they are boycotting any business that advertises in that paper, and writing and phoning the business. and telling them that.

Looks like gay people have learned a lesson from the colored people in the south that got that bus company where the hair was short.

Our money is as good as the next person's, and gay people have added considerably to the commercial success of Hollywood not only in the entertainment field but the bank we bank at, the restaurant we eat at, the place where we buy a car, the real estate people we buy property through. Not to speak of all the taxes we pay to help support all those schools that they can't build fast enough because of population explosion.

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Maybe we're learning what other minorities in this country learned: they'll ignore you as long as you do nothing but just yak about civil rights but not when you do something about it. And money talks!

OF MANY THINGS,

OF CABBAGES & QUEENS:

The screenplay has been started from THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY, that novel about what Michelangelo would have been like had he been hetero. . . . A producer says he wants to make a movie of that fine lesbian novel, THE PRICE OF SALT, and wants Lana Turner and Laurence Harvey as two of the stars.

.. Twenty minutes was lopped off of LAWRENCE OF ARABIA in the new "revised print" shown in Frisco. . . . The government of Egypt has distributed over 20,000 contraceptive pills as statisticians say their population will DOUBLE in 27 years, and more and more all over the world leaders are referring to the population explosion as like cancer cells multiplying. . . . L.A.'s gaynamed haberdashery, AH MEN, has

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moved to plush new quarters on Santa Monica near Robertson. World welterweight champ Emile Griffith got a technical knockout over Chris Christensen in Copenhagen. Sportswriter Murray of L.A. TIMES has written another one of those snide I just CAN'T understand it columns on Griffith — just like the sportswriters used to do on the man they had to vote the greatest tennis athlete of all times, Bill Tilden. . . . Prison authorities finally came out and called Robert Stroud, The Birdman of Alcatraz, a homosexual, to try to knock in the head the growing petitions in his behalf. Just calling him a murderer didn't do any good. . . . The world's most famous painting, MONA LISA, got a reception fit for a queen in this country but the creator, Leonardo da Vinci, who was hauled up twice before authorities for homosexuality, would have been stopped cold by our Immigration Dept., which gets real fainty at the idea of such moral turpitude. Maybe that's why we, like England, have never produced a first-rank painter.

Luis Medina

Portraits Designs Murals

237 N. Alvarado St. Los Angeles

Tel 389-6156

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