40 20 2500 https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/bae0a7e76885b18f64c35c637bc74132.pdf b49ed98b317ce46e5acd37b5bbc2e25e Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document BENEFIT FOR THE COUNCIL ON RELIGION AND THE HOMOSEXUAL New Year's Mardi Gras Ball Door Prizes , Costume Prizes NEW YEAR'S DAY EVENING — FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1965 9 p. m . — 2 a. m . FOOD AND REFRESHMENTS AVAILABLE -- NO MINORS, PLEASE CALIFORNIA HALL-625 POLK STREET--SAN FRANCISCO DONATION $5.00 You won't want to miss this grand event. Get your tickets now. Just send cash, check or money order to The Mattachine Society, 693 Mission Street, San Francisco., Calif., 94105. Make checks and money orders payable to either Mattachine Society or Council on R.eligion and the Homosexual. Don't be left out. Ticket sales are limited to 1500 and no tickets will be available after December 26. And absolutely no tickets will be available at the door. YOU MUST GET YOUR TICKET NOW. Presented in cooperation with The Coits, Daughters of Bilitis, Inc., Mattachine Society, Inc., Society for Individual Rights, Inc., Strait & Associates and Tavern Guild of San Francisco, Inc . . Tickets available though all of these organizations . . The Council on Religion and the Homosexual is composed of members from the homophile community and clergymen of various denominations. The Council has many plans for action projects in the coming year. These projects will be directed towards fighting for civil rights for the homosexual in the community and in the nation. The Council is not another organization but an action group composed of all the various organizations now in existence. 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Text Any textual data included in the document Clergy Shatter Another Taboo A Council on Religion and the Homosexual has been organized by clergy men in San Francisco bay area to meet a "great need for a better understanding of human sexuality" and its "broad variations and manifestations." The council grew out of meetings during the past six months between 25 or more clergymen of various faiths and homosexuals of both sexes. The trustees of the incorporated, nonprofit council will include clergymen of the Methodist, Lutheran, and Episcopal churches and the United Church of Christ. Spokesman for the new organization is the Rev. Cannon Robert W. Cromey, director of urban work and vicar of the St. Aidan's Church, San Francisco. For too long the problems of homosexuals have been hush-hush in the church, and for too long the church has made homophiles feel that they are spiritual pariahs who deserve from Christians only contempt. Except for the efforts of a few ministers here and there the church has not dealt with the complexities of the problem: even responsible discussion of it has been taboo. When homosexuality proves to be an incurable aberration, the victim needs the concer of the church as he seeks to accomodate himself to a society which considers him alien. "And in those case's where the homosexual can be helped to develop a normal sexuality, the church should be for him both a guide and a strength. If the newly organized council is to accomplish these ends its primary purpose should be something more than "to promote dialogue between the religious community and and the homosexuals." Dialogue is essential, but if the council members do nothing more than talk about the problem they will defeat those goals which are beyond dialogue: the adjustment of the persistent homosexual and the hostile community to each other and the rehabilitation of those homosexuals who can be restored to a sexual life of the kind approved by the Christian church. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Announcement of Formation of CRH in Prominent National Christian Magazine Description An account of the resource Copyright 1964 CHRISTIAN CENTURY. Reproduced by permission from the December 23, 1964 issue of the CHRISTIAN CENTURY. Subscriptions: $49/year from P.O. Box 378, Mt. Morris, IL 61054. 1-800-208-4097. https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/acf4f4f76d04bf7e7a307c07f385c2c4.pdf 4e59c0411d2dd41e76e4dd845243bb48 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Page 1: S.F. Clergyman's View of the Homosexuals By Richard Hallgren As every schoolboy knows, America is going through a sexual revolution. A remarkable San Francisco clergyman cited some of the changes yesterday—sexual promiscuity, increase in unwed mothers, the high divorce rate and "multi-parented" families. "We have a society where, especially in California, successive polygamy is the rule," declared Canon Rob- See page 22. col. 1 Page 2: Call for a Dialogue Clergyman Speaks Out On the Homosexuals From page 1 ert W. Cromey. "We have one wife at a time, but our traditional morality says we have one wife forever and ever." Homosexuality The church has ignored this revolution generally said the Episcopalian clergyman, vicar of St. Aidan's Church, and ignored particularly one aspect—homosexuality. To help remedy the problem, he and some 30 clergymen and homosexuals have formed a unique group—the Council on Religion and the Homosexual. Canon Cromey, former pastor of a parish in the Bronx, New York has served here nearly three years as an assistant to Episcopal Bishop Jones V. Pike and head of [illegible]. Joining him as trustees of the organization at the Glide Foundation at 330 Ellis Street are the Rev. Ted McIlvenna, director of the Young Adults project of the Methodist Church here, the Rev. Clarence Colwell, metropolitan minister for the United Church of Christ and the Rev. Charles Lewis, director of the Lutheran Church's North Beach Mission. Canon Cromey Some bold talk [illegible] "try to re-think a Christian view [illegible] generally," said Canon Cromey and establish a dialogue between the homosexual and religious communities. Statistics There has been no such dialogue, he said, and generally, accepted statistics indicate that one in ten persons "happen to express their love relationships with persons of the same sex. "That's 80,000 homosexuals or more in San Francisco," he said, "and that's a hell of a lot of people. You can't just say to them, "We don't want to talk to you." [illegible] World "I'll probably regret saying this," said the 33-year-old canon. "But it's not so important what people do to each other in bed as how they relate to each other in the world as human beings." He said homosexuals are "almost completely alienated" from the general community and that the new group could act as a kind of buffer zone. Some homosexuals are church members, but many are alienated, he said, for two reasons—the traditional moral attitude of the church that homosexuality is sinful and the fact that the church is "generally irrelevant to most people including homosexuals." He said homosexuals generally feel distrust of the "straight" community and feel they're sexually discriminated against—by the police and Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. Law And the people forget that there are various gradations of homosexual behavior—"the average homosexual would say that child molesters, say, are sick and should be removed from society." The new group, he said, will promote wide-ranging discussion of the situation and will have a long-range goal of assisting homosexuals in their legal problems. Illegal "They feel they're not being treated essentially as human beings," he said, citing the law that homosexual relations between persons over 21 are illegal. "Laws like this are just silly. Certainly, after people are over 21, they should be able to have sexual relations with a lamp, if they want to." The canon, who is the father of three daughters, said the new group would meet "a great need for a better understanding of human sexuality and its broad variations and manifestations." Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Front-page Article in San Francisco Chronicle That Announced the Formation of CRH and Featured Robert Cromey Description An account of the resource San Francisco Chronicle, December 7, 1964, pages 1 and 22. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Repository: <a href="http://sfpl.org/librarylocations/sfhistory/sfhistory.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco Public Library</a> https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/d0263ec8fec4b7a91e467d0f7700c613.pdf 138b1ffc06158a9ea17cb2bc72081e0f Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document THE COUNCIL ON RELIGION AND THE HOMOSEXUAL Objective: To promote a continuing dialogue between the religious community and homosexuals. In order to promote a continuing dialogue between religious communities and in endeavoring to understand better the broad spectrum of variation within human sexuality, The Council on Religion and the Homosexual sets for these goals and purposes: 1. To orient members of religious communities (both lay persons and clergy) on aspects of homosexuality (i.e., physical, economic, legal, emotional, etc.) in accordance with homosexual testimony and available scientific data; 2. To encourage members of the religious communities to provide opportunities for homosexuals of both sexes to present their views of homosexuality to various religious organizations; 3. To open up channels of communication so that members of the religious communities may engage in dialogue with homosexuals in order to bring about new and deeper understandings of sexuality, morality, ethical behavior, and the life of religious faith; 4. To study systematically the deeper dynamics of authentic human relationships from biblical, theological and social science perspectives; 5. To engage in research which will further understanding of homosexuality within the larger framework of the present sexual revolution; 6. To enlist the aid of religious publications and other media in working toward a broadened editorial policy including more accurate and objective articles on homosexuality; 7. To provide an effective voice throughout the nation in matters of laws, policies, and penal reforms governing consenting sexual behavior; 8. To help professional people ( clergymen, social workers, etc.) working in mental health and counseling fields to understand better their roles in dealing with problems of human sexuality in our society with special reference to young people; and 9. To instigate the formation of similar councils on religion and the homosexual in other areas of the nation and the world. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Purposes and Goals on CRH Brochure Panel Description An account of the resource Published by CRH in the late 1960s. Donald S. Lucas Papers. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Repository: <a href="http://www.glbthistory.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GLBT Historical Society</a> https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/e23a1b06b378c54a1034a0d5bf2d9b78.pdf 5d66740097d3eda21646257d3075f2da Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Meeting July 7, 1964 Council on Religion and the Homosexual Next Meeting: July 22nd. (details below) Discussion was held on the choice of name for this group. It was felt that the group should have a permanent name other than the Continuing Committee For The Consultation On The Church and The Homosexual. The name which was finally chosen, after many various suggestions, was "Council on Religion and the Homosexual." Since there were only two or three new Clergymen attending, it was felt that there would be no need to go into any type of orientation at this meeting. It was hoped that more of the Clergy would be able to attend the next meeting, at which time some orientation could be presented. It was also felt that rather than have such a large group (23 were in attendance) work on developing the goals for the Council, that a committee should be appointed to develop suggested aims and goals and bring them before the entire group at the next and future meetings. Committee on Goals & Purposes: Phyllis Lyon (chairman), Lewis Durham, Bill Plath, Herb Donaldson, Bill Billings. It was also suggested that a committee be set up to study and make recommendations on an orientation program for the Clergy. This committee was appointed as follows: Rev. Bill Anderson (chairman), Rev. Bill Black, Guy Strait, Del Martin, (Rev. Elmer Laursen) The problem of finances was discussed. However, it was felt that this matter should be discussed at length after the Council has established its goals, and has determined a budget that will be necessary to carry out these goals and projects. The only immediate need for finances being in preparing and mailing of notices of meetings, etc. This could be taken care of with small donations by those present. A collection of $8.74 was taken up. However, it was determined that since the Glide Foundation already has an account established for the Consultation (June 1 & 2), that this account could be used as a repository for donations for the Council. It was also felt that solicitation of funds for the Council should be made whenever feasible and possible. Following are the instructions to be given to anyone desiring to make a contribution to this project. Make check, M.O., etc. payable to "Glide Foundation." Be sure to note either on check or in cover letter that the contribution is for "The Council on Religion and the Homosexual." Address all such mail to: Rev. Mr. Lewis Durham, Glide Foundation, 330 Ellis Street, S.F., Calif., 94102 The next meeting of the Council will be held on Wednesday evening July 22nd, at the home of Mr. Bill Plath, 814 Grove Street, S.F. at 8:00pm. We hope to see as many of you present as can make it. Donald S. Lucas (co-chairman) DO 2-3799 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Minutes of Organizing Meeting on July 7, 1964 Description An account of the resource Donald S. Lucas Papers. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Repository: <a href="http://www.glbthistory.