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dior individuals to have the choice on how to dispose of oncerns a male homorexual sacked following onviction for a sexual vitict , usuauy gross affanno' 1a ally indecency. (Because of he common beliefs concerling female sexuality, that vomen are essentially ›assive, there is no corressonding. 'offence' for esbians.)

Gross indecency 'offen:es' , occurring as they iften do, in publie lavafor bored policemen wishing to increase their conviction rates. In reality, there is nothing 'offensive' about them'as they almost always occur behind closed doors.

Low penalties

The criminal law itself recognises this by providing low penalties. For a "THE NALGO blacking of Care Concern is holding very well", a spokesperson for the 'Defend Judith Williams' campaign told us this week, "and we think it is having a major effect".

Care Concern is a priyate firm which runs homes for people put in care by local authorities. Judith worked at Berwyn College, a home for adolescent girls in North Wales. She was sacked on May 27, not for any fault in her work - which had been praised - but for being 'temperamentally unsuitable', in other words for being a lesbian.

Blacking

NALGO members are blacking all placements of children i in bosses rus br Cart Coaces aleo seeking blacking Care Concern by other anions. At least eight branches of the TGWU's white collar section, ACTSS, have called for blacking by the TGWU.

Twelve Trades Councils and nearly 100 trade union branches [NUPE, TGWU, NATFHE, NALGO, CPSA, SCPS, NUT...J have passed resolutions supporting Judith, and so have many Constituency Labour Parties. The campaign is planning a picket of the head. quarters of Care Concern in Ruthin, North Wales, around the end of October.

You can help by:

• Sending from your union branch a resolution calling for reinstatement and for blacking of Care Concern; and a letter of support to Judith personally;

• Sending a donation the campaign:

of proces Car Coura Lectu Greencroft London NW6 3PE. volves the repression of a certain amount of homosexual feeling which is natural to the human being"

In this sense, it is the person who is totally nonhomosexual who is 'unnatural'. All the indications are that in a society with a minimum of repression, most people would be to one extent or another bisexual, and it would be the people who were attracted only to one sex who were unusual.

• 'Homosexual activity is disgusting'.

So is heterosexual activity if looked on with a cold and jaundiced eye!

• Many people still associate homosexuality with loitering in public lavatories or with child-molesting.

Given the enormous number of homosexuals in the population, it is clear that if any large proportion were accustomed to loiter in public lavatories, then every lavatory in the country would be choc-a-bloc.

A few do seek sex in public lavatories Why? Because SEE :: = = sees. = 1. =500 2C heterosexiE Above and beyond the strain on gays, prejudices against homosexuality link up with the ideologies which express the oppression of women.

Homosexuality is regarded as 'abnormal" because, by separating sexuality from the begetting and upbringing of children, it cannot fail to challenge the sanctity of the bourgeois family and the associated sex stereotypes.

Men who see manliness as defined by 'acquiring' women must condemn as 'queer' those men who opt out of that race for acquisition.

And female homosexuality is simply ignored. If sexuality is seen as a matter of men acquiring women, then the very idea of women having a sexuality which doesn't depend on men can hardly be recognised - even as a 'perversion' Given the "certain amount of homosexual feeling which is natural to the human being'. anti-ga! bigotry expresses a hatred and fear that the bigors fee for their oun sertain!

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