One story that will remain for a long time with me was, "Mission San Juan Capistrano" (May, 1958). It was an artful tale told with a simple beauty. How I envy those who can express themselves so easily with words.

ONE should investigate those gay kids who inhabit trailers. I have just recently joined the ranks, but I know we are a large family. Mr. H.

Dear ONE:

CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY

I would have loved being at your 1959 Midwinter Institute and am going to try to be there next year. I like the new "Confi" (ONE Confidential). It is easier to read. ONE certainly must have grown a lot since I was out to see you a year ago.

The Editorial (March, 1959) is one of your best. Keep it up. Also, in reference to tangents article about Detroit, Judge Gillis, of Recorder's Court, said that Detroit had more illegal arrests than any other city in the country. The police claim they wouldn't be able to uphold the law if they weren't permitted to continue. I wonder what other cities do?

Dear Mr. Slater:

Mr. B.

DETROIT, MICHIGAN

I received the note yesterday concerning the police licensing law and want to thank you for your deep concern. I intend to fight this matter through the courts. If need be even take it to Washington. I also intend to fight any other action that may arise in connection with my bar and its patrons.

Your Magazine has been doing a wonderful job and I must say if there were more people in the world who would do what you are doing the world would be a better place to live in. All it takes is a little courage and the will.

Mr. P.

HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA

funny. I have always been a supporter of our bars. I felt that by doing this I always had a refuge. But then looking at it in an adult manner the bar may give me refuge, but ONE is making that refuge no longer necessary. I have found that people who have picked up a copy of ONE somewhere or other are more willing to listen and understand. Miss H.

Dear ONE:

COMPTON, CALIFORNIA

Regarding review of Plague of Lust by W. L. (February, 1959) it wouldn't be fair to say your reviewer didn't even begin to give appropriate emphasis to the importance of this book for homosexual literature. He did "begin"-only. It is in connection with its quotes from the classics that this book has tremendous value, with respect to their English translation by an Oxford M.A.," as the original Carrington edition (Paris, 1902) had it.

For the reader patient enough to plow slowly through these footnotes, as perhaps your reviewer was not, there emerges in terms of the English translations of Greek and Latin generally-banned-as-obscene poems, dialogues and essays, a comprehensive picture of homosexuality in classical times, especially as viewed by non-homosexuals.

And there's the shock: it's not the rosy, idealized picture so popular these days. Reading the epigrams of Martial, the diatribes of Lucian, the plays of Aristophanes in complete, straight unbowdlerized translation, it is soon clear that "public opinion" was very much the same in those days.

Thanks to the anonymous "Oxford M.A.," the reader can get a picture of matters homosexual in the riper Greek and Roman days and, aside from some interesting reading, can learn once again the truth of the famous French proverb, "The more things seem to change, the more they really remain the same."

Noel I. Garde NEW YORK, N. Y.

Dear ONE:

It is my sincere opinion that homosexuality will never be tolerated as such, but I am for individual rights when it comes to sex preference. It has always been a mystery to me why homosexuals express a guilt feeling for what they are, and not for the things they do, for a man is judged by his actions, not for his feelings.

Let's have more on what homosexuals are doing these days-less on romantic and speculative thinking.

Mr. R.

WILLOW SPRINGS, ILLINOIS

Dear Miss Russell:

I am writing because of this month's Editorial (April, 1959). It made me feel kind of

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Dear Sirs:

Why in heaven's name was tangents omitted from the May, 1959 issue? Nearly everyone I know that reads ONE calls it the best, or one of the best sections, the only source of gay news on a nationwide scale. Yet, blandly omitted.

And let's take the corn out of the interviews of so-called successful homosexuals, the "yups," "sure do's," etc. And let's interview people a little farther along the "success" scale than some have been. Not to be snobbish, but most of the people who subscribe to your Magazine, or certainly a good part of them, aren't too impressed by con-