LETTERS

Dear Editors of ONE:

May God bless you and help you to continue with ONE and make it grow and stand as a beacon light for all who are seeking for truth and understanding!

Believe me when I say I appreciate all you have done and are doing to keep ONE alive! I hope and pray you will continue and keep a variety of thoughts, ideas and stories in our magazine! ONE has improved greatly since its birth and I believe it shall continue to grow bigger and better in the future. I can't find words to express my feelings towards all of you who have done so much to give us a "voice"! About all I can add is THANKS from the bottom of my heart and I hope my little contribution will help in its small way to keep our voice heard!

Dear Sirs:

MR. C. Reading, Pa.

ONE carries a series called TANGENTS, Almost entirely, this is made up of unfortunate incidents about homophiles gathered from anywhere. Sure it is interesting. But one wonders what must go on in the minds of the casual observer who picks up a copy of ONE and reads what we have been doing or been connected with, which was, in the eyes of the law, wrong. Where there is smoke there is fire. And if the connection of the homophile is ordinarily attached to things wrong, it gradually builds up an unfortunate conclusion, I happen to think it is a bad column.

How much more fortunate if TANGENTS concerned itself only with

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very worthy accomplishments of the homophile group. No, it is not good to close our eyes entirely to the sordid, if we are connected with it. But such emphasis on questionable events. is damning.

It is nice to have ONE around. And I must say that it seems to grow in stature issue after issue.

Dear Editor:

MR. F. New York, N. Y

If, by and large, things have improved somewhat for the homosexual in the past half-century, it is mostly due to the efforts of the intellectuals in the sciences and the arts. People with ideas like those of Mr. R. of Texas, whose letter you printed in the March issue, certainly haven't helped any.

Homosexuals are asking for broadmindedness, tolerance and understanding from the heterosexual world, That means asking (it) to think and ponder about this problem, to study it and inquire into it from all the angles, and to have a change of mind and heart about us. If we ask this of the heterosexual world, then certainly we owe it to society to be well-informed, to think things out honestly and thoroughly ourselves, to become as familiar with the points of view of the 'normal' people as we would like them to be with ours, to meet their doubts and objections to us with sound, honest answers, if we can do so. We cannot demand that the heterosexuals wrestle with this question in all its difficulties and complexities if we, for our part, intellectually lie down on the job.

MR. L. Baltimore, Md.

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