This magazine was founded for the purpose of bringing about a better understanding of sexual deviation by both heterosexuals and homosexuals. It means to accomplish this through the publishing of research, of comment and criticism, or fiction and poetry describing situations and reactions to them inimitably deviant of humor and satire necessary for an objective view of any subject. These pages are devoted to no one view, advocate no one philosophy save tolerance and reflect widely divergent opinions in each issue. The Editors have received letters and articles from all over the world, and have faithfully respected the anonymity of each writer in an effort to maintain ONE as the only means of expression for literally millions of deviants in America, and a literary companion to similar publications in other parts of the world. ONE is a non-profit corporation and connected in no way to any other organization. The Mattachine Society is neither a branch of ONE nor related to it in any way other than in broad principles which they both espouse. Further, ONE neither advocates nor condones any illegal acts but concerns itself, not with incitement but with reaction to sexual variation in the public and in the variant. It forwards no letters, effects no contacts between writers and will submit its list of subscribers to no government agency or any other for any purpose. As all of ONE's income is used to improve the magazine, only one member of the staff is at present paid. All subscriptions and contributions are an investment in the right to

Editor-in-Chief Dale Jennings Editorial Board Eve Elloree James Whitman Ann Carll Reid David L. Freeman Contributing Editors Donald Webster Cory

Martin Block Don Slater

Realizing that our own ways are not humanly inevitable nor God-ordained, but are the fruit of a long and turbulent history, we may well examine in turn all of our institutions, thrown into strong relief against the history of other civilizations, and weighing them in the balance, be not afraid to find them wanting.

Margaret Mead in "Coming of Age in Samoa"