FIRST CLASS FIGHT? Anaheim minister Lou Sheldon,...
FIRST CLASS FIGHT? Anaheim minister Lou Sheldon, whose anti-gay views are anathema to gays and lesbians, says many on a return flight Tuesday from Washington’s civil rights march so intimidated him that he was forced to flee from coach to first class. . . . “The look on their faces scared me more than if they had hit me,” says Sheldon, who had been on TV there. But gays aboard say Sheldon wasn’t jeered until after he moved to avoid talking to them. Says Laguna Beach psychiatrist Howard Newsom: “I just wanted to introduce myself, and let him see that we look like everybody else.”
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