In January, 1954, ONE noted with pleasure the launching of a brother homophile publication, ARCADIE, published entirely in French in Paris. Later, ONE carried articles about this new publication by Anton Lorenz (January, 1955) and by its Editor, Andre Baudry (February, 1955). Our book, HOMOSEXUALS TODAY, 1956, further devoted eight pages to description of ARCADIE and of homosexuality in France.

For those who have not seen ARCADIE, it usually has around sixty pages of text per month, pages slightly smaller than ONE's, but packed full, and containing very little art work. Some issues contain none. Covers are standard and uniform, without illustration.

The contents are similar to those of the majority of the other homophile monthlies: short stories of homosexual love; homosexual love poetry; editorials; articles on the historical, religious and philosophical implications of homosexuality; book reviews; theatre notices. However, more perhaps than many of the others, it emphasizes that particular blending of nicety of literary style, preoccupation with artistic refinement and delicacy of sentiment which appear to have been the hallmark of the Continental homophile publication, even so early as the German DER EIGENE, issued by Max Brand from Charlottenburg, beginning in 1900 and for six years thereafter.

The advent of ONE Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies in 1958, with its claim to being the first publication of its kind, apparently provoked some confusion among French readers. Their attempt was to judge its first issue in terms of the established image of the "popular" homophile publication, such as DER KREIS, ARCADIE, or ONE Magazine.

The article by Marc Daniel translated below is a serious evaluation of ONE Institute Quarterly, fully recognizing that it is indeed an "academic" publication. in the tradition of the scholarly journals which universities and scientific bodies issue, therefore in no way to be compared to the rest of the homophile press. As such, ONE's Editors felt it would be of interest to readers to offer Mr. Daniel's frank and unsparing critique for its value as a stimulant to careful and systematic thinking about homosexuality.

Those who read French would find Mr. Daniel's book, Hommes du Grand Siecle, a fascinating and well-documented historical presentation of homosexuality, mainly as found among the aristocrats and Churchmen of the Courts of Louis XIII and XIV.

ONE INSTITUTE QUARTERLY:

HOMOPHILE STUDIES

by marc daniel

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