NO PLACE IN SOCIETY. IT IS UP TO US, THE HOMO HIMSELF, TO REEDUCATE SOCIETY AND CHANGE OLD JUDEAN-CHRISTIAN AND ANCIENT LAWS CONCERNING OURSELVES BUT HOW CAN WE DO THIS WHEN WE SIT COM-

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PLACENTLY BACK MEEKLY LETTING ONLY A HANDFUL OF US SPEAK AND WORK FOR THE CAUSE. A DROP FILLS NOT THE BUCKET NOR DOES ONE SWALLOW MAKE A SUMMER. NOR CAN A HANDFUL OF LESBIANS CHANGE THE LAWS.

WAKE UP!

AND DECLARE YOURSELVES. IT IS TIME.

IT IS TIME.

LIVE! THERE ARE SO MANY OF US AND WE HAVE TO STICK TOGETHER. WHEN WE HOLLER LONG ENOUGH AND LOUD ENOUGH WE WILL BE HEARD OR ARE YOU FEELING GUILTY FOR WHAT YOU ARE THEN OF COURSE | CAN UNDERSTAND WHY YOU ARE

QUIET..

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"IN THIS TWENTIETH CENTURY ATOM AGE WITH ALL OUR UNDERSTANDING IN PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHIATRY AND ANTHROPOLOGY IT SHOULD NOT BE HARD TO SEE THE LIGHT.

"OUR PRIESTESS SAPPHO ONCE WROTE:

'LET ME TELL YOU

THIS: SOMEONE IN

SOME FUTURE TIME

WILL THINK OF US'

Y.A., CALIFORNIA

"WHILE I ADMIRE AND APPRECIATE YOUR WORK IN THE LADDER, I AM COMPELLED TO CRITICIZE THE STORY, 'LOVE IS A DANDELION', IN THE OCTOBER ISSUE. BECAUSE THE LADDER APPEARS ON NEWSSTANDS AND IS READ BY OTHERS OUTSIDE OUR GROUP | CONSIDER IT IMPERATIVE THAT WE BE CONSTANTLY AWARE OF THE IMPRESSION LESBIANS MAKE UPON THE GENERAL PUBLIC IF WE WISH TO ACHIEVE THE GOAL OF ACCEPTANCE.

"THE STORY IN QUESTION IS WELL WRITTEN, HOWEVER, IN ALL MY ADULT LIFE AS A LESBIAN I HAVE NEVER KNOWN ONE OF MY KIND TO EXERCISE THE POOR JUDGMENT AND LACK OF REGARD FOR CHILDREN BROUGHT OUT IN THIS STORY. HERE IS A WOMAN WHO TELLS A CONFUSED LITTLE GIRL OF HER LOST LOVE BY SHOWING HER A PICTURE OF WHAT THE CHILD THINKS IS A FEMININE MAN UNTIL INFORMED THAT IT IS A MASCULINE WOMAN, AS THOUGH THAT IS NOT ENOUGH, THIS UNLOVELY CHARACTER THEN DRIPS HER SELF-PITY ALL OVER THE YOUNGSTER. I MUST AGREE WITH THE LITTLE

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