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Burgin, Kentucky-- Space in this column is so tight-- and the secret kickbacks received from promoters of gay events so lucrative-- that Queer & There is loth to herald non-gay causes. But what homosexual pulse doth not quicken at the thought of pretty flowers, what queer heart not melt at the prospect of saving the little butterflies?

Flowers and butterflies aren't just pretty to look at, like naked youths cavorting in gardens green; each, rather, needs the other in the Struggle For Life. "Butterflies are the center of all nature," declares grandly a tract from the Butterfly Garden Club entitled Why We Need to Plant Butterfly Gardens. "They are a glue that helps keep the environment in balance."

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"While butterflies feed on nectar sources, it has been discovered that they release a chemical that enables bees to reproduce," the pamphlet explains. "If we all do a little to help increase butterfly populations"-- that is, offer them dining & drinking facilities and cruising grounds-- "we would also see an increase in the number of pollinating bees."

"You see," the brochure goes on, "if we were to have no butterflies, we would have no bees. If we were to have no bees, we would have no peas. In other words, the world would have no source of food." And if we had no food, then kiss goodbye the naked youths.

For $1 and a self-addressed stamped envelope, the Butterfly Garden Club will send you a packet of seeds, along with an info sheet on "nature's flying flower." The seeds are those of the particular plants-- Purple Coneflower, Italian Giant, and Bachelor's Buttons among them-- that attract butterflies to backyards (along with net-wielding lepidopterists and lecherous men hoping to net their fellows: "I want to put my Purple Coneflower in your Bachelor Button so hard you'll taste my pollen, you little Italian Giant"). Northern Hemispherists will concede that it's late in the season to start a butterfly garden. But next spring is just a few calendar pages away. Be prepared, and write the Butterfly Garden Club at PO Box 629, Burgin, Kentucky 40310.