world be rewarded by our government to the tune of $600 and the non reproducers, including all single people, be penalized by not only getting nothing but having to help pay for that $600-and then on top of that, be forced to shell out more in taxes to build those schools that all the blithely blissful babymakers are so busy overpopulating? FLORIDA HOMO HUNT ON FOR 2 MORE YEARS:

Florida is the only state to set up a State Commission to hunt down homosexuals. It evidently wants to keep that distinction. Its legislature just lengthened the life of the notorious Johns Committee by 2 more years.

However, at least there was fight. University personnel, some of the committee's own ex-members, and some newspapers put up a valiant campaign against the witchhunting group, but lost.

Senator Johns, in praise of his committee, boasted that it had flushed out in the teaching field alone, so far, 71 homosexual teachers, 39 homosexual deans and university professors and cases

are pending against 63 more teach-

ers.

THAT GUTSY SCHOLAR WITH A SPADE AGAIN:

One of the world's foremost Michelangelo scholars, Prof. Robert J. Clements, in the 7-6-63 Saturday Review writes the review of Complete Poems and Selected Letters of Michelangelo as translated and edited by Creighton Gilbert.

Mr. Gilbert, says Prof. Clements, makes it clear that he disagrees with those scholars who recognize Michelangelo as a homosexual" and just dismisses those scholars as "the sort of people who are mainly interested in Van Gogh because he cut off his ear." Says Prof. Clements bluntly of that: "This is nonsense, of

course.'

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Then comes the pinpointing of the deliberate "editing" and "mistranslations." For instance, Gilbert omits "the two significent letters revealing Michelangelo's infatuation for the adolescent Cecchino Bracci," then in a verse in which Cecchino reminisces on his lovers, Gilbert "launders' this into "loves."

What with that bestseller, The Agony & The Ecstasy, by Irving Stone (whose balloons filled with hot air Prof. Clements punctured in prior reviews), and a movie to be made of the same, homophiles can be grateful to Prof. Clements (whose own Michelangelo biography is due out this fall). "The truth never hurt anyone" is a laugh regarding most biographers of great men who happened to be homosexual it hurts them so much they can't stand it.

PARKER'S PRESSURES

Assembly Bill 2453 introduced into the Calif. Legislature April 17, 1963, by Assembly Minority Leader Chas. Conrad of Sherman Oaks was not slated to make much headway after being referred to the Assembly Criminal Procedure Committee. Many observers felt that it was unconstitutional. Assemblyman Anthony Beilensen of Beverly Hills felt that it might even violate the court ruling in the Bielicki case which had upset a homosexual conviction Long Beach police had obtained by spying on a booth in a public toilet. This was, of course, exactly why LA Police Chief Wm. Parker was pushing so hard for the proposed changes in section 647 of the Penal Code. The measure as presented amended the law to make anyone "who solicits anyone to engage in or who engages in lewd or dissolute conduct" guilty of a misdemeanor, whether in public or private. The present law applies