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May, who beat up allegedly some gays at some Democratic dinner at the Americana Hotel or the Hilton -- I can't remember which. And he the minister that he did not want to have a parade form in front of the church on a Sunday morning at ten o'clock and he pulls out an administrative ordinance which says that you can't do that -- you have to be so many feet away from a church if you're going to engage in a parade. But there wasn't any question in my mind, when the gays raised this with me, that it was harassment on the part of the church. And so they had a meeting, which I set up for them. They invited every major public officeholder in the city to come. I'm the only one who came. The others sent representatives, but I'm the only one who went. And it was at the Parks Department -- a very funny scene. There were about ten gays and the counsel for the Parks Department commissioner -- and it wasn't Neisl; it was Weirin, I think, an elderly civil servant who was very jittery as he was sitting in this room with these gays. And they know how to harass -- the gays. They've had a lot of experience in being harassed, so they know how to harass.

The Parks Department and the Police Department were there, and there were two issues. One was; the Police Department, in giving a permit to start the march on Christopher Street, and the Parks Department wanting a bond to be posted because the parade ends in Central Park. And the gays wanted to form on Christopher Street, and they didn't want to post a bond. And