LETTERS

To all you MEN:

I just read your magazine for the first time and I want to tell you how horrible you all are. You know very well all homosexuals are men, and there are not any women homosexuals. How dare you have a "Feminine Viewpoint" section when the only feminine viewpoint comes from the feminine men? I see lots of homo men but never in my life have seen a homo woman. I'll bet that that Ann Carll Reid is a man and you're just trying to fool the public. Why don't you leave women alone and out of your lousy magazine. You don't have any respect.

Editors:

MRS. B. SANTA BARBARA, CALIF.

If you guys want to play it smart you'll stop this nonsense of getting out a magazine to help homosexuals. There are too many people against you. I just got out of the service, and you can be sure I know better than to subscribe. Wait until they start to lower the boom it will be too late then to run for cover. Don't stick your necks out! MR. C.

SAN PEDRO, CALIF.

If you "know better than to subscribe," just keep on reading the magazine, as you evidently are. Doing so you will gradually throw off irrational fears of all sorts. Surely you do know that United States and ALL of its citizens live under the protection of a Constitution, and that homosexuals have the same rights and privileges as do others.

Dear Sirs:

EDITORS

Recently a friend handed me a Feb. copy of ONE, explaining it was a homosexual magazine. Expecting a lawless, vulgar publication I was completely taken by surprise when I discovered it to be highly interesting and very informative. My outlook on homosexuality, I'm ashamed to admit, had formerly been that of a very narrow minded, prejudiced and almost totally ignorant (in this matter) layman who put his thoughts and opinions above actuality.

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.

Your magazine has caused me to seek out information about the causes and conditions of homosexuality and by doing so my whole. views on the subject have been radically changed. In fact I must thank you for making such a magazine possible. My own son is a homosexual and my new views on the subject will, I believe, lead to a reconciliation with him.

The article which impressed me the most was the one which told how ONE began. It showed to me the courage and determination of your minority to gain equal rights and privileges enjoyed by the rest of this free America. I'm sure if such a spirit of this kind continues and grows stronger and stronger your battle toward freedom from hostility will be a winning one.

Dear Editors:

MR. K.

OSAWATOMIE, KAN.

I'd like to express my pleasure in all of Eve Elloree's work. Her illustrations for "The Relative Interlude" in the December issue I thought particularly good. I compared those drawings with the ones she did for your December, 1953 issue, and although I still like the latter a lot, particularly the economical full-page illustration for "Death in a Royal Family," her line has become vastly more sophisticated and sensitive in the course of a mere twelve months.

Dear Sirs:

MR. E.

BALTIMORE, MD.

I am very grateful to you persons responsible for the organizing of ONE magazine. The articles and stories are educational and of high grade. The intellectualism displayed by the article writers is very inspiring to one who had heard only shameful and fearful words concerning the invert. I am sure your magazine will continue to do much towards the "ideal raising" in each person's heart concerning his or her own life desires.

MISS S. DAVIS, CALIF.

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