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Gentlemen:

Some issues ago you reported to your readers on the raid on the Fun Lounge (see July '64 ONE Tangents) in Leyden Township which adjoins Chicago proper. All of the so-called inmates, who were charged with disorderly conduct, were discharged.

The court deemed it insignificant that men were dancing together and held, in substance, that the mere gathering of sexual deviates in a public bar, even though lipstick and powder puffs were being used by some of the patrons, others holding hands, etc., did not in any way constitute a violation of the Statutes of the State of Illinois.

The principals involved including the owner, manager, doorman and bartenders, were charged with more serious offenses, which included among other things, the possession of marijuana, dangerous drugs, selling liquor to a minor, and maintaining a disorderly house.

November 20th, 1964, a complete hearing was had before the Honorable Norman A. Korfist, and all the defendants were discharged on each and every one of the offenses alleged to have been committed. In

very meager manner, just one of the Chicago newspapers printed a ten-line resume, but this time none of the names were printed in the newspapers and the courtroom was completely lacking in the fanfare, television cameras, photographers and newspaper reporters who swarmed down on the proceedings in former sessions, all to the great embarrassment of those involved.

And so we have a complete vindication of our position. Some of our good school teachers and other people who lost their jobs will, I am certain, not get them back. It is certainly a sorry situation when the

one

press of our country tries these cases long

before we get to court.

DEVIATE AND LIBERATE

Dahlings:

Paul R. Goldman Chicago, Illinois

I don't think it is deliberate, but you are mis-informed, and your're playing right into the dirty hands of the bigots. A person who deviates is a freethinker; deviation itself is an act of free thought. The so-called "religious myth" against deviates was manufactured to discourage free thought (deviation). Criticism of any sort against deviation is outright criticism of free thought.

When you categorize yourselves as "homosexual" (no such animal exists) you giving the bigots fuel for their fire. You should immediately cancel the word "homosexual" (with its dirty connotation it becomes just what the bigot ordered) and use the word "deviate" in place of the MISUSE of the word homosexual. And at all times free thought and deviation should be connected.

Bigots loathe free thought above all else; they oppose any thought that does not conform to their realm of bigotry.

Mr. A.

New York, N.Y.

Dear Don: Another contribution to help bring about the day of "liberation" for all sexual variants. Let's pray that it will be soon!

May I suggest that our group should take a page from the Negro's notebook in the fight for legal recognition-namely, the use of the economic boycott. As you know, there is nothing that so moves the average person today as the tampering with their pocketbook. If we homogenics could (anonymously, of course, alas) spread the word around that we would not buy from anyone who did not support our cause, perhaps we could bring about a change in thinking of the so-called "normal" people who would stop at nothing to make a dollar.

Finally, in my humble opinion, we must in some way, through competent legal coun sel, bring about a change in the laws (again) just as the Negroes did through the NAACP and their battery of lawyers). Once we have legal recognition, I believe social acceptance will follow.

"Leonardo" Atlanta, Georgia

LUBRICIOUS AND SUSPICIOUS Gentlemen:

How very ironical your editorial in the October issue was! You talk on page five of a Reader Service subdivision of a nationally known Directory Service saying this Service "... has for years prospered at the homo-