ships. But it seems to me that these evils result from the prevailing social attitude towards the practice of homosexuality, and especially from its being subject to legal sanctions, rather than from the intrinsic nature. of any homosexual act."

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Notwithstanding the fine arguments by philosopher Ayer and many others, the government was too timid to act, and the law still stands. By the bye, the editors. of VENNEN, Danish homosexual magazine, addressed a quite strong letter to Home Secretary R. A. Butler, expressing their disappointment at the lack of action.

GOODBYE TO MUSCLE BEACH

The paleolithic politicos who run the municipality of Santa Monica, which has the land rights on a major chunk of the Los Angeles beachfront, have long been disturbed about the fact that "their" beach seems to attract a certain percentage of "undesirables." In order to drive these undesirables off, the city dads have already had half the beachfront (particularly in the "gay beach" area) paved over with asphalt, pulled down most of the bathhouses and at least one of the largest and oldest gay bars in the area. A few weeks ago "Muscle Beach," one of the chief tourist attractions in the area, where the daily display of bulging male pulchritude and fancy acrobatics and weight lifting had been drawing large crowds for years, was ordered closed. Operating on the pretext of the arrest of four body builders (including two champion weightlifters and Olympic stars) for sex with a minor (female), the city dads closed Muscle Beach and removed the equipment. Thus Santa Monica has gotten rid of all those undesirables who enjoy watching muscle men

put on a show. Maybe pretty soon. Santa Monica will also get rid of all those perverts who like to look at female pulchritude.

One point further-it seems to me that if the muscle boys are as masculine as they say they are, they will stand up for their rights and force the city of Santa Monica to keep the facilities right where they

are...

STATIC

Westchester psychiatrist Dr. Chas. Bemis ran into school board opposition to his plan to rent school athletic grounds for a junior tackle football league for boys (school board upheld its 35-yr-old policy banning tackle football for boys that ageyoung as 8), responded by blasting American "Mom," accusing her of producing a "lost generation" of effeminate men, by overprotective-

ness.

IN THE RUMBLE OF THE SUBWAYS, a serialized article in the New York Daily News, by Kitty Hanson, described among other things, the job that Transit Authority cops have "keeping homosexuals in check," as much for the homosexuals' own protection, of course, as for the people they approach . . . and echoed the cops' complaint that judges often refused to believe their testimony about what they saw thru their peepholes. . . .

A reader recently suggested to newspaper columnist Dr. Paul Popenoe, "Why not tax bachelors heavily in order to help pay the expenses of parents who are raising children which the nation needs?" Dr. P. replied that many bachelors were inferior persons who ought not to marry anyhow, and that adding a tax load might push some of them into marriage and make con-

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