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On Our Cover

Today, more than ever, we find that life and its complexities, coupled with society's requirements of human personality adjustment, are seldom a well-defined room.

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But the individuals who enter this room -and all of us must, boldly or with hesitation know that in time the indefinite objects, the cloaked mysteries become more clear. This is a result of processes of education, experience and understanding--which make up life itself.

On our cover, Artist Mel Betti has captured this attitude in a stylized, expressionistic drawing prepared especially for this issue of the Review.

announcing a new address for the Mattachine REVIEW

(EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 1956)

693 Mission Street San Francisco 5, California Telephone EXbrook 7-0773

Readers and subscribers may now communicate by mail directly with the Publications Director at the address listed above.

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The address of the Board of Directors, Post Office Box 1925, Los Angeles 53, Calif., remains unchanged since that location is the permanent headquarters of the Society.

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Mattachine REVIEW

Copyright 1955 by the Mattachine Society, Inc.

6th Issue November-December 1955

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Features

ON THE CURE OF HOMOSEXUALITY, Albert Ellis, Ph.D. SEX, RELIGION AND MYTH, Donal Norton. REGULATING THE SEX URGE, Luther Allen..

THE CONDITIONING FACTOR, Car B. Harding.

HADRIAN AND ANTINOUS-A HISTORICAL SKETCH, Mack Fingal. A FORGOTTEN COMMONPLACE, Lyn Pedersen... Short Features

BOOKS, BOOKS, BOOKS.........3 ARE WE ON THE RIGHT TRACK... 3 ORIGIN OF HOMOPHILE ARGOT..15 WHAT THE NAME MEANS..

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TIRADE, Harvey Breit. THE AFTERMATH..... CHANGING ATTITUDES, Joseph Whitney..

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Departments

MATTACHINE SOCIETY OFFICIAL NEWS: Resolution...... ON OUR COVER......

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MATTACHINE SALUTES.

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INTERNATIONAL REPORT... READERS WRITE...

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BOOK REVIEW: We Walk Alone..30 IN THE NEXT ISSUE...

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MATTACHINE DIRECTORY... .39 FOREIGN PUBLICATIONS....... 42

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MATTACHINE REVIEW is published bi-monthly by the Mattachine Society, Inc., Post Office Box 1925, Los Angeles 53, California. Entire contents copyrighted, and may not be reproduced without permission. For information regarding manuscripts, advertising, directory of Mattachine Society, Inc., see page 39 of this issue.

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