If that person is convicted of sodomy with someone under the age of 16, the maximum penalty is a fine of $1,000 and a prison term of 20 years. Violators of the sodomy statute can be imprisoned up to 10 years and be fined $1,000. "We're here to say repealing the sodomy law is a priority for us." and calling on the mayor to make a statement against using the law," said Robin Kane, of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. "We're calling on the City Council to repeal the law. "But that was way back in the Dark Ages." "I remember in 1958, another about 1959 and one in '62," said longtime gay activist Frank Kameny. Police have not used the statute to raid gay clubs for decades, they said. The activists said they feared the Sunday night sweep may signal the beginning of a police crackdown at gay establishments to enforce the sodomy law.
The sweep at the club in the unit block of O Street SE, near the Washington Navy Yard, prompted about 40 gay activists to march yesterday outside the District Building in protest of the action and to renew their call for a repeal of the city's seldom-enforced sodomy statute. Another club dancer allegedly allowed a patron to perform oral sex on him as he performed a nude dance in front of an audience. Ten men, most of them patrons, were charged with engaging in oral sodomy - a felony in the District - while in small cubicles in the club, in a small room where adult videos were shown or in a basement bar, according to court records.Ī club dancer clad only in cowboy boots was charged with indecent sexual performance for allegedly allowing audience members to fondle him during his act, according to court papers.
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Fourteen men were arrested on sodomy and other sex-related charges Sunday night when a police vice squad raided the Cinema Follies, a gay movie theater and burlesque club in Southeast Washington.