EDITORIAL

Civil rights for homosexuals have always been one of the main goals of ONE. To this fundamental commitment ONE from the very first dedicated its public information program. To carry out this program all public relations media have been used which seemed suitable.

First among these have been ONE's own publications. The inaugural issue of ONE Magazine (January, 1953) in quoting Carlyle's "a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one" thereby spelled out in the most precise terms its belief that what is for one must equally be for all; that genuine brotherhood can exist on no other basis.

The same Magazine issue featured an article describing the Germanbased "World Federation for the Rights of Man;" also articles applicable to civil rights questions: by psychiatrist Dr. Karl M. Bowman; "To Be Accused Is To Be Guilty," by Dale Jennings; news items citing unequal treatment before the law for homosexuals and heterosexuals; a description of the civil rights activities of the Mattachine Society and Foundation; a scholarly discussion of the law of entrapment; numerous letters from persons disturbed by the legal inequities which so often confront homosexuals.

Students of The Homophile Movement will find that in over four thousand pages of the one hundred and forty-seven issues of ONE Magazine which have preceded this present issue (first of the Magazine's fourteenth volume); the ninety-five issues of the Corporation Newsletter, ONE Confidential, and twenty of ONE Institute Quarterly, that the question of civil rights has been treated in an endlessly varied number of ways. There have been editorials, articles, protest poems and fiction. Even drawings have contributed to the unwavering light thrown by ONE upon violations of human rights so commonly imposed upon homosexual men and women. Most important of all, several hundred thousand persons have seen and read these many pages.

An organization thirty years senior to ONE in its dedication to individual freedoms is the American Civil Liberties Union. Its vigorous attacks upon injustices in violation of civil liberties have brought it high praise from those who hold that the Constitution of these United States has meanings applicable to judges, police officials and other public persons, and quite equally so to the underprivileged and to members of minority groups.

ONE's Midwinter Institute in 1957 heard a valuable talk by an ACLU attorney, Mr. J. B. Tietz, later published (April, 1957) in these pages. The Midwinter Sessions in 1960 included a talk by ACLU Southern California Chapter's Executive Secretary, Dr. Eason Monroe, on "Civil Liberties and a Free Society." On December 5, 1965, Dr. Vern Bullough spoke on ONE's Institute Lecture Series, discussing the policy which is described below.

The woeful history of society's cruelly inept ways of dealing with both conventional and unconventional sexual acts is too well-known to require mention here. The need for new approaches to these matters has been attracting the attention of the churches, courts, psychiatrists and

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