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PA CE 4 NOEL: There is so little empathy, rapport of any kind anywhere. LEON: People think that be cause they're communicating sexually, that that's IT, like wow, nirvana, the whole bit. But with all the levels of communication open to man, it's so re strictive, limiting to con^ centrate only on that one. NOEL: And that's what we're trying to get away from. I 'LEON: They're both so busy love you doesn't have to being either homo or hetero mean I want to get you in they forget they may just bed. Man, a screw is a happen to be human beings screw, but let's not kid Edited by also. In the end, it is so ourselves into thinking easy to deceive oneself, be it's anything more if it David Noel Hinojosa unrealistic about sex. i s n 't . and Leon Christopher NOEL: Sex is everywhere; a LEON: If it happens, it hap fantastic abundance, yet no pens but that's not the im one seems to know what the portant thing. hell it's really all about. TAUREMINI: The modern, to (The following dialogue was It can be such a powerful day's person, is trying to edited from over six hours of means of expressing love, give new dimension to that taped conversations between but it can also express much misused term, Love. The Poet, who works in the pure utter hatred. How can Not . to de-emphasize the financial district; Tauremini, you get into bed with a role sex can play in Love, a noted mystic bead stringer stranger? God, we don't want to go and dancer; Mr. Christopher, TAUREMINI: It's not hard. back to the Victorian a poet; and Mr. Hinojosa, a period, but to broaden the regular VECTOR contributor.) NOEL: Thank you, I know; but still how's it done? perspective, to bring to the fore all of the word's NOEL: Sex, homo or hetero, LEON: You're so naked, so stark, not only physically possible ramifications. the hippie, freedom, love. Sensuality, lushness, ec LEON: Like wow, three simple but in every other way. Imagine the defenses put up stasy these don't have to uncomplicated topics. apply solely to sex. THE POET: Why don't we take in order to have an inti macy with a stranger. And LEON: Art is fantastically on the full spectrum of sensual; reading a poem, American mores as they this concerns heteros also. THE POET: We're living in a better writing one, sculp evolved from middle-class turing, all of these are English Puritanism? Or bet sexually orientated so ciety. Advertising, films, s e n s u a l . ter, the evolution of THE POET: What we're all poetry from Chaucer to books, every possible media of communication is used to doing, I think, here in Ferlinghetti. transmit vibrate sexuality. this room, is rebelling. NOEL: We may yet; don't be so We're fighting for an ac f a c e t i o u s . TAUREMINI: The real hippie-- LEON: Let's get away from ceptance of the total LEON: The homosexual, his bag human being. Like look, how's it different from labels. The real human being-- how straighter can you the average hetero's? With look than me. I work, I TAUREMINI: The real human both, on the whole, it's don't wear beads, I get a just sex involved, very being then, puts the em haircut every two weeks. phasis on love. Love in little to do with love. This whole hippie idea, NOEL: You've got a point art, love in people, in )this philosphy of love, is everything. And sex depend there. Homos seem to want a state of the mind; it's ing upon the person, can to hold out their sexual incidental whether you look orientation like a badge, play a very small part in Haight-Ashbury personified just as a great many his loving. or not. heteros do. THE POET: That's were the LEON: And you know that's the mistake is made, sex is great thing; a great many thought of as a synonym for straight-looking people are love, among both a great really with it, they know many hippies and ninety per where it's at. And vice- cent of the non-hips. versa, unfortunately. A lot Sexual empathy seems to automatically imply love-- (Cont. on Following Page) LEON: But what a falsity.
PA C E 5 And that's the difference between THE HIPPIE, THE HOMOSEXUAL and the homosexual scene. The (continued from preceding ot crying for acceptance into of hippie-looking pe structure of society. We're pathetically square. her in a new one. But the NOEL: They're caught are bound and determined to style. Sometimes you ety; meanwhile, society ad- ten years and the homosexual human being is. All in the past and not in the where is the reality? . Thus, the homo becomes so- LEON: We sound as if tionary rather than its avant ment and they're valueles many homosexuals really know NOEL: Yes. It's all part and now in the fields of art ceptance, and judgements more to do with reality culture? homosexual has got to fight for f i l m s . LEON: People can't accept other peopl as a human being. Once he's got result, no love. We're always making j no one will care what his sexual ments, criticisms that,do nothing but ferences may be. Befcure that though, he rect barriers between* us and the other* imself, has got to start acknowledging person. / others as humans and not as "gay" or "het- TAUREMINI: It isn't a question of live and e r o " . let live, but accept and love. Accept the LEON: These damn labels. We're living in a total person, with all of his quirks, and label society; mechanistic too, dog-eat- who are we to judge whether they are dog. Man is a machine; eats, sleeps, quirks or not? works, screws. NOEL: But that is so hard, you know. Because NOEL: Man, the Work Machine, the Screw Ma people are all bound up in the image-bit.* chine. But what about the Love Machine? And once it's discovered that there is a LEON: Wow, that's a term for you. The Love great deal more complexity than the image M a c h i n e . Wait till Madison Avenue gets a- implied, then wow--like I don't want to hold of that. First they mechanize sex, have anything to do with you. now it'll be love. THE POET: That's why it's so easy to believe TAUREMINI: The whole world should go on a you're in love, when you don't know the self-realization trip. person well. You just haven't discovered LEON: That's another thing; everyone seems those things which could later, but to take drugs, but what do they get out of shouldn't alienate you. them? Smoke grass, then eat or have sex or LEON: And how can there be love when you anything, but don't learn anything about don't know the person, when you haven't yourself. That world be disastrous. Wow, accepted the total human being? 1984 is here. NOEL: That's the reason divorce is so preva NOEL: But we're fighting it; all of us, in lent among hetros, and that homosexual our own way, each of us a voice in the unions rarely last. The people cannot, dark, and all the others like us, and will not accept one another. Love is grand we'll make it. as long as it's smooth sailing. LEON: I am optimistic, believe it or not. As LEON: But remember it's not really love. long as we can write and sing, we'll be Love isn't unless all of you has been ac heard. After all, we're not demanding any cepted, and that takes a great deal of thing so outrageous. Just that love be. time, because you're constantly, like it NOEL: The homo, the hetero, the hippie, all or not, in a process of growth. You're of us beautiful, every single person changing each and every minute. beautiful because we're linked by our one NOEL: And that's where the acceptance comes. common humanity, all of us an extension of The full realization that the other person the other. If we only have the guts to is constantly growing, and if there is acknowledge that link; accept the loving love, you will accept ALL the directions that it entails; then Wow! that person may grow in. And there will be LEON: Wow is right. love because you did fully accept. It's easy to accept another's capacity to love but once we see his capacity for non-love, we run like hell. There are so few who can really accept that. LEON: It's a question of freedom. The free dom to be, to be all that you are and all that you may become. THE POET: Trying to change people is so ab surd; I mean trying to make definite con crete changes. A waste of time. Accept them as they are, and by loving hope that they will also love and accept. TAUREMINI: It comes back to the image. Most people are great at loving images, but really quite lousy when it comes to loving human beings. LEON: The whole hippie scene, it's nothing more than us demanding that love be.
