Tangents

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One of the oldest (19 years) and best European publications, Vriendschap is no more. Instead, beginning in January, 1965 there is a new publication, Dialoog, which will be sold on the newsstands, the first European publication of be sold publicly. The COC, Cultuur Antspannings Centurm, publisher of both publications, has reorganized, and is now known as Nederlands Vereniging van homofielen COC (Dutch Society of Homophiles COC) and plans to open new branches, including a church center. These changes reflect new acceptance of the homophile on the part of the Dutch people.

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Dutch writer Gerard Kornelis van het Reve will cooperate with the new publication. Inside news of the COC will be published in De Schakel monthly. (The name is same as COC's Society Club at Armsterdam's Liedse plein, near theatre.)

THE TOILET

The Toilet is a play by LeRoi Jones which is about Negro and white boys and takes place in a boys' high school lavatory. A white boy (Karolis) writes a love letter to a Negro boy (Foots) and is beaten up in the lavatory by Foots' friends. At the end, Foots holds Karolis in his arms, implying that there is homosexual, interracial love between them. The play is now on Broadway and is coming to L.A. soon.

LESBIANS IN ENGLAND ON TV

TV critics gave a mixed reception to a commercial network program on lesbians about Jan. 7 in millions of British homes. ITV (the

independent network which produced the program) said a number of phone calls, including one from a psychiatrist, indicated reaction was complimentary. One woman interviewed said she "always found it strange when people are attracted exclusively to one sex. Another said of sex with a man, "It felt perverted. It was just nothing and it was wrong." Arena 3 reports that Macleans Magazine, which did an article on male homosexuals last year (see April 64 Tangents) plans to do an article on lesbians.

BLACKMAIL, FAR RIGHT STYLE

During the last national election right wing extremists circulated a fake affidavit sworn out by an L.A. cop charging Senator Thomas H. Kuchel (R. Calif.) with homosexuality. Now there are indictments out for 4 men involved: Jack Clemmons, police sergeant who resigned after refusing to testify before the grand jury; John F. Fergus, recent assistant to President Frawley of Eversharp (maker of Schick razor blades) who is an ardent backer of the John Birch Society; Francis A. Capell of New Jersey, a professional anti-communist previously convicted of bribe-taking, fined $2,000 and given 1 year suspended sentence in a War Production Board influence-peddling case; and Norman Krause, cop-turned-tavernowner, who told the jurors "I guess. I might have been mistaken." According to police files, Krause didn't arrest Kuchel at all, but two elderly state employees.

READING MATTER

Best reading in town is "Little Orphan Annie." If you haven't been reading her attack on psychologists, mental institutions and the courts, do!

Crisis in Morality, edited by C.

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