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The views expressed here 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.

Gentlemen:

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I think that your organization is doing a fine work in the field of education. Your publications are most interesting and instructive. I have no doubt that your research department is developing properly. The idea of social service to the homophile minority is also a most important thing. I can think of no group more in need of such service.

I enjoyed your latest book, HOMOSEXUALS TODAY 1956, very much. It was most informative. All the material I receive from your organization . . . I pass on to parties which may be interested in behalf of spreading education concerning the entire problem of the homophile.

Friends:

MR. B. Portland, Ore.

Having read your magazine many times while living in NYC, I have been thankful for the light you bring to the dark truth of serious relationships within the same sex.

ONE has done a remarkable work, Literature and courageous reporting can pave the way for a new and better man. It may be a long time, but I believe he will arrive. Good luck.

Gentlemen:

MR. W. Columbus, Ohio

When certain homosexuals are sick people, it is because they live in a society which does not recognize their particular type. They are innocent victims of a society just emer-

ging from the dark ages as regards

sex.

The Swiss magazine, The Circle, handled the question of so-called 'cures' claimed by two doctors not so many months ago. The matter was brought before an international medical conference of one sort or another, if I remember correctly, but other doctors discussed the question also, & the general conclusion seemed to be that the 'cured' individuals were not bona fide homosexuals in the first place.

I can understand how an individual with both homosexual and heterosexual tendencies fairly evenly developed could be induced under suggestion to suppress the homosexual & stress the heterosexual, thus evolving a 'cure.'

But let us see that doctor take an adult whose heterosexual rudiments are vestigial and effect said cure. I know of at least one individual who wasted five years and lots of money in psychoanalysis trying to do much as described, and he remains, Yours truly,

Dear Sirs:

MR. J.

Waterbury, Conn.

I admire the apparently open frankness associated with your work, especially in the face of what is most certainly strong outside pressures. Establishing a unified place under the sun' may not prove to be possible in the present culture; that is, we accept the 'right' to organize for common ideals in occupation, religion, education, recreation, and a thousand others. But the right, so-called, to unify for the expression of a common sexual drive is both foreign and dangerous on many sides.

I do hope that at least a representative part of the contacts that you have obviously established do not go unknown to those persons, both private and institutional, interested in this field and its multiphasic problems. It is highly probable that you sit on a wealth of useful and desirable material.

DR. C:

Memphis, Tenn.