LETTER

RS

Dear Editors:

I'm particularly grateful to you for Crowther's article in the current issue. For the first time I understand the difference between ethics and morals and how they affect me..

In an area where it is so easy to hate, to be vindictive, narrow minded and intolerant, this article shines forth with a cool, clear logic and underlying goodwill that is a healing force for people who are trying to see honestly both sides. of the homosexual situation.

Sooner or later-perhaps after we are long dead and forgotten-society will learn how to treat homosexuality and all sexuality in an adult, mature and humane way. You and your group should feel proud that you are making that way. possible.

Dear Sirs:

LOS ANGELES, CALIF. M

A friend of mine has just mailed me your July "ONE" with its statements to the effect that the Poet Walt Whitman was some kind of a "homosexual" "deviant," or a person with some kind of unnatural and/or abnormal sex habits! I first heard that (Dirty) charge against the old man in 1932 from the "literary" critic, Ludwig Lewisohn but he admitted to me he had NO PROOF. NO RELIABLE EVIDENCE: NO TESTIMONY FROM ANY INTELLIGENT MAN OR WOMAN THAT IT WAS THE TRUTH. If you can give me any reliable evidence, or any real TESTIMONY that Walt Whitman was a pervert in any sense, (outside the evil imaginations of those who may wish he were as, perhaps, they are), then I will gladly send you a copy of my book on Whitman which I hope to have published by 1955 covering more than 20 years study of the man, his works and friends. PASADENA, CALIF.

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P.S. Even the drawing you have of W.W. is false. This is not W.W.!

Editor's Note: Thanks for saving us the trouble of reviewing your book, dear reader.

Dear Sirs:

The illustrations by E. E. for the Whitman article measure up to the bigness of the man!! HOLICONG, PA. m

Dear Friends:

Thanks for the pictures of friends of mine in your last issue-October(The Gay Menagerie). Send me 10 more copies IMMEDIATELY!

Hi, Gang:

MOSCOW, IDAHO m

Belated, but here goes! The June issue is probably your dullest, best, most valuable and controversial so far. Who is Arthur B. Krell? Obviously he's one of the more anemic of the West Coast creeps, but who high-pressured you into printing seven pages of his dried slobberings on God and Sex and Me? What I find most objectionable is the treadmill this quasi-intellectual idiot has set your feet upon! If you want to believe in, or live by what he preaches-while (DELETED) . . . as the tears slip silently from his tightly-closed eyes-why find any fault with organized religion, power politics or any of our other presently established horrors in all their blind rottenness? Evidently what this guy is trying to do is to turn you around and lead you into Church backwards! If we have to be laughed at, let's be laughed at as a gang of rowdy iconoclasts, rather than a ring of monks surprised at . . . (DE LETED).

Have you read Aldous Huxley's "Point Counterpoint"? Arthur B. Krell made both of us shout at the same time, "Denis Burlap!" I hope you see the parallel for it is quite important that we all do. The homosexual patient ONE is supposed to be attending is dying. Mr. Krell is offering the patient a sugar-tit when several large shots of penicillin are most urgently required. Once again I ask, who in the name of The Great I Am is Arthur B. Krell? And how did he learn where you'd hidden the body?

GREAT BEND, KANSAS m

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