any more. As long as others aren't offensive, their attitude is immaterial.

The simple fact that homosexuals usually don't like being what they are is at the root of their problem. They become neurotic and it is their neurosis which causes them to be rejected. Though they usually have other problems, they tend to blame the trait they don't like, and which they think others don't like.

No one "accepts" everyone else, and no one is "accepted" by everyone.

It seems to me that that there is a definite correlation between rejection by oneself and rejection by others.

IT'S ALL IN LIFE!

Dear ONE:

Mr. A. B.

San

Francisco, California

The article in Life was better than nothing, but WHY do "they" insist on emphasizing the seamy side? For every sordid aspect of Gay life there is a parallel in the rest of society. The same can be said for the beautiful and clean. Perhaps by throwing rocks at homosexuality it keeps their minds off of their own shortcomings.

Hi:

Mr. F. J. Georgia

I'll be eagerly awaiting your issue on the latest Life Magazine article. I thought it was one of the best of its type, and hope it stirs a great deal of comment and interest. Mr. G. L.

Brooklyn Heights, N. Y.

(Editor's Note: It hasn't.)

Dear Friends:

I have just finished reading Life's "objective" report on homosexuality in America. After that, I am moved to send my monthly contribution to my "homophile organization" a few days early. Others may be afraid to stand with you but I hope that charge will never be levelled at me. So here's five for more truth. I suppose as a homosexual I should be happy that as prominent a magazine as Life finds our presence so imminent as to find it necessary to expose us to the public "not in order to condone us but to cope with us." I believe that line rankled me more than any other in the article. The "scientific" tract by Havemann seemed the best of the article, but even it had

noticeable anti-bias. A number of contradictory explanations were proffened as to why we are homosexual without a committment from Mr. H.-as to the more probable. I assume, however, that Life could

scarcely become blatantly condemnatory of the existent legal situation vis-a-vis homosexuality. On the whole, I suppose we should view Life's article as a step forward. Ten years ago they would never have presumed to print such an article.

I will look forward to your comments on the Life article in the next issue of ONE.

My congrats to Don Slater on meriting a photo in the article and thank God ONE has been disseminating "propaganda" for for the past 12 years. Wasn't Dr. van de Haag's answer to his colleague marvelous? Wish some of these exposes would put more emphasis on the fact that much of the so-called knowledge about homosexuality is predicated upon psychiatric case studies, etc. After all, there are one helluva lot of us who have never seen the inside of a psychiatrist's office and probably never will.

THE JUNE ISSUE Dear Sir:

Mr. P. F. Galesburg, Illinois

Allow me to congratulate you on your exceptional June issue. The articles were chosen, it seems, with a view to depth study and not mere entertainment, an outlook that is increasingly necessary in the field of homophile publications. The homosexual's position in an increasingly liberalized society must be morally and intellectually defensible, and the articles like "The Language of Love" by Arthur Bradbury and other serious features provide us with the ammunition and inspiration necessary to combat those whose thinking on the subject is superficial or condemnatory.

now

My especial thanks for your removal of the word "homosexual" from the cover. Your reputation is such that it is really not necessary necessary to outline your contents on your cover, and it makes it considerably less embarrassing for many of us. I now feel that I can place the magazine on my office desk or read it in public without fear.

My friends and I find your infrequent "Case Histories" both interesting and enlightening. I really believe that more of these, plus worthwhile articles and topnotch fiction, will help not only the magazine's image and effectiveness, but will push your circulation upward.

Mr. M. M.

New Orleans, Louisiana

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