The fledgling Mattachine Movement has not been without opposition and attack. Because of its socially constructive ends it has been accused of Communist affiliation. Equally as groundless, fears are being entertained that because homosexuals themselves are involved the final goal is therefore to "convert new members" to homosexuality.

Despite these ephemeral misgivings, it is apparent that the Mattachine

Movement is well on its way toward success in its attempt to solve the homosexual problem by the combination of personal, group, and social

means.

Judging from the tremendous success of similar principles used in Alcoholics Anonymous and the growth of the Mattachine Movement this far, great advancement and improvement in the field of homosexuality seem to be in the near future.

James Whitman

AS FOR ME.

This regular section came originally out of a wish to emphasize unusually lucid letters. Since then too many deserving such attention have come in and we, the editors, find ourselves flipping coins as to which will make the grade each time. The following required no coin-altho the "Ghetto" idea deserves a cool, cool squint.

I myself believe that the public is more often than not justified in its disdain and its disgust with the aspects of homosexuality that it sees. I refer to "gay" life, of course, the demimonde of bar flies and bar-flitting, of promiscuity, emasculated affectation, and dishonesty, if indeed not downright criminality. However one may protest about his own integrity, this is certainly what the public sees, and as homosexuals, whether we may individually like it or not, we are identified with it. There is some justice in this too, I think, if we insist on patronizing

the notorious bars, thereby tacitly surrendering our own reputations to that of the very worst element. There is also undoubtedly some truth that in this case society is looking at its own image and calling it foul, and it is by this time a commonism among us to repeat that the "gay" underworld is the very effect of society's repressions. Yet this is no answer at all. Surely it is life's test of all of us to be stronger than the injustices that bestrew every existence, homosexual or heterosexual. Hasn't it always been true that the worth and stature of a

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