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"The recently announced Gay Student Union (GSU) boycott of the Virginian and other Corner restaurants raises more important questions than simply that of who one might find sitting next to him at lunch. It also involves a question of civil rights, and clearly it is a question which demands the attention of the University on several levels.

At issue in the GSU boycott is a state Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) Board regulation prohibiting establishments which serve liquor from becoming a gathering place for homosexuals. Until now, it would seem, either the law has not been enforced or homosexuals have rather skillfully hidden their true sexual impulses from the community, for officials of the ABC Board admit that no establishment has lost its license in the past six years.

More likely, however, the reason the state board has not seen fit to lift any restaurant's license is that whatever problems have been traditionally associated with homosexuality have been more imagined than real. After all, one might well ask, how did those who framed the restriction expect that homosexuals would be identified except through some overt act on their part: dancing together or soliciting a dance from a member of the heterosexual side of humanity. In either case, important questions are raised...

The protection of public images has become all too prevalent a concern, from our national leaders who hire advertising men to guide their campaigns, on down to those who expressed fear in recent weeks that adverse publicity would hurt our Honor System. While we are not insensitive to the need for governments to maintain the appearance of dignity on occasions where the reality is not there, we are concerned that the pursuit of an image might overwhelm efforts to maintain the substance. In that process, one could easily expect the rights of minorities to be forgotten."

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