Incorporated was a panel member. The meeting was recorded for rebroadcast by KPFK. Date may be found by writing KPFK, Los Angeles 38. The program may be broadcast on other stations if enough requests are forthcoming (KPFA, 2207 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, California, and WBAI, 30 East 39th St., New York 16, N. Y.). At about the same time the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles featured a sermon concerning the recent report on sex by the Quakers.
The PITTSBURGH PRESS probably got letters about its typographical error which, in referring to Robert Wagner & Mrs. Marion Donen's marriage, reported that Wagner was divorced last year from Natalie Wood, and "Mr. Donen's" two previous marriages ended in divorce. Robert Sylvester in the DETROIT FREE PRESS quotes the American Psychiatric Association of St. Louis as saying, "Normal men tend to marry 'normal' women. Nearly all normal men and their wives lead narrow, confined lives. Their lack of outside interests and sparse sense of imagination places limits on their capacity for emotional experience." Comment: "So let's be gay!" The NEW YORK TIMES has an article by Henry Popkin from Opole, Poland concerning the Laboratory Theater, where founding director Jerzy Grotowsky has given an interesting treatment to Wyspianski's "Akropolis", a dramatic fantasy set in the old Polish Akropolis in Cracow, presenting symbolic figures out of the past and concluding with the resurrection of Christ. Each of the play's classic gestures was reversed; Paris and Helen become a pair of homosexual lovers among the prisoners.
The BROOKLYN HEIGHTS PRESS printed reports of morals arrests
in a bar, and then letters to the editor about homosexuality containing some of he following comone might expect to
ments:
find the police better employed than sitting in bars (presumably drinking at the taxpayers' expense) waiting for homosexual advances
-and like as not encouraging them." "If I have a girl, I think she would be happiest fulfilling a woman's role. She can only learn that role in relation to the men she comes in contact with. If every day on the way to the store she must pass whole armies of men who despise little girls, she may learn to despise herself." The writer of the last letter needs an education concerning cause and effect. But then we have heard of homosexuals who despised themselves because they thought society didn't like them. Other letters discussed the problem of enforcing morals and the old idea that it was the "outside queens" who were coming in that were causing the trouble. One wearies of hearing the hypocritical homosexual, who is "passing", hiding and living a lie, complain about the honest, open homosexuals. We might question taste, but taste is not as eternal a problem as self denial. Rather, the hypocritical homosexuals should concern themselves with changing a society that can actually accept such situations as described in the next paragraph.
The American Civil Liberties Union, as well as other individuals and organizations concerned with maintaining the basic freedoms given us by our forefathers in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, has entered a case in which an individual has been convicted for what he wrote in a personal letter. One judge, in a dissenting opinion, concluded with these words: "If
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