"SHEL'S CAMP"

For any who haven't seen it, August PLAYBOY's hilarious spoof on the lunatic fringe of the gay set is must reading. In that issue, cartoonist Silverstein goes to town on Fire Island-"where the fruits are unforbidden"-and returns to home base with some memorable sketches and photographs. The running commentary is half the laugh -for example, Shel's caricature of himself dancing with a curvaceous broad in spike heels and bouffant hair-do, and innocently saying:"Gosh, Sally, imagine finding a great-looking girl like you in a place like this! . . . but what do you mean, you're in drag?!"

OSBORNE PLAY DENIED PUBLIC-SHOWING LICENSE

"A Patriot for Me," a play by John Osborne dealing with the life of Alfred Redl, homosexual colonel in the 1906 Austro-Hungarian army, was recently refused a public-showing license in London by the Lord Chamberlain, according to reports appearing in SATURDAY REVIEW and elsewhere. The play, however, did appear privately before smaller audiences at the Royal Court. Apparently it was not the general theme of the play which won the Lord Chamberlain's disapproval, but rather its stunning reproduction, on-stage, of the annual transvestite ball in Vienna, in which George Devine plays the bediamonded and resplendent baronhostess, and where all the bewitching sirens and powdered noblewomen turn out to be men. As for the real-life Alfred Redl, upon whose tragic career the play is based, he seems to be almost the prototype for the modern image of the "homosexual security risk." A colonel and the head of Army Intelligence, he is blackmailed by

Russian counterintelligence into treasonable revelations of military secrets, upon discovery of which he commits suicide. According to reviews received here, Osborne's play, though historically based, is heavily interpolated with sermonizings on the homosexual's unenviable lot in modern society, with the heaviest criticisms being levelled at the anti-homosexual prejudices so strongly evident in our

traditions.

BE YOUR OWN PSYCHIATRIST AND SAVE MONEY!

"A homosexual can change into a heterosexual personality if he will steadfastly date a member of the opposite sex and force himself to pay court to her," writes Dr. Crane in a medical column for San Pedro's NEW PILOT, dated 7-30-65. "If you go through the proper motions," he continues, "then you will begin to feel the corresponding emotions. A homosexual who thus acts the role of a normally mature heterosexual person will soon begin to feel the emotions of the heterosexual. Act the way you ought to be and soon you'll be the way you act." The twin factors of motivation and physical capability seem to be overlooked in this astonishing formula, under which a person who isn't hungry should be able to stimulate his appetite by trying to eat a 10-course dinner. (Ugh . . .!) ONE will be interested in hearing from any non-heterosexual reader who has successfully applied Dr. Crane's prescription.

MALE PROSTITUTION OUTLAWED IN CALIFORNIA

At long last, California has put through legislation aimed at controlling homosexual prostitution, according to a recent Hollywood