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GLBT Historical Society</a> https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/dc6cd59e4b1709f19e6a7929eee17078.pdf 06a2ff68698d97559c0b683be1556c78 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document The Council on Religion and the Homosexual was formed in 1964 out the of growing awareness on the part of clergymen of the extent to which homosexuals had been shut out of the church and society. Clergymen, joined with interested homosexuals. heterosexuals, and homophile organizations to embark on an urgently needed action program aimed at disseminating accurate information about human sexuality. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Panel of CRH Brochure Describing Formation Description An account of the resource Published by CRH in the late 1960s. Donald S. Lucas Papers. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Repository: <a href="http://www.glbthistory.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GLBT Historical Society</a> https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/060bc17b74bb6363d5bc774e2b64784e.pdf e3fa7bc79c479b3ec6f3fd5781cc3fa4 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document CRH The Council on Religion and the Homosexual Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Cover of CRH Brochure Description An account of the resource Published by CRH in the late 1960s. Donald S. Lucas Papers. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Repository: <a href="http://www.glbthistory.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GLBT Historical Society</a> https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/5c46f499cbf199edc69fb8e375a47681.pdf 3a44201c3961211e4e70183a3c901349 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document "Guidelines For 'New Morality' A prominent Methodist minister outlined three new "commandments" here yesterday as a basis for a "new order" for the "new morality." The Rev. John V. Moore used T.S. Eliot's "The Cocktail Party" and Robert Gover's "One-Hundred-Dollar Misunderstanding" — as well as the Bible — to illustrate his sermon on "Chastity and The Pill" at the Glide Memorial Methodist Church. "All talk of the 'new morality' leaves me cold," the Rev. Moore said. Order Any "new freedom" is useless, he contended, unless it operates under a "new order" to preserve the stability of relationships. "Pleasure is no solution. It is a principle of disorder... For a new morality, we must have positive principles. "Some believe The Pill (birth control pills_ will solve the problem, but it is no substitute for responsibility. "Sex is a gift of God. It can beautify, but unless there is power, power to shape this gift, it can destroy. Question He posted this question: "The college girl who goes all the way" thinks she is free, but is she really free? "Our task is to create a new order to shape the new freedom—or else it is chaos. "Yet what sex ethic can be devised to include the single woman, the homosexual, the divorced man?" The Rev. Mr. Moore suggested these three imperatives: "Thou shalt be growing in fidelity. "Thou shalt be growing in responsibility. "Thou shalt grow in loving. These imperatives, he said, can shape the values of the "new freedom," and "for those unwilling to shape the values, the future is bleak." Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Report of Third Sermon in Series by Rev. John Moore Description An account of the resource San Francisco Chronicle, January 25, 1965, page 4. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Repository: <a href="http://sfpl.org/librarylocations/sfhistory/sfhistory.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco Public Library</a> https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/d5267382a4a185039f572cff22261484.pdf e70fc11536c9e34da198769b317cd7ad Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Page 1: "The Church and the Homosexual. A Report on a Consultation Prepared by Donald Kuhn." Page 2: "CONTENTS How It Started a brief history .............................................................................................................................................. page l Before the Consultation a tour of gay bars and a picnic ............................................................................................................... page 1 The Opening Session structuring for conversation ...................................................................................................................... page 3 Monday Morning Kim Myers on "how churchmen view homosexuals" ......................................................................... page 3 The Male Community Don Lucas on "how homosexuals view churchmen" .......................................................................... page 4 The Women Came Last Billie Talmij presents demolition fuses ................................................................................................... page 11 After Formal Presentations small group discussions ............................................................................................................................ page 18 The Right to Hide Guy Strait's view of homosexuals and the law ..................................................................................... page 18 Biblical and Theological Bases Kim Myers on relationship between churchmen and homosexuals ................................................ page 21 The Last Day Ted Mcllvenna prepares for final discussion ...................................................................................... page 29 Small Groups Report brief summaries from three groups .................................... . ................................................................. page 30 The Council on Religion and the Homosexual a new San Francisco organization - its purposes, and its progress .................................................. page 31 The Participants .................................................................................................................................................... page 34 Bibliography .......................................................................................................................................................... page 35" Page 3: "HOW IT STARTED "Forget who you represent. We represent the human race. Let's start there." This is how Ted McIlvenna began his presentation to thirty informally dressed men and women sitting around a fire at a retreat center outside of San Francisco. The persons to whom he spoke represented churches and homosexual organizations. It was 10:00 p. m. on Sunday, May 31, 1964, but the consultation started much earlier. To list the exact steps would be difficult. Yet one fact was clear. The man standing before the group, Ted McIlvenna, started it all. Earlier, as director of The Young Adult Project in San Francisco, Ted met persons for