didn't mean it quite the way he said it. His derogatory label for those "loose and irresponsible" scientists, jurists, clergymen and others who seek to reform or curb vicious and degenerate police practices such as his, leaves us to wonder by what divine afflatus he arrives at his own smug standards? Does this man really suppose that after hundreds of years of puritanic repression, homophiles are suddenly going to stop being homosexual, for fear of exposure or imprisonment? History has proven him wrong. Biology, anthropology and psychology have proven him wrong. They have shown conclusively that homosexuality is a natural instinct, as widespread among men as in all animals. And all the gestapos, all the taboos, all the therapists and all the prisons in the world have not been able to wipe it out.

LAW REFORM SOCIETY

A "HOMOSEXUAL LAW REFORM SOCIETY" has been formed in England to promote those legal reforms suggested by the Wolfenden Committee, by keeping the recommendations, and the reasons behind them, in the public eye until Parliament acts to kill the law against consenting private acts between adults. The Society is led by many of those who signed the recent open letter to the TIMES of London (June TANGENTS) and many additional noted British statesmen, churchmen, doctors, scientists and cultural leaders. The galaxy of names on the Honorary Committee form one of the most imposing lists ever assembled in behalf of any hotly debated social reform since Magnus Hirshfeld presented a similar star-studded petition in Germany before the Nazis smashed the hopes for homosexual freedom in

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The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, rejecting the liberal lead of churches in England, recently attacked the Wolfenden Report and spurned its proposals for "legalizing homosexual sin." The still-Calvinist majority felt that such a law change would encourage the spread of homosexuality. Mr. James Adair, a Glasgow elder who was the lone disgruntled member of the Wolfenden Committee, regaled the Assembly with stories about an "international organization" of homosexual clubs with a membership of 14,000, whose British affiliates have grown spectacularly since the Report appeared. These clubs (a term generally denoting semi-private bars), he said, were actively propagating the practice, and the "international" published a directory of places such as hotels and restaurants in principal cities, where homosexuals could meet their own kind.

ONE, Inc. is affiliated with the FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR SEXUAL EQUALITY of Amsterdam, the only international organization we know about which might sound like what Mr. Adair is so ineptly trying to describe. We should be in a position to know if any other such group existed. The I.C.S.E., which held its Congress in Brussels this Spring, has, to the best of our knowledge, no English affiliates, and publishes no such directory as Mr. Adair describes. Advertisements for one or two bars published in some homophile magazines would hardly constitute such a directory. In fairness to his own reputation, Mr. Adair should either substantiate his inflammatory charges or retract them. Nor will his credibility be much bolstered by merely saying that the Archbishop of Canterbury made

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