they were doing their job, so they raided, according to the newspaper story, a "sex den" bar where lewd and immoral conduct was going on and people who were deviate were hanging out. That's not the way we heard it. What we heard was that it was "Mercy Mary's not a bar but a club operated as a place for gay kids under age (21 in Texas) to go. Apparently the managers weren't doing a good job though, for some of the customers arrested were in drag. They were charged with vagrancy and sodomy. Others (47 all together) arrested were charged with disorderly conduct and fined $10 and released. It would be good news to hear that the courts in Dallas were jammed with homo'sexuals pleading innocent and demanding jury trials.

SAN FRANCISCO

Lester La Monte, a star of the Finocchio female impersonation act, died January 8 at the age of 63. Many people confuse homosexuals with female impersonators and transvestites. But many homosexuals in drag or out feel a comradeship with female impersonators, homosexual or heterosexual. Lester La Monte was the headliner at Finocchio's for 16 years. He was born in 1900 in Cincinnati, his mother was a vaudeville singer and he was trouping before the footlights at the age of 4. He was famous for his costume designs, of crepe-paper. CHICAGO

A man who, until 13, was raised as a girl, has become a father. Dr. James Barrett Brown of the Washington University plastic surgery service said that the person's feelings prompted medical consultation, and sex chromosome study established that the man was always

a male, but his parents didn't know it. It is cases like this that make the whole area of sex so complicated. The parents didn't see a male sex organ and assumed that the child was female. The case has nothing to do with homosexuality, although at first it appeared to, but it does show to objective scientists the need for research into the sex makeup. Dr. Harry Benjamin has revealed that our sex life can be socially, psychologically, anatomically, etc., determined.

CENSORSHIP

In a trial in Grand Rapids, Michigan, West Coast News Co. was convicted of obscenity. The story behind this is best described by Robert R. Kirsch in Los Angeles Times' Calendar Section of January 12th. The fact is that this company has been sued in many cities where the book ("Sex Life of a Cop") has been sold. The presumption is that the book was persecuted because cops took offense at the book. The court actually rebuked the police for violating every rule of law by raiding the printer and confiscating (stealing) all copies of the book and the files of the printer. Unless decent people in America demand that police abide by laws, our country is in for police acts which will not be confined to printers of books, but will be acts against individuals and companies which the police or church officials do not like.

That is why the American Book Publishers Council has voiced its opposition to a new postal screening bill, H. R. 319, which would establish procedures for returning to the sender mail that is pornographic or communistic, on a complaint made by one one person. It seems strange that persons who claim to be against big government and centralization will eager-

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