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B. Coming to Terms with Current Social Values. generally felt that the problem was one of coming to terms with "self" and that if that were done the rest would follow naturally.

C. Is There a Place for Homophiles in Community Life? It was conceded that since many homophiles hold important positions of trust in the community there is obviously "a placo" for them. The real question was whether the homophile would be permitted to serve in the community, in professional and public life, if his or her sexual proclivities were known. The group took a dim view that we'd ever see the day!

At the banquet that ovening Dr. Blanche M. Baker, San Francisco psychiatrist, was introduced, She made an impressive appearance in a flowing white gown. This courageous spirit, who attends the Institutes despite serious physical difficulties, kept the audience in paroxysms of laughter as she told an earthy story of some of the strange hazards of jet travel at high altitudes.

Following his introduction, Kenneth Zwerin, attorney for the Daughters of Bilitis, sizzling because there had been no verbal audience participation permitted after the morning panel discussion, attacked the audience with the statement, "You are too smug" He was referring to an impression he had gotten that the people prosent considered themselves better than the average "swish character" he had to defend in court for alleged homosexual acts. After this ho paradoxically went on to say he failed to see where the homosexual minority had anything in common with any other minority group, racial or otherwise. This rather knocked the props from under the main speaker of the evening, Dr. Eason Monroe, representative of the American Civil Liberties Union, who expected to show that the homosexual, in order to protect his own civil rights, must bo concerned for the civil liberties of all citizens.

Doctor Monroe gave the history of the ACLU in its fortyyear attempt to defend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights against all who would interpret them for the proteotion of one minority group only. Doctor Monroe pointed out that in this country there is no majority, only groups of minorities.

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