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GSFERAL CÛPVS’TICT“ E3GIPS TODAY AT 3AM FR.AC IGCO

Fv’orthing is in readiness far the 1st Gene 'a'! Ga’v.vr.tion of the îlattachine Soc­iety, Inc,, uni ■'.h opens Saturday, liay l5, at San ¡^TU'Tioco,

Fog:‘nning viith a pre-convention brOrili- fast at 10 a,.ra., registration st3.rts at 1 p.în,, ft’ibh tt..' fir.ît burinoss sps3i"'n be­ginning at l:30î Place of the r.cet'ng is the conter r<f the ^Imerican Friends Ser­vice Co-ir:iittC!', IC30 Suiter Sr.rc-ot,

élection Cl 1 CO'vontioa eboirran, re- norts, r '.iR-un of areas, charters for :ej c>irptcrn, ayprivai o.f •oul.lications and adoption Ci rclicies corprise the first days buTb'ess-,

In the pvi'.ning on Saturday'', meifaers, delcrptcs and friends of the Society will attend a banoaot at the Three Little SvrLss Restarrant, 530 Di'eadofay, at 6;30 p.m., Awar' s viill be rrcscnicd, and .an address viill be given by a speaber to be announced,

Sunday 's session vâ?.l begin at 1:00 p. n. Constitutional amendments, by-la”s, resolutions, >ld and neii business are all listed on the program. Final item on the program is the election of officers for the coming year.

About 20 dele.gates from los .bigeles, two from San Diego, one from Chicago, and eight from San ib'ancisco are ex^iccted to attend.T'/iD DELSC-ATES TO REPRESSIT S,U: DIEGO /iRUA AT C0i!?,tB

Credentials have been received for txro delegates to gc present at San Francisco on Kay 15-16 at the convention, rerrosen- ting the new San J3iero Area Council.

There are twô chapters in the San Di­ego area: Alpha Chanter, La .Jolla, a n d Key Chapter, San Diego;

SECOND CHAPTOl ORGAIilZSD IN CHICAGO;AREA COUNCIL KxRKSD THERE RECEITTLY

The rally te t’:e I'attachine movement has gained added momentum in Chicago.

A chapter ws.s forn^d tb.ere two moathtì ago, and a secend chapter has been formed there vàtl'in tl.e past fexi weeks, accord - in.g to word received here recently*

An area council has bcL-n organized, and officers elected.

At least one; delegate from the Chi­cago area will arrive in San I'Vancisco to attend the convention.

Additional out-of-statc chanters are organized in (¡level and and Detroit. Tw'‘ more additiona]. cities where interest is keen Indnde Seattle and Kansas City. New York is another city where nossibilities for chanter organization look good at thè moment.

NORTIISRII AREA DUT HOW KAKY N

CHAPTERS S m i GAlNj ' m KHB£RS?

With activib the convention the past few \- phasis upon me chanters in thp

As of .i-ay 1 tal .for chanter

ies recently centered upon San Francisco chanters in

ileeks have been putting em- Tibership, along Tilth other Northern jArea. here is the membership tn- s in the Northern Area:

AL?HA.BETA,.GAim.

...... (iflL09)...... 10

..... ( m i ) ...... 5

..... ( m 5 ) ...... 10EM£ErTOLLE..(m2)..... 5OAKLAND.... (#110)...... 5BERKEl.Er....(#108).......5TOTAL...................TI[o

Ihese figures renresent an increase in the .Northern j\rca of aberut 10 members who joined in larch and Apid.1, It enti- titles the area to 10 convention delegates.

WELCOME DSLEG-ATES TO SAN FRANCISCO. T• •

THE MATTACHINE SOCIETY, INC.S/iN FRAliCISCO AREA

CALENDAR OP EVTaTO

KAY

20 — Discussion Group, San Prancisco, 1630 Sutter St,26 — Northern Area Council Meeting, Oakland, 22nd k Telegraph

JUNE

3 — Discussion Group, San Francisco, 1630 Sutter Street ■/i," 6 — Board of Directors, Northern A!rea, Oakland, 1 p^m,

9 — Oakland-Berkeley Chapters, Oakland, 22nd k Telegraph 17 — Discussion Group, San Francisco, I83O Sutter St*30 — Northern Area Council Meeting, San Prancisco (Address to be anno\inced)

JULY

1 Discussion Group, San ÏVancisco, 1830 Sutter Street f n — 7 — Board of Directors, Northern Area, San Francisco, 8 p.m,

lU — Oakland-Berkeley Chapters, Oakland, 22nd k Telegraph Discussion Group, San Francisco, 1830 Sutter Street

