mattachine DIRECTORY

National Headquarters

MATTACHINE SOCIETY, INC., 693 Mission Street, San Francisco 5, Calif. Tel. EXbrook 7-0773

Branch Offices

BOSTON CHAPTER – Post Office Box 1499, Boston 4, Massachusetts

DENVER CHAPTER-Post Office Box 7035, Capitol Hill Sta., Denver 6, Colo. Tel. (Sec.) Florida 5-3438.

LOS ANGELES AREA COUNCIL Post Office Box 1925, Los Angeles 53, Calif.

NEW YORK AREA COUNCIL-1183 Avenue of the Americas, Suite 404, New York 36, New York. Tel. Circle 5-1868.

SAN FRANCISCO AREA COUNCIL-693 Mission St., Suite 309, San Francisco 5, Calif. Tel. EXbrook 7-0773.

WASHINGTON CHAPTER Post Office Box 8815, Southeast Sta., Washington 3, D. C.

(CHICAGO CHAPTERInactive at present. Inquire through National Headquarters) Communications to branch offices above should be addressed in all cases in care of Mattachine Society, Inc.

mattachine REVIEW

SUBSCRIPTIONS: $4 per year in the U.S., Canada and Mexico; single copies 50 cents. $5 per year elsewhere. All copies mailed first class sealed in plain envelope.

STAFF: Publications Director and Editor, Hal Call; Business Manager, b. Stewart. Lucas; Production Director, Henry Foster Jr.; Treasurer, O. Conrad Bowman. EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS:Dr. Henri Lormier, Gonzalo Segura, Jr., Carl B. Harding, Mrs. Leah Gailey and Roy Hooper.

MANUSCRIPTS: Original articles, reviews of current books, letters and comment for publication are solicited on a no-fee basis. Where return of manuscript is desired, first class postage should be included.

ADVERTISEMENTS: Accepted only from publishers and/or authors of books, magazines and periodicals concerning homosexual and related sex behavior subjects, and from book stores or mail order bock services in this field. Rates upon application. Publisher reserves right to reject any and all advertising.

OFFICE OF PUBLICATION (to which all communications should be addressed): 693 Mission Street, San Francisco 5, Calif. Telephone EXbrook 7-0773.

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mattachine REVIEW

mattachine

REVIEW

FOURTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION-MATTACHINE REVIEW founded January 1955 Mattachine Foundation established 1950; Mattachine Society, Inc., chartered 1954

Volume IV

NOVEMBER 1958

INTERNATIONAL ISSUE

CONTENTS

ARTICLES

INTERNATIONAL ISSUE COMMENT

5DAS BEWUSSTE LEBEN by Foltro

THE CONSCIOUS LIFE by Foltro

9THE LAST ALEXANDRIAN by Philip Jason

14 THE RECRUIT by H. R.

18 THE TROUBLE ABOUT NILO by O. F. Simpson

LEAVES FROM A JOURNAL by Robert Amar

ARCADIE CELEBRATES FIFTH ANNIVERSARY

Number 11

EASE UP SEX LAWS, DR. BOWMAN URGES by Charles McCabe

DEPARTMENTS

MATTACHINE DIRECTORY

HOMOPHILIC BIBLIOGRAPHY

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MATTACHINE REVIEW is published monthly by the Mattachine (Suite 309-12) San Francisco 5, Society, Inc., 693 Mission Street,

Calif., a non-profit, non-partisan organization founded in the public interest for the purpose of providing true and accurate information toward the solution of problems of human sex behavior, particularly those of the homosexual adult. The REVIEW is available on many U.S. newsstands.