whom homosexuality created problems. Next he hunted for groups which were providing services for these persons. He found four organizations: Daughters of Bilitis, Mattachine Society, Inc., League for Civil Education, and The Tavern Guild. During his exploration Ted learned that many homosexuals sensed a sharp division between themselves and the Church. Ted told Charles Mowry of Methodism's Older Youth/Young Adult Project what he had learned. Charles, in turn, conferred with Roger Burgess and Dale White of the Division of Alcohol Problems and General Welfare of The Methodist Board of Christian Social Concerns. These two agencies decided to join the Glide Urban Center in sponsoring a consultation which would include representatives from homophile organizations and churches. Glide Urban Center's Lewis Durham and Ted McIlvenna were asked to prepare for a San Francisco consultation and extend invitations. Lewis and Ted worked closely with Daughters of Bililis, Mattachine Society, League for Civil Education and Tavern Guild in developing plans for the meeting. BEFORE THE CONSULTATION Before beginning the regular sessions of the consultation, many of the delegates had developed a common vocabulary on the basis of their first-hand experiences which included a tour of gay bars on the previous night. Starting from the Precarious Vision, a church sponsored coffee house on Bush Street in San Francisco, leaders of the Mattachine Society took small groups of delegates to bars which cater to male homosexuals. Only in their loud music were the bars similar. Otherwise they were quite different and appealed to varied male clienteles." Page 4: "In one small bar, attractive, informally dressed young men visited in a manner similar to a typical evening in a fraternity house club room. By contrast, a second bar was frequented by the black leather jacket crowd who stood silently along the bar and around the walls. Motorcycle tracks crossed the spot on the ceiling where white sneakers were the only remains of a splattered man. All eyes and solemn faces greeted each newcomer. Still another bar was well lighted. Its appearance and clientele seemed somehow to have "class." This place served only wine and beer. Its walls were covered with relics reminiscent of San Franciso's pioneer period. Patrons joked with the owner who wore shirts with humorous local jokes embroidered on them. A quite different wine and beer bar (very dark and with very few patrons) featured a "drag show" on a low, small, well lighted stage facing the bar's entrance. The show featured three men tastefully dressed in women's clothing. To scratchy records of female recording artists they mouthed lyrics and danced. Here all eyes focused on the stage rather than on each new patron. At one large place crowds rushed three bars. In the milling mass which included muscle men in tee shirts and professionals in expensive business suits, a native San Franciscan recognized a few entertainers, a respected psychiatrist, and a successful writer. One girl-young and movie-star beautiful-held the devoted attention of at least six handsome young men. But some observers referred to her as a "fruit fly." When San Francisco's bars closed at 2:00 a.m. the remaining unmatched men moved to coffee houses where they joined teenage boys restricted from bars by ever-cautious owners intent on keeping their beverage licenses. As the early morning hours passed, the coffee house crowd swelled. Finally, the foot-sore churchmen unaccustomed to the bar circuit retreated to their silent hotel rooms. Early Sunday morning the seemingly unsleeping homophile population departed for a picnic. Sponsored as a money-making project by the League for Civil Education, the picnic's fare included unlimited food, beer, and soft drinks. After lunch the consultation participants still bleary-eyed from their late-night tour gathered to depart for the picnic already in progress. Many, many miles and a few hours later the delegates passed through a bumpy pasture to the secret oceanside location. There about a hundred men and women talked quietly in clusters on the ground. A few" Page 5: [to finish] Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Official Report of the Consultation Written by Rev. Donald Kuhn Description An account of the resource Published by the Council on Religion and the Homosexual. Phyllis Lyon & Del Martin Papers. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Repository: <a href="http://www.glbthistory.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GLBT Historical Society</a> https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/26bc7bab961188d33d93ebc429090e0a.pdf 3a013e61e2176fd09435a6fe5a6b074f Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Page 1: "TALK GIVEN AT RELIGIOUS CONFERENCE SPONSORED BY THE GLIDE FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO 1964 The orthodox god of orthodox religion is a flat .. unmitigated failure ..... I didn't say that ... George Bernard Shaw said it, many years ago. Shaw also said that Man had created God in His image ... then deliberately broke the mold and scattered it into a thousand, small, hard, inflexible pieces ... and that each fragment was quickly caught up ... still small. .. still hard ... still inflexible ... to become the tenets and dogmas of a thousand protestant divisions. Well ... perhaps Shaw was an extremist .. many still think so ... but there is always an element of truth in his writings. And I'm inclined to agree with Shaw somewhat .. but of course, we homosexuals may be more than a little defensive ... and who can blame us?? For you know, the homosexual has been called "unnatural" for eons ... yet there is nothing alien or unnatural about the act of homosexuality in nature, itself. But yet the murderer has only contempt for the homosexual ... the thief feels he is better ... the man who rapes his child, physically or mentally, feels he is above him ... the liar slanders him ... the adulterer despises him ... yet can you, the experts, tell me which one of the Ten Commandments the homosexual, just by being homosexual" ... which commandment has he broken??? As I said ... the homosexual may be more than a little defensive ... we are also more than a little prejudiced. In the olden days, it was the Christians versus the Lions ... today it is the Heterosexual versus the Homosexual ... because all the heterosexuals are at this conference hoping to understand the homosexual better ... and all the homosexuals are here because they hope you will. This minority role is really quite a role, you know ... gives you a zest for living, if you really take it to heart ... and we women are actually a minority within a minority, within a minority ... for we are certainly outnumbered in this conference, which is a minority ... we are on the so-called homosexual side, which is a minority ... and we are in a somewhat religious conference ... and the religionist is certainly a minority in this day and age ... so maybe we can all feel a