STATUS IN WASHINGTON:

Report Promises Renewed Effort to Establish Official Chapter Organization in September

Status of the Washington, D. C., chapter of the Mattachine Society was still unofficial as of August, 1957, although organizational efforts there have been under way for more than a year and a post office box has been maintained during the period. A year ago the publication of a newsletter was begun there. Its monthly issues are chiefly concerned with legal and legislative developments in the nation's capital.

During the past few weeks, two visits have been made by several New York Area Council officers to assist the Washington group in organizational matters. Principal concern has been to collect dues from acting members. so that the membership and chapter status will be firmly established in accordance with the Society's Constitution and By-Laws. At the present time, and until payment of dues is received at national headquarters, the Washington chapter can be considered only potential.

The interest shown by the several persons who are attempting to get the chapter established is encouraging. As indicated in the correspondence. received from them, problems of creating an active unit of the Society in that city are great, because so many residents there work for the government. To have an interest in the homosexual problem, they report, is to be considered as grounds for dismissal if this interest is found out by officcials.

Some of those active in Washington chapter expect to go to New York after mid-September where they will confer with the Area Council and upon return will attempt to complete an official chapter organization.

At the General Convention business session, however, the matter of the Washington chapter will come up, which means the future of the group will be determined from whatever action the convention takes. The Board of Directors is aware of the importance of a Mattachine chapter in Washington and believes that members everywhere will share in expressing the hope that a properly organized unit of the Society can be set up in that city very soon.

PART II

Bibliography

OF BOOKS ON THE HOMOSEXUAL (AND RELATED) SUBJECTS

This is the second installment of a new Review feature for which many readers bave entered requests during ibe past several monibs l'art One of the bibliography appeared in the August issue, ubieh may still be obtained if required to start this feature from the beginning.

Subsequent issues will carry more listings in this book list which is being prepared by a New York chapter of the Mattachine Society

Forberg, F. K.: MANUAL OF CLASSICAL EROTOLOGY. Manchester, Julian Smithson, 1844.

Hallam, Henry: INTRODUCTION TO THE LITERATURE OF EUROPE IN THE XV, XVI, AND XVII CENTURIES. New York; Armstrong, 1882. Lombroso, Cesar, & Ferrero, William.: THE FEMALE OFFENDER. London; Unwin, 1895.

Leland, C. G.: THE ALTERNATE SEX, or Female Intellect in Man and the Mas culine in Woman. New York; Funk & Wagnalls, 1904. Fraser, J. G.: THE GOLDEN BOUGH: London; Macmillan, 1905-16 (12 vols.). Parke, J. R.: HUMAN SEXUALITY. Philadelphia; Professional Publ. Co., 1906. Weininger, Otto: SEX AND CHARACTER. New York; Putnam, 1906. Donaldson, James: WOMAN: Her Position and Influence in Ancient Greece and Rome and Among the Early Christians. New York; Longmans, 1907. Marshall, F. H. A.: THE PHYSIOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION. London; 1910. McDougall, William: INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY. Boston; Luce, 1912.

Moll, Albert: THE SEXUAL LIFE OF THE CHILD. New York; Macmillan, 1912. Gray, L. H. (editor): MYTHOLOGY OF ALL RACES. Boston; Marshall Jones, 1916. Gallichan, Walter: THE GREAT UNMARRIED. New York; Stokes, 1916. Guerard, Albert: FRENCH CIVILIZATION IN THE XIX CENTURY, New York; Century, 1918.

Murray, Margaret A.: THE WITCH CULT IN WESTERN EUROPE: A Study in Anthropology. Oxford; Clarendon Press, 1921.

Ferenczi, Sandor. SEX IN PSYCHOANALYSIS. Bostony Gorham, 1922. Forel, A. H.: THE SEXUAL QUESTION. New York; Medical Art Agency, 1922. Lucka, Emil: THE EVOLUTION OF LOVE. London; Allen & Unwin, 1922. Nitze, W. K., & Dargan, E. P.: A HISTORY OF FRENCH LITERATURE. New York; Holt, 1922.

Wright, F. A.: FEMINISM IN GREEK UTERATURE FROM HOMER TO ARISTOTLE. London; Routledge, 1923.

Fielding, William J.: SEX AND THE LOVE LIFE. New York; Dodd, 1927. Malinowski, Bronislaw: SEX AND REPRESSION IN SAVAGE SOCIETY. New York,

Harcourt, 1927.

Robinson, W. R.: AMERICA'S SEX AND MARRIAGE PROBLEMS. New York; Eugenics Publishing Company, 1928.

Barry, P. B.: TWENTY HUMAN MONSTERS. London; Jarrolds, 1929.