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THE JUNK DEALER & OTHER SUCH MATTERS

Gentlemen:

Whatever has come over you lately? The picaresque and the degenerate have come to predominate in your fiction. "The Junk Dealer is an amusing tissue of shrill cliches and cant, granted. However, it deals with an outcast way of life fortunately on the wane to which the normal homosexual would say, "No thank you!" Their choice of epithets betrays their low estimate of themselvesand us. They are not representative homosexuals; rather, they are the very people we have been trying to tell the public we are not. Why publicize them?

There is no reason on God's green earth why a homosexual has to dress differently from other people. If we have good taste, and we all should, we shall want to dress accordingly without regard to who might interest us physically. I believe we are the same as other people most of the way. This sameness, not differentness, should be stressed, both to ourselves and to the outside world.

stepped in and now The Grove is finished. All the swishes I've seen in drag are mere amateurs. When the real queens-professional fem impersonators leave the stage, they are not noticed.

I have ranted on to show that the swish has hurt and hindered the homophile movement. He is not interested in promoting understanding between the hetereosexual and the homosexual worlds, because he can identify himself with neither.

Dear Sirs:

Mr. G. New York, N. Y.

I enjoy your ONE Magazine very much although I'm not much of a homosexual myself. I enjoy wearing women's dress and undies and am a transvestite. I enjoyed the story about Fire Island (October, 1959). Some day I would like to visit there for a vacation. May I take my dresses and silk stockings there, or aren't you allowed to go drag?

Mr. P. Detroit, Michigan

Mr. P.

Hollywood, California

Dear Sirs:

Dear ONE:

The homosexual swish is definitely neurotic. He is afraid of being himself. In my mind, he refuses to identify himself as a homosexual, but thinks of himself as a woman. This is negative thinking, since a homosexual is one man loving another man, and nothing more. They are still men. While your mag defends the swish and his right to flaunt his propensities in public, I feel that he should not be identified as typical of the homo.

The wonderful gay resort, Cherry Grove, was fine until three years ago when the swishy queens moved in. Then the syndicate

I heartily agree with Don Rifle's letter about effeminacy and swishes. (March, 1960).

Dear Editors:

Mr. M. Wilmington, Deleware

The Magazine is certainly getting goodevery issue is a little better than the one before. I noticed the letter complaining about the previous (February, 1960) cover, which I thought was quite nice and would attract attention on the newsstands.

"The Junk Dealer" is the funniest thing