AUG

PROGRAM

25 SUII 11:00am Beach Party.

North edge of the fire pit area at Playa del Rey. Fire pits begin at ocean end of Imperial Highway. Soft drinks or lemonade furnished by the Society. Bring your own lunch. to ba AUG 31-SEPT 2 ANNUAL NATIONAL CONVENTION: held in San Francisco's Palace Hotel and at the lattachine Headquarters, 693 Mission Street. 8:00pm Monthly BUSINESS MEETING. meeting after convention; election of officers for new year; outlining of program of events. 100% acteudance of members is Cofurged. 2302 West 11th St. fee or punch depending on the weather.

SEPT 11 WED

NO DISCUSSION GROUP IN SEPTELIBER

First

SEPT 25 WED 8:00pm WORK NITE at the Hayloft, 826 Fedo:a Sc. Conversation, filing, typing and classification of materials, eto.

SEPT 29

SUN 11:00am BEACH PARTY. At far north fire pits of Playa del Rey. Bring lunch; fluids will be provided.

OCT 7 HON! 7 LION 6:30pm DINNER MELTING. First of the fall-winter season. Place to be anncuncǝd in the October Newsletter.

DISCUSSION GROUPS will be resumed in October.

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EDITORIAL

very school boy is familiar with those great and highly revered names looming out of our struggle for national independence. In their time they were the renegades and rebels who dared to proclaim the rights of the colonists with a fearless conviction born of strong and righteous belief in their causo. Britain, a world power--a tentacled colossus, vas the formidable adversary. The colonies were unorganized and loosely knit together, yet so great was the passion for democracy and the cognizance that truth was on their sido that they rallied against overwhelming odds and struck off the chains of domination with a vehemence born of desperation.

Today it is difficult to believe that the hallowed names of the American Revolution were then opposed by many who did not have the foresight to envisage conquest of a top power, nor did these dissenters have the vision to realize that it sometimes takes more than numerical superiority to achieve victory, for men have been known to face the greatest deprivations and hardships for their beliefs--indeed they have died for their ideas.

The human mind is the greatest weapon in bringing about a necessary change and any struggle or movement which does not recognize this truth is doomed to failure at the outset. We of Mattachine are aware of this fact-we know that years of dedication to a program of quiet but persistent education and enlightenment is necessary to pave the way for social and legal acceptance of the small but very real homophilic segment of the general population. The prejudices we must overcome seem almost overwhelming. We are facing erroneous thought patterns which have been formed during centuries of civilization and we mist not expect over-night miracles. Ours is a slow but STEADY program based upon truth and fact.

Unfortunately, very little scientific data has been thus far collected in this area of sexuality but the