-■■gîn=:?-di<KUAiern-Area'Council, San Francisco (Address )

NOTES: Additional chapter meetings not listed above vdll be held by San Francisco and Ëneryville Chapters. Special events such as picnics may also be scheduled.Dates for Board of Directors and Northern Area Council meetings are subject to change, and additional special meetings of these groups ifiay be called if conditions ■warrent. Times for all meetings unless listed othen'dse is 8 p,nu

LANGLEY-PORTER STAFF MEMBER TO SPEAK AT BANQUET KAY l^TH

Mrs, Bernice Engle, assistant to Dir­ector Carl Baumann of the Langley-Porter Clinic of the University of California at San Francisco, is guest speaker at the banquet of the Mattachine Society \diich is to''be held at 7:30 p.m. May 1$ at the Three Little Svdss • Restaurant at 530 Broadway, San Francisco.•

Mrs, Engle has collaborated idth Dr, BaUmanh in the preparation of articles de­scribing studies of sex problems they have -m-ide, and she . also worked with him on the recently completed sex studies for the State of California.

talk will concern the latter pro­ject, a:*.d she has indicated that she i«d.ll h(fcld a question and answer period follow­ing her remarks r ' '

THREE AWARDS TO BE PRESEIiTED AT aOCIETY DINNER MAY 15TH

Two awards,of merit and a third honor­ary msmbdrship award will be presented at the banquet May 15 by the Mattachine Soc- iety.

Awards of merit will go to Dr, Alfred C, Kinsey, director of the Sex Research Institute of the University of Indiana at Bloomington, and Le Cercle, Zurich, Switz­erland, an international magazine on the homophile topic, which is published in 3 languages.

The honorary membership award will gprto Dr, Wallace Maxey, Fresno, former pastor of the First Universalist Church of Los Angeles, and long-time friend and advis­or of the Society, especially in the mat­ter of religious aspects of the organiza­tions program.

LITTLE NS;iS NOTES FROM HERE AMD THiRE £c ALL OVER___

If Larch came in like a lamb, then !'ay 19iii came in like a nosegay of pansies.A San Francisco millionaire, who apparently cared nothing about anonymity, an­

nounced to a gathering of reporters from four city newsnanprs that he was being to England, then possibly to Denmark, this summer for operations to change his sex from man to wonan,

John Cabell Breckenridge, 50, and scion of wealthy California families vrith one namesake ancestor a former vice president of the U, S,, wa liberally in the press as the month began,

*I shall come back," he said, "as Catherine Cabell," which is now at the publisher's. Asked if his operationalcorolete than that performed upon Christine Jorgensen, Brei______________ ____while celebrity this supremely cynical crack: "Oh heavens jes, because he's just nothing."

s pictured and quoted

'e is also writing a book series would be more

ckenridge paid the erst-

■5Í- *Meanwhile, Kiss Jorgensen, after a 2-week engagement ai. a San Francisco night

club, was continuing her tour. Her agent got the attraction signed up for the Cal­ifornia State Fair, to be held at Sacramento in September, But a meeting of the fair’s governing board brought forth this decision: No ad. permitted on the midway by Christine, "The fair, after all, is primarilj'' an agric\iltural exposition," they said. A few days later, a columnist noted that Christine and her manager were won­dering who would make good the >5000 per week called for :j.n the signed contract they held, . „ ,

parties at conventions',The traditional dancing girls, so long favored by stag and so often the source of headlines because performances exceed the bounds of g6od taste, took a back seat in early Miy also. For at a leading San Francisco hotel, where some 100 area banking exooutivos were holding a r^ional confab, the pro­gram at the banquet was headlined by the complete cast of the current Beige Room show. Although the youthful entertainers, glittering witji jewels and garbed in off-thc-shoulder formals <Sc furs looked like gals, they weren't. But the boys, we are told, loved it, and one of them said to another: "VelL, at least if the idfe asks me if I saw one of those "girlie" shows, I can truthfully say I did not,"

if- -> *And finally, as'the month began, not less than four ni^ht clubs in the city of­

fered showbills starring female inpersonators, all of idiich were playing to packed houses of the first wave of tourists from thè provinces east, north and south. In addition to the Leige Room and Finocchio’s, two other clubs had such programs: Ann's Ì4U0, and the Chi Chi. None of them, were one-week stands, either,

* -if if if -if it

That was the beginning of Hay, True enough, these evi the serious side of the I'attachine program, but their pro editor c'^uldii't overlook it, and we thought you'd like to

ents have no connection with minence was such that the know, too.

