said "I hope others will take note and keep away" from the famed beauty spot which has become "a

a perverts' paradise." . . . . In the new Broadway play,Man and Boy, Charles Boyer plays a man who offers his son to the homosexual head of a giant corporation . In Denver, 2 men were arrested for trying a "washroom shakedown"-pulling a phony police badge in a restroom, making accusation of indecent acts and demanding hush money. One of the victims had guts enough to make arrangements to pay off $1,000 later, then brought fake money and the police. Phony badges and blackmail are what the police don't like above everything else

At the Calif. Library Association convention, some librarians stated that State Supt. of Public Instruction Rafferty's campaign against "obscene books" actually had been healthy because it made people realize that some of their neighbors love to dictate what other people can read . . . . The Birdman of Alcatraz, Robert Stroud, admittedly a homosexual, died in prison in his sleep at the age of 73. . . . In the Bible Belt, a Dallas bookseller who handles ONE got hauled into court for selling the paperback, Girls of Club Sappho, which Dr. James, editor of The Baptist Standard, testified was obscene and violates community standards. of decency. The bookseller won an acquittal from a local jury. John Rechy, author of City of Night, in NY Times said he's working on a stage adaption tentatively titled The Fabulous Wedding and that his next novel utilizes the vampire myth. . . . On 12/4/63,

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L.A. Channel Four's

really topflight Espionage show was of a handsome overseas U.S. official of whom it is whispered

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he was "emotionally unstable"-and then, finally, the word "homosexual" being bellowed out!-because he was queer for cufflinks and antique furniture and hadn't married until he was 41 . . . . In Toronto, Pentecostal minister thundered that a tour of the city had showed him so much sex and sin that he was sure they were signs the world will soon be coming to an end. He visited "homosexual clubs where men women's clothes and make up" and said the city was now a modern Sodom & Gomorrah Recommended reading for anthropology scholars is In the Beginning, Early Man & His Gods by Hays (Putnam 1963) which has tidbits like those initiation rites for male adulthood in Oceania and an Egyptian poem on the sodomitic relation of Set and Horus.

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The principle in law that no U.S. citizens shall be forced to incriminate themselves was upheld when the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled for the Communist Party against the Justice Dept., which wants membership lists and registration

.. Guilty of transporting obscene books from Calif. into Michigan was the verdict a U.S. District Court made against West Coast News, Inc., of Fresno, including its president, Wallace de Ortega Maxey, a Director of Mattachine Society. The verdict is expected to be appealed. . . . A clipping from The Melbourne Herald is headed "Lipstick For The Wharfmen" and says policemen and taxidrivers also use face cream as protection against the sun, they say—and our friend who sent us the clipping put a note on it: "But could this only happen in Queensland?" . . .

S. M.

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