Thanksgiving. The night the panel on "The Homosexual Today" was broadcast from our daring FM radio station, KPFA in Berkeley, I was actually in bed having the most painful siege since my fall last June complicated my diabetic condition with a clot on the lumbar cord, paralyzing my legs so they look like polio.

So please forgive me for being ill and very, very human. You must know, of course, that I meant no offense. The DOB and I-I thoughtwere old friends. Just check back into your publication, The Ladder, for March and April of 1957, when we had so much fun kidding that psychiatrist who took offense at the remark I made at the ONE Midwinter Institute in Los Angeles: I had been trying to bridge over and reassure that sea of questioning faces that I was one psychiatrist who didn't bite, so I explained that I was both a psychologist and a psychiatrist. When everyone looked puzzled I gave the old differential: the psychiatrict digs down deeper, stays longer, and comes up dirtier! And that poor benighted

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psychiatrist shall remain namelessas you three shall also, except for your initials and titles. I'm sure if anyone is interested you could send them a sample of my reply just for laughs!

All I had hoped for, in referring any of the homosexual or bisexual boys to you would be that you would send them a sample copy of The Ladder just to show them how Lesbians think and feel. If you are afraid of a sexual attack from a fearful bisexual just realize how infinitely more fearful they must be of you.

Remember, the most awesome word in the English language is MOTHER! But that takes us deep into basic psychiatry and my own personal theories about what makes a homosexual-which would be stealing thunder from future columns in which I plan to focus on the basic causes of homosexuality, which I insist is not a disease.

I have some answers for the lonely ones!

Bye now, Dr. Blanche

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