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The Advocate, March 28, 1973. “Now You Listen to Me.” At a February
22 hearing that “turned into a shouting match,” Larry Townsend
(sporting new sideburns) exchanged words with LA city councilman
Robert J. Stevenson, a former actor and early supporter of gay rights
who represented District 13 Hollywood-Silver Lake-Highland Park.
Stevenson’s 1974 proposal to make job discrimination against gays il-
legal was stopped by the anti-gay LAPD Police Chief Ed Davis who
hated Drummer, bugged its office phones, and assigned detectives to
follow the staff in cars.

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