A NEW AND UNIQUE PUBLICATION

OF INTEREST TO MATTACHINE and

DORIAN READERS.....

mattachine REVIEW

Founded in 1954 – First Issuo January 1955

VOLUME X

Editor

HAROLD L. CALL

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TOWN TALK, published "now & then" by Pan-Graphic Press, in association with the Tavern Guild of San Francisco, Inc., tells with a sense of humor the activities, promotions, and social scene involving well-known personalities as well as the news of Mattachine and the other local organizations working in the field. Send a ştamped envelope for a single free copy, or subscribe now if you wish to receive ALL issues since the first which came out in July 1964. (Format: 81⁄2x11, 4-8 pages. Advertising acceptable, subject to publisher's approval; write for rates.)

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O. CONRAD BOWMAN, JR.

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K. BOWMAN

Published monthly or sometimes more frequently. Carries such features as "STRUMPET'S GALL," a column of news commentary, always sprightly, sometimes searing; news and features on the Council on Religion and the Homosexual of San Francisco; "GAY NOTES BY JAY," an appraisal-infun of the by-ways of town, and so on.

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Trademark Registered U.S. Patent Office Published monthly by the Mattachine Society, Inc., 693 Mission Street, San Francisco S, Califomia. Telephone: Douglas 2-3799 Copyright 1964 by the Mattachine Society, Inc. Ninth year of publication. Mattachine Foundation, Inc., es. tablished in 1950 at Los Angeles; Mattachine Society formed in 1953 and chartered as non-profit, non-partisan, educational, research, and social service corporation in California. Founded in the public interest for the purpose of providing accurate information and informed opinion leading to solution of sex behavior problems, particu larly those of the homosexual adult.

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NUMBER 11

NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1964

TABLE OF CONTENTS

After The Fact.............................

Open Letter..........

Bibliography........

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Homophile Directory......................................................................................... 11

Books In Review.........

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A Hard Look At Reality..................................................... 15

Whom Does Prostitution Really Offend?......20

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Literary Scene by Gene Damon............

COVER

Three Youths, drawing by Chuck Arnett

TENTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION-CASTING A SPOTLIGHT ON HUMAN SEX BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS FOR THINKING Adults.

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