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ONE INSTITUTE

QUARTERLY OF HOMOPHILE STUDIES

article in Arcadie Nov. 1958 by Marc Daniel p. 47

The directing staff of the American periodical ONE, which is well known to those of our readers who understand English, is making a valiant effort to rise above the level of petty controversy and juicy tid-bits for masculine midinettes by establishing a ONE Institute which has for its aim the study of homosexuality in all its aspects and is publishing a new quarterly periodical bearing the name Homophile Studies. The first issue appeared under the date of Spring 1958.1

Frankly, I do not think that this first issue entirely corresponds to what we in Europe expect of a "learned periodical." Its format of two-column pages without footnotes bears a rather greater resemblance to the popular magazines.

And some of the articles it contains

1ONE Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies. #I. Spring 1958. ONE, Inc., 232 South Hill Street, Los Angeles 12, California. Price: 1 dollar.

do nothing to modify my point of view: an indigestible study by Mr. Henry Hay, "The Moral Climate of Canaan at the Time of Judges" is nothing more than a resumé of various theories about the organization of pre-Israelite society in Palestine; an English translation from the German of a rather banal essay by Dr. Hagen Hartmann entitled "Erotic Tendencies of Fashion" which had appeared in the February 1956 issue of "Der Kreis"; some extracts from the poem attributed to Byron, "Don Leon," which is a verbose apology for homosexuality but which is in no sense previously unedited or unknown since it has been analyzed by G. Wilson Knight in his thesis on Lord Byron's Marriage.

I do approve, however, of the inclusion by the editors of Homophile Studies of the text, hitherto very difficult to obtain, of the 1956 report of the Roman Catholic Advisory Committee on Prostitution, Homosexual