Dear sirs:

ONE certainly has come far since its humble beginning a few years back. The Magazine has become a friend for many of us who find life lonesome. Keep up the great work and wonderful improvements. There is a possibility in the future we will be accepted by society. We may never see this day but the future generations will. Work such as yours. will have its reward.

Dear Editor:

Mr. C. HARTFORD, CONN..

I came across your magazine recently and enjoyed it very much from cover to cover. I didn't know such a publication existed, and was thrilled to see it. I have been a homosexual for about five years, and this magazine shows that there are others who feel as I do. I was especially interested in your letters-tothe-editors column..

Dear sir:

Mr. G.

PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS

I have read your magazine for many months with the greatest interest, but there is one topic you never write about-transvestism. I am a man sixty-one years old who has worn feminine attire whenever possible since birth. I am not ashamed of it, in fact I enjoy being seen in one of my many pretty dresses. As I write this I am fully clothed as a lady, from the skin out-nylon stockings and white highheeled shoes. I also am wearing ear-rings, necklace and bracelets.

My friends all admire me and prefer to have me dress as a lady. Perhaps there are many of your readers who dress as I do. Why not let's hear from them? You may publish this letter if you wish.

and feel sorry for ourselves, but keep a lookout for that friend who will bring us happi-

ness.

Dear sir:

Mr. P.

WATFORD, ENGLAND

I have tried twenty times over to write. you a note of thanks for publishing my "Words That Hurt." And I thought writing fiction was hard. It's impossible to tell you how I felt when I bought the July issue and saw my story there.

I don't understand Mr. C. of New Zealand at all. Why should we be encouraged to learn. that desire does not diminish at 74? Great God, how many suicides has this man precipitated?

Dear sirs:

Matt Kent

ATLANTA, GEORGIA

Not getting the Magazine is like waiting. for a friend who fails to arrive. I have no contact with people with whom I can feel as if I belong, except through your Magazine.

I don't claim to have a great deal of courage. I don't make a point of informing everybody of my true feelings. Some people know how I am. Many don't. Neither do I pretend to belong to the over-manly, spit. every five seconds, kill the dirty queers group, who are not too good to sneak into back alleys or public rest rooms, or a car on a dark side street.

Any contacts I have will be "right" by my own philosophy, or not at all. It's a lonely, not too comforting philosophy, but I have self-respect. I wonder how many of the aforementioned group has.

Mr. N. INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

Mr. B.

NEW YORK, N. Y.

Dear sirs:

Your readers might like to hear about one or two of us over here. A small group of us living in various parts of the country keep in touch by mail and by tape-recorded letters. We sometimes meet socially, although not often enough, as distance is the barrier. A solitary copy of ONE is circulated about and we all enjoy it. I have just read the June issue. Congratulations to Miss W., of Brooklyn, for her forthrightness about the chin-up stuff.

We are a happy band over here, enjoying our friendships, and indeed many of us have overseas friends whom we often hear from. Once a homosexual has found a friend or friends he can and should relax and enjoy himself in sympathetic company. I am not at all worried about my "condition" and am at peace with the world. We should not sit down

Dear Bill:

It is a very exhilarating experience to be traveling with what amounts to a key to the city, every place you go. The "fraternity" is truly international-our particular community is far ahead of the political one in terms of world understanding. Missed contact with the groups in Belgium, Sweden and Denmark, where the club is open only two nights a week.

Amsterdam is the freest and liveliest spot. Had a pleasant, illuminating chat with Bob Angelo. Proceeds of the COC Club (very pleasant, popular and free from police annoyance of any kind) are sufficient to pay salaries to four full-time workers. May such a day soon arrive for ONE! There is a hunger for ONE in many areas over here, but it is apparently hard to obtain, especially in England.

Don Rifle

ROME, ITALY (enroute)

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