require is towering happiness ("Paul sniffed Dave's hair and shuddered with delight."), agonized parting ("Life was now a vast, empty plain.") and reunion ("Thud, smack, squeeze, yum-yum!") This gets monotonous. Who but a moron would read years and years of True Confessions? And the caliber of T.C. would be about all the writer could try for because he's limited to homosexual, sexual, and romantic plots. And if he's not liltingly romantic and deals with a relationship that doesn't involve Love in its highest form, he'll be given passage out of town on a rail. No homosexual in ONE will admit to sexual relations without Love. It's not nice! The pattern must be identical to the women's mags and as stultifying. As for poetry, it is as irritating as the fiction under these limitations with the addition of salaciousness by innuendo. As for biographies of historic figures: who cares whom Shakespeare went to bed with after reading Hamlet! Only the smutty and frustrated do. Anticipating the manuscripts that must come through the weary mails, I wouldn't be an editor of ONE for ten thousand bucks a week.

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THE LONG GREEN

Almost every magazine's life blood is advertising. Subscribers have to come in droves to merely pay expenses. Who is going to advertise in ONE now or for a good long while? Few companies want to be so branded by appearing in its questionable pages. There are even gay bars and muscle photographers who decline the honor; they don't wish to be publicly associated with the nasty homos who keep them in good money. You might as well give up ads and send out platoons of bell-ringers each Christmas asking for donations. Patrons and literally thousands of subs are your only hope. And that might as well be dismissed. Few rich rush to hand over lumps of cash for so dubious an undertaking: "How can I be sure there aren't any communists on the editorial board?" And most homos are too frightened to have something as explosive as this tiny folder come to them through the mail. They're not notably brave, you know. The average gay one fights prejudice by insisting he loves girls and hiding under the nearest bar. The only money you're sure of getting is the savings of the editorial board-as long as they're willing to work free. And someday when things are real dull, go apply for a loan for your deviation-from-all-other-magazines. I'd love to see their faces.

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THEN WHY BOTHER WITH THE THING IN THE FIRST PLACE?

There is one field in which a magazine on deviation could be of real value. It couldn't stimulate writers and artists to great or even good work because of its crushingly limited subject matter. It couldn't back research because it hasn't the money, and those re-

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