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LEGAL ASPECTS VIEWED AT ONE INSTITUTE

"New Frontiers in the Law" was the theme of the annual Midwinter Institute of One, Inc., in Los Angeles, January 26-27. It was held in conjunction with the 11th annual business meeting of the corporation on January 25.

Aside from the well-known fact that male homosexuals still are victims of discriminatory law enforce ment practices which include harrassment, entrapment and sometimes shakedown, the assembly of about 100 persons heard these signs of progress:

1. A change of law in Illinois a year ago perhaps is too new to measure, but it does portend a greater non-judgmental attitude from the bench in that state and in others.

2. High courts in fields of freedom to read and right of privacy are making decisions which benefit the individualand serve to check heavy pressures from law enforcement agencies which hack away at these

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3. Voices are crying in the field of correction for less punitive action and a program of habilitation which has real meaning.

Father James G. Jones, Episcopal priest who is director of St. Leonard's House in Chicago and a chaplain for the Illinois prison system, movingly traced the difference between man's laws and God's laws, but left the impression that the way it works is that man everywhere seeks to invoke his laws as if they were God's. At a later session he told how a "half-way" house for prison parolees was made to work so that not more than 28 out of every 100 who passed through it had trouble with the law again.

A blue-chip roster of attorneys from California appeared on the program. Morris Lowenthal of San Francisco outlined the long, long legal battle to win for homosexuals the right to congregate peaceably in bars and restaurants, and further, not to be held to a higher standard of conduct than anyone else. His nemesis in this had a double edge: first, a California Supreme Court justice who loaded a favorable opinion with "dicta" which erased the value of the decision, and second, an Alcoholic Beverage Control Department administrative leadership which has announced in the press its intention to put special emphasis on closing "gay" bars because it believes it has a dictate

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Volume IX

FEBRUARY 1963

Number 2

TABLE OF CONTENTS

2 CALLING SHOTS

4 A NEW SEX CODE FOR MODERN AMERICANS, by Albert Ellis, Ph.D.

11 A MATTER OF SELF-ESTEEM

13 THEQUERY MAN INTERVIEWS THE DUKE OF FATTINGAME (Satire)

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17 LES ARTS GAI by David Layne 27 BOOKS

25 READERS WRITE ·

29 UNDER THE ROCKS

30 NEWSSTAND DIRECTORY

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34 A MATTER OF CIVIL LIBERTIES by Ursula von Eckardt

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