Troy has five employees: a full-time clerk, a part—time clerk, two
full—time maintenance workers and a part-time police chief.
Mayor Marie Vogel describes the policy as no big deal.

Troy’s Main Street takes about 20 seconds to cmise, if you’re
following the 25—mile-per-hour speed limit. The grocery store,
town pub, volunteer fire department and community library line
the street, along with an espresso shop that the residents say
reflects the cosmopolitan nature of their town.

“The town has a lot of diverse people in it, and we’re very
accepting of people’s personal rights,” Vogel, 55, said in the
kitchen of her home, where she runs a day care. “It’s an important
and necessary start to say we will not discriminate against anyone
if they can do their jobs. We aren’t going to enter their
bedrooms.” said Vogel. (Update)

Surprising evidence
popped up during search

BERGEN COUNTY, NJ -- Ava Johnson, 27, was the mysterious
mistress suspected of helping her married boyfriend commit a
daring armed robbery in Bergen County. At least she was until a
strip—search was perfonned at the Bergen County Jail. That’s
when police made the surprising discovery that Johnson is a man,
according to the county sheriff. Investigators say the slender
Johnson has taken female hormones since age 12 and has breasts,
black hair flowing to the middle of his back, and the voice and
looks of a woman.

Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Joseph Donahue told the
judge at the arraignment of the trouble police had identifying
Johnson. Police “originally thought he was a woman, and he was
later found to have male genitals. We don’t know his -- or her --
true name,” Donahue said.

When asked to identify himself, Johnson said softly that he was
“Ava Johnson.” When asked if he had any other names, he said
he was once known as Fernando Johnson. Meanwhile, law
enforcement sources said Johnson may not even be the
defendant’s surname.

Johnson told investigators he was originally from Virginia. FBI
records show he was born in California, sources said. Johnson’s
parents, who are Columbian, returned to their native country when
he was a boy, and Johnson began taking female hormones soon
afterward, investigators said. (Update)

Gay sex?
Not in his library says Missouri man

ST. JOSEPH, MO -- A local man has checked out the St. Joseph
Library copy of The New Joy of Gay Sex and now refuses to
return it. Al Green, Sr. checked out the book in May and has
petitioned the library review board to remove it from the shelves
permanently. According to Green, he saw the book in the new
books section of the library while looking for books on auto
leasing. Green was so offended by The New Joy of Gay Sex that
he checked out the book to get it off the shelves, then filed the
complaint. When Green received an overdue notice from the
library, he ignored it and asked if he could check out the book

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again. According to Green, he was refused and his library
privileges have been suspended.

The library review board held a preliminary meeting September
15, but made no decision regarding Green’s petition at that time.
According to Dick Kurtenbach of the American Civil Liberties
Union of Western Missouri and Kansas, Green has now paid for
the book, but he is still in violation of a St. Joseph statute that
makes taking books from the library a class C misdemeanor if the
books are valued at under $150. Kurtenbach said it is unclear
whether Green will be charged.

According to a St. Joseph News—Press article, library director
Dorothy Elliot said, “I would prefer, obviously, never to have to
prosecute. We just want our books back. People have to realize
that this is money down the tubes if people don’t bring the books
back.” Elliot also said there is a waiting list to check out The
New Joy of Gay Sex.

Green told the News-Press that the issue was not about
heterosexuality or homosexuality. “I don’t care what people do in
their bedrooms,” Green said. Rather, he said, he has worried
about children coming across the books or others like it.

The library’s second copy of The New Joy of Gay Sex is being
held by a library board member and will be used during the
review, Elliot said. (News-Telegraph) ‘

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