mattachine DIRECTORY

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MATTACHINE SOCIETY, INC., 693 Mission Street, San Francisco 5, Calif. Tel. EXbrook 7-0773

Branch Offices

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(CHICAGO CHAPTERInactive at present. Inquire through National Headquarters) Communications to branch offices above should be addressed in all cases in care of Mattachine Society, Inc.

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STAFF: Publications Director and Editor, Hal Call; Business Manager, D. Stewart Lucas; Production Director, Henry Foster Jr.; Treasurer, O. Conrad Bowman. EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS:Dr. Henri Lormier, Gonzalo Segura, Jr., Carl B. Harding, Mrs. Leah Galley and Roy Hooper.

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OFFICE OF PUBLICATION (to which all communications should be addressed): 693 Mission Street, San Francisco 5, Calif. Telephone EXbrook 7-0773.

COPYRIGHT 1958 by the Mattachine Society, Inc. All rights reserved to material not otherwise credited.

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REVIEW

Copyright 1958 by the Mattacbine Society, Incorporated

FOURTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION-MATTACHINE REVIEW founded January 1955 Mattachine Foundation established 1950, Mattacbine Society, Inc., cbartered 1954

Volume IV

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JULY 1958

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PROGRESS REPORT ON WOLFENDEN RECOMMENDATIONS by Wes Knight HOMOSEXUALS IN A RELATED CULTURE: A BRIEF INVESTIGATION by Philip Jason IMPORTANT COURT RULING FOR REGISTERED SEX OFFENDERS a Califomia Decision

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SHORT FEATURES CAPSULE REPORT ON SEX CRIME DOCTOR URGES REVIEW OF SEX LAWS THE MISSING LINE OF TYPE MATTACHINE CONVENTION DATES ARE SET VISITOR FROM EUROPE: RUDOLF BURKHARDT DEPARTMENTS

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LOOKING AHEAD READERS WRITE FACES BEHIND THE NAMES (III) BOOK REVIEWS HOMOPHILIC BIBLIOGRAPHY (VIII)

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MATTACHINE REVIEW is published monthly by the Mattachine San Francisco 5. Society, Inc., 693 Mission Street, (Suite 309),

Calif., a non-profit, non-partisan organization founded in the public interest for the purpose of providing true and accurate information toward the solution of problems of human sex behavior, particularly those of the homosexual adult. The REVIEW is available on many U.S. newsstands.

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