and Civil Liberty" Marshall Krause of the American Civil Liberties Union

The two interviews broadcasts two and three in the series) were, first, "The Lesbian," a personal interview with two women who are living together in a homosexual relationship, and, second, "The Male Homosexual."

It is through courageous broadcasts such as these over the past few years in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles that inroads have been made in the unmapped areas of public prejudice against homosexuals which show up clearly in the tolerance testing poll taken by Harris.

Tangents wishes that the tapes of these broadcasts might be aired in the midwest and south. Only through continued and ever widening discussion of homosexuality by rational and responsible men and women, homosexual and heterosexual alike, can the ignorance that breeds fear and hatred be dispelled and replaced by tolerance and acceptance.

NEW YORK-Not only in radio broadcasting, but in magazines with nationwide circulation (see Tangents, July 1965) frank discussion of homosexuality occurs with growing fre quency The Ladies Home Journal this year ran two articles plumping for sex-law reform. Now the staid Saturday Review October 9, 1965 has printed Robert K. Woetzel's fairminded and coolly reasoned article "Do Our Homosexuality Laws Make Sense?"

It is too bad not to be able to quote at length from Woetzel's synthesis of the U.S. homosexual di lemma, prepared at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions as part of that Center's continuing inquiry into various facets of the American character But one quote will have to suffice

"It is tragic that, where the homosexual is concerned, social institutions

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have produced exactly the opposite of the intended results. Laws and social taboos against homosexuality have not only tended to mar the personalities of many homosexuals but have also encouraged criminal behavior There seems to be no other alternative for many homosexuals than to seek their satisfaction in some anonymous place like a public lavatory where they can explain their presence if challenged."

The outspokenness of this article seems to Tangents commendable but also ironic, in that over the past 13 years the Saturday Review has consistently refused to accept paid advertising for this magazine which has from its outset presented the same views and arguments as now find their rightful place in the pages of the Saturday Review It is good to learn at last just how far ahead of its time this small magazine of ours has been

ROCHESTER, MINN Dr Walter Alvarez, widely syndicated health columnist and emeritus consultant at Mayo Clinic, reaches a readership many of whom probably never heard of the Saturday Review, and most of whom undoubtedly never witnessed a radio or TV discussion of homosexuality

And in a recent column, Dr Al varez came to the defense of homosexuals in unmistakable terms. "I feel," he wrote, "that every sensible physician in the land ought to rise up and fight to get legislators to remove from our statute books our ancient, punitive, cruel and senseless law [against homosexuality]

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WILMINGTON, DELAWARE Ralph E. Pryor, Jr., slender, good looking star member of the Wilmington vicesquad for eight years, is reported by the Evening Journal to be organizing a Delaware klavern of the Ku Klux Klan. "It is to be regretted," said Wilmington Public Safety Commis-