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VECTOR STAFF VECTOR is the official pubiication of the SOCIETY FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS, an organization dedicated to the iWifor education of a)) people who may be interested in better under W E. BEARDEMPHL standing the homosexuai community. Articles represent the viewpoint of the writers and are not L. CARLSON necessarily the opinion of the SOCIETY FOR INDIVIDUAL /IrfD/reffMH RIGHTS C. THAYER WHAT IS S LR ? Rumit'H Manager "Believing in our democratic heritage and that ethical values J GRAHAM are self-determined and limited only by every person's right to decide Itis own. we organize for: the reaffirming of individual OrcH/afrb/t A/a^ra^cr pride and dignity regardless of orientation; the elimination of R LASKER the public stigma attached to human self-expression; the ac complishing of effective changes in unjust laws concerning private relationships among consenting adults; the giving of S. CHIARELLO real and substantial aid to members in difficulties; the promo ting of better physical, mental and emotional health; the creating of a sense of community; and the establishing of an P.BRANDT attractive social atmosphere and constructive outlets for mem bers and their friends." J.D ELEO N O'famA/y, S././?. ConnMMfion N. CHUANG P. GEORGE IS SI R A SUCCESS? In three years S.I.R. has become the largest active homophile F.HOWELL organization in the United States. S.I.R. continues to expand B.PLATH and is favorably recognized by the broader community for its H.BABBITT mature and intelligent approach. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS VECTOR is produced by unpaid staff and volunteer workers who donate their time towards the attainment of S.I.R.'s ex pressed goals. Advertising is solicited from such firms as wish to support these aims, and can be accepted with no condition other than that copy shall be correct as ordered and that the magazine shall issue before the end of the month of pub lication. Copy should be worded to avoid dated material, and should be submitted accompanied by check in full payment Pubtishcd Monthly by: before the I Oth of the month preceeding publication. SOC!KTY ! OR !ND!V!DUAL R!CHTS ADVERTISING RATES 83SixthStrcct Rates furnished upon request.
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follows: "scapegoat" for our country's sexual On the 192nd anniversary of the signing sickness. The time for the completion of of the Declaration of Independence. the American Revolution is long overdue. American homosexuals call for the As loyal Americans we ask that the by completion of the American Revolution. principles of the Declaration of July 3, ]968 at noon, on the steps of The inalienable rights of "life, liberty and Independence now be extended to all ttte Federal Building in San Francisco, the pursuit of happiness" consistently Americans. SLR., C.R.H.. D.O.B.. and N.L.D.F. staged abridged by the federa) government have Therefore, we demand for homosexual a demonstration to remind Americans that now become empty rhetoric for these citizens: homosexuals do not have the rights granted millions of America's "Invisible Minority". 1. Equal federal employment to all other citizens of this country. The Denied equal federal employment opportunities; adjoining pictures testify to the effective opportunities: considered "guilty" without 2. Security clearance individually display that was put on in a responsible proof as "security risks": branded as sex considered without reference to sexual manner. Leaflets were passed out to the deviants and destroyed for life when called orientation; many persons in that area on their lunch to serve in their country's armed forces: 3. An end to discriminatory practices hour. Picket signs were carried and legally outlawed by the nation's Supreme against homosexuals in the armed speeches outlining the positions of Court as "sexual psychopaths" we 8 services; homosexuals were given by Reverend million homosexual citizens demand 4. That the federal government Robert Cromey. Miss Shirley Waller. Rick fulfillment of the principles we celebrate recognize that private consentual acts Stokes. Jim Bradford. Larry Littlejohn. Jim this July 4th. Like our Founding Fathers, between adults are not the legitimate Skaggs and yours truly W.E. Beardemphl. we reaffirm the-equal station to which the purview of law or of law enforcement A press release was sent to all news laws of nature and of nature's God entitle procedures. media in the area who responded with one us. The ensuing coverage of this event was of the finest coverages of a homophile Other minorities have been at least worth immeasurable funds to all happening that we have ever seen. In fact officially recognized attempts have been homosexuals. As long as the active the press outnumbered the homosexual made to bring them within the scope of the homosexual organizations in this area community during the hour long show Declaration of Independence. The only continue such effective work we can be proving something. AH T.V.. papers and recognition of the homosexual minority in assured that a better day for all of the radio stations in the area were represented this country has been one of homophile community is possible and will along with the A.P. and U.P. news services. oppression homosexuals have been the come about. on the proposed regulation which reads: "Employment of entertainers or employees whose activities or conduct encourages, promotes or condones the congregation of homosexuals, lesbians or persons pretending to be such, shall be prohibited". We quote from the article following: "A proposed regulation which would bar naked women, lewd gestures or acts, impersonation, dirty movies—sex—as live NEW YORK: Our first item has to do with my glorious mistake of entertainment in San Mateo has raised the hackles of one not mentioning that the WBAI-FM series on homosexuaiity is organization dedicated to one of the more lurid aspects of that from New York, so if you dialed and dialed and came up with tender topic. nothing, its because you weren't tuned in to the right city. This The 850-member Society for Individual Rights (SIR), Inc. of program has members of West Side Discussion Group on one San Francisco has written a letter to the San Mateo City Council section that was taped on the June ) 5 Hudson River Cruise that stating, among other things: was sponsored by the Corduroy Club. "We mean to oppose this regulation in any way that we The river cruise was a smash hit with 350 persons aboard. can-notably through the efforts of members of our organization There was dancing to a live band; most couples brought their own who live in San Mateo.' bottles and were served setups; beer and refreshments were sold on the lower deck. The evening was a benefit for the Building Fund RELIGION. THE CHRISTIAN CENTURY, an ecumenical weekly of the Corduroy Club, the only legitimate private gay club in New out of Chicago, published June 5, the best article I have ever read York. This first for the New York homosexual community was a in an uptight square religious magazine. We reprint it in full: financial success and was a real breakthrough in the Mafia control Religious Group Urges Recognition of Homosexuals' over the public social life of homosexuals there. Rights ... An amusing typographical error (Freudian slip?) in a Praise and boquets go to the Corduroy Club and the West Side May appeal issued by the Council on Religion and the Homosexual Discussion Group, 240 West 38th, for their efforts to bring about (with headquarters in San Francisco) will no doubt be gleefully a better climate