Those speaking represented:

The Council on Religion and the Homosexual, San Francisco

National League for Social Understanding, Los Angeles and San Francisco Mattachine Society, San Francisco, Chicago and Miami

Dionysus, formerly of Laguna Beach, California

Focus, formerly of Los Angeles

Daughters of Bilitis, San Francisco, Chicago and New York

ONE, Incorporated, Los Angeles, Chicago and Detroit Yetta Society, formerly of Beverly Hills, California Knights of the Clock, formerly of Los Angeles Committee on Religion and the Homophile, Los Angeles

Society for Individual Rights, San Francisco

"Pursuit & Symposium," a homophile magazine published in Los Angeles The Mattachine Foundation, formerly of Los Angeles

The Society of Good Companions, newly forming in Los Angeles by members of the Mattachine Foundation, was represented by two observers.

This quite unprecedented assemblage and gathering together of homophile goals, ideals and methodology was a repetition and expansion of similar presentations of the American Homophile Movement made ten years ago at ONE's Midwinter Sessions in 1956 and then again at ONE's 10th Anniversary Midwinter Institute in 1962 as evaluations of the Movement.

Listeners could hardly fail to note the vigorous diversity of ways of handling their affairs by all these many organizations. Nor could they likewise miss the spotlight thrown with embarrassing clarity upon the darker portions of the picture as well as those for which everyone could feel pride. That there could be found a line of distinction between the groups who have goals of service to others within a framework of social responsibility and genuine concern for ethical standards and those whose main interest was themselves and "fun games" was plainly to be seen. As has happened in social movements of all sorts trends and the defining of allegiance to varying standards already taking place within the American Homophile Movement indicate its growing maturity and development.

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ment shall expand into all parts of this country, also to other countries which do not yet have Homophile Organizations.

HOMOPHILE RESPONSIBILITIES

Adult responsibilities were the challenge thrown to the audience by the Rev. Alex Smith, Director of the Downtown Service Bureau of the Methodist Churches of Los Angeles, and Chairman of the Committee on Religion and the Homophile of Southern California. When we are reminded that such an area includes nearly ten million population, exceeded only by a few entire states, the scope of these opportunities can better be grasped, their importance understood.

The Rev. Smith gave intimate glimpses of his counselling work with. homosexuals in skid row areas and in jails and of his own deep interest in the new-found spirit of cooperation which has come into being through the work of the Committee on Religion and the Homophile in Southern California during the past year.

Continuing the main theme of the 1966 Midwinter Sessions Don Lucas, Secretary of the Mattachine Society and a Trustee of the Council on Reli-

It was the hope of all that the Movegion and the Homosexual of San Fran-