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Just to pause a moment, as I write column after column I appear to only push the new groups. Don't forget those few hardy Perry George old groups that go on and on and are also always Well, it happened. The looking for new members. PHOENIX BIRD (ballroom danc Remember A L L small A ing) rose from the ashes of activities are open to TRUCK age (trying to fit around the both members and non schedule of the Productions members a t any time. FOR Committee) and is now in full Attend the CONVERSATION "s w i n g" (pardon the pun) GROUP; Hiking Group and EVERY under the excellent train Water (now) Skiing Group; ing of John De Leon. This is or any of them. NEED! always an interesting small The ONLY exception to activity in that, unhampered this invitation is member it just grows bigger and ship on the Bowling Group bigger. which is a member of a city] Tommy Brown has had his wide le ag ueand must first sewing "happening" (hopefully) keep its group (I thought I ought to have throughout the summer and some "hippy" phrase in this Winter bowling seasons. month's column) on Tuesday June 20th. There they were- an eager group, learning to gather, pleat, dart, drop- stitch, blind-stitch, and a host of o th er athletic sounding things. If you want to learn to sew ANYTHING (except people) show up on Tuesday at 8:00 P.M. Moving - General Hauling Summer is here! The beach Basement Cleaning is getting lovelier each weekend. The Swimming Group 285-3097 is meeting each Saturday morn at 9:30 A.M., at the SIR 24 Hour Service Center. Rise early and join in the swimming, sun and fun. The Dinner Group has been moved back to 7:30 P.M., on Tuesdays and Thursdays to allow Chef Extraordinaire - t o more easilyBill Pl athT to more easilyBill consumate h i s cullinary GA 1-3)23 c r e a t i o n s . The Men's Glee Club was FLORAL ARRANGEMENTS AND PLANTS^ born on Friday June 23rd RESIDENTtAL AND COMMERCIAL under the flambouyant baton DECORATING A SPECIALTY. of Don Watson. We were lucky 837 )RV)NG STREET to get such a good pianist (BETWEEN 9TH AND !0TH AVES.) at the "eleventh hour". I'm 66 14 ) 13 sure the group will bloom to OPEN DAILY 9:30 - 4:30 love such things as our mid !M DEANHALTERMAN-HARRiSADES 30's version of PAGAN LOVE DOM ESHC& OFFICIAL FLORIST FOR IMPORTED HQUORS*' SONG and, of course, the NAVY THE COtT-TtLLION
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PAGE 8 is much too treach erously vague a term to allow the high penalty of deportation to turn on i t . When it comes to sex, theJ problem is complex." In our September 1966 THE DISSENT The dissent pointedly re issue of VECTOR we treated calls that in this century two conflicting cases con Justices Douglas ^ and homosexuals have risen high cerning the deportation of Fortas join in a healthy well in our own public service-- aliens because of their sex written dissent. They point both in Congress and in the Executive Branch--and have identification. The U.S. out that Congresses' "psycho Supreme Court has now ruled pathic personality" is a served with distinction. (The on the matter in the case of treacherous one like "commun dissent could have accurately Boutilien v. Immigration and ist" or in an earlier day included the Judiciary in Naturalization Service, de "Bolshevik". The dissenting order to complete the trilogy cided May 22, 1967, no cita- scholars point out labels of of American democracy.) The tation available to-date, In this kind may mean only an dissent states Congress did an opinion which establishes unpopular person. And that by not intend to exclude every bad law, the Court rational no means do the experts agree one who was a sexual deviate izes from beginning to end. on what "psychopathic per no matter how blameless his The opinion thrown in enough sonality" means, its clas life has been nor how crea exculpatory dicta to allow it sification or etiology. "It tive his works nor how valua ble his contribution to soci to later retrench - and re trench it will one day do! ety. The dissent quoted the The opinion passes the buck in the most ludicrous manner Kinsey statistics to show the large incidence rate of some onto the U.S. Congress. Ex kind of homosexual experi cerpts from opinions are as follows, (the dissent will be ence. And to the effect that we would now prohibit entry dealt with more extensively): into their country of Sappho, "The legislative history Leonardo da Vinci, Michel angelo, Andre Gide, of the Act indicates beyond a shadow of a doubt that Con Shakespeare and countless gress intended the phrase other world leaders if we 'psychopathic personality' to classify under the heading include homosexuals such as "psychopathic personality" (Boutilier)." every person who had ever had a homosexual experience. "Boutilier's" contention The dissent points out must fall to his own admis that the administrative agen sions. For over six years cy will now almost certainly prior to his entry pettioner act in a capricious judge admittedly followed a contin mental way under the author ued course of homosexual con ity of their opinion. And duct...pettioner admitted that it will extend to in being a homosexual at the clude: "Anyone can be caught time of his entry...into this who is unpopular, who is off c o u n t r y . beat, who is noncomformist." "Deportation is the "Congress has plenary equivalent to banishment or power to make rules for the e x i l e ." admission of aliens and to Our readers are reminded exclude those who possess that the famous dissenters of characteristics which Cong the Supreme Court, e.g. ress has forbidden. Here Cardozo, Hand, Douglas, and Congress commanded that homo Black have all been complete sexuals not be allowed to ly vindicated in later opin e n t e r " . ions. A more enlightened court has in a host of later The Court keeps trying to opinions overturned earlier assuage its guilty conscience ones and adopted in toto an by saying: "The p ettioner is earlier dissenting opinion. not being deported for con We predict someday Justices duct engaged in after his en Douglas and Vortas dissent try into the United States... will be the law of this sub- when pettioner first present j ec t . ed himself at our border for entrance, he was already af flicted with homosexuality. (Cont. on next page)
PA G E 9 WATCHDOG OF LIBERTY (Cont. from preceding page) 392-9378 M. Boutilier is unfortu rogation that they have done nately a lost cause for the so will automatically exclude present. What does his case them under the existing law. teach us? We must advice our WE have thus arrived at foreign friends that they the juncture which Charles must have never had a homo Dickens', Mr. Bumble found sexual experience in their himself when he said: lives if they want to even "If the law supposes that visit these unfriendly ... the law is an Ass, and shores. To admit upon inter i d i o t ."
