EIGHTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE: PROGRAM SCHEDULE

Program planning for the Eighth Annual Conference of the Mattachine Soc`lety is going forward now and will appear in the earlier September issue of the REVIEW. The event will be held Sept. 1-4 at San Francisco. Social services, employment and rehabilitation of offenders will be the principle theme. Speakers will come from a number of organizations and public agencies concerned with this work, particularly as it relates to homosexuals, veterans discharged under certain conditions, etc. A serious examination of the prospects for job security for these people will be made on an afternoon panel program.

Here is the tentative PROGRAM SCHEDULE:

FRIDAY, Sept. 1, 9am-5pm: Open House in the Society's offices, 693 Mission Street. 7-11pm: Reception with Refreshments for members and guests. SATURDAY, Sept. 2, 9-11am: Registration, Ballroom, Whitcomb Hotel, 1231 Market Street; see fee schedule below. 11-11:45am: Address of Welcome and Report of the President, D.L.Daniel. 12-1:30pm: Luncheon and Featured Address by James Goodrich, Executive Director, California Society of Employment and Rehabilitation, Modesto. 2-4:30pm: Four-Part Panel Program and Discussion Period. 6:30-7:30pm: Cocktail Hour.

8-10pm: Annual Awards Banquet; Featured Address.

SUNDAY, Sept. 3, 10am-12noon and 2-3:30pm, California Room, Hotel Whitcomb, Reports Session by Officers and Directors of Mattachine Society; Commentary by spokesmen of One, Inc., and Daughters of Bilitis, Inc. (Luncheon, 12-1:30pm optional.)

3:30-4:30pm: Annual Meeting of Board of Directors; Election of Officers; Adjournment.

MONDAY, Sept. 4. Special Events Day-Program to be announced. (Optional) Conference fees this year are reduced from previous annual sessions, with a view to making it possible for more members and friends to attend. They are:

Saturday Sessions-Entire Day 12.00

Morning and Afternoon Sessions Only 3.00

Luncheon Only

Awards Banquet Only

4.50

6.50

These fees do not include cocktail hour on Saturday. It should also be noted that luncheon on Sunday and any necessary nominal fees for the special events day (Monday) will be extra.

Advance registration is urged at the earliest possible time so that adequate arrangements can be made. Fees should be mailed to the Executive Secretary, Donald S. Lucas

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Volume VII AUGUST 1961 Number 8

TABLE OF CONTENTS

2 Eighth Annual Conference Schedule

4 For Want of a Chance.

5 Let's Go Slow on Free-Wheeling Legislation

6 Creative Homosexuality,

by John Sheldon, Ph.D.

8 Society "Versus" the Homosexual and the Articulate Reaction,

by Mark L. Sewell

26 'Calling Shots

27 The Roots of Bias,

by Rt. Rev. James A. Pike

30 Readers Write

Cover Drawing by Horst Irgens from Male Models (International Edition); Vol. 1, No. 2; Copenhagen.

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