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THE MOST HOMOPHILE PROFESSION?:

Recommended for the historical

minded is Prince Eugen of Savoy, by Henderson, new biography of a man Napoleon ranked as one of the seven most brilliant generals in all history. Our anti-homosexual society today insists on twisting facts and harping on how many homosexuals are artists, conscientious objectors, etc., with the limp-wrist-and-swish bit. Plain truth is that, percentage-wise, far more military men have been homosexual than have artists and, perhaps, more than in any other field. Napoleon's list of seven has six on whom there is homophile biography: Eugen, Alexander, Caesar, Gustavus Adolphus, Frederick, Hannibal. And if someone wants to research Marshal Turenne, it just might be seven out of seven. BEEFCAKE MARKET BULLISH

Both biggies of the beefcake brigade, The Young Physique and Muscleboy, will come out in snazzy subscription-only book-magazine editions "in luxurious hardbound buck-

ram covers" at three bucks each, but if you're poor you can still get the cheap newsstand edition at two bucks. Both magazines have always been refreshingly unique in their field due to the total absence of cover-up-no barbells, no health food, no hot flashes from Bob Hoffman and the weightlifting records. Just photos-and plenty in expensive color. The new

hardbacks will undoubtedly be the most lavish homophile photographic works ever published and will soar in price as collectors' items.

BIRCHERS BLAST CODDLING HOMOSEXUALS

The latest John Birch Society pamphlet has a clear-cut anti-homosexual item: "We contend that for Protestant clergymen to give public parties for known homosexuals borders on insanity." The only other political group we know of who has come out as anti-homosexual was also ultra-right-The American Nazi Party. They've announced that when they come to power they will simply shoot

the homos.

SWITCH QUEEN IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE

That 17-year-old boy in Baltimore charged with stealing $3,900 worth of women's wigs and who petitioned the court for a sex change, actually got his petition granted. Two Johns Hopkins doctors said it would be in his best interest as he was a psychic hermaphrodite, couldn't be helped by psychiatric treatment, and the operation and hormone treatment would permit him to make "an adequate adjustment." Now he can start letting his own hair grow long.

WALT WHITMAN AGAIN

Reviewer Malcolm Muggeridge in the 3-11-65 N.Y. Review says "As for Walt Whitman-that old queen,