much more enjoyable is the company of the thinking homosexual whose mind is not constantly racing erratically along the groove of an evening's pleasure. I do not mean to be irrevocably condemnatory of the gay bar element. But I prefer others for my friends or companions.

Dear ONE:

New York City (m)

Good God, who in hell picks the "poetry"? In contrast to the prose, it appears as if left to a highly sentimental female contingent.

Dear ONE:

Stockton, Calif. (m)

SODOM . . .?? Ugh! Religious guys give me a pain in the neck. Or is he a guy?

Gentlemen:

Salt Lake City, Utah (f)

I should like to quote, for your information and possible use, from page 169 of the book entitled "Break Down the Walls" by John Bartlow Martin, published by Ballantine Books, Inc., 404 Fifth Ave., New York 18, N. Y.: "Thoughtful leaders of the bench

LETTER

ETTER FROM MIAMI:

and bar believe that an overhauling of the criminal code and its administration is long overdue. Currently, the American Law Institute is preparing a model penal code which will reclassify and redefine crimes. And a special committee of the American Bar Association under the leadership of Robert H. Jackson, Associate Justice. of the United States Supreme Court, has undertaken a three-year study of the administration of criminal justice which will encompass all police, prosecutive, and judicial procedures and practices, including a number of things of special interest to us-police brutality, disparate sentences, indeterminate sentences, the death penalty. These studies promise to produce documents that will be landmarks in American legal history and may result in farreaching changes in the laws and its administration.'

I believe the significance of this work should prompt ONE to investigate the committee's concern with legal treatment of the American homosexual. I'm also sure you will want to give deserved publicity to an official undertaking for which we've long hoped, and which ONE has advocated so forcefully.

Seattle, Wash. (m)

Due to the recent ruling by the city commission making it illegal to serve alcoholic beverages to homosexuals or to allow 2 or more of them to congregate in a business establishment, one bar owner found it necessary to present the enclosed form to prospective cus-

tomers.

We are trying to retain a sense of humor although the situation here is depressing, and the need for a martyr to test the constitutionality of current laws grows greater every day.

Sincerely, J.K.