DOB Asked to to Join ICSE,

The Foundation of the International Committee for Sexual Equality, founded in 1951 in an effort to unite all homophile groups under a common goal, has just recently heard of the Daughters of Bilitis and written for an exchange of statutes and publications with an invitation to the DOB to join the international group, which has its headquarters in Amsterdam, Holland.

ICSE publishes every month: in English, Periodical Newsletter; in German, ICSE-KURIER; in German, ICSE-PRESS (for the German and Austrian Press).

Both ONE, Inc., and the Mattachine Society have been members for some time. Membership fee is one dollar per member per year. For every 250 members one delegate may bo sent with the right to vote at the international counoil (Verwaltungsrat). Most of the annual meetings are organized in Europe.

According to Jack Argo, editor and member of the Board of Directors, "special female groups are rare institutions. The COC f.i. has both female and male members. There is a group in Denmark, called 'Allen for een Klubben' for females only, also a member of ICSE".

Available issues of THE LADDER and a copy of the DOB constitution and by-laws are being forwarded to the ICSE. The possibility of joining the international organization is being considered by the membership of the Daughters.

The aims of the ICSE are:

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Furthering objective scientific studies of the essence and phenomena of masculine and feminine homophily and of all problems connected with them.

b. Furthering the exchange on an international level of the results of these studies as well as the widest possible spreading of the insights based on them.

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Furthering the legal and factual harmonization of homophile man with the principles laid down in the "Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man" issued by the United Nations, running as follows: