Word: revs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sipple lives in the sleazy tenderloin district in a fourth-floor walk-up apartment incongruously decorated with a chandelier, stained-glass windows and peacock feathers. He shares it with a merchant seaman. Sipple is known in San Francisco's large homosexual community, and two of its leaders, the Rev. Raymond Broshears and Harvey Milk, tried to make capital for the cause of the gay image out of Sipple's act. But Sipple refused to accept the role. He also gave high marks to the Secret Service: "Those guys did a terrific job. What more could they...
...week Lyons' voice was suddenly silent. He had turned in his last columns to the National Catholic Register and Twin Circle (combined weekly circulation: 162,000), left his Manhattan office and headed west. Days later, he walked into the Portland, Ore., headquarters of his Jesuit superior, the Very Rev. Kenneth Galbraith, and stunned him by asking for a leave of absence, with the intention of ultimately seeking release from his priestly vows. After all the dropouts in recent years, "I thought I was through with being surprised," says Galbraith, "but I was surprised...
Even this minimal suggestion was more than the intransigent Rev. Ian Paisley could swallow. Following Paisley's lead the caucus voted 37 to 1 to reject any power sharing with Catholics on the Cabinet level; Craig was the lone holdout...
Smith's next move will be to try to hold a conference of black leaders inside Rhodesia, thereby excluding such militants as the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, James Chikerema and other A.N.C. representatives who cannot enter the country without being arrested. Smith may also try to reach an agreement with Joshua Nkomo, who is known as the most moderate A.N.C. faction leader and the one with the widest political support within Rhodesia. If Smith could work out even a token power-sharing scheme with Nkomo, he just might be able to split the A.N.C. and ease the pressure from Vorster...
...many denominations, small groups?usually a coalition of liberals, gays, women and youths?are pressing for full acceptance of gays. Says the Rev. Tom Oddo, national chaplain to Dignity, an organization of Catholic gays and their sympathizers: "Listening to these people and feeling the pain of their lives, you can't help but be concerned. They have been hit with all kinds of guilt that they are condemned by God." Dignity plans to present its views at the November meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. When the United Methodist Church's Council on Youth Ministries announced a drive...