were loving every minute of it, parading around and squeaking to each other.

One of them tried to make me, thinking me straight. I invited her over and bought her a drink, giving her the Message in no uncertain terms, so she unwound. She told me her name was Laurie, and I asked her about a fascinating feature of her dress, and that of her sisters, which had had me bug-eyed since I came in. They all wore, prominently like a corsage, hand-printed signs proclaiming "I am a boy!"

Laurie explained that a recent State law dealt with what the legal-eagles call "dressing to deceive," and that the signs are their way out of the difficulty. She added that Yappy's had been the subject of a recent frontpage story in the Honolulu "Advertiser," which explained the trafficjam outside, the crowds, and the cops on duty.

When Laurie had to excuse herself, she seemed faintly undecided about which door to go through-the one marked "wahine", or the one marked "kane". She chose the latter, and when she returned I commented on her difficulty, and she agreed that it was a problem.

"Well, what do you do?" I asked rather rudely.

"I squat, dearie," she replied grandly, "like any good girl. What else?" Laurie's information sent me scurrying to the Library of Hawaii next day. It seems that the "Advertiser" ran a series of articles on the 12th, 13th and 14th of February, 1963, frontpaging the growing "menace" of homosexuals and transvestites in our midst. The articles were quite useless, containing nothing factual, only the usual sensation-newspaper twaddle.

Mayor Blaisdell panicked, and brought the matter, usually so hushhush, up before a startled City Council. The "Mayor's Committee for the

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Protection of Our Children" was brought out of mothballs, and placed under the chairmanship of a retired former Chief of the Armed Services Police, who gave freely of his "wisdom". If we are to believe the quotes attributed to him, and if his vehement outbursts against this "canker in our midst" are any guide, this worthy is undoubtedly a repressed mahu himself.

Hawaii has more or less standard sex laws. Soliciting, procuring, prostitution, adultery, and fornication are offenses (but the latter is not the if the fornication results in woman's pregnancy! Work that one out!)

On the 3rd of June, 1964, an amendment to Section 314-2 of the Criminal Code of the State of Hawaii became law. This Section deals with "Disorderly Conduct", the penalty for which is a fine of not more than $1,000, or one year in jail. Paragraph (g) of this Section makes hustling illegal, referring to "the crime against nature or other lewdness." The new bit is Paragraph (k). A person is guilty of disorderly conduct "who wears clothing of the opposite sex in any public place with intent to deceive other persons by failing to identify his or her own sex."

Section 309-34 sets a penalty of not more than $1,000 and not more than twenty years hard labor for "sodomy, that is, the crime against nature." Section 267 lists several offensive acts as "Common Nuisance." One bit refers to "obscene" publications, which could possibly be construed to include ONE; but judging from the literature I saw on display pretty well everywhere, it would be hard to make this stick. Another bit is a cover-all clause, providing a penalty of not more than $500 or six months for what it calls "open lewdness or lascivious behavior."

So, if you visit Aloha-land-watch it, fellows!