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finally lifted by dander-though I'd hardly expect you to risk offending your self-pitying femme readers by printing this.

Why don't you put it straight once and for all? ONE is for both male and female homosexuals. You've asked repeatedly for articles and stories on all aspects of the subject. And with a few notable exceptions, the gals have just sat on their backs. So let them sit. And please stop printing any sort of drivel that just happens to be by a female, just so you can have a feminine viewpoint section.

Clearly you've had a fine percentage of fiction and poetry by gals, though I suspect in several cases. a feminine name masks a male writer. But when it comes to non-fiction, which is the body of the magazine (the other is just whipping cream) the girls just haven't come through.

It's not that they've nothing to write about. The general problems of homosexuals are for girls just as for men.

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But there is the special angle. . . I've been waiting for articles on the life and writings of Radclyffe Hall. Perhaps one of your male writers will get around to it eventually! Or Florence Nightingale, Amy Lowell, Harriet Tubman, George Sand, Rosa Bonheur, Queen Christina, Queen Anne, Gertrude Stein or even old Sappho.

There are many other subjects girls could write about . . . for instance, on why females don't work to help themselves. . . an evaluation of Kinsey's studies of the American female . . . a study of any possible differences between the aetiology of male and female and how these factors affect differences in personality... some comment on the differences, as regarding promiscuity and long-term relationships, between male and female homosexuals... the question of just how often women are hit by the laws.. or most important, why the girls want to isolate themselves and then complain that they're left out . . . or why lez bars are always such sluttish places.

But if the girls were on their toes. they wouldn't have to wait for a male to suggest what they could be writing about. The fact is they're not on their toes (with those very few exceptions already noted).

So unless you gals who write all those snivelling letters to ONE are willing to exert yourselves. I think you ought to relax and read what the boys are writing for you. After all, most of the rest of the material in ONE is for you too, even if it's not by you.

But as a last word, before you tear me apart-I'm not really a woman hater. What bothers me is all those who want a man's prerogatives without exerting the blood and guts it takes to earn that. What I really hope is that this outburst of mine might make one of you gals so damned mad you'll write something worth reading.

Mr. A. C., Galveston, Tex.

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