REJECTION SLIP FOR >\RTICLE3 ABOUT SOCIETTY RECEIVED FROM ONE FA0A2INEIn a move that surprised no one, Cne Magazine last wcifk rejected two articles

about the lattacliine Society, •'•rritben and submitted .afte:* a "cease fire" agreement of sorts was reached in )arch, iJecause the articles diiq .t vrith aims and princi­ples of tho Society, tV.e editorvO felt they '..'buld have lintle or no appeal to "Lit­tle larry ia.mpwTist," of the Coriior Goiri'ort Station, idiom tlie magazine inferred was characteristic of the growin>g readership of magazine, in contrast to the professional people, such as scientists, lav?;:,'ers and ministers, whom the magazine further admitted could do more fop the i-!attachlne Kovemrait,

E m e ry v ille Cha,pter Plains to E ‘‘Community H ouse“ v/elf3.re Pro

s t a b l i s l i | e c t Sooniincryville Chapter of the

l&iiversity of Calif ernia

• A "Corrjixniby House" project is now being alarmed by the Kprthern Area, according to a reoort received from the chapter after a recent meeting vjliero plana wore discussed, Theproposed project is the establishment of a home semo-“ what along the idea of thff International House Plan at the at Berkeley,

''Wo have had our attention sharply drawn to the dire fihancial straits of many of our iTtimbors," the report stated, "We have found many of tieso members, their friends arid acquaintances to be capable, industrious and desirous of helning themsslaves, but because of the ,einplo; Tnent situation at the present, t h ^ are simply ’out in the cG?.do'"

Continuing, the report stated; "We feel that with a litóle help and a few Idndno: ses, at these times, that these neople could better help tlicmsclves. There are also among us those xd.th emotional difficulties, handicaps and similar rpoblems, Thera is no doubt- that we can help these persons take a rightful plice in society with a lit­tle help, . ‘

"Thorefore, our plan is thus far formulated as follows: To obtain and operate a dwelling large,enough to accommodate (1 ) a permanent resident >;ho would rent the hous'j as his home; (2) two bedrooms to be rented for needed income, and (3) one room to ee used for- housing anj’’ individual in need. This laakes foxur bedrooms«* We also would want rooms Irrgc enough to house any other needy persons on an emergency basis if the need arose.

"To raisemoney for sponsoring this project, we propose to serve meals, rent two room?, 'and have-,a scrievS of scheduled events and activities, such as block printing, cer-'r.ios design, iurm.ture refinishing, ma’dng greeting cards, and so on. Persons sta’dag at tlie house tdll find a wealth of .activities, parbicipati .'■n .In uliich -may aid in Lr eir dexrayi,ng choir expenses,

"V-o do not intend to stop here, however, Wc will act as a rehabilitation center for ti'.ose pe-iplc seeharg such service, helping to secure fsr them psychiatric advice, medical a?d, and erplo^onc nt ,

"V/e wj.ll also give nil possible -aid to others xihethcr they stay at the house orhot. In othor words, all friends and members of the Socie this p”ojtctj Wc hope to include a telephone ansxierlng sc

by xdll draw benefits from rv ico .

vays lor raising money to sponsor this project are aidless. Vacation tours forstate could be arranged, as breakfasts on Sunday—

members and friends in Southern Califorina and out of the Dinners would be served each evening. Social events— such could be held periodically, W e .,' 11 oocrate as a clubhousfe, have a game room, free library, and other cultural and recreational facilities.

"We hope to' provide a religious aspect available vhere may be able to obtain spiritual advice and counsel. The p can-go to great length, but this-brief resume generally te

m y members so inclined Ians for such a project Lis the story,"

CHICAGO ARSA COUNCIL CKAIRlAN TO BS A DSL3GATE AT COHVSHT]'

Word was received >iay 12 that the chairman of the nowlj cil vrill be present at the General Convention at San Prani arrive liiy Ih by plane from* the Windy City, representing of 30 mert-orse Those chapters were recently formed after rcscntativc in that area.

ARITHI‘-ETIC C.ILCULATIOII OH PAGE ONE POUND TO BE IN E R R O R ............. .

On the first page of ment appears to the California area, wi

to 10 convention delegates. This is incorrect, the area delegates, based upon the constitutional provision of one

:oN

-formed Chicago. Area Coun- isco itiy l$-l6. He will liwo chapters with a total the visit of a Society rep-

this newsletter, a state- effect that the Northern ih UO members, iS entitled is entitled to only eight delegate for each 5 members.