common bond in this respect, anyway. But along this women's minority bit ... I am reminded of Susan B. Anthony .. the famous leader of the Suffragette movement. These women were really in a bad spot, for they had absolutely no one to turn to ... especially in the beginning. They were ridiculed .. defamed .. de-sexed .. and certainly not defended ... not for a very long time. In fact, it took a war .. World War I...to give these woman any real backing ... But one of Susan B. Anthony's adversaries said to her, in talking to her about the fact that no one would listen .. that she should confide in God.. and her answer was classic ... she said, "Yes, I will. Maybe SHE will listen." ..... Man, if God were a woman ... wouldn't that be a kick in the head!!!!" Page 2: But, on to more serious matters ... in the Daughters of Bilitis, we have an activity called the "Gab N Java", which is an informal-type discussion for a group of women ... and since those of us who represent the Lesbian counterpart of this distinguished team .. were to the last one of us .. non-church-goers .. we felt a little inadequate to speak on the church aspect of this problem. So ... brought the topic to one of our Gab N Javas ... and found some interesting statistics. Of the 25 women present at this particular Gab N Java ... only 2 still went to church regularly .. which was interesting in itself. Of the remaining 23, only another 2 actually quit going to church because of the homosexuality angle. The rest of those present stopped attending long before they were consciously aware of their homosexual tendencies. We also found that because we did not attend church ... that we were out-dated in our concepts of church and clergymen, I, for one, found that my strongest image of a churchman was the hard-shelled Baptist preacher who shouted fire and damnation from the pulpit and refused to utter the dirty word of sex ... yet who later tore the blouse from a fourteen year old girl whom he tried to seduce in the choir loft. So ... when I say we are more than a little prejudiced, I am including each of us ... for there is not a person in this room who doesn't have preconceived notions on this subject ... regardless of his or her sexual proclivities .. sexual activities ... or sexual anxieties. If there is such a thing as "original sin" .. then to me .. it is the sin of ignorant, inflexible .. wall-to-wall thinking ... and I would venture to say that each of us in an "original" sinner in this respect. So, we of the Daughters of Bilitis offer a challenge, for the length of this conference at least ... a challenge to the Gay and the Straight, alike ... a challenge to dislodge a brick or two of this four-walled thinking ... and ... to help matters along ... we offer you some Demolition Fuses...some ideas to contemplate .. to cogitate .. to renovate .... some of these ideas are bombs that may blow up tempers ... some may fizzle and not last the week-end .. some are slow-burning "sleepers" guaranteed to dislodge a brick or two on both sides of the wall. We offer them to each of you .. and we also offer our respect to each of you who even contemplates accepting our challenge .. for that, at least, is a step in the right direction .. the direction of climbing over a wall that was mutually constructed." Page 3: "DEMOLITION FUSES FOR FOUR-WALLED THINKING 1. "The Church of England and the Catholic Church of England relegates homosexuality to the area of private conscience'. ... The Church is the custodian of the moral picture of society even though only 6 to 8% of the population identifies with the Church". (1) 2. ((Organized religion, itself, is in a confused diffused state of flux. The old precepts and concepts of Biblical teaching are badly behind-step of present customs. The prevailing materialistic attitudes of most people today certainly do not include the seemingly "soft" versions of love, but are composed of the hardened crassness of materialistic success. Thus, the 6 to 8% of church-goers versus the greater majority of non-church-goers.)) 3. ((Biblical references such as the one of Sodom and Gomorrah are used to substantiate the sin of homosexuality, as being anti-Biblical, anti-Church, and anti-Christian. Yet what of the Christian 11Love Thy Neighbor ... Love Thy Brother". This, then, in simple terms, falls back on one I s own interpretation of the word, "love".)) ((How does the homosexual relationship fit into human affairs?? Does it inhibit the person, spiritually??)) 5. In the "Quaker View of Sex", it is stated that the Friends group soon found that the study of homosexuality and its moral problems could not be divorced from a survey of the whole field of sexual activity .... a few pieces of the jig-saw puzzle could not be identified without the whole picture. (2) 6. ((Many pastors believe that "all of us are sinners; all of us are saved by the Grace of God; all of us need love and sympathy". Is the homosexual more a sinner than an Adulterer?? Than a Murderer?? Than an Atheist??)) 7. "It has been the tradition of the greater part of the Christian church to lay down firm rules as to conduct, to fix a definite pattern as to what is 'moral' or 'sinful' but to be humanely tolerant of the waywardness and sinfulness of the ordinary man, offering him a ready opportunity for contrition and atonement. Sexuality, looked at dispassionately, is neither good nor bad, but simply a fact of nature, as well as a glorious gift of God". (2) 8. ((The greater the sin, the greater the satisfying experience of so-called repentance ... there is nothing more straight-laced than a reformed prostitute.)) 9. "Homosexuality is not wholesome on the young". ((What kind of sexuality, as practiced in America, really is?? I haven't heard of any "mate-swapping merry-go-rounds", on an organized basis, practiced among the homosexual suburbanites.)) ((At least, among the lesbians.)) 10. Not even lip service is paid to the traditional ideals of chastity by our adolescents because they see only lip service paid to them by their elders. People who are not professed Christians do not feel that Christian morality has any claims upon them. (2) 11. "Given proper circumstances, man is an animal. We can make an environment of shame or make it a world where an individual can have a sense of respect. " (1)" Page 4: "12. ((Theodore Reik, well-known author and psychologist, states that psychology does not know what sexuality really is. I wonder if the church does?? Is not a sermon simply one 1 s own particular interpretation of so many words of a much-revised collection of writings??)) 13. "The Ten Commandments are valid so long as human experience remained the same, but norms devised centuries ago are now inadequate when confronted with the present problems of sexuality today". (1) 14. ((Clergymen are also a minority, not just those of us who follow the homosexual path ... for the religionist's path is certainly a lonely one.)) 15. ( ( Infidelity by "changing partners" is not unique in the homosexual world.)) 