in Manhattan. seized upon by antihomosexual crusaders like Fred Cherry of Now let's take the ugly tube all the way to downtown Brooklyn, who seems to think that homosexuals want to take over Manhattan to also hand a boquet of American Beauty Roses to this country. (Mr. Cherry keeps sending out oversize postcards Dow Jones for their article appearing in the WALL STREET that say things like: "Are you aware that when leaders of the JOURNAL Wednesday, July 17. On the front page of that paper homosexual movement speak of "Sexual Freedom,' they mean and continued inside was a long article on the homosexuals in absolute freedom for faggots, combined with rigid suppression for America and their organizations. While the article was loaded with everyone else? Are you aware that ... the organized homosexual misinformation, it was positive and they spelled Society for movement of America is driving relentlessly toward the Individual Rights correctly. We quote the following: establishment of a PERVERT WORLD?) Says the council's ByCharlesAlverson, Staff reporter... In Washington, they release: "...Movement [sic], homosexuals are themselves have picketed the White House, Pentagon, State Department and becoming socially acceptable and are now recognized as a minority Civil Service Commission. Last fall in San Francisco, candidates group whose status and grievances merit serious consideration." for city office actively sought their vote as a bloc. They have The offending error aside, surely reasonable heterosexuals (Mr. recently protested successfully against job discrimination and Cherry does not quality-as reasonable, that is) are entitled to police harassment in New York. More than 40 regional and wonder if homosexuals are in fact "now recognized as a monority national organizations, including a newly formed National Legal ^ group." Recognized by whom? By how many? Are homosexuals Defense Fund, fight for their cause. This sounds like a militant minority, and so it is. But the indeed a minority group in the usual sense of that term? Would members of this movement cut across traditional areas of many of them even want to be recognized as such? But if one can prejudice like race, nationality or religion. They are a tiny but discount the council's wishful thinking, special pleading and vocal minority of this nation's estimated 10 million homosexuals. question begging-perhaps inevitable with any lobbying Long the target of whispered comments or off-color jokes, organization-one can discern merit in most of its proposals. In homosexuality is fast coming out in the open. Homosexuals in conjunction with other San Francisco area groups the Council on many instances are boldly challenging the right of others to make Religion and the Homosexual is calling for reform of present laws them second-class citizens. With growing support from which prohibit private sexual acts between consenting adults and heterosexuals, they are fighting discrimination on legal, economic regulate sexual solicitation; employment on the basis of job and social fronts. qualification and performance without reference to sexual orientation; modification of present policies which not only "Against the Morals of the Public" exclude homosexuals from the draft but also provide for It's a formidible task. Under present laws, homosexual undesirable discharge from the armed forces followed by denial of acts-even between consenting adults in private-are illegal in every veterans' benefits; and ending such police and liquor authority state except Illinois. A number of occupations-notably practices as harassment, enticement and entrapment of teaching-are closed to homosexuals. A military man discovered to homosexuals. The council has also embarked on an educational be a homosexual is abruptly discharged—often with few legal program "to encourage the discussion which will lead to formalities-and is likely to lost his veteran's benefits. Known understanding and improvement," and to this end urges homosexuals are barred from any post requiring a security (a) that the communications media treat the subject of clearance and from almost all Federal jobs. homosexuality in a nonsensational and educational manner; (b) In several other big cities, police are taking a "softer line toward that public officials not only become aware of the homosexual homosexuals. Three years ago San Francisco police regularly minority and its grievances but also work to change outmoded raided the social functions of the Society for Individual Rights, a laws and policies; (c) that religious leaders and groups become 1.000 member homosexual group. Today, the raids have ceased. involved with the problems of the homosexual in both a spiritual Instead, police officers address the group on such topics as the and practical manner; (d) that doctors and social scientists legal rights of homosexuals. intensify their study of the well adjusted homosexual who SAN MATEO: This staunch community south of San Francisco materially contributes to society; and (e) that law schools and law which boasts such liberal luminaries of the far right as Shirley enforcement authorities critically examine such issues as the Temple Black has a new thing going to protect itself from the evil violation of the civil rights of homosexuals, the specific practices influences of the modern version of Sodom (San Francisco). A resorted to by police and liquor agents, the nature and quality of letter to the San Mateo City Council from S.I.R. president, Jim y "trials" given to homosexuals arrested by decoy officers, and the Skaggs was misinterpreted by THE ADVANCE STAR, Sunday, ^ validity of and justification for the registration of consensual adult July 7. on its front page. The headline reads "A FIGHT TO sex offenders. PROTECT IMPERSONATIONS", by Bob Carr. But the letter was fCoHfMMed on Page 24) f/tGA'6 t/GMSr /P63 John Q's reaction to homosexuality is VECTOR), but the prognosis remains good. often of two sorts: revulsion or It will remain good as long as homosexuals embarrassment. These Me clearly Me continue to fight against repression product of acculturation. which are ah the wherever it is found: in business, in more damaging if they he in the mind of a government, in the military, in the courts (SL/M 7377//^y homosexual. The syndrome here is not and police stations, in society. undiffercnt from that encountered in the Persons who express or have expressed attitude of some toward Negroes. homosexual love perhaps number between Occasionally these attitudes are I/5th to 1/tOth of the nation's population. accompanied by guiit. Coutd their next hne Though of all sorts, they are judged by a be: "Some of my best friends are ...... "? stereotype. As Sartre has correctly noted, Demoresr's Gazew c / Fa$/:;ons Vituperation can reach such a level that those stereotyped often attempt to abide /,
