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Mattachine Society, Inc.

NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS: 693 Mission Street, San Francisco 5, Calif., Telephone EXbrook 7-0773.

AREA COUNCIL BRANCH OFFICES (Please address communications to the following in care of the Mattachine Society, Inc., and the area council specified): BOSTON-P. O. Box 1499, Boston 4, Mass.; DENVER-P. O. Box 7035, Capitol Hill Sta., Denver 6, Colo., Telephone Florida 5-3438 (secretary); DETROIT-P. O. Box 1434, Detroit 31, Mich.; LOS ANGELES-P. O. Box 1925, Los Angeles 53, Calif., Tel. NOrmandie 4-5349 (sec retary); NEW YORK-1133 Broadway, Suite 304, New York 10, N. Y., Tel. WAtkins 4-7743; SAN FRANCISCO-693 Mission St., San Francisco 5, Calif., Telephone EXbrook 7-0773; WASHINGTON-P. O. Box 8815, Southeast Sta., Washington 3, D. C.

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Copyright 1959 by the Mattachine Society, Inc., 693 Mission St., San Francisco 5, Calif. Fifth year of publication-founded January 1955. Mattachine Foundation established in 1950 at Los Angeles, Calif. Mattachine Society formed in April 1953, and chartered in March 1954 under corporate laws of State of California as a non-profit, non-partisan educational, research and social service organization, founded in the public interest for the purpose of providing adults with true and accurate information leading toward solution of problems of human sex behavior, particularly those of the homosexual adult. The REVIEW is available on many U. S. newsstands, and by subscription at $4 per year in the U.S., its possessions, Canada and Mexico; $5 per year elsewhere. Single copies, 50 cents each. All issues mailed first class sealed in plain envelope.

MANUSCRIPTS: Original articles, reviews of current books, letters, comment and significant opinion are solicited on a no-fee basis for publication. 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 containing homosexual and related sex behavior subjects, and from sellers of books in this field. Rates upon application. Publisher reserves right to reject any and all advertising. STAFF: Editor-Hal Call; Business Manager-D. Stewart Lucas; Production DirectorHenry Foster, Jr.; Treasurer-0. Conrad Bowman, Jr.; Editorial Board Members-Roy F. Hooper, Dr. Henri Lormier, Gonzalo Segura, Jr., Carl B. Harding, Mrs. Leah Gailey.

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ATTORNEY MORRIS LOWENTHAL of San Francisco handled the appeal which resulted in the California Appeals Court decision reprinted on pages 11-21 of this issue of the REVIEW. Mr. Lowenthal has handled another now-famous case in this field when he successfully carried an appeal in the case of STOUMEN V. REILLY. to the California Supreme Court (37 Cal., 2d 713) as amici ouriae on behalf of appellants several years ago. In each instance, the courts have held that free movement and association of persons not engaged in unlawful acts cannot be denied by law--that is, in these specific instances, they cannot be denied the right to patronize a bar or restaurant on the basis of being homosexual, nor can an establishment's license be revoked for this cause. Both the attorney and the appellants deserve special commendation for the great expense and effort such legal battles involve, not for the benefits of homosexuals alone, but on behalf of all minority groups whose rights are often whittled away by over-zealous legislators acting on emotions or on the pressure of some disapproval.

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REVIEW

Published Monthly. Copyright 1959 by Mattachine Society, Inc. Number 3 MARCH 1959

CONTENTS

4INCEST -A CONSISTENT SOCIAL TABOO, Helen Kitchen Branson, M. A.

7 SUNDAY MORNING OF AN AUNTIE, Dick Tyner

11 APPEALS COURT SLAPS ANTI-HOMOSEXUAL BIAS

22 BOOK REVIEWS:

THEY WALK IN SHADOW CONFESSIONS OF A MASK

26 READERS WRITE

29 DARK SECRET, Harold Weir

LOOKING AHEAD

Coming in the APRIL issue... another article in the REVIEW's current series on lives and types in the homosexual world...

"THE HUSTLERS"

plus other interesting articles, features, letters from our readers, book reviews, etc. DON'T MISS IT!

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