EDITORIAL

Every now and then some American or British newspaper launches a flamboyant, intensively anti-homosexual campaign, offering various reasons for so doing. Most such flurries quickly recede into their native unimportance as the cheap newsprint on which they appeared goes to the trash cans or begins to crumble and yellow in the sunlight.

Occasionally one of these campaigns manages to draw a bit of blood, at any rate to applaud and lend support to the drawing of blood. Examples of this practice are the various Florida newspapers which have for some time now been supporting and encouraging the vicious attacks against homosexuals which have come from the sickly minds of the infamous Johns Committee formed by the Florida legislature. One of the brasher Chicago news columnists has been fanning his own little poison flame against homosexuals. The incredibly debased level of a number of the London newspapers in their handling of the John Vassall "spy case" would have to be seen to be believed. For sheer insinuating prurience they stand in a class by themselves.

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Now, from Hollywood, comes one more case of a little man puffing and puffing himself up, like the frog in the fable who tried so hard to swell up as large as his betters that he finally blew up all air that up he was. Dave Heyler, editor and publisher of the Hollywood CitizenNews in that gaudy precinct of Los Angeles, casts himself in the pious role of rendering "a significant public service to the community" in a series of articles and editorials.

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