restlessness and on and on, ad infinitum. These states are the heritage of people but so again are our rights to abolish them.

In our own century women fought for, and won the right to vote. Is it to be presumed that the average woman has more on the ball than has the lesbian? Is the lesbian unwilling to fight for and win the right to be as she is?

That the boys have a greater struggle granted. But is it perhaps because a larger percentage of homosexual women are less prone to be detected and/or find it easier to integrate? What, however, if at any moment we were in danger of being shorn of our comfortable disguise? Would we not then take action in our defense?

Due to the nature and makeup of the male (homosexual or heterosexual, it is inconsequential in this aspect, I think) the ordeal for him is greater. It is not unusual to find the male of the species in constant pursuit of his counterpart when he is unmarried. The woman approaches it differently; for her the problem is reduced. To our knowledge there is virtually no history of entrapment in the case of women. So, I think, our need for rebuttal must come from an indignation less personal. A healthy indignation born out of the awareness that we constitute one-half of a minority whose civil rights are unprotected and violated each hour of the day. Our need to expound homosexuality must come from again a greater need as

women. We are (usually) naturally equipped and innately compelled to help do away with the ignorance and intolerance that perverts society.

To think that, on the whole, the average lesbian is strong, willful and capable and that she yet hesitates to give us voice in ONE leads this editor to believe that a stronger timorousness interposes, and, as we stand today, our voice combined is but the shadow of an echo that could not so much as scratch "the great silence." Take a look under the complacency of our judges and see there the smoldering hatred many harbor for any one of us. It is up to us homosexual male AND female to fight for the removal of hidden peril. Our own complacency may not be so well preserved.

Let us not think that because we are artists of a larger firm, that we are ad writers for better known magazines, that we are members of accepted clubs, or on the opposite extreme, that we hold ordinary positions, belong to no clubs, lead quiet, currently invulnerable lives, that we must thwart writing for the cause that has not yet become so great a problem for the lesbian as for our male kind. In so doing we retain the problem and potential disaster.

Drive away your prudery! Thrust hesitancy into a corner! Let us wage the most modern war: a bloodless one. ONE magazine is the artillery; your ideas, your ink the ammunition. Neither does much good without the other.

ANN CARLL REID, editor

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ONE uses any form of short story: mystery, etc.; poem: free-verse or traditional subjective, objective esthetic, didactic, etc.; articles from personal experiences or point of view book reviews art work all must be in good taste. Homosexual or non-homosexual may contribute pro or con. Realism, not obscenity, wanted here mawkishness to be avoided. The purpose of ONE presents a challenge to the free thinking and imaginative individual; to everyone interested in the problem of civil rights and equality for all peoples and minorities.