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The State Legislature The Political Committee is passed the Beilenson Abortion starting a voter registration Bill. Senator Moscone voted drive. We will be registering for the bill. Assemblymen persons in bars, parks, on Charles W. Meyer and John streets, in stores, etc..at F. Foran, both Roman C a t h ALL TIMES OF THE DAY AND NITE. olics, voted against the bill whereas Assemblymen Willie Volunteers Wanted: You may Brown Jr., and John L Burton set-up your table where and voted for it. when you want. Requirements 1718A PO LK ST are that you be a resident of 771-5735 (B) Supreme Court: California for ONE year and the city for 90 days. You must also be able to write Clive Michael Boutilier, legibly Call Don at 282-8268 Petitioner vs. Immigration or Jim at 431-8792 for all Traveting North? Naturalization Service. information. The Supreme Court has ruled that homosexuals are ineligi Visit ble for admission into the U.S., because they are con sidered "afflicted with psy chopathic personality."
This decision has shown us that we cannot count on the courts to oblivate all of our problems. We must become politically active. The poli ticians we elect appoint these judges. Members ruling against homosexuals: Chief Justice Earl Warren, Associate Justices Hugo L Black, Tom C. Clark, John M Harlan, Potter Stewart, Bryon R. White . FOR YOUNGER MEN EXCLUSIVELY Members ruling in favor of homosexuals: Associate OPEN 24 HOURS Justices William 0. Douglas William J. Brennan Jr., and Abe Fortas. 2402 ltt AVENUE AT BATTERY Address of the members of SEATTLE W A S H . the U. S. Supreme Court is M A 3-9333 U.S. Supreme Court Bldg., 1 First St. NE Washington, D.C. 20543
PA G E )0 ' gy (out of Berkeley cross the bay) By William Randolph Hurts
San Francisco may be the that no other newsmen couldi city that knows how, but compete. Were it not for the Berkeley is the city that BARB, even the ethereal knows what. Each Friday the SUNDAY RAMPART mi g h t have sleepy, peaceful college town had a chance. of Berkeley, California, The steadfastness of the gives birth to a unique mons BARB.'s editor in the face of ter, a monarch of the yellow authority, in a city where weeklies known as the police activity is increas BERKLEY BARB.. Its editor is ingly nervous, is praise the former owner of Califor worthy. The classified ads "Just Released" nia's most unusual bistro, an are memorable ("Oscar Wilde Physique Art, intellectual haven called the found Alfred, will I find Steppenwolf, where the graf you?") and there is a hip Magazines, fiti on the men's room walls medical column. Other opin- Books, were worth their weight in ions consistently fall short: gold. Much of this graffiti the prejudices of an up-tight Paperbacks now appears weekly in the music critic whose antagonism 250 Clothbound Titles form of articles in the toward the establishment is 500 Paperback Selections BERKLEY BARB. so extreme that he cannot Deepest of the West hear the music for the notes; Coasts underground news and his colleague, a film Also, papers, the BERKLEY BARB reviewer who is so far under thrives on exposes about sex, ground that there are only Paintings, Sculptures, race relations, civil wrongs, worms there to keep him com Records, Greeting Cards, misbehavior of the fuzz, pany. But if you want to read napalm vigils, the Diggers, the news that won't fit in Novelties and Gifts. the grape strike, hanky-panky the big metropolitan dailies, in the University of Califor read the BERKLEY BARB. The nia, sit-ins, be-ins, folk- truth hurts, and the BARB almost makes you feel the -AH Carefully Chosen to rock, bells, flowers, feath ers and beads. prick. Reflect Your Good Taste and The BARB's meteoric rise Sophistication. to infamy is relatively re cent. Some two years ago Berkeley had but one news paper, a conservative organ known as the BERKLEY GAZETTE. Liberal minds in the academic community organized to produce a rival newspaper, the CITIZEN, which, coopera tively-owned and University- oriented, would print the respectable approach to the truth. But the BARB had got ten there first. Each Friday both the CITIZEN and the BARB appeared on the scene with all the news left out of the GAZETTE. But respectability could not hold up its head and the CITIZEN folded (which says a lot for the University crowd). For so flip is the style, so vivid the journal ism and so tantalizing the choice of topic in the BARB (e.g., nude bathing at San M M H f Gregorio, the tribulations of the Love Book trials, the 474-6985 clandestine doings at the 11 A.M. - 8 P.M. — Closed Sundoys- Sexual Freedom League, muff- diving in the Florence Schwimley Little Theater)
P A C E ]) Squelch that vicious transformed it into a bower rumor! The lumps on Tom's of Green Leaves and tiny head were not incurred when Fairy Lights. The bar had no he and Lee took over the name, tho it might well have management of Bradley's been called the "Tulle Box". corner from Gloria. Popular The costumes were lavish, the Tom Stewart has a whole set drinks substantial, the whole of explanations for the affair was literally a ball. lumps and bandages. Ask him The same week that the and he will serve you one with your next drink. CoitsTillion debutants were When people ask you where stitching their "Coming Out" Roby Spicer's Palmer House drags, Fe-bes observed its first anniversary with draw is, just tell them that it's ings for prizes all through one more block down Valencia the night and special prices Street from the Ebb Tide. If for drinks. Fe-bes seems to HEALTH CLUB everybody doesn't know where have had wall-to-wall people Relax at the Ebb Tide is, both Hank from the day they opened and and Jim will be amazed. The it doesn't seem that a whole 330 Ritch Street Palmer House is a tastefully year has passed. decorated bar with an in Qonrto - timate dining room. The new Last months' Bar Tour bar and restaurant is a wel column mentioned Ann Weldon's come neighbor to the old Ebb singing as being worthy of Tide. With parking an in approval from ministers. creasing problem you can Well, that's just the way it cover both places with just came out. On Father's Day Ann one stop as with Fe-bes and was the featured performer at the Stud. Speaking of the the regular service at Glide Stud, the O'Malley is back Methodist Church. At the con Bigger (by about 15 pounds) clusion of her singing of and better than ever. It Born Free both the clergy and shows that you can't keep a the congregation gave her a good Thom Down-for very long. much deserved standing ova One of the most beautiful tion. The Cashews at the bars in town only lasted one Fantasy would be wise to night. The Coits took over polish up their drum. They the bar at Russian Hall and may be next.
