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"JOHN" LIKE REPORT OF THE JOHNS COMMITTEE

On March 18th, the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee shocked the state, and all decent citizens who believe in the Bill of Rights, the American Constitution, and human dignity, with a 44 page report on homosexuality that included lewd pictures and a dictionary of pornography.

Here is a description of the booklet by the editors of the Tampa Tribune:

"It opens with a photograph of two men kissing each other passionately. It proceeds to show a posed, full length picture of a young man, nude except for a G-string, a page of suggestive poses of a young man, either nude or nearly so, and closes with a photograph of two men engaged in an act of sexual perversion in a public room.

"It offers a complete glossary of terms used by male and female perverts, defining the foulest kinds of practices, then proceeds to list 338 books and publications covering every type of sexual aberration known to man.

"It carries this bold-face note: 'Additional copies of this Report

are available at single copy cost of twenty-five cents, including mailing. Special prices on purchases of 100 or more copies. Write Report, P.O. Box 1044, Tallahassee, (Florida,) for copies or information.'

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Titled "Homosexuality and the Citizenship in Florida," the nine by six-inch booklet with a passionate purple cover was distributed to all state legislators. Cost of distribution was $720 in state taxpayer money. The letter explaining the Report says it "represents a milestone on our path of progress toward a meaningful program of legislative action designed to better adapt the laws of this state to the needs of our times." Most people had other opinions. One newspaper reporter asked if there would be any attempt to keep children from getting the Report, considering that most censorship is aimed at protecting children from so-called obscene literature much milder than the Report. The answer from John E. Evans, staff director was, "I wish you hadn't asked that question."

BANNED

But someone HAD asked that question, and immediately after the release of the pamphlet State

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