the concomitant specter of permanent unemployment. The problem of personal instability has been grossly exaggerated, and is not, in any case, the exclusive domain of the homosexual. It is the penalty exacted by society from all those who dare to defy its coercive rule. The private sexual relationship between consenting adults must never be subject to public scrutiny or approval. The day we allow public officials to pass on our private life, we will no longer have or deserve one."

FLORIDA MATTACHINE ACTIVATED

According to the Aug. 1965 issue of VIEWPOINT, Florida Mattachine's Newsletter, this Florida organization was recently incorporated with Richard A. Inman as President. It was formed from the now-dissoved Atheneum Society of America, whose President, also Mr. Inman, was subpoenaed in 1964 before the Florida State Attorney and ordered to produce the Society's mailing lists. Mr. Inman refused, citing the decision of the U. S. Supreme Court in the case of Alabama vs. N.A.A.C.P. (No. 367 U.S. 449), in which it was held that to produce such lists would be a violation of Article I of the Bill of Rights. The State's Attorney

conceded this citation as sufficient to uphold Mr. Inman's refusal to divulge the Atheneum roster. Membership in the Mattachine Society of Florida, Inc. (whose address is P. O. Box 301, Miami, Fla. 33101) is restricted to Florida residents, according to Mr. Inman, but anyone may subscribe to its publications. The August VIEWPOINT also reports the dissolution of Florida's homo-baiting Johns Committee and the creation of a State Criminal Law Revision Com-

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mittee to rewrite the entire Florida Penal Code along lines recommended by the American Law Institute's Model Penal Code. This would place Florida's sex legislation on a parallel with that in Illinois. Perhaps Florida, which has been the scene of some of U.S.A.'s most sensational "homo-hunts" will be the next State to adopt a civilized legal position in this area of human behavior.

HEADSHRINKING ON WAY OUT?

Maybe so, according to recent evidence from the field of biochemistry. During the past few years, research has been establishing that many kinds of psychosis and neurosis can result from genetic or other physiological causes, and that such conditions yield rapidly to the proper biochemical treatment. Doubtless to the dismay of some psychoanalysts, such treatment is beginning, where applicable, to replace the protracted and costly psychoanalytic methods of Freudian derivation.

THE VANISHING AMERICAN (male)

Paul Price, writing for the LAS VEGAS SUN for 9/10/65, views with combined humor and alarm the gradual eclipse of the rugged he-man of yesteryear. "You must think twice," he says, "about a male who buys wigs, uses rouge, shaves his legs, wears mink coats, and visits the men's section of the ladies' lingerie shop for his underwear. There are now shops in Beverly Hills, New York, and even Chicago that specialize in wigs for One shop is doing a dandy business in wigs with a short pigtail. It is known as the Fancy Fancy Fagola Cut, and mostly comes in blonde." And nowadays it can even happen (if we may slightly paraphrase Mr. Price),

men