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There is ^ deeper schism between groups than that which ' divides the Christian Church and the homosexual community. As demonstrated by our last Open Forum, "God And The Gay," there is "^*^^"^^^^!^^concepts, yet all have near unanimity as to the failing of been structed within the Christianity to meet the problems of stumbling and limited preception the homophile. While nearly all respondents of individual trauma. Isn't it about time chastized the church, few openly questioned to objectively question and study contemp the God concept, the religious experience, orary religious experience with psychol or the idea of sin. ogical-sociological empiricism? We have in our American heritage, in our Hundreds of years have passed since homosexual American heritage, beautiful con Thomas Paine rejected the subjectiveness of cepts of God and creation such as Walt of the religious experience for thinking Whitman's "Out Of The Cradle Endlessly Rock man. Many hundreds of years before that, ing" and "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry." Why must David Hume destroyed the center of the we be saddled and subjected with the Judaic- universe--free will-sin concept of the Christian bigotries? Have we been so over individual. In our day one can feel the conditioned by the inviolate position of the supercilious attitude about man's inept Church that we cannot bring ourselves into extension of himself into subjectivizing the arena of honest open inquiry on this creation and God as in the analogous "Who's subject? The reactions since the June VECTOR Afraid of Virginia Wolf" with the unhappy from some gay persons would suggest as much. marriage of mother-earth-Martha to man's-- Why can't we address ourselves to the history-George, et al. Or what is more basic concepts of God and religious experi devastating to the simpering naivety of ence again? Is it possible to be adjusted to Saint Francis and his "Little Flowers", than man's creation and the adjacent fears that Tennessee Williams' positive religious arise from as yet unknown aspects of our experience in "Suddenly Last Summer" when lives as death, extent of the universe, un God's Creation is subjectively trau reasoning natural forces, etc. without a matized as a sickening bloodbath? Is consoling religion to help? Many persons society missing what the contemporary in the homosexual community say that it homosexual community is saying about is, and their religious reserve may religion as completely as it missed jexpress a validity from which society what "camp" means and is and could learn productive lessons. implies? We must remember the sociol When contemporary society ogical reasons for religion. When finds that it is necessary for a primitive group did not under its advancement to psycho stand and feared a natural force logically dissent, study and or some aspect of their lives, experiment on homosexuals, why there was a conceptualization of does it not find it much more the dilemma as a God that could imperative to scientifically be swayed through prayer and explore, with compassion of other religious ceremony. Societ- course, the religious person ally, religion becomes a political- and his trauma? I am certain social tool; personally, it becomes electric shock treatments will a crutch for acceptance of trauma recondition the religious among The history of mankind shows advance us to a more mature concept ment from such conceptualizations ualization of God.
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I have tip bound by the lived with one, talked with man has the right several, and feel no particu he wills so long lar strong feeling one way or _tiL*not infringe upon the other. &iga^y=3,f others. A "hip- I feel the hippie, in his Kgne^who tries to be own way is contributing as ^e QHg^^^hangups con- much to our system as anyone 1S else. He is taking the stand rs as ards we all accept and s..t- }.o*you actually ing (literally) on them. This tippie is? What is a very interesting concept ^Should your com- to explore. Can I say that I hippies? could give up: money, a warm of the bed, my electric typewriter, your my fancy clothe:, my beauti ^ i o n s ful body, and everything else ^Can the gay that makes me-me? And not go wi th and completely out of my mind??? ^movement? This is what the hippie has replies done, and it seems to be that he is doing the crudest, most overwhelming self-experiment have conceivable. For those that The survive, my congratulations! ^e the My experiences, very lim ___jj^ss ited, have been that these a b o f people can explain their sit life uation in clear, understand ones able terms, and that the temians, who "straight" world would be far [ive, but pre- ^didn't. Many better off if it could under stand the underlying message the beatnik nes, or pads, that the hip way of life has. "group" to Unfortunately, being straight is the hip- (ha), I can only understand j/16th of the it to a limited degree. "The Homosexual" (see Eth of a home par. 2) is not a homogeneous who digs advised me entity that can or cannot identify with and support the hippie m o v e m e n t . Even I,one person,cannot with what I tknow now give support or From F e b ages and treat ruary 22nd, all as humans. to June 10, They are broad 1967, I ran a minded toward the kind of "hippie" gay blade, although condemnation to the hotel at Haight feel 99% are het hip's. I am certainly not near Fillmore, pick erosexual, as I opposed to any way in which ing up tricks who appealed to see so many with we can cooperate with them, me, they were carrying their arms around either as an organization, or knapsacks or blanket rolls the girls with long as individuals. I should ap and looking lost after mid hair. The Haight preciate an opportunity to night. After finding them hippies are more visit with them and explore uniformly straight, or at friendly than the Berke more of the attitudes and least extremely uncertain of ley hippies, for the for ways of the hip. On request, and defensive about their mer mix with older people however, I want to take my sexuality, I tried to tighten in their life, while the "Linus' Blanket" with me to my selection procedure by latter are so young and keep track of who I am. warning them in advance they love sick. .... Robert Koch ran a good chance of having If older people like Guy To me a hip py is an their sleeping bags invaded Strait and myself can accept responsible member (or even during the night. A few still them and defend them, and en non-member) of our society. braved the risk, but of these joy their rock and roll mu I go along with their con about half were not very ex sic, then may youth among the forming, non-conformism, but perienced young people and/or gay blades accept them and only to a point. I do not dig reluctant to be seduced. overlook the dirt angle. They their apparent lack of good The homosexual community are so human and appear so manners in their general cannot identify with, but little disturbed. Yes, we sloppiness of dress, dirty certainly can support the should accept ourselves and bodies that smell disagreea hippie m o v eme nt by: (1) p r o tell off. the Establishment, bly, their apparent total viding housing under strict as do the hippies. As minori disregard for the other man's rules; (2) taking a hippie to ties we have enough in common property sleeping many to a lunch in your own favorite to support them. room, plugging up toilets, eating place once a week. ....Bois Burk etc. Their apparent disregard ....John Davenport Look inside yourself for of economics, i. e. not seem the meaning of life, your ing to have a paid job, but I can only quote the soul. Your soul is made in constantly asking the casual Noble Eightfold Path of the process of living. Living passerby, "Mister, do you Buddhism and ask questions. means love. To love one must have some spare change?" As (1) Right views-- have they face things which are meant outrageous as it sounds, dump attemped any view at all