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come out on schedule without fail, that is, if the budget can stand the pace.

What of the next five years? Will there be just more of the same things? There will indeed be many of the same things, but there also will be some differences. The Magazine will continue to report past and more recent history (as in tangents). It has been called "the voice of U. S. homosexuals," and expects to keep on serving as a forum where this voice may be heard. However, it is no longer enough to do merely these things, or even objectively report trends and events.

The time has come when ONE Magazine must LEAD. Solutions must be found for the present intolerable minority status of millions of American men and women who refuse any longer to tolerate suppression, subjection and abuse from every side. As citizens they have their rights. Today they know this and they propose to have them. It is the task of ONE Magazine, as we see it, to lead both the homosexual and the heterosexual to see just exactly what those rights are, then, how to go about getting them.

There are readers who might perhaps favor the literary-coterie, charm-school, Continental approach, suave, charming, sophisticated. The homosexual today finds himself living in a world in turmoil, ready to come down about the ears of us all at any moment. Can he do less than strengthen his position and improve his status while he may, remembering how in Hitler Germany the homosexual found he had few or no rights, except those of premature burial?

Let no one rashly assume that the Magazine is now "going into politics." Nothing could be farther from its intentions. It has its field: the homosexual & homosexuality. This field has widely varied aspects and ramifications. The problems to be discussed are endless, the issues to be clarified are without number. The homosexual must be given confidence in himself and taught how to take his proper place in modern society. These are assignments big enough for any publication.

So, the Weather Forecast of the Magazine's future policies might read: thunder, lightning, frequent hail, high winds, occasional sunshine. Such a climate should be stimulating and envigorating at least. It just might turn out to be quite healthful in the long run.

William Lambert Associate Editor