SCENIC BEAUTY SPOILED

Yosemite National Park, long a friendly vacation spot for the homosexual, is being spoiled by the frenzied actions of a few of our number in the public restrooms of the park. Last summer any number of tea room queens were arrested for committing lewd acts in public. Everyone to his own outlet, we contend, although we all must suffer the consequences of such thoughtlessness. One Federal Judge, Thomas J. MacBride, has even become so outraged by information he has received that he is sentencing offenders tried in his court to jail. He says that by this method he "hopes others will take note and keep away from Yosemite before it is ruined by their conduct."

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Up to recently, any Canadian customs official could-and some of them certainly did-decide what Canadians could read by banning any foreign publication as "obscene," but now that power has been taken away from them, and the government says the import of all publications will be unchecked and only lawyers and courts can decide what is "obsence." . . . Tennessee Williams rewrote his THE MILK TRAIN DOESN'T STOP HERE ANYMORE and starring in the new version are Tallulah Bankhead and Tab Hunter. . . . A journalism prof, Dr. Batroukha, in a speech at Univ. of Rhode Island said U.S. courts are becoming more and more liberal involving questions of obscenity and that the U.S. has moved from one of the most timid countries in such matters to one of the most liberal. . . . Columnist Joseph Barry remarked of the irony of the burials of Edith Piaf, famed singer, and of Jean Cocteau, famed in many artistic fields but also famed

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as a homosexual. Both were Catholics. Piaf was divorced and so was denied full Catholic burial, with only the grave and not the body blessed. But Cocteau got the full treatment. Said Columnist Barry: "Unorthodox love apparently gives less offense than marriage and subsequent divorce." . . A L. A. Municipal Judge has announced that all persons convicted of homosexual acts (70 to 100 monthly in Municipal Courts) will henceforth be sent for VD blood testing. . . . A Bwy revival of the play, THE IMMORALIST, from Gide's autobiographical novel, has franker lines that were omitted from the original, and NY TIMES reviewer Howard Taubman continues his anti campaign by referring to Gide's homosexuality as "The rot'. . . . A NYC Catholic priest, Morton Hill, went on a publicized hunger strike protesting against pornography being sold, such as "Fanny Hill," the girlie model magazines, and magazines and encouraging homosexuality he got results when Mayor Wagner instigated a new anti-pornography drive. So then stouthearted Ralph Ginzburg, publisher of EROS, announced HE was going on a fast, too. His purpose: To protest encroachments on free speech by smut-hunters. BRAVO! The sex, including lesbianism, in the new Swedish film, SILENCE, has done what everybody assumed was impossible-shocked the Swedes themselves. . . . A New Orleans paper, THE TIMES-PICAYUNE, carries a 3-column POLICE REPORTS section liberally sprinkled with morals and crime-againstnature arrests and giving the full name and addresses of the men.

In a men's washroom at the NY American T & T building, some employees discovered a hidden automatic camera-and threatened