"both news and in the public interest. Anyway, the public should know who these people are." Tucker also added that he hadn't even considered withholding the names until after conviction. "If people are cleared or the charges dropped, we'll run the usual 'Follow-up' story." He declined to speculate on the damage to careers or families in the meantime. however.

James Bellows, Managing Editor of the News defended the story along the same lines as Tucker. When asked why the News was the only paper in Miami to run the story, Bellows bellowed, "I run the News the way I see fit!"

A DEVIATE, AGE 8

By contrast, the following week, April 24th, The Miami News in its late edition only, ran an interestingly titled article "How Do You Treat a Deviate .. Age 8?" The hopeful sign in this latest story is the obvious care the writer took in researching his work. It differed sharply with that done in reporting the raid on the "E" club which may well have ruined about half of the involved person's careers. One significant factor probably is that the later story came from the better informed juvenile authorities rather than the one-sided vice squad. The April 24th story also involved children, and newspapers are more inclined to be kind to children than adults, even when they are deviates.

An interesting side-effect to this whole mess down here has been the ire raised among homosexuals. The main complaint is directed toward the Miami News for its unwarranted April 17th publicity, and also to the police for starting the whole thing. Approximately 10 people I've talked to since the raid say they've called the News, identified themselves as either being in the raid or as an interested party, and protested the ugly story printed. While everyone agrees

that The News has the right to interpret the news as it sees fit, we also agree that it is obvious what is in good taste and what is not. The upshot of the whole business is that the homosexuals down here in Miami are at last getting tired of having their careers and personal lives ruined by unwarranted police raids.

A MIAMI JUDGE SPEAKS OUT More recently, this writer went to visit a Dade County Judge, for an opinion on the judicial aspects of such raids. Judge hears in

his court most of the cases where homosexuals have been arrested in parks, toilets, and bars. He is a greying man in his late forties, and has been serving on the Criminal Court since his appointment in 1954. He is a well-known civic leader, a practical politician and a respected judge. In Miami Democratic circles he is considered as a man with great public service potential. Judge has some definite opinions on police methods in raiding bars and what homosexuals should do about it. These opinions were expressed to this reporter by the judge just prior to his presiding over the arraignment of 8 persons who were arrested in what police called "a wellknown homosexual bar." (The arraignment was later transferred out of his court and postponed to a later date.)

Judge

noted first off that the homosexual should know his law. For instance, "there is no Florida law which prohibits the gathering of homosexuals in a bar . . . no law against two homosexuals holding hands, wearing makeup if they wish, or even dancing. Most homosexuals seem to think there's a thick book of laws which have been passed just to deal with them. Nothing is further from the truth. In fact, the only Florida law I can think of right now, that even remotely concerns the homosexual is the law which pro-

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