PEOPLE in its Sept. 9 issue has a two pretending to be shocked at how "socialpage spread that is probably intended ly accepted" Bill Tilden was "in spite" to excite speculation. It pictures two men of his jail terms for "perversion", there in women's clothes. The oddly attracis nothing of note in this misuse of woodtive young man on the left was arrested pulp until page 12. Then revealing hell in one of the more backward southern pops. An unnamed "they" (as usual) is towns for being the bride at his own quoted as saying that a movie star's wedding. Police stopped the affair atglamor and money-making ability are tended by 125 homosexuals and prenow increased by his (and her? they sumably made the streets again safe for don't specify) homosexuality. This, of Texas rangers to roam. How this "concourse, comes as news to no one old vention" shook the foundations of southenough to drink a watered martini. Yet ern society and threatened normal wellhere we see it in print for the first time being, is not made clear. Most transand the mock shock used to describe vestites look a little odd and often unthe situation is so thinly veiled that a attractive; their masquerade can only reader would swear the writer was pleasendanger society if they look so irreed as punch at this ghastly state of afsistably fetching that men forsake everyfairs. He ends with a real corker. He thing for them-including procreation. would probably be puzzled that the folThe picture on the left reproduces a lowing brought howls from most of his painting of Lord Cornbury (Gov. of readers no matter what their glandular New York and Jersey 1702-8) in stuffy inclinations: "And many of the well-pubdrag including a fan and two chins. licized fights in swank nightclubs are The copy below indicates that he was started because somebody made a pass "a grafter, bigot, drunken fool... who at what he thought was a genuine memdresses in women's clothes everyday and ber of the opposite sex." The only meanputs a stop to all public business while ing possible here is that the fairy in pleasing himself." If the implication is that transvestites are dishonest alcoholics, it must include the possibility that some are governors, too.

BARE is at it again with the piddling bid for attention, "Is Homosexuality Becoming Fashionable?" designed to catch the buyer's eye-which it returns to the reader with bag attached. Other than

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disguise was so furious at the thought of sex with a man that he hauled off and got his strongly moral view wellpublicized. The alternative of a "man" making a public pass at what passed for a lass and being miffed at uncovering deceit, leaves us with the spectacle (and Friend in Swank Club As Other Males headline) of "Man Beats Socialite Girl Watch Complacently." The writer ends direly: Greece collapsed because of its perversion. "What can be done about it, ask the alarmed psychologists?" (Their

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