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750 Outside of D.C./Baltimore Areas
THE GAY WEEKLY OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL
Activists say stats minimize P Street problem
by Lisa M. Keen
Last month, a lone assailant dragged a
man walking along P Street near Dupont
Circle into an alley, beat and robbed him,
then pushed him back onto the street,
calling him a "fag." Two weeks later, two
men attacked two young men leaving a Gay
bar near Dupont Circle, called them
"faggots," and beat them. One week after
that, a group of five males accosted another
man walking along P Street, punched him,
and threatened to beat him up.
These are the assaults that occurred along
the P Street corridor near Dupont Circle
during the last month and were reported
either to police or the Gay. and Lesbian
Activists Alliance. They are both recent and
reflective of what a number of Gay activists
and business owners in the area say is
happening with increasing frequency.
But there's more: The man dra ed into
the alley returned to the scene of the crime
with a can of mace, stalked his assailant, and
meal him. He never reported either
incident to police. The two young men
leaving the bar were beaten so seriously that
one of them had to be hospitalized. They
never reported the attack to police. And,
although pedestrians witnessed the group
attack on one man soon enough to alert
police who then arrested all five assailants,
the U.S. Attorney's office dropped the
charges against them within hours.
What is not clear, ironically, is whether
by Diana Morris
Answering the call of the wild, more than 120 Gay men and
Lesbians are expected to converge on a campsite in southeastern
Pennsylvania in two weeks for the fifth annual jamboree of the
International Gay and Lesbian Outdoor Organization—IGLOO.
"There's a lot of enthusiasm," says Jamboree Coordinator Jim
Pulcipher of D.C. People are coming "from all over the U.S; and
Canada" to take part in the four-day festival, Sept. 8-11.
The D.C. area's Gay outdoor group Adventuring, host of this
year's Jamboree, has lined up an action-packed roster of events for
the occasion, including bicycle rides, hikes, canoe trips, and tours of
Brandywine Valley and the Pennsylvania Dutch country.
In addition to a tri-state bike ride which will take cyclists on a 60-
mile tour through part of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware,
one of the cycling highlights will be a Pennsylvania Dutch tour.
"It's one of the best cycling places in the U.S.," says Adventuring's
Jerry Cowden. "Pennsylvania Dutch country makes for beautiful
cycling. When you see the 'plain' people, the Amish and the
Mennonites, their horse-drawn •buggies, windmills, and covered
bridges, you feel you're stepping back in time,"
Hikers among the Jamboree crowd will tramp the Conestoga
Trail along the Susquehanna River, while paddlers canoe on
Brandywine Creek past the historic villages and imposing estates of
the Chadds Ford, Pa., area,
IGLOO, says Pulcipher, "is quite a young organization and new
groups are forming all the time." An informal consortium of Gay
outdoor clubs in North America, IGLOO corresponds with similar
groups in the United Kingdom and Australia, and has active clubs in
Toronto and Ottawa, Washington, New York, Boston,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago, San Francisco, Denver, and
Southern California.
Continued on page 4
Pannell withdraws
from Ward 8 race
FDA announces new
trimetrexate study
Bar set ablaze
during pageant
A conspiracy
of invisibility
in Lesbian years?
the actual number of assaults which occur in
the predominantly Gay neighborhood and
bar area is increasing over past years.
Statistics for the area say no; but, Gay
activists say it is and that Gay persons who
fall victim to crime don't report the
incidents to police either because the victims
are closeted and don't want to have a record
of being in a Gay-identified neighborhood
at night or have little confidence that police
will arrest and the US. Attorney's office will
prosecute their assailants.
Statistics v. reality
The D.C. Office of Criminal Justice
Plans and Analysis last month released its
Continued on page 9
Businesses,
police take
steps to reduce
P Street crime
by Lisa M. Keen
Representatives of D.C. law enforcement
agencies and Gay businesses along the P
Street corridor near Dupont Circle made an
informal agreement last Friday to take at
least six initial steps toward reducing street
crime in the popular Gay neighborhood.
Capt. Mike Manglitz, representing the
2nd District of the D.C. Metropolitan
Police Dept., agreed to "try" to have patrol
cars in the P Street vicinity during the
closing hours of the half dozen Gay bars on
the block between 21st and 22nd streets,
N.W. Manglitz also agreed to try to keep the
businesses informed as to when the "P Street
pickpocket" has been seen in the vicinity. A
suspect in numerous armed muggings of
Gay bar patrons has been arrested but
released several times and, according to the
bar owners, continues to rob patrons. The
bar owners said they believe it would help
prevent some such muggings if they could
alert patrons when the suspect is known to
be in the area.