to destroy. This takes cour them all out in the middle of except negation? (2) Right age. How can one live if he the bay, or put them in the aspiration-- to what do they doesn't create for his exist army, in that order. I resent aspire? (3) Right speech--at ence? This takes effort. All them keenly. My tax money, least they're working on the forces working together for which I work so hard, is idea. (4) Right behavior-- builds your mind and body. being used to keep them in that's open to a lot of dis Man alone is nothing, but this easy way of life. I re- cussion. (5) Right liveli living together, there is peat--I resent them keenly. hood-- how many of them are meaning. People of today's If the gay life were to iden working at all, right or cities do not live together tify and support the hippies, wrong? (6) Right effort--have but are alien to each other. I 'd q u i t . seen very little in that dir The present system of values ....David Stahlmann ection, effort I mean. (7) prevents them from knowing or Right mindfulness--can one be helping one another. The real I consider a hippie as community is mutually sup one who dares to live by his mindful if they are on a trip? (K) Right concentration porting. I believe that a new convictions, referring of community is happening. It's course, to the real thing and (see no. 7). ,....Don Miller happening within and in spite not the phonies who have of the old. adapted a style of dress and Yes, the gay blades can If one follows as he be jump on the bandwagon without learn from the hippies. The lieves, and knows his fellow any idea what it is all a- most to learn is to be man, this is the first step bout. The homophile community friendly. Also to be free and of becoming a hippie. The should strive to obtain the fear not what others think. real "flower children" find same communication that S.I.R My experience has been to peace in their lives and has and is trying to improve receive from them lots of try to spread the happiness upon. love, friendship and freedom. they have found to everyone. ....Chet I feel so free among them, Society is hung up on being older, since they ac certain social mores. The new cept all happening community is not about to accept the ideas that have been Their sages are men between 31 and 35 who are handed down to them. Man was not deeply rooted in the social revolution that be made to be restricted and tied down gan in the early fifties. by a large monster society. My work community could have no valid re Therefore, the new happening lationship with the hippies, nor could my has accepted the tribal life home neighborhood community. Such com as their own. They are copy munities as these, the middle-class mor- ing this life in their dress, alians, need understanding. They are not open art, and music. to such. My homosexual community, whose members To me this new life is not a fad have always been active in the social revolut as compared with the Beatles, beat ion, should be understanding, considerate, en niks, "teenyboppers," etc. This is couraging. Never integrative, but always sepa going to grow and become more acceptable rate, not identifiable with, but tolerant for. because if truthfully told, people are Each time I have encountered a hippie, and tired of present day restrictions and will they are quite recognizable by more than just eventually drop them. their attire, they have not only with them a I remember one man who left his home and quiet abandonment of contemporary values, family and dressed in rags and made his own but a satisfied despair toward a greater living. His hair grew very long and he con prospective. They have been kind, civilized vinced other young people to leave home also. human beings. Never have they seemed, in my He approached girls and had them cut their observations, to be capable of stifling the hair short. They started their own community rights of persons not of their own kind. based upon love and peace. They were con The gay community, a forerunner into the demned and laughed at, but never did he or field of battle for the evolution of social his followers faulter. His name: Francis man, certainly must appreciate this new rebel of Assisi. lion. Support must be given to their rights and Groove with the scene and just under to their cause. Certainly the older homosexual stand! can look to these young people and be reminded ....Haight-Ashbury Flower Child of heartaches and memories of expulsion and per secution. But the gay community cannot osmosise I think most homosexuals (including this movement into its own, nor can it integrate me) are too selfish, self-centered, the hippies or be integrated into the hippie and materialistic to become genuine movement. The gay community must maintain a dis hippies. Also, I would say most homo tance socially and organizationally in order that sexuals (not including me) have no des both movements may survive independently. The ire to identify with or support the survival and health of the one aids and abets hippie movement because they are con survival and health of the other. Yet, each cerned only with the homophile movement movement should have an ambassadoral relation and cannot be bothered with anything ship. The leaders of the homosexual movement tha't does not affect them directly. How can do a great deal to help the leaders of the ever, the freedom of the hippies may hippie movement, for many of the social, pol eventually be the same as our own free itical and religious problems are quite simi dom. If society at large suppresses the lar. But at no time should identification hippies, it will soon get back to sup with or integration into be accomplished. pressing homosexuals. We should fight for The homosexual community which is involved the hippies' rights as if they were our in joint community operations should at all own. They are! support the hippies in such . . . .Anon ects. It is imperative that become a motivating force What is a hippie? and politically, a force up- Young people from every the gay community could rely walk of life, mostly under assurance of a better gov 25, who are in rebellion ernment for the individual. to the present social- .... Robert Cole moral-ethical aspects of our society who, in a desperation, seek ref uge in a community that expresses both vocally and physically that rebel lion. They are pioneers in a brave new society. Naturally The August OPEN FORUM will be they are making mistakes, and on "Homophile Organizations." "going too far," but then Check the enclosed Gold Sheet theirs is an unchartered with this issue. c o u r s e . P A C E )4 PM! 8 ^ 3 ! The SOCIETY FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS, in cooperation with the Tavern Guild, the San Francisco Police Community Relations Unit, the Tenderloin Committee, interest ed parties in the Haight-Ashbury, and the LEAVE PIER 43-1/2 San Francisco Public Health Clinic at 33 10 A.M. - HARBOR TOURS Hunt Street, is engaged in a summer cam SHT. No Minors Allowed paign directed towards the control of Tickets$5.00 venereal diseases. ALL YOU CAN EAT Perhaps you have seen the "LOVE NEEDS ^ A L L THE BEER YOU WANT CARE" posters and the art reproductions JfLY which urge everyone to have a blood test. LIVE BAND - GAMES In coming months there will be buttons and matchbooks supplied by the Tavern 29 Guild, with the same theme. While the campaign is still in the formulation stage, the enthusiastic res MAIL TODAY! DOM'T MISS THE FUN ponse has been overwhelming. Requests for posters and campaign material have been received from as far away as Chicago and Washington, D.C. [BAY AREA LETTERMENJ 145 Eddy S tm t, San Fr< : i . c . C .!i(. 