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C^HGRAPHICS M FC 7V R M W -ST 7 963 a request to us in care of VECTOR, and we months is bad news, too . . . even if it is will be more than happy to send one to convenient in some ways and saves money you. Forget the fear of really finding that the Tampax people take. One of the TLLTF something (better now than later), drop the reactions we got to suggesting this to a pride and embarrassment and get with it. friend was: "You're crazy if you think I'm All breast cancer starts as a small lump; going to some /*tt"!!/ man and get up on undetected it grows and will metastasize some table with my legs spread apart (spread out) to the lymph nodes in the to and gone!" Now. George get hold armpit—then to the lungs, liver, brain and of your butch mystique and make it to the death. Not all lumps are mitignant: most ol' doc. who is more interested in his golf are benign, and in some cases breasts are game and roses than in looking at your filled with many of these benign lumps family Jewel! giving rise to a condition known as cystic breasts. Such a condition is not usually A common nasty that often breaks into malignant ... at best it is only slightly the scene is a severe (fantastic) itching painful during the ovulation period when accompanied by a thick, white discharge. the breasts tend to swell. This is caused by a bug known as a member We woutd tike to wax medical just for a Some of the lumps that are malignant of the yeast family, (not the kind that bit . . . and we would tike to ta!k about cannot be felt and new methods of makes things rise!) Though this bug is breast cancer and a few other "female detection such as thermography and non-dangerous it is nevertheless problems" we have heard worried whispers mammography are used to find them. bothersome and persistant, and requires about. So you find a lump; or mammography your doctor's immediate attention. It is not Breast cancer, that ominous villain that (special x-ray) does: what next? Before any caused because you never bathe more than lurks in the shadows of fear and ignorance definite diagnosis is made a biopsy is twice a day. simply because the acid-base until it is too late to do anything in the performed. This is simply a surgical balance of your vaginal tract has been way of a cure. This year 28,000 women procedure whereby an incision is made into altered . . . and it is easily re-altered with will die of it. and some 65.000 new cases the breast where the lump in question is creams and/or douches specifically made will be discovered. One out of every sixteen located. A very small piece of it is sliced off for yeasties. Another bug somewhat more women will, at some time in her life, and a microscopic examination is made. If serious is the Trichomonas; unfortunately discover she has breast cancer. this examination shows it to be malignant a it exhibits the same symptoms as a yeast Research has not made any significant radical mastectomy will be performed. This and only your doctor will be able to tell breakthrough in the causes, nor is there any is an involved surgical procedure wherein the difference. Neither are akin to the miraculous treatment past the point of its the entire breast and part of the muscle venereal diseases, so ease your minds. metastasizing. BUT there have been great that surrounds the arm-shoulder joint are steps in the DETENTION of this disease. removed. If the lump is nothing more than Oh . . . there are just all sorts of pains At the top . of this detention list is a lump it will most probably be removed and itching places we could delve into (on YOU ... if you learn the steps in (so as not to bug you in the future) and a paper), but the whole point of all of this is self-examination. We are not asking you to few stitches are taken. The resulting scar is to get your reluctant bodies to your doctor play with yourself, and if examining so small you can pass it off as a boob if any of these fit your complaint. In this yourself means this to you. then we suggest wrinkle. , age of medical knowledge and know-how you reevaluate the value you place on your So you only have one menstrual period only YOU can detect or help life. We might also add that no matter how once every three months and when it does detect. . . then medicine will do the rest. butch you think you are (motorcycle arrive you are found in bed for the next jackets cannot hide what is really there. two days in a fetal position of writhing Finally! Finally! A committee for Virginia!) you are still a woman and as such pain . . . and you say everything is just Women in S I R. has been formed. A you do have a couple of fine? Well ... we do know a few people special article has been written covering bodies . . . somewhere. We will not list the who play this game; seemingly in their first meeting. Please READ, and rush steps here: such a list is easily obtained conjunction with their pretending not to be right over to the Center for their meetings. from the American Cancer Society or your women, and the pain is senseless unless that (Dates of meetings will be posted physician ... or if you are so inclined send is really your bag. The once every three separately if not in this issue of VECTOR) WOMEN IN S I R. Ay &??!(/)' Vo/MMon. CVm/rwoma?! Ladies a new committee has been BOX LUNCH DANCE StR committees and to attend its calendar formed just for you. Ten women (and a few guys who came events. (Women are now on five You have said you would like to take a to cheer) taunched "Women in S.t.R." at committees and one is on the StR Board). more active part in SLR.. if there were their first meeting in Juty. Sandy Johnson "We want to be part of StR . . . that's more things for you to do. So this was elected chairman, and Wanda, why we are here", said two ladies who committee was formed for us to decide on secretary. The tivety session was exploding drove over from Oakland. Others were some activities that we would be interesting with enthusiasm and ideas . . . including the pleased with VECTOR'S new column by first box-lunch dance set for Sunday, Michelle and Rene. in doing. To make this group work we are August 18, 2 to 8 pm, at the Center. going to have to work together. The first fes WtS sociat events wilt be GALS: Look for additional publicity 1 feet strongly that we girls need an for WOMEN ONLY. It was agreed tha the about the August 18 event and leave your organization tike S.t.R. as bad as the boys number of men attending would name and phone number for Sandy at do. Some come on girts, let's get out there overwhelm the gats at first, but integrated 781-1570 if you want to be in on the WIS and make this a big success. Join the girls events are ptanned for later, so be patient, group. on Tuesday nights at 8 p.m. at the S.t.R. guys! Membership is NOT required in order to Center. 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Aida Soto-Moce is now a semi- and Humptalips after which she was asked retired star of the opera and concert to sing the National Anthem at a special stage who, during the apex of her ceremony celebrating the 10 millionth roll career was the romantic toast of three of toiletpaper to pass through the Northern continents. y&CT^RisAMMMt to Pacific railyard in Bellingham, Washington. have her on our staff to answer your As anyone could plainly see she was well questions on "Matters of the Heart." on her way to stardom. However, after her p,§HLLED LONDON DRy .Address aH correspondence to Mme. appearance in Marbelmount she met and Aida Soto-Voce, 83 Sixth Street, San fell madly in love with a garage mechanic Francisco, California 94f0 Tequila Mockingbird is still recovering Loveg from hepatitis. Tho not quite back to abnormal. T.M. WILL be able to turn out a column. Many thanks for the cards, flowers APPLE P!E ^ and candy while in the hospital. Not all of this months column will be "Carmen", with the unveiling of his well fresh news, but at least it will be definitive known "Carmen" portrait. a!! in news, and, hopefully, will stop some Special guest pianist, Jim McGinnis, will rumors and mistaken impressions about accompany Jose for this production. Many some bar closings. With so many new bars of the future productions will run parallel opening, it stands to reason that some of to the larger and equally famous opera Me MWSMMr))! the existing places would fold. As soon as a group performing a block away. bar does close many uninformed people Years ago the Tool Box created quite a tt))i Ml! C))Mt)!))t!