CITY TIMES) and held there February 19, 20 to discuss questions of mutual interest.

So far as is known, the earliest similar convocation was in Amsterdam Holland in May, 1951 attended by delegates from many parts of the world, including the U.S. During the succeeding 15 years a succession of similar meetings, some with very substantial attendance, have been held in Frankfurt, Germany; Paris;

Brussells;

San Francisco; Denver; Washington, Philadelphia and New York, a dozen such in Los Angeles alone. All have been designed to further the aims and purposes of the various Homophile Organizations and to acquaint the general public with the lives and problems of male and female homosexuals.

As early as 1956 ONE's Midwinter Institute called upon all of the then existing Homophile Organizations to describe aims and their methods for achieving such goals. Represented were: Mattachine Society, Los Angeles; also, San Francisco, Chicago, Long Beach, California and New York-Boston Mattachine Area Councils; Daughters of Bilitis; National Association for Sexual Research; Knights of the Clock; ONE, Incorporated; Mattachine Foundation.

In 1962 ONE called another such meeting. Represented were: Mattachine Society, San Francisco, New York; Vice Versa; Knights of the Clock; National Association for Sexual Research; Daughters of Bilitis, San Francisco, Los Angeles; Demophils; National League for Social Understanding; Mattachine Foundation; ONE, Incorporated. In addition to the public meetings a work session similar to that recently held in Kansas City was convened to which only officers of the various groups were invited.

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After this fashion, the Homophile Movement has moved a little ahead, a little back, like waves on the beach, with the hope (and some encouraging evidence) that the tide is slowly climbing toward new benchmarks on the social horizon. The Kansas City February meetings now make the most recent contribution to what the the newspaper report described as "the view that homosexuality is a justifiable way of lift," a view with which ONE has always been in agreement.

THE "MISERABLE SEX EDUCATOR"

"The average mother does a marvellous job of sex education with her daughter, but the average father does a miserable job with his son," says Albany (N.Y.) pediatrician Paul H. Patterson, in addressing a recent conference of teachers and social workers in Chicago. "The average man has so much anxiety about sex that he is unable to permit himself to be exposed psychologically in discussing this emotionally-loaded topic with his son." According to the CHICAGO DAILY NEWS report, reprinted in the S.F. CHRONICLE for 11/25, Dr. Patterson thinks that, in contrast to mothers and their daughters, "fathers . . . are letting boys down in not providing masculine symbols for them to identify with." Since he mentions "hair-sprayed coiffeurs" and "painted toenails" as feminine symbols (appropriate only for girls, presumably), ONE wonders if this authority is acquainted with male fashions of the 17th and 18th centuries. And what, ONE also wonders, would he consider as appropriate masculine symbols? A baseball bat? A billy-club? A football? As phallic symbols, these might possibly have value for this purpose, but scarcely otherwise. ONE offers the observation that if our society were less interested in