http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/01/07/1255 News, analysis and fact-checking of anti-gay rhetoric Thu, 23 May 2013 15:44:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/01/07/1255/comment-page-1#comment-7260 Barbara Louise Jean Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:57:06 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/01/07/1255#comment-7260 Frank Kameney rescued Sandi Stancil from a Virginia Mental Health Institution (can't remember name)sometime in the 1960s. Her parents in Lynchburg, knowing she was living with a Lesbian on a MD farm where they raised purebred poodles, called the FBI and said their daughter was crazy and had a gun. FBI arrested Sandi and took her to mental health place for "obser-vation". Frank showed up on, I think, the 5th day and requested her release. Sandi was scared so refused to speak to the staff. She hoped her lover would call Frank; that was the hope that kept her sane. I hope Mattachine has a record of this because they saved her sanity. I met Sandi in 1978 and she told the story on lesbian radio in D.C., probably Sophie's Corner. We were together for 9 years. Frank Kameney rescued Sandi Stancil from a Virginia Mental Health Institution (can’t remember name)sometime in the 1960s. Her parents in Lynchburg, knowing she was living with a Lesbian on a MD farm where they raised purebred poodles, called the FBI and said their daughter was crazy and had a gun. FBI arrested Sandi and took her to mental health place for “obser-vation”. Frank showed up on, I think, the 5th day and requested her release. Sandi was scared so refused to speak to the staff. She hoped her lover would call Frank; that was the hope that kept her sane. I hope Mattachine has a record of this because they saved her sanity. I met Sandi in 1978 and she told the story on lesbian radio in D.C., probably Sophie’s Corner. We were together for 9 years.

]]> http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/01/07/1255/comment-page-1#comment-5631 The Story So Far… » Blog Archive » Freedom Of Speech And The Right To Exist Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:29:06 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/01/07/1255#comment-5631 [...] In those days, the only voices allowed to publicly speak about homosexuals and homosexuality, were the voices of those who hated us.  If we ourselves spoke up, if we published our stories in any form, we risked arrest, exposure, the loss of our jobs, our homes, and jail.  This is how censorship and the sodomy laws together maintained the status-quo, by silencing dissent.  And back then homosexuals were so universally despised that even the ACLU would not take this case...in fact, it defended the existence of the sodomy laws.  [...] [...] In those days, the only voices allowed to publicly speak about homosexuals and homosexuality, were the voices of those who hated us.  If we ourselves spoke up, if we published our stories in any form, we risked arrest, exposure, the loss of our jobs, our homes, and jail.  This is how censorship and the sodomy laws together maintained the status-quo, by silencing dissent.  And back then homosexuals were so universally despised that even the ACLU would not take this case…in fact, it defended the existence of the sodomy laws.  [...]

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