( start clicking their tongues about the police stir by being featured in Life magazine. and the A.B.C. This may be a leftover Last month, with a three-day celebration, assumption from "The bad old days", but the Tool Box celebrated its sixth ADVOCATE isn't always true these days. The very anniversary. Highlight of the special events popular 524 Club is a good case in point. was a performance by Michael Greer, who, SUBSCRIBE: 12 issues - $3.00 Noted for excellent food and top as usual, brought down the house. We look ADVOCATE entertainment, this landmark had no police forward to the Tool Box's seventh P.O. Box 74695 or A.B.C. problems. Their overhead just anniversary. Los Angeles, Calif. 90004 climbed to a point where they had to file (25$ for copy of current issue) bankruptsy. Many people take top quality The Maple Leaf, a new bar on Polk entertainers and big special shows for Street at Sacramento, is off to a great start granted, but they aren't cheap. Most of the with soft fairy lights on the ceiling and the 524's Staff were snapped up on the spot by longest cocktail hour possible, 6 a.m. to 2 other bars. 524 Alumni are now to be a.m.!!! Campy sign in the window draws in found at the Mint, Maple Leaf. Jackson's. many a curious customer. Frolic. Leonarda's. On the Levee. Fantasy and Opera Club. Another bar now closed Much activity in the race for Empress of and rumored to have had all sorts of San Francisco. Prominent candidates so far problems is the Waterhole. In reality the are Reba, the Voodoo Mother, Perry Lee, Waterhole had only one problem-not Ma Frickert and Justin. The voting will enough business. One of the more popular take place at the Annual Tavern Guild downtown bars, the Dalt Club. WAS closed Halloween Ball at California Hall on by the A.B.C. but ironically has a rumor Sunday, October 27th. going that there were financial problems. You've either attended or missed first Top talent from the Dalt can now be found anniversaries at Fe-Be's and l-Do-No. The at the Maple Leaf. l-Do-No- now has J.J. VanDyke tending The Tavern Guild's first picnic of the bar. Dick Petroff, back from Denver, is OF TMWEE season was a great success with nearly four now at the Fickle Fox. Happy to see Think of hundred people putting away barrels full of Johnny Sant attending Billy's birthday Norman Forrester Pabst beer and competing for thirty prizes party at the Libra, between performances donated by many Tavern Guild bars. The at Linda's Tower on Pine Street and the T.G. picnic was followed a month later by Sunday Brunch Scene at Jackson's. Sascha To Find The: a picnic for members of the Council on now plays piano at the House of Harmony "C!ub Mediterannean" Religion and the Homosexual at a beautiful on Polk Street. The Volume One's in Moorea; estate in Mill Valley. Again, plenty of beer, hypnotist Kalin enthusiastic crowds over or Agadir, a lavish buffet table and plenty of cocktails in Oakland. Also in Oakland, watch for the or Corfu, and an outstanding speaker, Dr. Paul opening of "Grandmother's House". Cadagues, Foca, Gebhard of the famous Kinsey Institute. Sunday brunch in the patio of the Cefa!u, The Tavern Guild is already working on Canterbury Hotel can be quite a surprise. Etc., Etc., Etc., plans for its next picnic. AH sorts of familiar faces, including host The fabulous "Nightingale of Duke, formerly at Jackson's. The Two-'Til Montgomery Street", Jose, has returned Two has a special guest-waiter ready to from his tour of worlds fairs and has settled serve dinner: Darryl Glied (remember the Contoct: down at an appropriate spot, The Opera Jumpin' Frog?) will take over while Tony is Club. Tho opera lovers find Jose's shows on vacation. Uncle Billy is back from EXECUUVE TRAVEL PLANNERS particularly entertaining, everybody enjoys Paradise, California, and is tending bar at Norman Forrester - 981-2484 his basic humor. Jose's repertoire contains the new scoreboard, next door to the over 60 operas and musicals. Thus far, Frolic on Mason Street. 650 CAL!FORN!A STREET overflow crowds have greeted performances tn The Hartford B!dg. of "Aida", "Faust" (with an unexpected Hope to see all of you at the Empress FREE DEUVERY AtRHNE TtGKETS sextette finale), "South Pacific' , Shirley's big Red, White and Blue Ball at BUStNESS & PERSONAL TRAVEL "Traviata" and "Merry Widow'. On August the Village on Columbus Avenue on the I Ith he will give a special performance of last day of this month! A4GFV.y When does old age begin? This palace of your heart is covered with the important question was weH answered snows of pessimism and the ice of some years ago by an anonymous writer cynicism, then you are grown otd indeed. who said: "Youth is not so much a time of Emerson once wrote, "We do not count tife as it is a state of mind, !t is not a a man's years untit he has nothing etse to matter of ripe cheeks, red tips and suppie count." What happens to a homosexuat knees, it is a temper of the wii], a quaiity of after he has reached the age of forty? Does the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it this mean that he has nothing to took is a freshness of the deep spring of tife." forward to but the g!oom and emptiness of Youth means a temperamentai tontiness? Certainty not! Mentat heatth predominance of courage over timidity, of after forty is determined targety by the appetite of adventure over the !ove of heredity and by what has transpired in the ease. This often exists more in a man of years before forty. The foundation has fifty than in a boy of twenty. been taid and the structure buitt, but much Nobody grows oid mereiy by iiving a can be done to keep it in repair and to number of years: peopie grow o!d onty by prevent unnecessary strain and wear and deserting their ideals. Years wrinkie the tear upon it. skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles This is the time of tife for intettectuat the soui. Worry, doubt, seif-distrust. fear interests, friendships, travei. recreation. and despair-these are the iong. ]ong years Maturity and experience open new vistas of that bow the head and turn the growing interests and pteasures which become richer spirit back to the dust. as the years go by. An active physical and Whether seventy or sixteen, there is in mentat tife may be continued, but now as every being's heart the iove of wonder, the never b efo re it is essentia) to live sweet amazement at the stars and the intettigently. ]n the central patace of your stariike things and thoughts, the undaunted heart there is a wiretess station: so tong as it chalienge of events, the unfaihng chitd-tike receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, appetite for what next, and the joy and the courage, grandeur and power from the game of tife. You are as young as your earth, from men and from the infinite, so faith, as otd as your doubt: as young as long are you young. your self-confidence, as otd as your fear: as Here is what some of VECTOR'S young as your hope, as oid as your despair. readers have to say about the homosexuat When the wires are at] down and the central after forty: "! AtN'T DOWN YET!" new interest in your job a locat community Having searched the bright side of 50 project, get on a working committee at and the excitement and pressures of youth S.t.R. and there's nothing that clears the are slowly beginning ,to succomb to the dotdrums more than a good betty taugh at more placid aspects of maturity, may I yoursetf. or with other people. offer a few thoughts and observations on Needtess to say a bit of financial the subject at hand in the Forum this security for emergencies and a pteasant month. An