ONE INSTITUTE QUARTERLY of HOMOPHILE STUDIES was started by ONE, Incorporated in the Spring of 1958 to provide a sober and balanced outlet for the more serious sort of discussion of homosexuality, in relation to science, religion, philosophy and the arts.

The first two volumes (seven issues) are now complete, and the early issues are out of print. Therefore we hope that you will take advantage of the subscription offer we are making here so you will not miss any more of these valuable issues. There is no other publication similar to HOMOPHILE STUDIES, and the publishers are convinced that there are a great many people in this country and elsewhere who, whether or not they are homosexual, would find these materials to be interesting, informative and important.

On the page opposite, we describe the contents of four earlier issues which are still available, and which may be purchased at a bargain rate along with a year's subscription. This is only a sample of the sort of material planned for future issues. With an exception. The Quarterly is, as we have said, expanding, and beginning with Number 8 (Vol. III, No. 1), there will be at least one issue in each volume that will run well over the usual 36 pages. These special issues will sell singly at a higher price issue # 8 for example will sell for $4.00, if there are any copies left after all subscribers' orders have been filled.

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In 1956 the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control closed Mary's First and Last Chance Bar in Oakland because its patronage consisted almost exclusively of homosexuals and lesbians." The A.B.C. acted in defiance of a 1951 decision of the state Supreme Court, but acted apparently within the authority granted them by a 1955 legislative enactment. Attorney Morris Lowenthal of San Francisco entered the present case as a Friend of the Court, and in a series of briefs that were classic in directness, forceful in their scope and ironclad logic, he hemmed in the state attorneys with unanswerable arguments, and won the case. In doing so, he produced what will long be studied as fundamental legal literature on the subject of homosexuality.

The documents included in this issue of the Quarterly include four lively, passionate and often humorous briefs by attorney Lowenthal and associates, and the strong opinions handed down respectively by the California District Court of Appeals and the California Supreme Court.