cause we envy their lives.

I resent the vice-squads; I resent the prurient minds and the lascivious philosophies that determine actions inherently mean, unwholesome and venal; but I am determined that the actions of the few shall not become the motivating force of my life. It may be that I feel this way because my own contacts with this group have never come alive; because my own clashes with the law have been secretive and private. But all about me there are those who have been less fortunate than I, and I am appalled by their actions and reactions.

There is more to being homosexual or going about in a homosexual society than being aware of the police in their least pleasant state; there is more to an individual philosophy than resent-

ments. When our emotions become involved in these reactions and a singleminded awareness is the result then the vice-squad and the state of mind that brings them on has won a signal victory for their corruption spreads and we become corrupt ourselves.

Certainly the vice-squad should be fought, but it should be fought on every level and it should not be singled out as the only crime. If we trumpet out the corruption of the gendarmerie then let us also announce our own defections; the moral blackmail we accept in being what we are; the lovers we purchase to escape ourselves; the lewd price so many display in being what we are rather than accepting ourselves as responsible people. Let us not fall into the trap a small section of society has set for us. M. B.

The Mattachine Foundation requests that the following be made clear. At no time on the elections for mayor of Los Angeles has a candidate for that office been invited to speak at any Foundation function, nor has any candidate for mayor been endorsed by the Foundation. In a campaign where hollow promises have been shouted loudly, the earnest voter can hardly take stock in those which are whispered behind the hand. The Foundation endorses neither of the gentlemen in question for the plain reason that neither has taken a public stand on the issues brought up by that organization in its recent questionnaire to political contestants. Their silence is not golden.

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