuality but are active in feminist groups organized around issues affecting all women. On some college campuses, like Oberlin College, where Jim Thomas of Alton is a student, gay couples walk with their arms around each other and are less cautious than St. Louis homosexuals about public displays of affection. But the Florida experience has galvanized gays here and may lead to greater organization and visibility. Two of the issues that gays will probably raise more and more are ones which concerned voters in Dade County namely, whether society should be able to discriminate legally against gays in the fields of employment and housing.

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Mrs. Stolar says that gay persons have restored a lot of decayed housing in the ward. An officer of City Bank, which is in the Central West End and which has a reputation for not discriminating against homosexuals, said that divorces between heterosexuals presented more of a problem for keeping up mortgage payments than did the alleged instability of homosexuals. Regardless, Mrs. Stolar says she thinks the Board of Aldermen is much too conservative to consider enacting an ordinance barring discrimination against homosexuals in housing.

Such a bill his never even been considered, she said. And just as housing descriminatton often forces gays into less desirable quarters, employment discrimination often channels them into professions in which they are only mildly interested. The Carol Cureton, gay minister of the community church knows about 15 persons who left the clergy because they were afraid of discovery or thought that their homesexuality, even if concealed, conflicted too strongly with the church position. Nevertheless, ministry teaching, pursing and all other fields include homosexuals who survive by keeping themselves "closeted." The psychological toll that hiding exacts is often serious, says Nan Cinnater, who works with feminist organizations here. Homosexual teachers became an issue in Dade County, where Miss Bryant's forces warned that such persons could influence children to become homosexuals.

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Louis police and agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation found the beaten woman in a shower stall at an apartment in the 5300 block of Cabanne Avenue, where they had traced telephone calls from her abductors. The woman, Betty Joyce Champagne, 28 years old, was under sedation at Homer G. Phillips Hospital Saturday suffering from numerous bruises and internal injuries. Arrested were James Tippett, 29, of the 3800 block of Lincoln Avenue; Johnnie Ricks, 21, of the 5300 block of Cabanne Avenue; Ronnie Cook, 19 of the 1100 block of North Seventh Street, and Dennis Griffin, 23, of the 5800 block of Cates Avenue. Others arrested were Brian Hall, 19, of the 4500 block of Durant Avenue; Calvin Morgan, 25, of the 5300 block of Cabanne; Thomas Lee Jenkins, 33, of the 5300 block of Cabyine; Eric Watson, 19 of 5000 block of Ruskin Ave; Robin Poindexter, 8700 block of Park Avenue and Terri Jones, 18, of the 5200 block of Lillian Avenue.

Police said Ms Champagne is believed to have been a "runner," or person who transported narcotics from Los Angeles to other cities, including St. Louis. Police think Tippett abducted her after being dissatisfied with a shipment of heroin they believe she sold him in April. Police said that Tippett apparently tad taken Ms Champagne to the apartment on Cabanne last Tuesday, where he and friends repeatedly beat her and abused her. Police said they were told that persons were invited to the apartment to drink and take drugs and to torture Ms Champagne.

Police found the apartment by tracing phone calls from Los Angeles, where Tippett had allegedly called Ms Champagne's brother to demand her ransom. The brother told his mother and she called Los Angeles police, who brought in the FBI. A quantity of narcotics was seized. The arrested persons were bqbked suspected of kidnaping, assault and possession narcotics. wfl bh bl riii.a iiw aWJiei it wfl i n.

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