important item were t to make ptace in which to tive. be it a 69 room a tist woutd be some gainful occupation penthouse or a cheery room in a and a reasonable amount of good health, gentlemen's ctub is a basic need t think. both mentat and physicat. One of the more S.t.R. is a ptace where some of these pleasant aspects of the aging process is that requirements may be accomplished with our sexual desires are not realty so some degree of effort on a persons part. If insistantty bubbty and boiling and you like being young, there is youth stridentty catling for expression and therein (and some dolls, too!) If you are futfittment as they are at a radiant 18 to 30 heading towards the "Golden Years" and or so, thereby giving a person more need the companionship of your peers, freedom to be more genuinety warm and took about you and extend a friendty hand. affectionate-reatty to care about peopte. True, most of us live in our own To be able in your quieter moments to particular ghetto but. white we do tets try reflect upon past deeds and present or to make it the bestest for the mostest future hopes and desires and with it att be concerned and thereby grow otd abte to thankfutty count your btessings. constructivety. gracefulty and cheerfully, As you know Larry. ! have been host with a measure of dignity. and founder of SIR. Friday night Sincerety and affectionately. discussion group for atmost four years now Jim Frooks and ! can truthfutty say that [ stitl took forward to each session as ] feet they are a source of reat hetp, understanding and "!'VE COME TO W!VE !T WEALTH!LY comraderie to those of us who participate !N PADUA" and it is a part of the reat committment I ! firmty beheve that a homosexual man feet towards my own peopte. For those of can grow old gracefulty and enjoy a us who, for whatever reason are not rewarding life if he keeps his wits about fortunate enough to have formed a him and faces up to certain facts. First of tong-term retationship sometimes toneliness att. he had better concentrate the majority rears its ugty head. A good idea is to try to of his attention upon prospective sexuat keep busy. Devetop a hobby or new partners near his own* age. True, there are interest-(no. not in somebody etse's tover. certain, young men who are tooking for a sitty) i.e.. music, art, sports, etc.; take a father substitute and would accomodate FACTOR him for the night, but they are rare and pains to try to express his admiration of someone a better insight on life. They have getting increasingly hard to find. me. 1 couldn't fingure what it was all to make their own decission, sincerely hope There are old men who don girdles and about, until it dawned to me that he was another letter to the Forum will have the wigs and haunt the bars nightly in search of trying to say that he thought 1 was growing answer or an idea to a solution. an adolescence they seem to be possessed old gracefully, and, with the realization Those of us who are cutting down on by. Their presence in young people's bars that it could be done, came hope for his the bar circuit now know SEX. LOVE are are often embarassing or annoying, for they own declining years. OUT, but is companionship with a younger make it all too clear that they are after one Well, some of us have got it and some person impossible? Having been brought thing onty-a boy twenty or thirty years never will. 1 bow to no one in the matter of out at seven (without a debut) I'll sign the their junior who will grant them any kind admiration and appreciation of that eternal name I'm known by and have been years of sexual release. These old characters mystery, the perfection and beauty found before the book came out. announce their immaturity and carry it like only in youth. 1 didn't want an old man Auntie Mame (cs) a flag, saying "I'll never give up." No one is when 1 was young, and 1 see no asking them to give up, but several people justification for imposing myself now on GOLDDIGGER GORGEOUS would be relieved if they grew up and them. It is true that in our society, and Why ask me? 1 don't know nothing started cruising older men. particularly in our own sub-culture, sex and about growing old! However. 1 love the Are old homosexuals rejected? physical beauty are overly emphasized, at comfort of an older man. It gives me Certainly; but any homosexual who lives the expense of intellectual and spiritual financial security. long enough to grow old should be well values and of the aged. 1 regret that this is Gorgeous acquainted with rejection in its many so, and 1 resent the loss of opportunity for forms, and by old age should be at least interaction with the young, who can never ON GETTING OLDER partially resigned to it. Too, if he is in any seeme other than asa"dirty old man". 1 It is natural that those who fear way industrious and persevering he should regret even more that these same young, at "getting old" arc going to lose their have enough money to afford youpg 50 are destined to be precisely what they physical youth. There is no doubt that this hustlers-if young men he must have. think 1 am now: living only for the futile transition period is frustrating. However, What the whole thing boils down to is hope of getting once more into 20-year-old those who somehow are able to stay young that even old homosexuals are still pants. mentally will carry much of their youth dreaming that some day they'll find the Anyone for Plato? into their "older" years. right boy who will settle down with them Your Mother 1 am fully in sympathy with today's and love them desparately for the rest of rebellious youth. Even with their mistakes, their lives. In the meantime, however, (if their anarchy, their immature age brings the wisdom it's reputed to) they decisions.. .theyarestill more perceptive should be able to take a practical view and A WORD FROM MAME and more vocal about the basic ills of our associate with men of their own age. Those Tho no one wilt ever admit it (until it society than my generation. 1 have faith who can't do this are the ones who have a tumbles down on them like a brick tea that out of the chaos of this youthful problem. But I'm sure they're in the room) YOUTH is the power and glory of rebellion insitiutions will change for the minority. this GAY world. better, laws will change for the better, and Bob Waltrip When we lose our youth, beauty (if we a more humane populace will result. The ever had any) same with money, we "do your own thing" philosophy is more A THING OF BEAUTY AND A BOY congregate in wrinkle bars and discuss profound than 90% of our religious FOREVER former conquests . . . hoyv wonderful we dogma . . . and it comes from today's It has been my experience that the thought we were or our most recent youth, not out of old scrolls. aging are more concerned about this matter purchase from the meat rack . . . maybe we 1 do not fear "getting old" because 1 than are the aged. 1 know two extremely stay at home feeding our ego with find it a daily thrill to wake up in a world handsome people, who one at 21, the memories or just being plain where attitudes on education, war, sex and other at 34, were convinced that they had lonely...Here permit me to digress a prejudice are changing...in a very had it (they'd had plenty!). No, Virginia. moment and quote from Jim Skaggs latest apparent international revolution. Those 24 year old studs will not come panting corner (July VECTOR) "PERHAPS who deny this are just not aware of what is after you through the thule bushes quite so loneliness is only a superficial happening. often, but you did get over the Santa Claus manifestation of selfishness". ..why not I may not be as fast physically as 1 was thing once, didn't you? help S.l.R. by helping someone else to at 21, but my mind is with the youth of Eagle Dome better understand himself and his today, and they give me hope. 1 am glad to ********** orientation to life"? . . much thought be part of their "thing", a changing of the THERE !S NO FOOL LIKE AN OLD here . . however how do we get to the point world for the better! FOOL of overcoming the Generation Gap? Many Bob Seymour The aging homosexual (whatever did the time I've attended various SIR happen to the term "homophile"?) faces functions only to be fluffed off by a the same problems at 40. 