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THE HOMOSEXUAL VIEWPOINT

Volume V

a mystic bond

of brotherhood makes all men one.'

Carlyle

Number 9

December 1957

CONTENTS

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EDITORIAL

5 JANUS TAKES A LOOK AT CHRISTMAS

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A GAY AND MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL

Valentine Richardson

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THE LONELY SEASON Frank Golovitz

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ON A WINTER MORNING A Story by Edward Denison

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ANN CARLL REID & THE FEMININE VIEWPOINT

REVOCATION A Story by J. Lorna Strayer

GO AND CATCH A FALLING STAR A Poem by Rick

TANGENTS News & Views by Dal McIntire

26 ERASMUS Arent van Santhorst

29 BOOKS

30 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

COVER: Eve Elloree

EDITORIAL

In the introduction to the British governmental "Report of the Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution," generally called "The Wolfenden Report," the committee, expressing its views concerning the moral or criminal status of homosexuality, says, "It is not, in our view, the function of the law to intervene in the private lives of citizens, or to seek to enforce any particular pattern of behaviour... Certain forms of sexual behaviour are regarded by many as sinful,

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