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THE HOMOSEXUAL VIEWPOINT

Volume V

a mystic bond

of brotherhood makes all men one."

Carlyle

Number 8

Oct.-Nov. 1957

CONTENTS

4 EDITORIAL Ann Carll Reid

5 POEMS: Alden Kirby

14 BOOKS

J. Phoenice

Susan Smpadian Forrest Anderson

Luther Allen

Rick

Dan Martin

Jody Shotwell

Bern Hard

16

ABOUT OUR AUTHORS

17 SOME HISTORICAL INCIDENTS J. P. Starr

18 TANGENTS News & Views by Dal McIntire

22 THE ECHO OF A VOICE A Story by Shoji Umo

26

MATTACHINE SOCIETY CONVENTION Sten Russell

30 LETTERS TO THE EDITORS

COVER DESIGN: Eve Elloree

COVER PHOTO: G. Barrows

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