94102 Twtwphon* 673-3193 The purpose of the "LOVE NEEDS CARE" campaign is to focus attention of the public on the acute problem of VD in the Nome San Francisco Bay Area. It has long since Addr.n reached endemic proportions, and the sim ple solution to the problem rests with n,y S.m. Zip each and every one of us. We can control and eventually reduce the incidence of VD if every one of us INDIVIDUALLY and/or j ] Check [ ) Money Order ] ] Other COLLECTIVELY marched ourselves down to 33 Hunt Street and submitted ourselves for a free blood test. Detection and cure is the ONLY way by which we can control and ovaitabte for private parties eventually reduce VD to the lowest per centage . Something to remember! The records of the Health Department are ABSOLUTELY has trained bartenders PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL. Not even the California State Police nor the PHONE: SU 1-1571 State District Attorney or any court in the entire U.S.A. can subpoena health department r e c o r d s . / P A G E 17 By Pat Kelly This shall be my last column as Secretary. I have resign ed from the Board in order to accept the position of Sec retary to the Board and Of fice and Office Manager. I would like, therefore, to ad which you will be called upon dress myself primarily to the to fill. I am almost fright members of S.I.R. and other ened when I see the possi organizations. bilities that are open to an Although I have been close Officer in putting across his ly associated with the Board own ideas and influencing the for over two years and have thought of the other mem served on the Board for over bers of the Board. a year, I had never realized I am now almost completely the difference between being convinced that an Officer can a member of the Board of Di by his attitude, and actions rectors and being an Officer be very influential in making of the Corporation. I still an organization a success or can not explain the differ a failure more than any other ence, and probably no one who person within that organiza has not served on a Board tion. Any officer who does not realize this within a few and then become an Officer 67 StXTH STREET - SAW FRANCtSCO will be able to understand months of his election, and the difference, between a then act in a way to find the PHOWE: 986 0659 OPEM: 6:00 A.M. Board Member and an Officer. organization together rather DOS T FORGET OUR WEDNESDAY BUFFET I have found that in some in- than disrupt it should be re tangable way, an Officer is moved from office. much more able to influence This column is, in effect, the overall direction of the being written for the guid thinking of the Board than a ance of the members of person who is elected to the S.I.R., and any other organ Board. Perhaps it has to do ization, who is facing the with the fact that if you re election of one or more of present a particular group ficers . or activity, as do the mem Remember, the person you bers of the Board, everything elect will be in a position you do or say is taken in re to put across his personal gulation to that group or philosophy and concepts of committee, whereas an Officer what the organization should is not quite so readilly i d be. Unless you know that you entified with a specific agree with the philosophy of; idea. the person, be very careful. The old saying that he can My ability to write about not do anything by himself is intangibles is very limited a false illusion, and one so I may not be able to get that can very well make you my point across. Basically wake up one day to find that it boils down to this. A the organization to which you great deal more thought MUST belong is no longer in ex- go into the selection of an istance except in name. The Officer of a Corporation that organization is not in actu into almost any other office ality destroyed. P A G E 18 Mme. Aida Soto-Voce is but he left a humbled man. now a semi-retired star of In closing, Mr. Hope, the opera and concert stage don't sit off in the wings who, during the apex of her like an anxious understudy career was the romantic waiting for the star to toast of three continents. miss her entrance. My VECTOR is honoured to have first suggestion is to her on our staff to answer dump him. If your heart your questions on "Matters of won't let you do this then the Heart". Address all corres puncture his ego by letting spondence to Mme. Aida Soto-Voce him know you're playing the 83 Sixth Street, San Franci the same game. If he survives California, 94103. this and is willing to give up his other paramours for you, then he's Dear Mme. Soto-Voce, hooked. To control this kind of man you I am very much in love with a man must keep him pursuing you, you can't in Portland. He had been seeing me be pursuing him. whenever he came through town on business. Now I discover he is engaged Dear Madame, to a woman...in Seattle, but he claims 1^ For several years now, the this will make no difference as far as Empress of San Francisco has been we are concerned. He will still have crowned at the annual Hallow'een business calls in San Francisco and he Ball. wants to see me when he is here. These aspiring thespians have been To add insult to injury, I have be-gowned, be-jeweled and be-coiffed to the received an invitation to their wed point that their everyday street-selves would hardly be recognized. They have sung and ding! Madame, I am torn between danced and cavorted for the vast entertain taking what I can get or sending ment of their constituents but have retained them a present...one that is their own sweet identities. t i c k i n g . Tell me then, dear Mme. Soto-Voce, how Wondering if there is a does one join the ranks of these star Ray of Hope studded luminaries? Another Simple Drag Dear Ray, Don't do anything drastic! Dear Simple, I mean, don't just blow up your It seems like just yesterday whole affair in a fit of pique. when I was asked this type of I remember when I was appearing question by a rather timid, plain in Die Walkure with the French jane chorus mezzo-soprano named Lick Opera Covers Assn., in Mavis Machree. I had just French Lick, Indiana when finished a triumphant perform Stella Smedly, the contralto ance of Massenet's Thais in playing Fricka, came to me in Jackson Hole, Wyoming when she my dressing room in tears. It worked up enough courage to ask seemed she was madly in love me what made me, and other stars with a Basso who was always on like me, great. I told her that concert tour. She was upset when greatness is a composite vurtue. she found out he was going to You cannot be just great on stage marry a colouratoura from Boston and dull offstage. As Verdi once and had asked her to remain as his said "All the world's a stage". I mistress. Stella was then furious told Miss Machree to look at my when she discovered she was just full mirror. I said to her "Face part of a long string of lovers... it Dahling, all you'll ever be is including a bleached blond hula dancer a frumpy chorus mezzo-soprano. from Los Angeles named Leilani Reid! Take hold of yourself and build Stella was enraged and was threatening something out of what you've got. all sorts of violence. I wisely inter Well, she faced facts, got out of ceded and suggested to her that her opera and became a firebrand in boyfriend problem was excessive socialist politics. I last saw her vainity (a vice a truly great in a TV newsreel being carted off prima-dona like myself could never by the police hollering, "Workers understand). I suggested she de of the world unite--you have noth flate him with a Cavalier ing to lose but your chains!" She attitude. She was to make it clear to him that if she was became a star. In closing going to be just another "whistle Drag stop" along his one track mind, lea perhaps he was only one page of her rn past and maybe she had an exotic dancer or two on the string herself. When she told him, all of French Lick (Indiana) from this heard his ego collapse. He did, however, and realize that the present and former go to Boston and marry the colouratura, Empress are as regal in or out of costume. PAGE)? WHILE IN MARIN VISIT the h o m o sexual and Can the homophile organ President of ization on numer BEM)' a middle-class ous occasions. The organization with hippies are polite strange values be un ly attentive, but squared? often cooled by the Can St. Francis Wood sud use of labels. They denly become as loving as