16. ((The climbing rate of divorce is a good example of the gradual loosening of the church's fear-inspiring punitive powers over the acts of the individual". 17. "The homosexual is in constant conflict since he or she was brought up in a heterosexual society which builds habit patterns which in turn, make it difficult for the homosexual to adjust". (2) ((Why go to a church which makes such conflict even more evident with guilt-imposing rules??)) 18. "Those who have written or spoken about sexual matters as professed Christians have too often given the impression that their sexual path has been smooth, that apart from a hint of solitary difficulties as adolescents, it has fallen into line with Christian principles. This is a false impression". (2) 19. ((The difficulty in coping with sexuality in "practice" versus sexuality as "taught" leads to a condemnation of "hypocrisy" heaped upon the heads of clergymen.)) 20. "Condemnation oppresses. It does not liberate". Anon. 21. "To tell a homosexual that his sexuality is 'unnatural I is like talking to the wind ... for nature expresses homosexuality in many acts, and it is certainly far more 'natural' to him than is the so-called normal approach". (2) 22. "Since the chief condemnation of the homosexual stems from the church, itself, the homosexual must remain in constant conflict, or dissolve that conflict by remaining away, and somehow resolving it, by an individual approach to God". (l) 23. ((The punitive answers posed by religion does not result in easy answers ... and wont until churches face the facts that we are human and not divine, in the old theological definitions of those words.)) 24. "One should no more deplore homosexuality than left-handedness. People are neither homosexual nor heterosexual, but predominantly one or the other. Homosexuals are no more necessarily promiscuous than heterosexuals are necessarily chaste". (2)" Page 5: 25. ((If a human fulfills himself, is he then not fulfilling God??)) 26. In the words of Dr. Evelyn Hooker, "Perhaps there is need for an effective, non-authoritarian religion which would make a serious attempt to understand people's needs; a religion which would work toward the mental health of the homosexual and all people". (3) 27. ((The churches must become more concerned with the individual than with their own "edifice" complexes.)) 28. ((Mental health problems of yesterday were kept tightly locked in the attic. Mental problems, so often sexual in basis, are still on the attic-stairs today .. a little further out in the open ,, but not in the parlor ,, and certainly not in the living room, where the "living" must be done. There is a changing standard of mental health, so that it is often discussed ... and the speeded-up lives today are of ten speeded-up beyond human endurance .. and the dis-integration of mental health is accelerated, also.)) 29. (( If only "clean vessels" can administer the duties of the church, then where do the "sinners" go?? The line forms to the right, (or would it be to the left in this instance) ... and those of you who are committing the sin of pride by professing "clean-ness", you lead the way.)) 30. ((Homosexuals exist in every strata of society, in every activity, and in every occupation.)) 31. ((We who represent the homosexual world are, for the most part, out-of-date. Just glancing through the September issue of "Pastoral Psychology" shows me that mental health; the emotional factors of grief; the Woman of the Month being Margaret Mead; the letters to the Editor; the ads for such books as Love and the Facts of Life for the Teen-ager; and for Strangers In Our Midst (which deals with problems of homosexuality in American Society); to mention but a few topics, show me, personally, that my remembrances of my conflicts with the precepts, tenets, and personalities of my childhood church are mine, alone, and that my own idea must change. Just as I am sure that your ideas must alter a bit, if we are to fully comprehend meanings and have any sense of communication.)) 32. ((One article in particular I noted in this issue of "Pastoral Psychology" was called, "The Church As A Matriarchy" ... and since I am primarily a woman who happens to be a homosexual, this struck my fancy. What is the role of the woman in the church, other than (as one of our members so aptly put it,) "A putter-on-of-church-suppers "??)) (4) 33. "Regardless of an appreciative or an apprehensive attitude, the place and role of women in the church is an issue of vital concern". (4) ((Well, this doesn't surprise me ... in fact, it is very familiar ... and a statement that lends itself to education, politics, business, science, and every phase of life, even the astronautical one. Incidentally, tho' it is not publicly known, the first woman astronaut, American, is a lesbian .. which is an interesting fact, in itself.))" Page 6: "34. "There seems to be fear that women are taking over the reins of responsibility which rightfully belong to men. In short, women have been fighting for their right to share the responsibilities of life, while the men have resisted with a vengeance". (4) 35. "As has been true in other areas of its faith and life, so in this, the church is learning from society part of the truth of its life it had forgotten: namely, 1 God created man (mankind) in his own image, in the image of God created he him (mankind). Male and Female created He Him (Gen 1:27) . ... There is neither male nor female, fot we are all one in Christ Jesus (Gal 3:28). Sexuality is subordinate to humanness". (4) ((Is not homosexuality, then, subordinate to humanness??)) 36. ((There is a difference between being a "man" or a "woman" and being a "person".)) 37. ((Is celibacy an answer?? If one cannot have sex in the so-called normal way, then should he or she forego sex completely?? The medical answers to this are as numerous as the inmates of mental institutions. What is the religionists' answer??)) 38. "There has never been, anywhere, so far as is known, a law against homosexuality, as such, in any secular legal code. It is only in what he does that the law is concerned. It is misleading to say that 'homosexuality' is illegal", (2) 39. "Unless these contrasting complementary qualities of maleness and femaleness are blended in a person, there emerges a destructiveness within that individual that adversely affects not only one's self, but all with whom one comes in contact". (2) 40. ((Sex is a God-given force. To repress it or to deny it is an affront to a gift of God. Is this being Christian??)) 