Calling

Shots

LOOKING AHEAD:

MATTACHINE IN 1963

The advent of a "bright new year" has a flatring around the Mattachine office, a less than full-tone note that is probably also heard in the offices of the other organizations working in the field of the sex varjant in the U.S. The reason is well known to most who read this message: Money to keep alive and performing the growing workload is more than ever hard to come by. In other words, Mattachine and some of the other related groups, old and new, are worse than broke-they are in debt, or at best severely limited in accomplishing vital humanitarian projects because support is not forthcoming from the people who ask the most of these organizations.

One, Inc., recently discussed in a newsletter the "paralyzing poverty" which is like a steel trap that prevents taking strides toward several goals where its work is sorely needed. Some of its publications (such as its quarterly) have been delayed; expansion of the Institute

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for Homophile Studies is difficult; and keeping One magazine coming out with regularity is often more a miracle than an assurance.

The same is true with Mattachine. A small membership and smaller (Continued on page 34)

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the rocks

WAS SOMETHING BOTHERING THEM-SUBCONSCIOUSLY?

In this day of sausage eating it seems almost impossible that at one time this universal food was considered sinful.

However, this was true during the reign of Constantine in Rome. He prohibited sausage eating because of its association with Roman pagan festivals.

The prohibition remained in effect throughout the reigns of several Christian emperors, but was finally repealed because of popular protest and because of bootlegging.

Editor HAROLD L. CALL

Associate Editor LEWIS C. CHRISTIE

Business Manager DONALD S. LUCAS

Treasurer

O. CONRAD BOWMAN, JR.

Editorial Board

ROLLAND HOWARD WALLACE DE ORTEGA MAXEY

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REVIEW

Founded in 1954First Issue January 1955

Volume IX

JANUARY 1963

TABLE OF CONTENTS

2 CALLING SHOTS

4 FROM THE LONDON NEWSPAPERS

Number 1

5 HOW BRITAIN COULD HAVE AVOIDED THE VASSALL SPY CASE (Editorial)

7 VARIETIES OF INTOLERANCE, Robert E. Mogar, Ph.D.

10 THE BAD POLICE IMAGE, John Logan

13 POLICE LOGIC IN OHIO

15 THE HOMOSEXUAL'S LABYRINTH OF LAW AND SOCIAL CUSTOM, Stephanie Gervis

19 THE ALBANY TRUST

21 THE WRONG PLACE, Fiction by John E. O'Connor

27 BOOKS

31 LES ARTS GAI by David Layne

33 READERS WRITE

British Correspondent BERN WHITELAW, ESQ. Trademark Registered U.S. Patent Office Published monthly by the Mattachine Society, Inc., 693 Missions Street, San Francisco 5, Califomia. Telephone: Douglas 2-3799 'Copyright 1963 by the Mattachine Society, Inc. Ninth year of publication. Mattachine Foundation, Inc., established in 1950 at Los Angeles; Mattachine Society formed in 1953 and chartered as non-profit, non-partisan, educational, research, and SPECIAL NOTICE TO ALL SUBSCRIBERS social service corporation in New Postal Regulations and rising costs make it imCalifornia. Founded in theperative that you MUST notify the Mattachine REVIEW public interest for the purpose of providing accurate information and informed opinion leading to solution of sex behavior problems, particularly those of the homosexual adult.

The REVIEW is available on many U.S. newsstands at 75¢ per copy, and by subscription (mailed in plain, seated envelope). Rates in advance: $7.50 per year.

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