St. are interested m a Haight-Ashbury Wood? beautiful person, San Francisco has been spiritually and phys the beautiful hair, bells, ically, and seem to candles, incense, flowers, swing in either direct beards and wonderful colors-- ion depending on the but are we really getting the individuals involved. I message? think this is the ideal I think many try ---and when one can fully love with sincerity--but we still either sex and appreciate judge according to the Estab all parts of human bodies. lishment system. Everything To be hung up completely on becomes a problem, of health, one way to fulfillment is police or property all limiting, and to fail to because we fear that which we give equal appreciation, 813 4th Street do not understand! without shame, to the whole San Rafael I find it refreshing to anatomy is an insult to any have a costumed stranger sud Creator whatever may be denly wish me a happy day or his spiritual approach! give me a flower. Such spon I want the Haight- taneous, loving acts do not Ashbury resident to know indicate a lack of interest S.I.R. loves them as val m serious matters. H-A resi- uable human beings; and dents are fully aware of listen and respect their their problems in h o u s i n g , individual rights. We may food and medical care, and not be free enough to agree react accordingly with ap- and should not think we preciation when services are always need to, but commu given--not from guilt, but nication is vital to both with affection and concern. s i d e s . The hippies have helped I'm still square, but us look at our whole culture the bells have been ringing-- and its values--from chrome so don't think you're not get to napalm--and it's a sad ting through, man! p i c t u r e . How does S.I.R. fit into this scene? I have discussed PACE 20 Cindy Claire Lewis At a recent S.I.R. meeting, the young but very vocal Pat Hallinan, suggested that if all else fails for us as a minority group, we can always invoke our secret weapon cars up and down Market Street GAY POWER, upon the economic world. every night, so BUY it from FRED'S We do not feel that we must resort to THAT as he has been a regular advertiser in end as yet, but we did feel that GAY POWER VECTOR since the early days when it was a would be a good title for a regular monthly mere two-sheeter. FRED is also a good one column with our advertisers. to know for minor repairs and special After all, it's our advertisers that make services. (He also services TRUCKS). VECTOR possible. They are also the ones Mr. B's is in for some competition from whose ads appear in our special theatre the very newest after-hours spot which the programs throughout the year, and by their several owners have elected to call the BIG continued support we feel that we owe them BASKET. It's opening has certainly created our support. Therefore, we are going to tell some wild activity where PAGE meets MARKET. you about our fine advertisers from month Actually, I'm not sure that these two to month, but not about our wonderful bar after-hours spots will be at all competitive advertisers, because they are covered else because each of them cater to an entirely where in VECTOR by a most capable writer- different clientele. I acted as doorman at Miss Tequila Mockingbird. the BIG BASKET after the COITILLION BALL and I've just returned from RENO where I I can report that the only reason there were checked the action at DAVE'S WESTSIDE no more people inside the BIG BASKET is MOTEL and to my surprise, I ran into people because they could not squeeze any more into from Seattle, Salt Lake City and San Fran- the place, and the crowd had to wait out 3 cisco. They were all readers of VECTOR. side to get in as others left. It was FRED, the genial attendant at the VIP indeed a gala opening for the BIG BASKET, ROOM at Dave's WESTSIDE, told about pre- none of which you could see because of the perations being made for a "hard times" exquisite gowns being worn by most of the party they are giving on July 22nd. He customers...I'11 bet the sweepers expects to see many San Franciscans there gathered up handsfull of seed pearls and really suffering "real hard times" after a sequins the next morning. night in the casinos and gambling halls. Rex I'll be telling you about ADONIS on was in "the city" getting the new baths Ellis Street and ACCENT ON PETS, next opened up before they put the wrecking ball month. I'll also check-in at the RICH to the old landmark on Washington Street, STREET BATHS and visit Dean and Harris and find some of the old landmark customers at the GARDEN PATH. still in the steam room. The new Dave's will As the months roll by, I'll be be at 100 Broadway, and I can hardly wait to visiting with all of our fine adver attend the grand opening, and when I do, I'll tisers and telling you about their give you a blow-by-blow description. goods and services, but in the mean time won't you please visit them Another spot in San Francisco where you can yourselves and tell them you saw run into friends is (of all places) at FRED'S their ad in VECTOR. Your patroniz- SERVICE STATION on Market and Douglas Streets. ation of o u r advertisers is Of course with a location like that in the very GAY POWER. heart of the thickest community population, you ) might expect as much. Those of you who want to use a credit card may do so at FRED'S with your BANKAMERICARD or you can ask for an application for a SEASIDE Credit Card which I have done. And by the way, those of you who think that SEASIDE is some second rate brand, cool it, because I fill my car up about three times a week at FRED'S, and I've seen the Major Oil Company tank truck that pumps the gas into FRED'S reservoir tanks. (I've also seen the P A G E 3) S.I.R.'s three the best direction one acts, presented was "The Last Mile" June 9-10-11, achieved "Final*______Dress Re - maximum effect. Of pos hearsal" may reaTTy itive value to the pro be so close to home gram was continuous that it may have building upwards. The been the result of evening was one that grew brilliant direction. theatrically and when the After the unrelent final curtain call was ing and slow pace of over, one felt they had "Fumed Oak" and the received a valuable theater grim and gripping experience. emotional drain of Outstanding characteri the "Last Mile", zations were given by: Dan the "Final Dress Hendren--as the Grandmother Rehearsal"was the in Fumed Oak, and as the exact vintage director in Final Dress Re champagne that the hearsal; Nancy--as the the audience Fairy Godmother to end all needed. It bub "Oh God, Mothers," but bled delightfully barber shop shame on Dora; Ken with nuances that <434 CALIFORNIA STREET Fantastic--as Cinderella, kept the audience it kind of turns a lot on; rocking with laugh SAN FRANCISCO Ron Warren--a superbly ter. APPOINTMENTS: 673-8245 wicked Stepmother and whip Ken Fisher's wielder, the mind reels; costuming shone forth Shirley--as Shirley, one in the Last Mile. The always knew she'd get to sets were imaginative and center stage beautifully executed Stirring and convincing It was a well worthwhile portrayals were given by evening of theater and all the cons on death row in who contributed their time The Last Mile. Dick Eckert are to be congratulated. deserved hissolo bow for a long and difficult role very well done. Bill Burns as Callahan was of utmost seriousness. Kevin Macre, as O'Connors, performed with a distinct meaning fulness. Kevin Harper's qualities of fantasy was romantically associated with Cons. The play which showed Vtnii&wL 1855 H a ig h t St. S M - 2 366 PAOFtC BOWL 7435 E. 14th St. Oaktand Catif. <-09-1717 PAGE 22 Take 1 teaspoon of black peppercorns, 1 whole nutmeg, 4 average sticks of cinnamon, 1 teaspoon coriander. These should all be pulverised in a mortar. About a handful each of stoned dates, dried figs, shelled almonds and peanuts; chop these and mix them to gether. A bunch of canibus BY WILHAM E. BEARDEMPHL sativa can be pulverized. This along with the spices Must all gay persons be so should be dusted over