TOWARD UNDERSTANDING

The purpose of this column is to create a better understanding of homosexual problems through the psyciatric viewpoint.

BLANCHE M. BAKER

M.D., PH.D.

(We welcome Dr. Baker back in these pages after illness prevented her column appearing in the previous [April] issue.)

Editor of ONE,

In your March issue under Dr. Baker's column you made reference to the Daughters of Bilitis in a most

erroneous manner.

The answer to the letter from Mr. M. G. of Quebec implies that the DOB is available as a "marriage bureau" for the feminine type sexual men who are seeking dominant masculine wives. It is not the policy of the DOB to dabble in the sex-lives of their members. It is certainly not the policy of the DOB to create contacts between men and women. We neither abet nor encourage any kind of sexual contact between sexes of like or dissimilar nature.

Contrary to Dr. Baker's advice, it is most unlikely that the gentleman who wrote in her opinion could get much understanding or help from

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our group. We have very little to offer the man who does not understand his own nature. We are a women's organization.

Already, because of the nature of our group, we have been showered with letters from all manner of sexdeviate men who think that Lesbians are in a position or frame of mind to offer them something special. We do not wish to hurt these men or to make them any more unhappy than they already appear to be. We simply do not have anything to offer them.

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Please . . . let our contacts be friendly, but try not to interpret or establish our policy for us. We have nothing to offer men in our organization, other than that social contact that we enjoy with you who already know your minds and your way of

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