Greetings:

Tell Mr. B. that I would be most happy for a game of tennis and further discussions of our likes and dislikes, as my present plight seems similar to his. I'm in my mid-twenties and never really understood or accepted my gay nature until about a year ago. Nonsmoker, teetotaler, Protestant, have a good job and love sports, having so participated and won honors in highschool and college. Now I find myself living in a three-bedroom house with nobody to talk to but the walls and furnishings. The only voices I hear are those on the radio and TV. I go to bed so lonely I can hardly stand it. I am resolved that this situation must be changed.

Mr. J.

Huntington Park, California

READING AS THERAPY

Dear ONE:

In appreciation for all your efforts to help. our cause I am enclosing a money order to do what I can. Reading your little publication has helped me in so many ways. It's the open. door to our small world, and helps us see ourselves in the right perspective. I look forward to it each month with great pleasure. Mr. C.

Dear friends:

Allen Park, Michigan

A complaint-my first in six years. I get the Magazine each month, sit down and read it avidly from cover to cover. Then, I have to wait another month before I get the next issue! Terribly disconcerting. Therefore on behalf of myself, and I'm sure many others, I hope you increase in wealth, health and material to make it a weekly. Soon.

Mr. L.

Brooklyn, New York

Dear ONE:

I am a truck driver living in a heterosexual world which is unaware of my homosexuality. I have been very depressed most of my life, since the age of seventeen when I first realized I was not normal. Now the feelings of guilt and self-pity are leaving me. After reading many articles in ONE Magazine I realize that, for me, it is normal to be homosexual. I am happier, freer-minded and have given up thoughts of self-destruction to rid society of a menace."

I never realized before that there are so many millions of people in my position. Living in a small town is rather frustrating. The problem of meeting people nags everybody, I guess. There are so many well-thought-out articles in the past issues of the Magazine that I have wondered if you could not place one or more of the best of these in magazines with enormous reader coverage. It would help to make the public understand our side and explain our problems to a larger audience.

Mr. S.

Hi Fellers:

To help the cause" here's another five bucks.

Dear friends.

Sandy

San Diego, California

It appears to me that some of our own people need education equally as much as does uninformed society. I am struck and surprised at the selfishness and self-centeredness of many of our group. It is they who give society the impressions they have, and we must all suffer from the results.

For example, Mr. B., of Long Island, sitting in his big house staring into the fireplace and feeling sorry for himself, waiting for someone to come along and bring him a little boy. Why isn't Mr. B. out doing all he can to help those less fortunate than himself? Why isn't he concerned with bringing others joy? Why isn't he doing something constructive?

California

Mr. F.

Quebec

Dear friends:

Keep up your good work. I hope the enclosed check will help. You don't know how much you have helped me. I am happy that I can have a part in this great and big work.

Mr. R.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Dear friends:

With five million homosexuals in this country you ought to be swamped with money, but you know in America everyone is out to make money, not to spend it. The stingy homosexual as a rule is of the type which earns no credit for the rest.

Mr. G. Washington, D. C.

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