Dear friends:

I am sure that revenue is revenue and all that but that "stripper" ad-well really. I mean, really. THE COVER, FROM ALL POINTS OF VIEW, WAS GREAT. (Feb. Issue.)

Dear Mr. Slater:

Miss J.

NEW YORK, N. Y.

your february cover was a bit of a shock, but i found it between time and life magazines right on the newsstand. keep up the good work and high standards.

Mr. K.

NEW YORK, N. Y.

To the Editors:

As I read the LETTERS column each month, I wonder if the writers who object so violently to some particular article or story stop to realize that ONE is really a very general publication . . . in the sense that it is meant to appeal to a group of readers whose personalities and backgrounds vary widely. There are some things I don't like, but when I find myself objecting I'm certain some of the things to which I object are wholeheartedly approved by other readers. I think that a little more tolerance of the other fellow's preferences is in order.

Mr. K. OAK PARK, ILL.

Gentlemen:

My sincerest congratulations on your winning the battle against the post office. By carrying the fight to the Supreme Court your have rendered a signal service to all of us, and forced the public to some recognition that homosexuals have rights too. The Magazine is too small but I know you are doing your best to remedy that.

Sirs:

Mr. B.

BETHEL PARK, PA.

Congratulations on winning our stand in this world. It gives us confidence that we have a friend for our goal in life.

Mr. C. HARTFORD, CONN.

Dear friends:

I wish to add my congratulations to the many you have probably received on the recent victory over Mr. Oleson and his lik.. This was the first news I'd had of it, since none of the local papers made mention of it.. Keep going. Eventually, our voice will be so loud it cannot be ignored.

I am now and have for several years been ready to be counted. I don't try to hide my preferences, quite the opposite. Yet, amazingly, few people believe me when I tell them I am homosexual. Pardon me for rambling on. I have been reading ONE for so long I feel I know you all and wanted you to know me as something beside a name. Mr. W.

TERRE HAUTE, IND.

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Dear Editor:

Congratulations indeed on the sixth birthday of ONE and upon making the world realize how much beauty, kindness and truth there is in the homosexual life. I missed TANGENTS in the January issue as it is always written in the brighter style. I think, through your heroic efforts, we have passed the defensive and "sordid" stage of being objectionable "queers" and can live it up" in our natural (though restrained) way just a little. Such a style also appeals greatly to new and young readers which is a very important consideration.

Gentlemen:

Mr. E.

NEW YORK, N. Y.

I received your sample edition of July, 1954, on Whitman. I was quite astonished to learn that there were still people who did not accept the fact of Whitman's homosexuality. After having read your study on this subject one is not allowed to doubt any longer.

Mr. J. MONTREAL, QUEBEC

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