At first you'll laugh at this but you'll read on-fascinated. Then you'll say, "He might have something at that," and, by the time you've finished, you'll declare, "This character's right!" Here is the drive and enthusiasm of the Go-Getter that few peopleeven gay ones-associate with deviation. They should.

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The homosexual in America has a problem a hell of a problem. It can't be licked by a monthly pamphlet no matter how loudly it yells about injustices, vicious laws, illegal persecutions and all the rest, as was suggested in the July issue by A. X.

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The Negro, too, has been the victim of persecution, but not even a bloody civil war was able to free him from it. Could a Negro ONE have done better?

The answer to the homosexual's problem is fortunately simpler than that of the Negro, in that it can more easily be solved. It can be solved because homosexuals, on the whole, are much better off financially than Negroes, and this is essentially important in relation to the plan I am about to suggest.

The plan is basically simple, and it is based on two facts:

First, if Kinsey and other investigating agencies are anywhere close to right, there are at least 6,000,000 American homosexuals.

Second, there would seem little doubt but that the great majority of these would be only too happy if they could anonymously, without fear of their identities being revealed, and by means easily available to them, help to revolutionize the homosexual's situation in American society.

Now then: what concerted action could they take?

To start with, an organization. A most unique organization, to be sure, with a vast roster of false names. And at the beginning, a very small organization of perhaps 2000 members which just happens to coincide with the circulation of ONE.

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