"ONE of Chicago" has taken upon itself to gather, under Paul Goldman's guidance, all data and reports which can be found concerning the effects of the new Illinois laws. These will ultimately be drawn up into a series of information bulletins and pamphlets and made available to those in other states in legislatures and out, who are interested in improving the legal situation for homophiles.
As Mr. Goldman continued, both his fervor and his manifest practical grasp of the steps and means to be used in this crusade swept his audience ahead to glimpse things which only a few years ago would have been quite unbelievable. As one of the reports given at Friday night's Annual Corporation Meeting predicted, "When the curtain finally falls at the close of this 1966 event in ONE's long series of such memorable occasions, each of us will say to himself, 'I am glad I was there. I was a part of something very big.'" The speech of Paul Goldman had already fulfilled this prediction.
The Annual Banquet closed with the announcement by Corporation President, W. Dorr Legg, that Attorney Chodos had himself presented the Corporation with a proposal for legal actions on behalf of homophile Americans, one also of far-reaching implications and in no way duplicating Paul Goldman's plans. He said that fuller details of this very comprehensive proposal would be forthcoming at an early date. At the end of so profound an experience as this Banquet there were few who still had the energy or the desire for taking the scheduled Nightclub Tour of Gay Los Angeles. AFTER BRUNCH, IDENTITY
Sunday morning shortly past eleven cars began to converge upon the suburban hillside home of "The Heavenly Twins," as two long-time Friends of ONE are known. By noon there wasn't a spot up and down the hill not taken. Their patio, their gardens
and their beautiful home were filled with guests. There is no space here to recount either their hospitality, the delicious brunch they served nor the richly complex collections of Wedgewood, Meissen, antique music boxes and choice furniture, mainly from the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuriesSpanish, French, Italian, English and German by some legerdemain all brought together into a harmonious whole.
In a moment, or so it seemed, it was time to be off and back to ONE's Assembly Hall for a panel chaired by Greg Carr, attractive young Institute of Homophile Studies Instructor, who was joined by Mary-Faith Albert, a writer, Jim Kepner, Editor "Pursuit & Symposium" and the Rev. Lynn Jondahl, of the United Church of Christ, a campus pastor at California State College at Los Angeles.
The panel tussled with the problem of alienation, homosexual or otherwise, and the search for valid identity which seems so characteristically a syndrome of modern youth. Taking as his text, the monologue from Albee's "Zoo Story" and looking much like a college student himself, the Rev. Jondahl cooly and provocatively pricked, chided and encouraged the audience in alternating doses. To conventional Christians he seemed in effect to be saying, "Get with it," to those who fancy themselves to be very hep and ever so fashionably "alienated" he said, "Don't take yourselves so seriously, also don't pride yourselves so smugly on having 'outgrown' the Christian approach to life."
Editor Kepner then, in soberly reasoned fashion, catalogued some of the deviant attitudes, homosexual and otherwise, which plague those who find themselves reaching out for more meaning for their lives, for fuller and satisfying goals to which they may address themselves with understanding and sincerity.
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