about homosexuals getting "cured," said: "I do not see the NAACP and CORE worrying about which chromosome and gene produces a black skin, or about the possibility of bleaching a Negro. I do not see any great interest on the part of B'nai B'rith AntiDefamation League in the possibility of solving problems of antisemitism by converting Jews to Christians. In all of these minority groups, we are interested in obtaining rights for our respective minorities AS Negroes, AS Jews, and AS homosexuals. Why we are Negroes, Jews, or homosexuals is totally irrelevant" . . . In London, a new Beatle-ish group is made up of five outrageously longhaired and weirdly dressed men calling themselves THE PRETTY THINGS

In Copenhagen, R. BrobyJohansen explains women's topless bathing suits as just another historical revolt of women and says that "In all prior matriarchial societies, the ruling sex has exposed the bosom, and now the time has come for another revolt" . . . Editor Schechner of the much-touted TULANE DRAMA REVIEW editorializes against plays he thinks pander to the "morbidity and sexual perversity which are only there to titillate an impotent and homosexual theater and audience" London's mass circulation SUNDAY MIRROR said there was a homosexual relationship between famous peer and the "king of the underword" naming no names. Lord Boothby, 64, read it on vacation and on returning to London found that gossip had HIM the queer peer. Then a German magazine came out and said the queer peer was Boothy and that the thug was Ronald Kray. Boothby started libel action and the paper quickly shelled out $112,000.00 to him, plus costs . . . The "unexpurgated

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autobiography of an inveterate homosexual" is what the just-published WITCHES SABBATH has been tabbed . . . Dr. Douglas Hubble, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Univ. of Birmingham, has written. that as a biologist a doctor "would like to know much more about the genetic and environmental causes of this deviation" and that as a humanist a doctor "agrees that society errs in using punishment as a deterrent for the homosexual who engages with other consenting adults" George Riker, 30 of Lynwood, Calif., got 1 to 10 years for killing Robert Matthews, who he alleged had made "improper advances." And in lowa, Robert Chapman, 22, with a long criminal record, got 30 to 80 years for murdering a Lutheran Minister. He alleged he did it because he was so shocked (at his age and with his record?) by the minister's homosexual advances England's

new directive-that the consent of their DDP (Dept. of Public Prosecutions) must be had before police prosecute homosexual acts in private is taken by some as putting into effect recommendations of The Wolfenden Report. But the law against the acts still stands Delaware state police say a lot of homosexuals from Baltimore and Washington come in swarms. to the beaches (don't hetero's, too?), and they announced a gettough patrolling campaign — and with police dogs . . . NYC Mayor Wagner said he personally will head a tough drive against pornography. It came after Cardinal Spellman had asked for just that in an address at Fordham Univ. Later, the good Cardinal commended the mayor at an address in Denver to The Grand Aerie Convention Banquet Of The Fraternal Order Of Eagles, urging the Eagles to boycott "dealers who