LETTERS

The views expressed here are those of the writers. ONE's readers cover a wide range of geographical, economic, age, and educational status. This department aims to express this diversity.

Dear ONE:

Anent the many moral implications involved with homosexuality, I submit that the chief fallacy in traditional thinking lies in the assumption that all deviates are heterosexual who, via immoral thought, become homosexual, and who, via moral thought. can become heterosexual again. By developing this assumption it is easy to claim that all deviates are self-made, and unnatural.

Fortunately, many persons look twice at this notion, and sense its untruth. We are gradually coming to understand that nature produces homosexuality, as well as heterosexuality, by making the components for the former predominate in some mortals. Against the background of this idea, it is recognized that homosexuality is natural for some persons, and that, as with heterosexual attachments, homosexuality needs to be refined rather than frustrated.

Dear ONE:

Toronto, Canada m

Please, wha' hoppen? I subscribed to your magazine in January. I got the January issue, was delighted with it and the rest is silence. Have you abolished February, or are you sending said issue by carrier snail? Whatever it is, please snap out of it I'm lonesome for you!

New York City m

Dear ONE:

I've just finished reading "Well of Loneliness" and was deeply touched; so much so that I'm composing my first poem which I will send to you in the hope that you will think well enough of it to print it in your marvelous little magazine. Since I live in a very small town and seldom have time to journey to a larger community.....I become very discouraged at times. I can't express what relief your magazine has been to me since I recently discovered it. Whenever I start getting the blues, I pull out an old copy of ONE and it cheers me up immensely.

Dear Friends:

Kansas m

Congratulations on introducing the Classics, as illustrated by the extracts from Plato's SYMPOSIUM, beginning in your February issue. While it is true that many of us, both homosexual and otherwise, have some acquaintance with the Greek and other philosophers, it does us much good to be reminded of them. For those whose reading has not taken them in this direction, your reprints will be a source of much intellectual and moral stimulation. It is quite refreshing to see the SYMPOSIUM presented without circumlocutions or apologies.

Minneapolis, Minn. f