traffic in pornography" and saying that the judges who concurred in recent US Supreme Court decisions had standards "substantially below the standards of the communities over which they sit in judgment" . . . England's famous THE OBSERVER had a review by Philip Toynbee headed A VICTORIAN HOMOSEXUAL of Phyllis Grosskurth's frank biography, "John Addington Symonds'' (available through the Bookservice) . . . THE REALIST for March/64 has an excellent anti-censor article by Edward Galligan, Associate Prof. of English at Western Michigan Univ., who was asked by gov's officials to read SEX LIFE OF A COP and testify for them. He read it and testified for the defense. Egypt's Nasser gov't. still has King Farouk's fabled pornographic collection in the care of The Deputy Premier For Culture And National Guidance. One official is unofficially quoted as saying that if it were put up for sale it could "easily finance Nasser's second five-year plan" Frisco's gay theatre, HAIGHT, got picketed by a dozen neighborhood 12 to 14 year-old boys carrying placards like DOWN WITH HAIGHT SEX and PUT THE HEX ON SEX, we want TARZAN. Accompanying the boys but of course their chaperoning mothers. The theatre later folded, but scuttlebutt has it that it was fixing to close for lack of attendance even before the picketing . . . In London, "Entertaining Mr. Sloane," Sloane," which Terence Rattigan says is the best first play he has seen in years, is a comedy hit about a boy lodger who divides his sexual favors between his landlady and her gay brother . . . Dr. Saunders, Chancellor of the Univ. of Calif. Medical Center, says that sex change operations have been quietly going on

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there, and at other hospitals in other states, for ten years. The operation is extremely rare and usually only done as a last hope of saving a patient from suicide or insanity . . . Chicago police arrested Frank Randayko, 48, for blackmailing, for threatening to tell the victim's mother and employer of homosexuality. The victim made payoffs from $50 to $500, then was told by his priest to go to the police. Newspapers never mentioned the victim's name

Municipal Court Judge Gibbens of Santa Monica, Calif., got perturbed by the number of morals offenders from restrooms, and after a tour of restrooms of the city he ordered that they all be repainted to clear the walls of the obscene writings . . The official publication of the American Nazi Party, THE ROCKWELL REPORT, for 7/15/64, has an unbelievably nightmarish frothing-at-the-mouth diatribe against homosexuals. It ends with Rockwell saying that "Hitler had trouble with the same kind of filth and had to shoot Roehm, the leader of the gang. When it can be done legally, i will not hesitate to do the same thing"

The pride of Seattle's zoo is one of the handsomest gorillas in captivity, Bobo, who is making zoo officials furious by absolutely refusing to be sexually interested in female gorillas. Write-ups so far have said nothing about Bobo being interested in other males. . . A new magazine, DRUM, published by the Janus Society, Philadelphia, successor of the Mattachine Society, is trying for national circulation

Although it happened in Los Angeles it should apply to all places and all homosexuals. A well known Sunset Blvd. varietydo it yourself store, which grew rich and famous on homosexuals has now invited the vice squad

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