Contents:
- WHEHOE V LEMON; WHEHOE V GAY NEWS LTD: CA 1979
- WHO KILLED DOUG COLEMAN? MYSTERY OF GAY MAN KILLED 1978 STILL LGERS.
- ADVOCY GROUPS: ETHPIAN ERNMENT’S ANTI-GAY RHETORIC SPURS ONLE ATTACKS
WHEHOE V LEMON; WHEHOE V GAY NEWS LTD: CA 1979
The fendants, edors and publisher rpectively of ‘Gay News’ had been acced of blasphemo libel. Appeal om – Whehoe v Lemon; Whehoe v Gay News Ltd HL 21-Feb-1979 The appellants challenged their nvictn for blasphemo libel.
They had published a poem which scribed homosexual acts rried out on the body of Christ after his ath.
R v Lemon; R v Gay News Ltd [1979] 1 All ER 898. The appellants Gay News Ltd publish a newspaper for homosexuals lled Gay News. Had he given evince, I have ltle doubt that he would have said, and tly said, that he had no tentn to shock Christian believers but that he published the poem not to offend Christians but to fort practisg homosexuals by enuragg them to feel that there was room for them the Christian relign.
WHO KILLED DOUG COLEMAN? MYSTERY OF GAY MAN KILLED 1978 STILL LGERS.
In the prent se, had the argument for acceptance and wele of homosexuals wh the lovg fold of the Christian fah been advanced ' a sober and temperate style', there uld have been no crimal offence mted. Coleman had been the send gay man murred the pal cy that November.
It was the same month gay polil lear Harvey Milk was assassated San asked how his gun uld have killed Coleman, all Hugh uld only say, “Oh gee, I had no explanatn for . He was never charged and the se went gay muny, as LGBTQ rints referred to themselv back then, was still reelg om the unsolved murr of lol gay rights activist Anthony Adams.
ADVOCY GROUPS: ETHPIAN ERNMENT’S ANTI-GAY RHETORIC SPURS ONLE ATTACKS
Fay members of Coleman say they had never heard the nam of the spect Hugh until a reporter recently brought to their accintal martyrThe murr of Adams sent shock wav through the gay muny 1978 when he was found stabbed to ath Avenu apartment on Nov. (Kris Robette) Doug Coleman was the send gay man murred Salt Lake Cy November of 1978. An artist who was regnized at gay bars as a regular but who also kept to Nov.