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...dining hall by so many groups was really part of what made Quincy such a desirable house." Benjamin C. Kirkup '96-97, a Quincy House member, wrote in a post to the Quincy House newsgroup...
...Kirkup's post on the newsgroup generated mixed responses...
...defendants: Gay News (circulation: 20,000), a fortnightly newspaper for homosexuals, and Denis Lemon, 32, editor of the periodical, who came to court with a button saying GAY NEWS FIGHTS ON in the lapel of his conservative three-piece gray suit. The offense: publishing a poem by James Kirkup, in which a Roman centurion describes his sexual relations with the body of the crucified Christ. Prosecutor John J. Smyth called the verses "so vile that it would be hard for even the most perverted imagination to conjure up anything worse...
Defense Counsel Geoffrey Robertson defended Kirkup's poem as "a genuine expression of how one man came to love God . . . a devotional poem by a gifted poet," but the jury was not impressed. By a vote of 10 to 2, it convicted both Lemon and Gay News. The judge praised the jury for its "moral courage" and imposed fines of $1,700 on the paper and $850 on the editor...
...important new books-Meyer, "Modern Theories of Chemistry"; Thomas Kirkup, "An Inquiry into Socialism." Also 2 vols. "Oxford" and "London" in Freeman and Hunt's series of "Historic Towns...