Lt. Hugh Irwin, representing the U.S.
Park Police which has jurisdiction over
Dupont Circle and the P Street Beach park
at 22nd and P sts., agreed to work with
residents of the neighborhood towards
having P Street Beach closed after dark and
landscaped and lit to obliterate heavy brush
areas where street criminals are able to hide.
The Gay business representatives, for their
part, agreed to encourage the victims of
crime to make reports of incidents in the
area, either to police or to the businesses.
The business representatives also assured
police they would contact D.C. Police
about any illegal drug activity they witness
in the area and refrain from taking any
"vigilante" action on their own to
discourage crime. Both sides agreed to join
in regular monthly meetings to discuss
crime activity in the area.
The meeting was called by P Street
Station owner Mickey Greenberg, who
Continued on page 8
Wilson, Jarvis, Chorlton get GLAA high marks
by Lou Chibbaro Jr.
The Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance
gave its highest candidate rating, a +10, to
D.C. Councilmembers John Wilson (D-Ward
2) and Charlene Drew Jarvis (D-Ward
4) and to openly Gay candidate Tom
Chorlton, who is running for an at-large
council seat under the Statehood Party
banner.
Wilson Jarvis and Chorlton are amon
18 candidates competing in the city's Sept.
13 primary election. GLAA, which released
its ratings this week, said it scored all
candidates on a scale of -10 to +10 based on
candidate responses to a questionnaire and
on past records or statements related to Gay
rights and AIDS issues.
GLAA assigned Councilwoman Wilhel-mina
Rolark (D-Ward 8) a +2 rating, the
lowest score the group gave to an
incumbent. Tom Ainora, an official with the
group's election project, said Rolark's
answers to the questionnaire indicated she
declined to take a position on a num r of
proposals supported by Gay rights groups,
including repeal of the District's sodomy
law. Activists have complained that Rolark
has stalled for nearly four years a sodomy
repeal bill in the Council's Judiciary
Committee, which she chairs.
In the at-large race, GLAA gave former
D.C. Taxicab Commission employee David
Watson a +6 and painter Dennis Leroy
Fitch a 0. Watson and Fitch are challenging
Chorlton in the Statehood Party primary.
The Statehood Party itself endorsed
r on or
year.
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| Transcript | 750 Outside of D.C./Baltimore Areas THE GAY WEEKLY OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL Activists say stats minimize P Street problem by Lisa M. Keen Last month, a lone assailant dragged a man walking along P Street near Dupont Circle into an alley, beat and robbed him, then pushed him back onto the street, calling him a "fag." Two weeks later, two men attacked two young men leaving a Gay bar near Dupont Circle, called them "faggots," and beat them. One week after that, a group of five males accosted another man walking along P Street, punched him, and threatened to beat him up. These are the assaults that occurred along the P Street corridor near Dupont Circle during the last month and were reported either to police or the Gay. and Lesbian Activists Alliance. They are both recent and reflective of what a number of Gay activists and business owners in the area say is happening with increasing frequency. But there's more: The man dra ed into the alley returned to the scene of the crime with a can of mace, stalked his assailant, and meal him. He never reported either incident to police. The two young men leaving the bar were beaten so seriously that one of them had to be hospitalized. They never reported the attack to police. And, although pedestrians witnessed the group attack on one man soon enough to alert police who then arrested all five assailants, the U.S. Attorney's office dropped the charges against them within hours. What is not clear, ironically, is whether by Diana Morris Answering the call of the wild, more than 120 Gay men and Lesbians are expected to converge on a campsite in southeastern Pennsylvania in two weeks for the fifth annual jamboree of the International Gay and Lesbian Outdoor Organization—IGLOO. "There's a lot of enthusiasm," says Jamboree Coordinator Jim Pulcipher of D.C. People are coming "from all over the U.S; and Canada" to take part in the four-day festival, Sept. 8-11. The D.C. area's Gay outdoor group Adventuring, host of this year's Jamboree, has lined up an action-packed roster of events for the occasion, including bicycle rides, hikes, canoe trips, and tours of Brandywine Valley and the Pennsylvania Dutch country. In addition to a tri-state bike ride which will take cyclists on a 60- mile tour through part of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware, one of the cycling highlights will be a Pennsylvania Dutch tour. "It's one of the best cycling places in the U.S.," says Adventuring's Jerry Cowden. "Pennsylvania Dutch country makes for