41. St. Paul seemed to think that homosexuality, if allowed by the church, would be more attractive than the heterosexual approach, and that everyone would turn to it ... People don't follow his admonitions that women should not speak in church, or that women should not pray with their hats off .. so why should his other personal views be so rigidly the final word?" (2) 42. In one research project in which D.O.B. members took part several years ago, 30 out of 40 homosexuals experienced guilt feelings in their awareness of the church's attitudes toward homosexuality and their own exclusion from church participation. ((Look at the heterosexual's guilt feelings, and you have one answer as to why your congregations are so damnably small. Who wants to go where he is made to feel uncomfortable?? The hell-fire and damnation concept doesn't work, because nowadays, people want instant coffee .. instant relief .. instant faith .. not instant turmoil. They've got enough of this, already.)) (3)" Page 7: "43. ((The Rites of Death are varied in every culture ... does it not follow that the Rites of Birth (of which sex plays a part, certainly,) would also vary??)) 44. ((Defenders of Women's Rights, as well as defenders of Civil Rights, meet resentments on both sides.)) 45. "We should view maleness and femaleness as a potential, not a problem .. whether that maleness and femaleness is expressed openly in one individual, or a group of heterosexuals or homosexuals. For the blending exists in both, in all, in each". (2) 46. ((Who's to say what's right and what's wrong?? The Clergy?? Yet one of the basic tenets of the Bible is, "Judge not lest you be judged". I don't envy the shoes of the religionist ... he steps upon a thorny path .. and I should hope that his "sole" is of the Jewish kind that does not wear out.)) 47. "The last word has never been spoken on the implications of Christianity, and every religious expression is open to critical examination. 'The Word of God' is not stagnant, final nor cemented". (2) 48. ( (Birth and Death seem to fall under the auspices of religion .. "from womb to tomb" .. as the saying goes .. but what of the interim?? If Death is the fearful unknown that drives a man back to the faith of his childhood, then the function of religion is the "pacifier" .. the "Judas Goat" that lulls man into a sense of peace and then .. whump!! .. you've lost a new church-goer!)) 49. ((Grief is an important emotion that clergymen must deal with on a constant basis. What of the 11voice in the wilderness" which belongs to a homosexual?? Must his anguish be denied or his tears ignored?? Must he be "saved" from his "sexual sin" before he is counted among "God's Children"?? Are only the "sin-less" (and if sex = sin, then this means sex-less) ... then ... are only the "sex-less" to be considered as "Children of God"??)) 50. ((Civilization is changing. Religion must change, too, or perish.)) 51. ((The devoutness to a code of falseness and fixity is a force for evil.)) 52. ((It is because of early religious training in this sense of rigidity which is the chief reason why homosexuals wind up on the psychiatrist's couch.)) 53. "I've never met a clergyman yet who wasn't defensive about his God .. which always strikes me as an affront to God's potency as well as his Omni potency". (Mark Twain) 54. ((Productivity does not relegate itself to the production of procreation.)) 55. ((I am a human first; secondly, a woman; thirdly, a lesbian. I sometimes think that homosexuals get this order reversed, and because they approach every one antagonistically as a homosexual first, then they are always treated as such ... and are always surprised when this is thrown back in their faces.))" Page 8: "56. ((The religionists give off the attitude that they are the extensions of God, rather than a teacher or an interpreter .. and therefore become so authoritative that a rebel, such as I, will discount all they say, rather than just the false things they utter.)) 57. ((The "Gay Bar Crowd" is a stereotype .. a group that has ceased being viewed as individuals. Why does everyone need a scapegoat?? For a scapegoat is a stereotype and the stereotype has been the sexual scapegoat for centuries.)) 58. ((The scapegoat in classic history was the one upon whom was heaped all the sins, all the evils, all the resentments of society and then sacrificed to the god of the day. Blood-letting is passe' today, but the need of the scapegoat still exists, for as long as men must find an answer outside themselves for their lack of compassion, then the "escapegoat" must be sought, degraded, de-sexed, and killed. The de-sexing of the scapegoat was a definite and important part of the old ritual.)) 59. ((The hypocrisy of the churches is equivalent to the hypocrisy of the homosexual.)) 60. ((The minority (the scapegoat) reflects the attitudes of the times. Hatred, which is the isolation of the soul, the disintegration of communication; has as its focal point any minority group that happens to be handy.)) 61. "The potentiality of the psychopath is latent within all of us. None of us is immune ... and all of us, at one time or another behave psychopathically". (6) 62. ((The church has attempted to be the "common denominator" of mankind. But in so doing, it has diagnosed, catalogued, and defined "evil" as this thing .. as that thing .. as the "thou shalt nots" .. until the purpose, the direction, has been lost.)) 63. "As long as mankind is viewed as a mass, rather than a multiplicity of individuals, then the psychopathic murder known as war will exist. And just as there is love on different levels, just as there is sex on different levels, then there is 'war' on different levels". (7) 64. ((There is not a person in this room who is free of prejudice, preconceived ideas, pre-judgments. And anyone who says he is not the conditioned result of intolerance is himself a fool or a hypnotized hypocrite.)) 65. ((Separateness is the basis for anxiety. And because our youngsters feel themselves so separated, they band together in packs for mutual protection .. with a code so rigid that it makes our "authoritativeness" ashamed.)) 66. ((There have been many disagreements among the homophile organizations, but one basic idea upon which we all agree is the blatant fact that the generation coming up is in need of a great deal of help. Our offices are filled with correspondence and telephone pleas which represent the cries for help for countless people, teen-aged in particular. And one way the churches can help, is to realize that not just the young adult, but the young teen-ager is in need of understanding, counsel, acceptance-- and love. Don't "preach" them ... reach them!!!)))" Page 9: "67. ((Most homosexuals may not reject God .. but they certainly reject the "churchiness" surrounding God. And in this, they are simply representative of most people today.)) 68. ((Most homosexuals have had to resolie the conflicts stemming from the church and his particular way of life. He has had to resolve it (and usually, this means "dissolve" it) or become, inevitably, a psychotic of the first order.) 69. ((No one can survive such a schism and remain sane... he cannot change, so, to retain sanity, he must forego the organized approach to God. He can do this, and still maintain individual approach to spiritual things, and live in a semblance of wholeness.)) 