"I represent the man and woman on the street," Miss Hurst said, roforring to her scant knowledge. "I doubt if my mother over heard the homosexuality, or would have known what it meant. It seems wo have come far whon We are even disposed to discuss it."
Miss Hurst pointed out that the discussions at the convention were on a rather intellectual plano, stressing the legal and psychological aspects. "We can never hope," she said, "until the masses of the people understand. attitude here is good, but you must reach the people.
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"Until the great, great gadgets of modern communication throw this message out to the people, with their slow compassions, their slow thinking, in their own idiom, we won't got the understanding necessary. Attitudes being with the people, and they must be told through TV, magazines and the newspapers."
It was pointed out from the floor that press releases on the convention had been sent to all New York newspapers with the result that one paper had sent a reporter who had written an article later killed by his editor as "not fit for a family newspaper."
This did not surprise Miss Hurst. "This just shows tho size of the job ahead," she said. "It must be a slow process of erosion." She pointed out that she fully expects her TV sponsors to prosent the second program on homosexuality previously cancelled. This through pounding and pounding away by herself and others connected with the program.
A lively verbal duel took place between Attorney Zworin and Psychiatrist Weiss over the latter's reference to the ineptness of law schools.
Mr. Zwerin additted that the law schools have problems, but fools the real remedy for the homosexual problem lies in the state legislatures, not with the lawyers. "The problem is," he declared, "that we are a government of law and order and it is not the duty of attorneys to avoid or evade the law."
Mr. Cory pointed out that a New York superior court has
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