Dear Friends:

As a new subscriber, I wish to congratulate the staff and members of ONE on the fine work they are doing. I enjoyed "Neurotic Eyes" in the April issue and look forward to receiving the fiction issues I have missed. I also wish to say I think the larger established magazines must envy you your artists! Thanks too for your Book Service. Would it ever be possible for you to send out a monthly mailer so we would know ALL books for sale thru ONE? I shall depend on ONE now to help me enlarge my library instead of hunting and searching on my own.

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Miss K.

RACINE, WISC.

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Dear Editors:

Most homosexuals I've known have had a Trojan Horse within themselves; they have more than half believed that society is right in its condemnation of them. For this reason too it is necessary to get right down to brass tacks and to reply with real answers to their self-doubt and self-recrimination. The analysts and psychiatrists are really little help. After all is said and done they too proceed on the assumption that homosexuality is a bad thing, for all their tolerance and permissiveness they nearly universally regard it as most unfortunate. My own conviction is that homosexual love is rich with positive value for humanity. Under present conditions this value is largely potential. I believe that our situation is very similar in its broader aspects to that of the Negro. Society keeps the Negro in abject squalor and then takes that imposed condition as proof that the Negro is inferior. We will never know what the Negro is really worth until he is given equality of status and opportunity. The same is true of the homosexual, I am convinced.

Mr. L. BALTIMORE, MD.

Dear Friends:

The news of ONE Institute has reached me thru The Ladder and thru letters from a friend in L.A. Are there any plans in the future to give your courses by mail? I hardly think it wise to leave my present position and move to L.A. and yet I think it unwise to miss anything as important as your institute sounds.

Miss T.

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH

EDITOR'S NOTE: Yes, correspondence courses are under discussion. It will be some time, however, before these plans can be carried out.

To the Editors:

The importance of the case of ONE, Inc. vs. Olesen may very well be one of the most significant events in the life of the corporation. I hope that all of the readers of ONE fully realize the importance of the case. Should the Supreme Court decide to hear the case and deliver a favorable verdict, it could well mean the beginning of the recognition of the rights of homosexuals as individuals.

Mr. R.

EAST LANSING, MICH.

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