tion among homosexuals is almost exclusively practiced by great, rough, virile young men who are successful according to how normal and rugged they appear

and aren't. The swishy little queen in Bikini-type tights seldom would think of charging a fee. It would be like demanding pay for having gone to a circus.

Next?

This is not the end of the Miami story. The voters will write that. Every homosexual and every heterosexual interested in his own civil rights must protest by mail, phone, telegram telegram and conversation among friends. Those officials will

Walter Headley, Chief of Police Miami, Florida

Dear Mr. Headley:

act on their own unless you direct them to do otherwise. Put your foot down!

Initial Action

Letters have been written by ONE's Bureau of Public Information to the editor of the Miami Herald, Police Chief Walter Headley, Councilman Bernard Frank, Chief Romeo Shepard, Sheriff Thomas Kelly and Commissioner Daniel Sullivan in commendation and in criticism according to their roles in this debacle. As a result, the Sheriff has subscribed and ONE's letter was posted on the Miami Herald Bulletin Board. Following are two samples of the letters sent.

December 11, 1953

We would like to commend you for your refusal to wholeheartedly support the current hysteria concerning homosexuality reported in the Miami newspapers. Enclosed please find a copy of ONE, The Homosexual Magazine. You may be interested in reading the article beginning on page 12 concerning two intelligent, sane police officers in New Orleans.

Millions of self-respecting and respectable homosexual American men and women view with deep concern illegal and unconstitutional invasions of their rights as United States citizens, as have sometimes taken place in various cities. The time has long since passed by when such can be permitted to pass unchallenged. In its desire for fair play, ONE consistently not only exposes unscientific and unfair activities of the law enforcement officials but also commends those having a more realistic and modern viewpoint.

You might like to read the careful and scholarly report of the Illinois Sex Offenders Commission, made for the legislature of that state by 150 doctors, attorneys, psychiatrists, educators and law enforcement officials. Quoting from it, "The commission found no 'warrant for hysteria' regarding the sex problem. Relatively few sex offenders are dangerous and the minor offenders do not as a rule graduate into dangerous offenders."

Very truly yours, DALE JENNINGS, Editor

December 11, 1953

Daniel P. Sullivan, Director

Crime Commission of Greater Miami

Miami, Florida,

Dear Mr. Sullivan

We are in receipt of various clippings from Miami newspapers giving quotations from statements you have made. In view of their tenor we are enclosing for your information a copy of ONE, The Homosexual Magazine.

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