Letters

The views expressed here are 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:

May I add my personal objection to the obvious swish." It's like wearing a set of false teeth that protrude over your lower lip. A ridiculous addition to a very real problem.

Dear Friends:

Mr. R.

FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA.

Enclosed is a check for your Post Office Fund. Thank you very much for the issue of ONE Confidential. I was particularly interested in the Articles of Incorporation as an insight into the organization and workings of the Corporation, and am looking forward to reading the By-Laws in the next issue. You are to be congratulated on the ambition of your objectives. You have in the Articles a mighty blueprint for the future!

Dear Editors:

Mr. B.

SPRINGFIELD, VIRGINIA

I am in complete accord with your present stand in regards to Freedom of the Press in all countries. We all know that the muffling of public expression is the first step towards dictatorship and the over-riding of intelligent abolition of existing abuses among our democratic society today. Please accept this contribution to aid in your supreme court case.

Miss R

WINNIPEG, CANADA

To the Editor:

Read the "Dear Joe' letter with great interest-also some of the follow-up replies. One point in the original letter sort of stuck in my craw. I would like to ask "friend" how reading ONE or any similar publication can convince a person to become an active homosexual?

Is it possible for a person to be so weak minded, so full of self doubt that all he needs. to do is read an issue or two of a magazine and he is a 100% convert? If so, then pray tell your friend not to see a doctor, but simply read a couple of stories in True Confessions and he will be a grade-A, 100% lover boy type with the ladies.

Granted, ONE is a powerful tool-a pioneer and a standard-setter, but can it have even more power than the editors or most of us readers realize?

If knowing the legal status, the religious aspects and the present over-all picture of homosexual life in America is biased reporting,then ONE is guilty. On the other hand, if these problems, common to so many of us, are evaluated and discussed openly, not only among ourselves but also among heterosexuals, then ONE is to be congratulated for giving the impetus to this move-

ment.

"Tangents" brings reality to the picture to balance some of the novelettes which are rather idealized and simplified. A strict diet of fact and discussion would take away much of the individuality of this magazine, therefore a balance between fact and fiction must be achieved.

For myself, I say all the more power to the editorial staff of ONE for bringing us closer together. Maybe someday the "mystic bond of brotherhood" will no longer be a desired goal but an achieved and proven fact. ONE is doing a great deal of positive proselytizing to hasten the onward rush of that day.

Mr. J. BRIDGEPORT, CONN.

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