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SIDELIGHTS ON "PURITAN TERROR"

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In a unanimous decision on January 13, 1958, the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington declared that ONE Magazine, published in Los Angeles, was not obscene. This decision reversed lower Federal Court decisions resulting from charges made in October 1954 by Postmaster Oleson of Los Angeles. Mattachine Review, One and The Ladder are three "little magazines" in the U.S. devoted to an open and frank look at the subjects of sex variation and homosexuality. Although their subject matter may be disapproved by some individuals, the fact is-and a decision in the nation's highest court proves it-they are not obscene.

No official charge, not even a question of its right to be published and circulated among adults, has ever been made against Mattachine Review or against the Society which publishes it. Police officials in several U.S. cities receive the magazine regularly and to this date have made no adverse

comment.

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Editor HAROLD L. CALL

Business Manager DONALD S. LUCAS

Treasurer

O. CONRAD BOWMAN, JR.

Editorial Board

ROLLAND HOWARD CURTIS DEWEES

WALLACE DE ORTEGA MAXEY JOHN LEROY

mattachine

REVIEW

Founded in 1954 First Issue January 1955

Volume VII

APRIL 1961

Number 4

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PURITAN TERROR-

Massachusetts: 1961.... ... 4

GIANT STEP

An interesting sidelight to the trial of two men in Massachusetts on the charge of possessing and exhibiting obscenity, to-wit: The Mattachine Review, possessed and shown to each other (see "Puritan Terror-Massachusetts: 1961," page 4) was reported as this issue went to press. Edward H., who was arraigned early in the case with Harmon H., to be bound over to the Grand Jury, told about how court proceedings were interrupted. A farmer had come into the courtroom with a basket of fresh eggs.

"The judge suspended proceedings right in the middle of a hearing. He bought some eggs from the farmer, paid for them while sitting on the bench. The clerk of the court bought some too, and so did the probation officer who was present. With the transactions complete, the farmer left the court and the hearing was resumed."

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by Morgan Ives.

DECKHAND, a poem

by Forrest Anderson.

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READERS WRITE ...

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