Dear friends:

Since I first started buying ONE, I have found a good bit of consolation, some fine entertainment, and, at times some much needed enlightenment. But until I read the article, "How to End Hostility Towards Homosexuals" by Sal Makis, I had never been inspired.

Without a single doubt, Sal Makis has touched deep in all our hearts. To follow a path such as he says would be hard, for I have and am trying.

Dear ONE:

MR. J. Marietta, Georgia

Sometime, how about a little biographical sketch on Eve Elloree. Lots of people here comment on her drawings.

Dear ONE:

MR. T New York, N. Y.

ONE should be a world of Art & Literature not a police station and crime clinic. We get enough of the latter from our regular press and expect ONE to be an oasis in this desert of futility.

Dear ONE:

MR. J. Brooklyn, N. Y.

In looking through a Catholic Newspaper not so long ago, I was struck by a curious stylization. When the press generally (that is, non-catholic) is concerned with the via crucis of Papal adherents in China, they say "catholic". But when the Catholic TIDINGS writes about the same incident, they say "Catholic". When Ike is rejecting another peace proposal by Russia, the press snickers about the soviets, But when UNESCO prints a broadside, it refers to them as Soviets, South Africa passed the apartheid laws to control the colored. But when the National Council for African Affairs fights back it demands equal rights of citizenship for the Colored. It would seem that whenever and wherever national, cultural, or social minorities aspire to, or are granted, the stature of pride and dignity equated with the best in social maturity

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achievable by society, they are accorded by those who champion them and/or respect their endeavor, the accolade of the Capitalized initial letter.

You may have noticed that I personally always write Homosexual, Homophile, Lesbian, etc., with the Capitalized initial. In so doing I am only attempting to familiarize my correspondents with the dignity to which I feel I am entitled. The more, for instance, I look at your broadside in current and choice book-titles available AND SEE MYSELF IN SMALL LETTERS the less I am likely to comprehend my minority as a significant social element capable of unique potentials of community values in coalition or in fellowship with other groups similarly discriminated against.

Let us, then, in counter-offensive, hoist ourselves by our own petards from lower to Upper case. Let us feel that, in so doing, we are re-establishing an honorable historical category (and social identification) not only for our contiguously ancestral Nameheroes but to that even more illustrious, though nameless, legion who in selfless devotion contributed so much to the progress of human conscious-

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Yours for the capital "H" uber alles, MR. H.

Dear ONE:

Los Angeles, Calif.

In the Aug.Sept. 1956 issue, the high quality of writing was marred by the sophomoric views and style of Sal Makis on "How to End Hostility to Homos." His entire case could and should have been summed up in a sentence or at most a paragraph. His manner was petulant. While preaching tolerance, his tone was cusing, shrill and nagging pletely negative also condescending and repetitive.

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One ridiculous article like this can lose forever many readers who are all too eager to think of ONE's staff and writers as foot-stamping, curltossing, precious, vapid protestants. MR. A. New York City