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EDITORIAL

The life of a homosexual is cheap.

The case of 21-year-old army specialist Bennie Luna of Yuma, Arizona, as reported by Dal McIntire in his "tangents" column for April, exemplifies a curious neurosis affecting certain individuals specifically and, in an extended way, the population as a whole where the murder or beating of a homosexual person is concerned. Bennie Luna admittedly beat and stabbed to death a school-teacher after he had slept in the man's bed because, as he reported, the teacher had made improper advances to him. The judge ruled out the possibility of a first-degree murder conviction "for lack of evidence" and the jury, upon acquitting Luna, congratulated him with tears in their eyes.

Thomas Nash went up and down the State of California preying upon homosexual men, actually murdering several, and each time was released by the authorities when he explained that he was only protecting his virtue from "those queers." But when he happened to brutally

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