50 or 60 that he youngster with a remark "nobody wants faced at )0, 20, and 30-growing up. If his you when your old and gay" . . the person Thus, are some of the opinions of our sense of values have undergone no never realizing he was talking of his own readers. Certainly the middle years bring development over the years, he is surely an future. True by their actions at the their definite and distinctive stress. The life object fdr. pity, and woe unto he who is ^ different bars. tubs, etc., many old aunties impulse gradually wanes and the forces of concerned about "social acceptance", let do not understand the word NO and have disintegration begin their predetermined alone"sexualacceptance", after40. My created an image that most of us are dirty task. dears, if he has neither found acceptance, old men . . . somewhere there must be a The middle years are also a testing time nor learned to live without it, of course it is young person (over 21) who would chat, of personality. The restraints of the too late: the problem is not one of aging, spend an evening being sponsored to childhood home, the influence of parents but of mental retardation. dinner, ballet, opera, or even a rock long since dead, brothers and sisters Pierre concert-without sexual obligation. How or scattered, constitute a waning force. Old where do you meet them? 1 know you are age is the final epoch in the life cycle. It is SUFFICIENT UNTO THE DAY IS THE thinking stay with my own age group, 1 inevitable; one can honor and dignify it, EV!LTHEREOF want to stay young mentally, know what it but cannot escape it. Many are bom old; 1 received at the age of 35 one of my is all about, what the future folks are doing some old are young; one has said, "At proudest (if somewhat backhanded) even if 1 don't agree ... do not feel age forty, old age is in its infancy; the fifties compliments: a youtli of 28. though he did gives me the right to preach. Perhaps not find me sexuatly attractive, took great recalling incidents of my past may give (ConfwMec/ on Fb//osv;ng Page) FACTOR /t C/GMSr 7 9 t recentty attended a trial in Davis Certainly it is fitting that one schooled in Court of an individua) charged with and 'applying behavioural sciences' chooses to subsequently convicted of loitering about a apply his knowledge in such a fashion. public toilet to engage in or solicit any I salute you, Dr. Thompson, for service lewd or lascivious or any unlawful act. beyond the call of duty. During the course of the trial professor As to the individual, nowex-university Orville E. Thompson of Applied employee with years of prior meritorious Behavioural Sciences testified for the service, he was summarily fired prior to any prosecution. trial and we students may now feel Dr. Thompson's office window reassured that at least one possible overlooks TB-5 Men's Room where the corruptor of our innocence has been alleged offense occurred. Dr. Thompson banished from the campus green (and from had on prior occasions seen the suspect in almost all other gainful employment as a the area for what Dr. Thompson considered convicted 'sex offender'). extended periods of time and had through persona] enquiry obtained the suspect's I salute you, also, plainclothesman, name. Dr. Thompson on the day when the Officer Raymond L. Brady. I can only alleged offense occurred called the campus surmise how heavily your duties must police who 'fearing a possible narcotics weigh upon you. In a time of such increase drop' sent a plainclothesman, Officer in forcible crime and especially after the Raymond L. Brady, into the area and as a recent report of the President's result an arrest subsequently occurred. Commission on Crime with its [t is not often with the current demands recommendation regarding taws pertaining upon a professor's time to 'publish or to sex offenses, it is truly gratifying to find perish' and with the current gubernatorial officers who selflessly can ignore their own demands for university economy, i.e., obvious distaste for their duties and who greater productive use of professorial can return to TB-5 on the afternoon of the manhours. that one finds an 'old school' above mentioned trial to catch yet another teacher who still views his job as one 'loiterer'. It must indeed be with great encompassing the protection of the morals difficulty that you put out of your mind, of the students and the prevention of robbery, rape, murder and other assorted student exposure to the harmful effects of criminal activities to concentrate on marijuana, etc. It gives me great pleasure narcotics and sex offenders. My and a real sense of security to attend an compliments. institution wherein the faculty is so Remember, fellow students, as you go WORLD GUtDE BOOK protective of its students. It is even less to the John, rest assured tharsome one up frequent that one encounters a professor there in TB-IO is watching over you. at TR!PP!NG AROUND whose selfless dedication to his duties least if the John is TB-5 or TB-6. Dr. consistently bring him to his office on Thompson is at his post so took up and THE WORLD? weekends where by chance he happens to wave to him. That man over there may be keep a restroom under some surveilance. Officer Brady; wave to him too. OPEN FORUM f/row freceecf/ng Page) are its boyhood and girthood; the sixties its great dome immortatizing himself and his youth: and at seventy it attains its art. OR ROLUNG DOWN majority." Age has its desires, its aims, its Age is life's crown of gtory; the past has ambitions; it is selfless, sagacious, TO R!0? made possibte this culmination of nature's disittusioned. I can think of no finer lines foreordained purpose. It is man's tast to close with than with the magnificent YOU OR YOUR FRtENDS opportunity-so have the great souts courage of Browning: GOtNG TO EUROPE? regarded it. History speaks for itself. "Grow old along with me! Said Ctara Barton to a gathering of The best is yet to be. LE GUtDE GRtS friends in her ninetieth year. "My working The last of life, for which (enlarged and revised) hours are fourteen out of twenty-four, tt is Jhe first was made." is a complete guide to Europe my duty to work for the good of my kind; and the rest of the world outside while the strength is given me I have no the United States Bars. Hotels, right to lay it down." The topic of the OPEN FORUM for the and other facilities - 67 world Conrad wrote his first novel when he September VECTOR will be on "Gay countries including Latin America was fifty years of age. Gtadstone took up Communities Outside of San Francisco." 12 maps of major European cities Greek in his sixtieth year and was made What is gay tife tike in other cities in the 74 listing in London alone. Premier of Engtand in his eighty-third year. country or in the world? Do they compare Charles the Fifth summoned Titian to with San Francisco? What have been your LE GUtDE GRtS Augsburg court to paint portraits when he experiences in other parts of the country Box 80I.