It seems that your magazine is forever crying the theme song, "Please treat us like people-we're no different than anybody else!" Then if we aren't any different, why does everything in your mag reek of "difference"? Ah. yes. that "Echo of a Voice was a masterpiece a masterpiece of driveling infantilism. at its worst. Imagine a grown man out in the open screaming at the top of his lungs "John, Come back! Come back!" Screaming it for the whole town to hear! THAT is supposed to represent great and tender love? It represents nothing but a hopeless neurotic who has lost the person he undoubtedly had been leaning upon. This is NOT love-this is childish need. And yet the story was dramatized ridiculously. To continue, "But the cries of that youg man calling in the life of night for the friend he loved had echoed in my memory for about thirty-five years. I wonder what became of him.'

Well. I wonder too. I hope, for his sake, he was placed in a good psychiatric hospital he certainly belonged there!

As for your articles-they are from nowhere too. Why in the name of heaven do you print and reprint articles that eternally damn us? A case in point are various items you have printed by Bergler. The guy obviously hates us then why do you pass on his vicious and hostile attitudes to thousands of homosexuals who are starved for a ray of friendliness and guidance?

Another article which illustrates what I mean is "The Older Homosexual" in the June-July issue 1957. Here, I thought was a real meaty title because I've often wondered what happens to the homosexual when he, or she, gets old. Well. in this article I found out.

"Sparky," the article writes, "a life long nickname descriptive of his champagne personality, which made each moment an incandescent bubble, is still a bachelor' playboy at seventy-five." YES. dear editors. I am quoting directly from the article-look it up yourself!

And THIS is what happens to the homosexual when he grows old—at least so your magazine says! What a horrible and depressing effect this must have upon wide eyed and inexperienced young homosexuals who think this is the fate awaiting them when they grow old. Don't you realize that this kind of talk increases promiscuity and gives people a feeling that this kind of love is juvenile and unlasting? This is TERRIBLE propaganda!

And while I'm boiling about your mag, will you please tell me just what is your purpose in your column. "tangents-news and views by dal mcintire"? That. barring none, is the most USELESS and vicious section of your entire magazine. Why? Because it does almost NOTHING but publish the perverted side of life which involves homosexuals. Here is an excerpt from the Oct.-Nov. 1957 issue-

"In opening shot' of their 'war against perverts,' 8 Tampa vice squadders hit Jimmie White's Tavern, arrested 12 women--because of 'mannish' dressquestioned, but did not arrest 2 waitresses in men's clothes. 'My orders came from the top,' said Captain Howel Ryals, 'we're going to put a stop to this activity once and for all.""

Don't you think it's about time you selected the "type" of homosexual you wish to reach through your magazine? If you wish to reach and defend the type of person who is constantly being picked up in this or that tavern or beach shore or what not, then go ahead. But the self respecting homosexual is not with you. He seldom, if ever, goes to those places in the first place, and he's

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