{"value"=>"Tape 7 of 7. National Gay Conference, Chicago"}
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{"value"=>"<p>CONTINUED. The last day of the Conference. Members call for the repeal of all existing Federal, State, and local anti-gay laws, and then vote on a long list of platform planks containing specific recommendations for liberal legislation to replace the present legally and psychologically oppressive laws regulating sexuality. They then vote for the overall platform. Morris Kite proposes a far-reaching resolution, the crux of which is a denunciation of the political establishment and the governing military/industrial/police complex in the U. S. The chairman questions whether this is relevant to the issues at hand. Members then speak for and against the resolution and for and against amendments to it. Manford states that although he supports Kite's resolution as an individual, he is the representative of Gays at Columbia and according to the mandate of that group, he can not vote for the resolution, even though he understands that the lives of gays are affected by the military/industrial complex. He asks the conference to permit representatives, who feel that they can not lend their group to the vote, to put their own name to the proposal. This would then allow representatives to vote as individual gay activists for this very important resolution, and thus allow the conference to include it in the platform. The chairman comments that it is not necessary to have a motion on that because he feels that people can do that as they wish. By a vote of 22-19 the resolution is adopted as a minority sentiment of the conference. Manford asks that Gay People at Columbia be noted as an abstention. Someone makes the motion that there be two regional conferences one on the east coast and one on the west coast. A motion is carried to set up five regional groups (North-East, South East, North-Central, North-West, and South-West) to deal with the conventions. Guy Charles calls for another national gay conference to be held in Minneapolis on Labor Day Weekend following the conventions of the party delegations.</p>"}