%VECTOR was seventy years otd and he was stitl that you have tived in or visited? Deadline painting them when over ninety, dying in for copy is August 20th. Mait at! letters to 83 Sixth Street his ninety-ninth year. Michalangeto was Larry Carlson. VECTOR. 83 Sixth Street. San Francisco. California 94103 made architect of St. Peter's in his San Francisco, Catifomia. See ya next S5.00 seventy-second year; he then ptanned the month. happen RK GROOM'CR4A5W You don't have to show a big basket, The director of the BIG BASKET deserves but you do have to show a bona fide a standing ovation and a round of applause membership card for admission to San for filling a void in our otherwise exciting Francisco's biggest, newest, swingingest city by the Bay. club, at the old location of the A specialty of the club is the Sunday Contemporary Players. (O'rarrel and Polk Evening buffet and tea dancette. Each C^A'DAW7'M/..S*. Streets), which is still called the new bigger. week a totally new and different menu is Degree AyAt/teapo&A/wo/o/^rf <] BIG BASKET. prepared and magnificiently spread out There is so much going on just about all amid flowers and candles for attending the time at this young pcople'sclub that it members. This exquisite buffet is free of 5/;ow$. could well be called a constant happening. charge, and attracts one of the largest / r'svnY;/ o/fm e /)rM-/?oeAesfer, A'. K It'sathree ring circus of fun and games and crowds we've seen indoors in a long time. OA/a/;o^M fri/;M;aAers 5oe years. An aging poputation tends to be sickness-prone and financiatty poor. Yet. many otder persons can contribute substantiatiy to society, to their own support, and by so doing to their own physicai and mentat heatth. In t963 more than hatf the peopte in the wortd had as nationa! teaders men who coutd be etigibte for sociat security in the United States: Russia's Khrushchev was 68; Engtand's Macmittan, 69; China's Mao Tse-tung, 70; France's De Gautte, 72; tndia's Nehru, 73; tsraet's Ben-Gurion, 76; and Germany's Adenauer, about 87. The increase in the proportion of oider COME SEE OUR person means an increase in the importance H !-F! SHOP HEALTH PROBLEMS of heatth probtems of advancing years. Less than fifty years ago the term "geriatrics" it'sunique ... OF ADVANC!NG YEARS was coined. Literatty, from its Greek origin, possibty extraordinary Youth, with its successes and its it means "medicai treatment of the old pteasantontheeye faiiures. its joys and its heartaches, is a man," but it can be defined as "the medicat . . . and the pocketbook thriiiing, giorious adventure. But stores of care ofagingpersons."Ctosely allied to it is exuberant energy, of hope and enthusiasm the term "gerontotogy," which refers to COMPONENT are not inexhaustibte. it is important that the scientific study of at) the phonomena MUS!C SYSTEMS this be understood and appreciated, of aging. at best prices because the years siip by quickiy and in general, the factors that contribute heaith in iater years depends to a iarge to good heatth or to disease and disability lllllll)!!)!)!!! extent upon practices and habits begun in in oider persons differ oniy in degree and in youth. emphasis from those that affect younger Beginning at birth and continuing persons. Some of the heatth probtems that throughout iife the ceiis of the various confront the aging person are those of tissues and organs of the body are nutrition and weight control, vision and iiiiittHUHnmmm reproducing, maturing, aging, dying and hearing, accidents, and diseases such as 2500 Harket St., San Francisco 62!-2500 being discarded. The individuai ceiis of the arthritis, heart disease, cancer, body iive from a few days (9 days for white hypertension (high blood pressure), biood ceiis. about 20 days for the ceiis of respiratory aitments. diabetes, and cerebral the skin, and i 20 days for red biood ceiis) vascutar disease. to many years; in fact, muscie ceiis and A point of interest here is that of sexual nerve ceiis iive throughout most if not ail adjustment. . Most of the reproduction of of one's iife span. The aging of the organs the race takes piace during the first twenty of the body iikewise proceeds at different or thirty years of adutt tife. During this rates: for exampie. visuai acuity is greatest period the sex giands are active and the sex at about ten years of age and deciines emotion prominent. Then between forty graduaiiy thereafter: hearing usuaiiy begins to deciine during the twenties: and fifty there is a cessation of reproductive tife ovuiation in woman ceases with the by women and a diminution of sexuai menopause, usuaiiy in the forties or earty activity on the part of men. The fifties. reproductive iife of men does not cease so Recent studies of aging suggest that abruptty as does that of women. There is ; oM/- w/Z/; many of the changes characteristic of the instead a graduai diminution of sexuai urge aging process arc the resuits of habits of and activity. Faiture to recognize and iiving and of the accumutation of injuries adjust to this may give rise to serious 7 / / ^ ( to tissues from disease and from the emotionat conflicts and psychotogicat stresses, strains, and toxins to which we difficulties. 4!8 HAYES (Near Gough) subject ourseives throughout iife. Many defects and diseases do not San Francisco - 62)-9406 The rate of the aging process is produce recognizabie symptoms untit they influenced greatiy aiso by the genes which become advanced; but thorough, carefut Stereo - Records - Books are inherited from parents and physica! examinations performed ^ Movies - Lectures — Candies grandparents. Life insurance companies periodicaily wiil uncover many of these ^ Head Products - incense recognize this, and an appiication for conditions at a time when their progress A Underground Bapers insurance requests information as to the can be arrested. Life insurance companies, ^ Poetry Readings age or ages at death of one's brothers, which found that such examinations pay Love items sisters, parents, and grandparents. big dividends in the prolongation of the Concerning this hereditary factor, nothing lives of their poticyhotders. provide Co// MOVtES AND B!NGO Cash and Gift Prizes Sunday. August ) 1. 1968 Sunday, September).! 968 7 -9 P.M. Donations).00 S.t.R. Center 4 5 S ) R - S)0 E. Bay Discussion Group. Membership Brings 2329A San Pabto. Berk. You Self-Respect 8 p.m. Community Services Dance Ctass 8 p.m. VECTOR 8 p.m. 11 12 Bingo and Movies E. Bay Dis. Group Prizes and Refreshments Dance Ctass 7 p.m. - Center, S) .00 8 p.m. Legat Comm. 8 p.m. Bowting 18 19 W.t.S. Dance E. Bay Discussion Just for girts Group Bring box )unch Community Services Dancing. Socia). Free 8 p.m. 2—8 p.m.. Non-members Bowting Wetcome! 25 ^ 26 E. Bay Dis. Group Legat Comm. 8 p.m. AUGUST SEPTEMBER ) SEPTEMBER 2 Movies & Bingo E. Bay Dis. Group 7 p m. 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Workshop 7 p.m. MTCTOR -,4 f/G t/Sr / 96# PRESIDENT'S CORNER A homosexuat is, of course, subject to PARRtES AND THRUSTS f /row fage THE MUS!C LESSON x c .oo -2v) -O O o *3 o E E o ^ ^ ^ E *3 .3 O> E ^ *3 &J0 -3 3 oE 5 *3 *3 CO 3 o c ? CO o *< c << B3 3 v)c 00 PTCTOR 7 966* P/1CF 23 LAFAYETTE SQUARE CCoMUHMed /row Page 77 manifestations? indeed. One wouid suppose that everyone not a congenitai idiot wouid have surmised this. At its root homosexuaiity is but the desire to express sexuaiiy one's iove for his JUST OFF own sexuai kind. This expression bay be either beautifut or ugiy; just as it may be between man and woman. The possibiiity of probabie ugiiness cannot destroy the worth of the basic impuise. it cannot denigrate it by an iota. Hence, those who ciaim that homosexuaiity is perverse, per THE se, understand love imperfectly: and aiso God. Hidden within this discursive essay are morai iessons. For the homosexual himself is the recommendation that he waste a minimum of time feeling ashamed for his desires, and devote his energies instead to PRESS the difficult tasks of loving well and leading a good life. Those goals cannot be realized if one begins with the premise that love of his own kind is immoral. Literally, one must come to terms with himself before he can succeed in coming to terms with the world. It is not necessary that one wear his sexual preference on his sleeve. That is unseemly. It is vital to know the inner peace of accepting oneself: virtues, faults and peculiarities alike. This is the beginning point for molding character. ASK MME. SOTO VOCE ffoHf/MMt'J/ro?H Page /.?