ingly well-documented account of alleged "immoral practices" in military and other federal employment circles, using this expose as argument for the case he stated he was preparing to force court determination of the right of any federal agency to use criteria of morality and immorality in questions of federal employment. His contention was that not only is there no constitutional permission for such, but that the constitution expressly forbids anything along such lines.

Following penetrating and skeptical questioning from the floor there was a widespread feeling that this was perhaps the most "radical" and challenging paper ever presented before an American homophile organization.

The evening's Annual Banquet offered a reading both serious and gay by Los Angeles poet-bard, p. e. britton, followed by the main address "Changing Attitudes Toward Homosexuality," by Dr. Karl M. Bowman, Director Emeritus, Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, University of California School of Medicine, one of the truly great names in American psychiatry. His calm, almost folksy manner was quite devoid of mannerisms and technological gibberish as he told of the slow and painful progress toward rational public consideration of such forbidden subjects as alcoholism, VD, narcotics and homosexuality.

As an MD he took exception to psychological thinking which minimizes the biological aspects of homosexuality, citing the plight of stock-breeders who find many of their costliest blooded bulls either allergic or indifferent to the females of their species. He urged upon homosexuals and their organizations an awareness of the great value of their exhibiting increased

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attitudes of social and public responsibility in their attempts at improving their status.

Visitors from far and near, including a group of eleven men and women from the newly founded DIONYSUS Society of Orange County in Southern California, made up the large and enthusiastic attendance at the Conference, spending the following day in sight-seeing and post-session discussions with their hosts before returning to their homes and jobs.

FROM ONE CONFIDENTIAL

Readers of CONFI have already had a complete report (July, 1962) of the Daughters of Bilitis Convention held in Los Angeles June 23 (and for business sessions only the two days following) with an attendance of about 100 women and

men.

Their program included a research paper on female homosexual couples by Mrs. Suzanne Prosin, graduate student in sociology, followed by a panel discussion of "The Place of the Lesbian in Organized Religion" moderated by Dr. Evelyn Hooker (see above) and three clergymen, an Episcopalian, a Unitarian and a Baptist, also a psychologist. While the audience was courteous much hostile rejection of the seemingly unrealistic, ivorytower attitudes of the clergymen was apparent. The psychologist on the panel, Dr. Fred Goldstein said that religion must face the facts of life and relinquish its authoritarianism.

Another sociologist, Dr. Paul Rowan, of Los Angeles State College, gave a most practical talk on the effective strategies of minoritybehavior in relation to a generally hostile social majority. Featured on a panel devoted to the presentation of the lesbian by mass media was

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