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COP CATCHALL CHARGES ARE ILLEGAL, ruled a State Circuit judge recently in Florida in the case of a 19-yearold man arrested on a disorderly conduct charge. Defense counsel argued successfully that such a charge and the statement that the defendant failed "to give a satisfactory account of himself to police" was a clearly unconstitutional situation. "What does 'satisfactory' mean," the attorney asked, declaring that the charge is vague and violates due process of law police use it as a catchall.

BLOOD TESTS FOR CONVICTED HOMOSEXUALS were instituted by one Los Angeles municipal judge in November, in what he called an effort to reduce spiraling venereal disease rates. Those convicted of the so-called "homesexual offenses" (mostly disorderly conduct cases number 70 to 100 per month in Los Angeles, Judge Mario Clinco said, and these now must undergo blood tests for syphillis and examination for gonorrhea, just as female prostitutes do, when they go through his court. He further said he hoped other municipal judges would follow the same requirement.

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YOSEMITE NOT A PANSY PARADISE, said a Federal judge in Sacramento recently after a case involving two men arrested in the famed National Park on morals charges. The men were reported as saying they came to Yosemite because they heard many California homosexuals go there. But Park Rangers have apparently intensified their observation and the number of arrests has increased. "I hope others of this kind will take note and keep away from Yosemite before it is ruined by their conduct," the judge declared as the sentenced the men to three years in prison, suspended 30 months of it, and ordered them to undergo psychiatric treat(Continued on page 31)

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Founded in 1954 First Issue January 1955

Volume 10 FEBRUARY 1964

TABLE OF CONTENTS

2 CALLING SHOTS

Number 2

4 "TOWARDS A SEXUALLY SANE SOCIETY," by Antony Grey

14 HEART'S CORE by James Ramp 21 LITERARY SCENE by Gene Damp

29 UNIQUELY WHAT HE WAS-MEMORIAL FOR JEAN COCTEAU, translated by J.R.S.

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