/ THE ALL NEW 1969 ED!T!ON fit into his life, the less he cared for her. OF BOB DAMRON'S ADDRESS BOOK She said the final straw was when she [SNOW AVAtLABLE!! entered the house and proudly announced she had just successfully rebuilt the generator of a 1936 Lincoln Zepher and Completely revised and brought up-to-date, now with over 1.250 found her lover so spellbound in front of listings in over 325 different cities in the U.S.. Puerto Rico and Canada- the T V. set watching and listening to a all the interesting night clubs, bars, baths, hotels and restaurants. pretty opera singer that he didn't even hear Shown slightly smaller than actual size above, the ADDRESS BOOK fits her. Faye was so crushed she walked out of easily in pocket or wallet. Renowned as the most accurate and up-to-date the house and swore never to return. That was how and why she come back to us directory of its kind. Get your copy of the '69 edition of Bob Damron's soaking wet in a freight yard in Bellingham. ADDRESS BOOK today. Washington. I put my Orchid velvet cape over her wet coveralls and led her to a dry toilet paper warehouse and told her I had ? g s o hoped she had learned a good lesson from all this. The lesson being that she should ROR 7)<7 ROO A' w;7/ wa/cf a/; g;/lr /o r a /r;fH A'awr. ______MOVtES AND BtNGO Cash and Gift Prizes .4 AA'C-S.S. Sunday. August I ]. 1968 Sunday. September ). 1968 O n ___ . -S7a?e. . Z/p.- 7 -9 P.M. Donation St.00 Mai! Today to: CALAFRAN ENTERPR!SES. !NC. S LR. Center RO Rox 74067-&H Franc/sco. Ca/i/brH/a 947/4 fFC7*OR-,4 MX/S7* V 963 Washington, D.C. it serves also, 1 suspect, to give hope to July 2], ]968 many; a mood of brotherhood. That For Over Fihy YeorsH binding together of will also cannot be Dear Bit). exaggerated in its value. ] wish that it were possibie for me to So, let us hope that year five promises attend the convention in Chicago this year. gains and enjoyment. I appreciate the J\ A rsi Unfortunately I am weighed down at work opportunity given to me to express my few with some must jobs from which I can thoughts. I consider it a privilege with iH-afford to take teave. obligations which I hopefully can live up to. ynnM AY * ! do hope that this year's meeting wit] be [ess idiotic than that of iast year in My best to Bill Plath and my hope that Washington. Obviousiy there are prima he has recovered from pneumonia. donnas who consider these meetings a Yours, F.P. forum for their benefits This is a petty induigence and I think that organizations tike S LR. which have been doing so much more "community-wise" for homosexuals merit greater attention than they received iast year. It will be a better day for the movement when the primas have passed on into history and those with )ess Editor William Beardemphl seif-aggrandizing motives assume leadership. Needless to say, personalisma Dear Bill: has been a continuing problem here in SIR's plunge into public controversy Washington, D C. Virtually nothing recently is really a groovey thing. It's giving effective can be accomplished until that has the public the idea that the gay crowd isn't had its day (which I suspect may be sooner going to let people (even if they are rich ANNOUNCING A PROGRAM OF than we hope for). A movement must be A.M.A. doctors) push them around. for the benefit of so it proposes to serve I heard a network reporter comment on TOURS and not the suckling nurse for the few. President Jim Skagg's interviews during the EXCLUSIVELY FOR 1 want to compliment you for the July 3rd demonstration at the Federal splendid job you have been doing as editor Building . . . "those gay guys were really GUYS of VECTOR. The quality of work has sharp, even better looking than me," said the reporter, about 23 and rather cute To every major area: * improved with each issue and the encouraging aspect of the magazine is its himself. "They didn't even look like fags," EUROPE, CARRIBEAN, devotion to homosexuals rather than lurid he added. Undoubtedly straight, his ideas MEXICO. ORIENT, Etc. commercialism. VECTOR is a vital of homosexuals changed right there. Beginning with a Christmas mainspring in SIR. Its value cannot be S I R. officers should push these TOUR TO HAWA!! exaggerated. Hence, it must continue to be controversial public appearance. Jump at as it is. To do otherwise would demean it every chance to challenge public officials, and the organization. Not only is it parade picket lines, hold news conferences, For details on this and future tours. reaching out to thousands of homosexuals, just like the political activists do. WRITE it is penetrating society at large. It carries the gospel, so to speak. Meanwhile, the BARB grooves on your TOURS movement, and with help from you we'll 8134 Gould Avenue Larry Carlson deserves praise also for cover your scene. Hollywood. California 90046 his provocative and interesting "Open Forum." It privides disparate homosexuals Sincerely, the opportunity to express their views and Gary Patterson A 4G F27 SE/JETLE'S NEW EST OPENfNG Champagne ftowed and soft music C cntu rton piayed in the background as scores of guests and friends poured into the attractive new CENTURION BOOK BOOKS, !NC. STORE, across the street from Spagg's Popular Bar in Seattle, during their forma) 903 P!NE STREET opening ceiebration, the end of June. This new Seattle book and novelty store is the second in a chain of many being SEATTLE, WASH. 98!0! opened by Centurion Distributors, Inc. another in Holtywood was the third; Chicago is to be No. 4, while New York We wish to thank the people of and Washington D.C., are projected for SEATTLE for the huge success they early opening as Nos. 5 & 6 in what promises to be the largest distribution made of our Grand Opening, and all chain of "gay" books, cards, pictures, the kind assistance they gave us in our photographs, and object d'art in the new venture. country. A feature of the store is the We of CENTURION promise to publication-GOLDEN BOY-which is pubtished monthly with many exciting fult supply you with only the MOST cotor photographs of new and different EXCLUSIVE line of Books, modets. Magazines, Art Photos and Curio VECTOR is atso available each month Objects. at Centurion as well as being distributed through the Seattle bars. "FOR THE DISCRIMINATING FEW" Catalogs of available items may be had by writing to Centurion Distributors, Inc., Ernie Freitas. Manager P.O. Box )40i7, San Francisco, Catifornia 94114. At The tRT^Fay 842 VALENCIA STREET-SAN FRANCISCO VA 6-3373 ALL WE CAN SAY FOR THE WONDERFUL RESPONSE TO OUR F!RST HOMOSEXUAL F!LM FESHVAL! RECORD CROWDS HAVE ACCLAtMED OUR NEW POUCY AND PROGRAMS! W!TH PLEASURE WE NOW ANNOUNCE A CONHNUATtON OF OUR F!LM OFFER!NGS AND TRUST YOU W)LL ENJOY THEM. Onty in this wav can a society grow from ignorance and irrationa!ity to knowtedge and reason, the finest ptHars VOL. 2! ofpub)icmora!ity. 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