I always have and still do associate with them exclusively; I can't get along at all with homosexuals. I keep wondering if they are vastly different or perhaps I'm just not used to them. I think you are making progress with the magazine, and I enclose a small check to help a project which I feel is, or can become, important.

--Miss A. J., California

Review Editor: Your first issues are a tonic for weary spirits which have taken so many. blows from the "sensationalistic" articles in general magazines. James Barr and Mackinneth Fingal are especially courageous pioneers in the heart's quest for a better world for all. A good start is half the battle.. --Mr. N. B., Toronto, Ontario

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Mattachine NEWSREEL

SOCIETY VOTES TO JOIN ICSE

At its annual convention at Los Angeles in May, members of the Mattachine. Society voted unanimously to join the International Committee of Sexual Equality, Amsterdam. This organization is an international group devoted to aiding the understanding of and eliminating discrimination against homophiles in Western European nations and elsewhere throughout the world. ICSE will hold its annual Congress in Paris in mid-November. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA DISCUSSION GROUPS EXTENDED

Long Beach chapters have inaugurated a series of discussion groups in nearby communities of Westminister and Huntington Park. The area council there will supply information about these meetings upon request.

GROUP THERAPY. PROJECT ADVANCES AT SAN FRANCISCO

Now in its 3rd month, sessions in group therapy conducted at San Francisco by a professional therapist, have resulted in praise for the project from many of the 15-20 persons who have been attending the twice-a-month meetings. 1

SOUND TAPES AVAILABLE FOR DISCUSSION MEETINGS

Several recorded lectures, orientation programs, and other subjects useful in discussion meeting presentations have been prepared by the Society's Public Relations, Director. Requests for these tapes and other materials helpful in the conduct of group meetings should be addressed to the Board of Directors. ADDITIONAL INTERVIEWS TAKEN BY DR. KINSEY

During June, several additional interviewees for Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey and his staff were arranged at San Francisco. The 36

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prominent sex research expert also met with three members of the Board of Directors of the Society while on the West Coast. FALL BOARD MEETING AT SAN FRANCISCO

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Next meeting of the Board of Directors of the Society will be held at San Francisco, September 3-5, it was announced when the new officers and members of the board met at Los Angeles in May after the annual convention.

CIVIL LIBERTIES

on the "upswing” again

The cause of civil liberties in the United States has gained strength in recent months, but it is still under serious attack, says Patrick Murphy Malin, director of the American Civil Liberties Union, New York City.

"I think we are a little better off than a year ago," he said recently at a. West Coast press conference. ' "But it's a modest corner that we've { turned, and you never get completely out of the woods because there are new strains on the rights of free speech, fair trial and equal protection under the law."

Malin, a native of Missouri and 52 years old, declared that continuing most important civil liberties problem is the way our government employees are treated today.'

Because of the operation of government orders defining certain types "unof personality orientations as desirable" or "security risk" category, government employees have become second-class citizens by the withholding of their right to be confronted by their accusers, Malin' pointed out. He referred to the case of Edward Corsi, discharged from the State Department's Immigration Service, whom Malin said was known "as a man of definite opinion" before he was hired, and thus before he cross-

ed $words with Secretary of State' Dulles on restrictions in the Refugee Relief Act of 1953.

Strength for civil liberties in 1954: came partly from the Senate censure of Senator McCarthy; partly because of the Supreme Court's 9-0 decision. on segregation, and partly because a lot of people in educational circles have recovered some sanity (as Malin puts it) and courage in fighting back. the, trends of the preceding four years, when different kinds of orthodoxies seemed to hold the field.