beautiful cycling. When you see the 'plain' people, the Amish and the Mennonites, their horse-drawn •buggies, windmills, and covered bridges, you feel you're stepping back in time," Hikers among the Jamboree crowd will tramp the Conestoga Trail along the Susquehanna River, while paddlers canoe on Brandywine Creek past the historic villages and imposing estates of the Chadds Ford, Pa., area, IGLOO, says Pulcipher, "is quite a young organization and new groups are forming all the time." An informal consortium of Gay outdoor clubs in North America, IGLOO corresponds with similar groups in the United Kingdom and Australia, and has active clubs in Toronto and Ottawa, Washington, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago, San Francisco, Denver, and Southern California. Continued on page 4 Pannell withdraws from Ward 8 race FDA announces new trimetrexate study Bar set ablaze during pageant A conspiracy of invisibility in Lesbian years? the actual number of assaults which occur in the predominantly Gay neighborhood and bar area is increasing over past years. Statistics for the area say no; but, Gay activists say it is and that Gay persons who fall victim to crime don't report the incidents to police either because the victims are closeted and don't want to have a record of being in a Gay-identified neighborhood at night or have little confidence that police will arrest and the US. Attorney's office will prosecute their assailants. Statistics v. reality The D.C. Office of Criminal Justice Plans and Analysis last month released its Continued on page 9 Businesses, police take steps to reduce P Street crime by Lisa M. Keen Representatives of D.C. law enforcement agencies and Gay businesses along the P Street corridor near Dupont Circle made an informal agreement last Friday to take at least six initial steps toward reducing street crime in the popular Gay neighborhood. Capt. Mike Manglitz, representing the 2nd District of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Dept., agreed to "try" to have patrol cars in the P Street vicinity during the closing hours of the half dozen Gay bars on the block between 21st and 22nd streets, N.W. Manglitz also agreed to try to keep the businesses informed as to when the "P Street pickpocket" has been seen in the vicinity. A suspect in numerous armed muggings of Gay bar patrons has been arrested but released several times and, according to the bar owners, continues to rob patrons. The bar owners said they believe it would help prevent some such muggings if they could alert patrons when the suspect is known to be in the area. Lt. Hugh Irwin, representing the U.S. Park Police which has jurisdiction over Dupont Circle and the P Street Beach park at 22nd and P sts., agreed to work with residents of the neighborhood towards having P Street Beach closed after dark and landscaped and lit to obliterate heavy brush areas where street criminals are able to hide. The Gay business representatives, for their part, agreed to encourage the victims of crime to make reports of incidents in the area, either to police or to the businesses. The business representatives also assured police they would contact D.C. Police about any illegal drug activity they witness in the area and refrain from taking any "vigilante" action on their own to discourage crime. Both sides agreed to join in regular monthly meetings to discuss crime activity in the area. The meeting was called by P Street Station owner Mickey Greenberg, who Continued on page 8 Wilson, Jarvis, Chorlton get GLAA high marks by Lou Chibbaro Jr. The Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance gave its highest candidate rating, a +10, to D.C. Councilmembers John Wilson (D-Ward 2) and Charlene Drew Jarvis (D-Ward 4) and to openly Gay candidate Tom Chorlton, who is running for an at-large council seat under the Statehood Party banner. Wilson Jarvis and Chorlton are amon 18 candidates competing in the city's Sept. 13 primary election. GLAA, which released its ratings this week, said it scored all candidates on a scale of -10 to +10 based on candidate responses to a questionnaire and on past records or statements related to Gay rights and AIDS issues. GLAA assigned Councilwoman Wilhel-mina Rolark (D-Ward 8) a +2 rating, the lowest score the group gave to an incumbent. Tom Ainora, an official with the group's election project, said Rolark's answers to the questionnaire indicated she declined to take a position on a num r of proposals supported by Gay rights groups, including repeal of the District's sodomy law. Activists have complained that Rolark has stalled for nearly four years a sodomy repeal bill in the Council's Judiciary Committee, which she chairs. In the at-large race, GLAA gave former D.C. Taxicab Commission employee David Watson a +6 and painter Dennis Leroy Fitch a 0. Watson and Fitch are challenging Chorlton in the Statehood Party primary. The Statehood Party itself endorsed r on or year. |