70. ((The attitudes of a society are reflected by the minority of that society .. then view the homosexual as a mirror. The homosexual is not the cause of any moral breakdown .. nor is he the result .. simply a reflection, an integral part of the sexual aspect of life.)) REFERENCES 1. Wolfenden Report. 2. Towards A Quaker View of Sex, Friends Home Service Committee, Friends House, Euston Road, London, N.W. 1, 1963. 3. "The Ladder", Daughters of Bilitis, 1232 Market St., San Francisco, Calif, August, 1962. 4. "Pastoral Psychology", September, 1963. 5. Must You Conform?, Robert Lindner, Grove Press, New York, 1956. 6. The Art Of Loving, Erich Fromm, Harper Brothers, New York, 1956." Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Address by Billie Talmij to the Consultation Description An account of the resource Published by San Francisco Daughters of Bilitis. Private collection of papers provided to LGBT-RAN. https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/f3a0513d3be5f36c24a0a2a521fa8471.pdf 4fc2351cad1f5786263f4404a161db7a Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Page 1: "Agenda for Consultation on "CHURCH AND THE HOMOSEXUAL" May 31 - June 1 and 2 White Memorial Retreat Getting to White Memorial Retreat Center for the first time takes a bit of patience. It is not far but the road looks very unpromising on the way up. The best description of how to get there is: Take the second Mill Valley turn-off from the Redwood Highway (going north on U.S. 101) at the Belvedere-Tiburon interchange. This is Blithedale Avenue, which in turn becomes Ralston Avenue. The entrance to the retreat is opposite 500 Ralston Avenue, approximately three miles from Route 101. Pre-conference orientation Saturday evening May 30. For those who are in the city by Saturday evening there will be special guided tours of "gay bars" and a special program at "The Pink Octopus". We will meet at the "Precarious Vision", 1036 Bush Street at 9:00 p.m. Sunday afternoon, May 31. All the participants of the consultation have been invited to a picnic sponsored by "The League for Civil Education." We will leave from Glide Office Building, 330 Ellis Street at 2:00 p.m. Sunday evening, May 31. (This agenda is flexible and may be changed by the participants in the consultation if felt desirable.) Orientation and get-acquainted session will begin at 8:00 p.m. at the retreat center under the direction of Lewis E. Durham. At this time small groups will be set up to develop conversation for the following two days. Following this Ted McIlvenna will make a statement as to the purpose of the consultation. Snacks will be served at 10:00 p.m. Monday morning, June 1. 8:00 a.m. Get out of bed! 8:30 a.m. Breakfast 9:30 a.m. This session will begin with presentations on" Page 2: ""How we view each other--and how we hope the relationships might be." Kirn Myers will represent the church's point of view and Don Lucas and Billy Talmadge will represent the male and female communities. Small group discussions will follow. 12:30 p.m. We eat lunch. 2:00 p.m. Guy Strait will make a presentation on civil rights for the homosexuals. This presentation will include the problems, case histories, and discussion of the feelings involved that the church has some responsibility for the loss of civil liberties. There will be large group discussion then break again into small groups. 4:00 p.m. We play, swim, hike or nap. 6:00 p.m. We eat dinner! 7:30 p.m. Allan Moore will lead this session on "The Biblical and Theological Basis for Relationship between The Church and the Homosexual." Again we have small group discussions. Tuesday, June 2 8:00 a.m. We get up! 8:30 a.m. We eat breakfast 9:30 a.m. An opening statement will be made by Ted McIlvenna after which the entire group can explore what statement could be made about the relationship between the church and the homosexual. Small groups will follow the general discussion. 12:30 p.m. We eat lunch 1:30 p.m. Lewis E. Durham will moderate a panel from the small groups, at which time there will be a summarization and a plan for what next steps need to be taken. 4:00 p.m. We go home!" Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Agenda Distributed to Participants Before Consultation Description An account of the resource Phyllis Lyon & Del Martin Papers. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Repository: <a href="http://www.glbthistory.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GLBT Historical Society</a> https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/be0fb229f28123bc0e3edabe8243db07.pdf c06e5dcd5937aa85228dcb3d3c2bb953 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Participants in Mill Valley Consultation Clergy Bill Black, Lutheran Church in America pastor and founder of San Francisco Night Ministry Roger Burgess, Methodist Board of Christian Social Concerns in Washington, D.C. Robert Cromey, assistant to the bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Northern California Lewis Durham, executive director of the Glide Foundation Donald Kuhn, communications director at the Glide Urban Center Orville Luster, Youth for Service in San Francisco Jan Marinessen, American Friends in San Francisco Ted McIlvenna, Glide Young Adult Project John Moore, pastor of Glide Memorial Methodist Church Charles Mowry, Methodist Board of Education in Nashville C. Kilmer Myers, Chicago Urban Training Center; later bishop of Episcopal Diocese of Northern California Dennis Nyberg, Methodist clergy from Minneapolis Walter Press, United Church of Christ clergy in San Francisco Keith Right, National Council of Churches in New York City B.J. Stiles, editor of motive magazine in Nashville Dale White, Methodist Board of Christian Social Concerns in Washington, D.C.; later bishop in United Methodist Church Gay & Lesbian Activists Bill Billings, ice-cream parlor owner, Tavern Guild Hal Call, Mattachine Society Robert J. Durksen, (association unknown) Cleo Glenn, Daughters of Bilitis Darryl Glied, Jumpin’ Frog bar owner, Tavern Guild Bob Koch, (association unknown) Donald Lucas, Mattachine Society Phyllis Lyon, Daughters of Bilitis Del Martin, Daughters of Bilitis Bill Plath, owner of D’Oak Room, Tavern Guild Guy Strait, founder of League for Civil Education Bill Talmij, Daughters of Bilitis Pat Walker, Daughters of Bilitis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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White Retreat web site: <a href="http://www.uccr.org/rlw.htm">http://www.uccr.org/rlw.htm</a>. https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/694b81a6554eaa375fdb39abb053e3f7.png 83e2b960ddae4a64147cedb604e1c3d8 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ted McIlvenna Biography Description An account of the resource <a href="https://www.lgbtqreligiousarchives.org/profiles/ted-mcilvenna">LGBT Religious Archives Network Pioneer Profile</a> https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/05911c27dcd0bdbdf19d466c392e7e8e.png 4313f7998c6b03e46194ad43a759af8f Still Image A static visual representation. 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