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IN N.Y. AGAIN

Sunday afternoon, Oct. 4, ONE Inc. held a buffet at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel to honor members from all parts of the U.S. who were departing for Europe the following day.

The Tour, conducted under the auspices of ONE's Social Service Division, is to our knowledge the first all-gay excursion ever to be undertaken. It is also a new extension of the many privileges ONE provides for its members.

Fifty members from N.Y. and nearby cities heard the Tour's Social Director, Rudi Stuart give a stirring call to homosexual men and women everywhere to throw off their fears and "become real men and real women, as is our right."

Tour Manager, Chuck Thompson, introduced the Tour members from as widely separated states as Georgia, Michigan, Colorado, and California. Mr. Thompson also gave many details of the fascinating places and events the group would visit and participate in, in Denmark, Holland, England, France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. He expressed the hope that such tours could become annual events for the sharing of homophile viewpoints between friends in different countries.

ONE Vice Chairman, W. Dorr Legg, then threw the meeting open

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for the answering of questions from those in attendance, and he announced a major break-through in the acquiring of funds to sustain ONE's work on behalf of homosexuals everywhere.

Following a social hour in which all present had the opportunity of mixing congenially with each other, ONE's second N.Y. City meeting adjourned. (See Nov. Confi for complete report.)

ZOOLOGIST PRODUCES QUEER QUACKERS

Dr. Friedrich Schulz, of Munich, Germany, has a whole brace of homosexual honkers and real queer ducks. Through a process called "sexual imprinting," the scientist has produced mallards that cast lecherous eyes upon their male swimming partners, while ignoring the tender advances of their female admirers. In order to sexually imprint the fowl, five day old ducklings are isolated with their fellows for a period of fifty days. After that, they are turned loose in mixed company. But after nearly two months in stir, they prefer the company of their fellow cell-mates, and most of them refuse to have anything to do with females. The female ducks, on the other hand, are not so easily influenced. They rarely respond to sexual imprinting, and take off after a limp-wristed mallard the minute they're set free. Sponsored

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