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This new department will endeavor to report to readers some of the behind-the-scenes activities of the Mattachine Society, and tell news of trends in the sex education field which do not always find their way into print, but are nevertheless interesting and worthy of attention. In effect, "Calling Shots" will be a sort of monthly sweepdown from the editor's desk.

INQUIRIES ABOUT MATTACHINE

Within the past week, two of many, inquiries about the Mattachine Society came from distant but interested parties whose queries we are proud to receive. A staff psychologist on the faculty of Fordham University, New York, asks for copies of our publications catalogs and folders. The Maricopa County (Arizona) Medical Society, referred to us by the Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Clinic of the University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, has inquired to obtain copies of the Homophilic Bibliography being published, also wants to know the meaning of the word Mattachine, and seeks other information. This is to be compiled, states the president of this organization, into a project called, "Prescription Aids for Recovery,” a program being designed to supply both physicians and laymen (or parients at the physician's recommendation) any type of literature covering any phase of the homosexual subject from medical, legal and social viewpoints, to be issued in booklet form. The idea is to assist individuals with literature which will help persons with socio-sexual problems to "live" with their problems. We are glad to supply assistance to this noteworthy project.

mattachine REVIEW

BROADCAST HEARD ON WEST COAST

Two hours of panel discussion on the subject of "The Homosexual In Our Society," aired over KPFA-FM, Berekley, November 24 (See December Review) was well received, it appears. Moderator Elsa Knight Thompson of the station staff reported that no panel broadcast on any "controversial" subject, on KPFA, has ever before equalled the almost 100 letters of response from listeners. Unbelievable' also is the nature of this response: Almost all favorable.

This interest in the homosexual topic caused the station to re-broadcast the program on December 29, and in addition, KPFA and PanGraphic Press have together issued the full transcript of the program in booklet form (36 pages, $1 per copy). Tapes of the broadcast have been sent to Mattachine Society Area Councils. Readers residing in those areas should watch local Mattachine Newsletters for dates when they will be played. In addition, copies of the tapes have been placed in the hands of several psychiatrists, research psychologists, and in the Institute for Sex Research, Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind. Time Magazine also ordered a copy of the tape, but has not yet published any comment.

INTEREST HIGH AT PUBLICATIONS SEMINAR

More than 30 persons attended the first annual Publications Seminar & Workshop at San Francisco on December 6. Sponsored by the Publications Department of the Mattachine Society, staff representatives of the Review, One magazine, the Ladder (Daughters of Bilitis, Inc.) and the new Sex & Censorship magazine participated. Wallace de Ortega Maxey, editor of Sex & Censorship and author of a new book, "Man Is A Sexual Being," spoke on the inroads of censorship at the afternoon session. He listed a dozen critical areas over the US. where local groups are applying pressure on city councils and state legislatures to restrict books that people can read. He also told of a trial in Fresno, Calif., where a publisher was charged with distributing three obscene titles (the trial, since concluded, resulted in complete clearance of one title, and a deadlocked 9-3 jury vote for acquittal on the other two). This trial, he pointed out, showed the high cost of justice in the U.S. today: The publisher had to put up $15,000 in cash in order to go to court to defend himself.

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An afternoon panel with staff representatives of four sex education publications delved into many of the problems of the "little magazines” and their struggle for existence. San Francisco Attorney Morris Lowenthal, handling the appeals of two bar-cafes whose licenses were re