the clever? One suggested the mixed fruit and nuts, kneaded following heading for VECTOR'S together with about a cup of hippy issue to replace THE sugar dissolved in a big pat MARCH OF THYME. of butter. Rolled into a THE PSYCHEDELIC RANGE cake and cut into pieces or by Lloyd Pot made into balls about the size of a walnut, it should SPICES With all the suggestions I be eaten with care. Two Our last column brought up get, we could run a column of pieces are quite sufficient. again in recent conversations h e a d i n g s --- no copy, jus.t Obtaining the canibus may an interesting point about headings. We could start present certain difficulties, spiced foods tending to bit w i t h : but the variety known as can terness or a medicinal qual ity. I have always contended CHARACTER BUILDING CONDI that this is mainly because MENTS the way spices are overcooked by The Flour Fairy in the food preparation pro and, cess. I consider an infusion COME FLY AND FRY of spice in the same way I with Nanny Nutmeg. consider an infusion of tea (Too much nutmeg produces a or coffe^. No one would boil hangover you wouldn't believe tea for two hours and expect so be careful) it to be at its best. The To follow through with the same standard should apply to hippy scene, I decided to dig spices. Try adding spices out a classic recipe from a near the end of the cooking gay hippy of a bygone era, ibus; sativa grown as a com process and see if you notice Alice B. Toklas. Not so mon weed, often unrecognized, a difference. strange to understand is that everywhere in Europe, Asia This, of course, does not the following has been omitt and parts of Africa, besides apply to salt, pepper, sugar ed from some American edi being cultivated as a crop M.S.G. and the like. Which tions of her Cook Book. for the manufacture of rope. gives me the opportunity to In the Americas, while often squelch the rumor that M.S.G. and L.S.D. can be used inter discouraged, its cousin, cal HASHICH FUDGE changeably. They can not led canibus indica, has been (Which anyone could whip up even be used in conjunction observed even in coty window on a rainy day) with each other except in the This is the food of Para boxes. It should be picked and dried as soon as it has recipe "Pork Chops A La dise - of Baudelaire's Arti Ginsberg" and I guess that gone to seed and while the ficial Paradise; it might exception proves any rule. provide an entertaining re plant is still green. freshment for a Ladies' (From the Alice B. Toklas Bridge Club or a chapter Cook Book - Double Day Anchor meeting of a DAR. In Morocco Book) it is thought to be good for The Board of S.I.R. acts warding off the common cold with "euphoria and brilliant in damp winter weather and storms of laughter; ecstatic is, indeed, more effective if reveries and extensions of... taken with large quantities personality on several simul taneous planes" without the of hot mint tea. Euphoria fudge. Wouldn't it be a gas and brilliant storms of to send a package of candy to laughter; ecstatic reveries the Boards of certain other and extensions of one's per gay organizations across the sonality on several simultan c o u n t r y , ---from Alice. eous planes are to be compla cently expected. Almost any thing Saint Theresa did, you can do better if you can bear to be ravished by 'un evan- ouissement reveille' P A C E 23 Dear Editor: my position better than I can We have no organization Thank you for your reply so I want to back his posi here which in any way even and your most courteous at tion . imitates SIR. We have no one tention to my subscription to There is considerable dif to advise us of our rights or Vector. Enclosed also is a ference in SIR members speak to help us in time of need. small sum ($XXXX) as a don ing as individuals and Sir Granted, this would be a very ation to your general fund speaking as an organization. difficult community to organ because I am so impressed and ize because of the intense inspired by all of your ac I can accept the politi police harrassment and tre tivities and accomplishments cally orientated comments of mendous fear of exposure on and I shall send more when I Mr. Dorr Jones though I find the part of most of the feel I can spare it. myself in opposition on some "gaylings". Vector is improving with of them because I feel he is However, there is one each issue until it is now a speaking as an individual bright spot in the lives of luxurious publication and the and not for the organization. my lover and I,— that is pride of homophile states your monthly publication. manship. However, I want to Any member has the right to We almost fight to see who object to one of your ads for air his political views in will read it first. VECTOR a steambath which states that Vector. We must not, however, is our only link with any it is exclusively for young split our organization on organized gay community, men.... I consider this to be political issues that are and for that reason exclud discriminatory and totally not germane to our central ing all others, it is great contradictory to the policies purpose of securing our ly appreciated here in the of S.I.R. Do you agree?. rights as homosexuals. wilderness. LTB, Woonsocket, R.I. May I also volunteer my Dave services in any small way. Dear Dave: It is not a fact Dear RAB: Don't fight, make that any member may air his love. You and others may Our Board of Directors make political views in Vector. help by sending in new mem policy for SIR, but not for Please do not confuse Vector berships. SIR does not limit our advertiser; we are with the Gold Sheet. These its helpfulness to the Bay thankful for their copy even are two separate publica Area. Didn't you read the if it does not agree with our tions . story in the April issue on policy. Without their ads, Editor the NLDF (National Legal there would be no Vector. Defense Fund). Editor Editor AN OPEN LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: I have just read some of I have not been a member the criticism of Vector in of SIR for many months and the June issue and felt mot furthermore I live 130 miles ivated to write on this. from San Francisco. For these I was at one time, a resi reasons it may seem presump dent of the beautiful San tuous for me to speak out on Francisco, who decided to issues. There is, however, give his home city another one issue I must speak out on chance. Once again, I am that is political. settled in that very butch A Mr. George M., on page 4 industrial city called Pitts of the June Gold Sheet stated burgh, Pa. PAGE 24 II. WHY SHOULD I BECOME INVOLVED? III. HOW DO I BECOME IN- VOLVED? IV. WHAT ARE THE PROBLEM By Jim Skaggs AREAS IN INVOLVEMENT? Involvement, both The Corps will be host personally and collect ing the S.I.R. center each ively, was the theme of evening during the week the official launching of and on weekends at all the Host Corps on Thurs S.I.R. functions, expec- day, June 15, at 8 pm. ially the Saturday night In an individual dis dances and other social cussion of various aspects functions. The Corps will of Host Corps involvement also be functioning in in S. I. R., nearly one all Small Activities and hundred persons partici at open and closed meet pated in at least one of l e a d e r s , ings . the evening's major activ members Even though a good ities . of the beginning has been made, As a result of the ______audience in order for the success Host Corps Happening, add- ed individ to continue the Host nearly fifty persons have ual ideas and posed questions Corps will need the sup committed themselves to for the groups consideration. port of every member. If the Corps in order to in The Host Corps orientat you can help with any of volve both members and ion program was three-fold; its activities, please non-members in every pos group discussion, individual submit your name to the sible facet of S. I. R.'s involvement, and evaluation. Religious Committee. YOU ARE activities. As each member entered the INVOLVED! 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