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ARENA THREE is the world's newest homophile publication (editor is Esme Langley, 47A Broadhurst Gardens, London, NW 6), and the interesting first issue says it is published by Minorities Research Group "formed to collaborate in research into the homosexual condition, especially as it concerns women" In 2-22 & 3-7-64 MACLEAN'S was "The Homosexual Next Door," a "sober appraisal of a new social phenomenon" by Associate Editor Sidney Katz. It is unbelievably good-perhaps the best and fairest "expose" on homophile life ever written. Unlike that one-sided headshrinkerbased NY TIMES article, this one shows unbiased and careful research from all viewpoints, including Dr. Evelyn Hooker. Editor Katz emphasizes the homosexually married, who he found had the highest status in homophile society. This article is really worth chasing down . . . That witchhunt is on again in Florida-that State Legislative Committee announced their drive against homosexuals would be stepped up and proposed a law that all State employees

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be fingerprinted and checked for a police record . . . In Martinique, composer Marc Blitzstein died. The Philadelphia family announced it as an auto accident, but the Martinique police say 3 sailors are being accused of beating him to death . . . The comments about homosexuality in connection with Ruby include the question and answer in an exclusive interview with THE SEATTLE TIMES Q: Mr. Ruby, are you a homosexual? A: No! I've fought guys who've asked me that. and psychiatrist Bromberg's comment: "The prisoner's description of the President, of Mrs. Kennedy, and of the former's charm and manner cannot be reproduced in words here. Essentially it was the speech of a man in love with another man. It was a love that passed beyond a rational appreciation of a great man, coming out of the unconscious" British FILMS & FILMING gripes that the censor cut out homosexual scenes of Jacopetti's WOMEN OF THE WORLD, saying that whether the sequences were worth making was "surely better for audiences than bluenoses to judge' . .

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