member that homosexuals are human beings, too. May you know many years of rich and happy fulfillment in love and understanding.

Many good wishes, Blanche M. Baker

Dear Dr. Baker:

I'm a true female and proud of it. I can imagine I should have only compassion for you. I would, if I thought you kept your homosexual practices private-surely you don't; you're bold enough to almost shout about them! Perhaps your name in the papers will draw in more companions for you on your experience couch? Well, more power to you. Only I hope the likes of you never gets her claws into my son-or brothers.

I can see you now-a voice like a man, a moustache, and perhaps a cigar? (Or are you the pale, sick, confused-appearing, emaciated receiver in this game of "Disgrace Against God's Plan"?) Let me tell you, Doctor (terrible they've seen fit to give you the title) those of us who have to contend with these homos are not in favor of its promotion, as you advertise. True, they need help-but who are you to proclaim that it's alright when an imbecile knows they are sick, sick. It wasn't God's plan of life. Law repulses your teaching. Incidentally, your stinking, lousy low-moralled California is full of them-those rats that molest our children in school here daily, etc. I'll bet $100.00 you have no children. You are low enough to be an animal, with your idiotic views, and not fit to be a parent. I hope you don't have any children.

[Mrs. Ashamed to Sign, Fairfield, California]

Dear "Ashamed to Sign":

I am happy to find that you could find the words to express yourself as frankly as you did about this controversial subject. It must have reliev-

ed a lot of guilty and hostile feelings to blow off steam as you did. I wish we might get together sometime to discuss your views; surely there must be reasons for you to feel as you do. I am not trying to say that my views are the only views, but I do feel that it is more worthwhile and productive of better understanding to take a more positive viewpoint and to try to help homosexuals to find outlets for their exceedingly human and natural tendencies.

Whenever anyone attacks me as you have, I always try to look into the matter carefully to see if there is really anything constructive in what they have to say. In the case of your letter, I'm afraid you missed the boat on most of your points. I am not and never have been a practicing homosexual, although I have deep sympathy for the cause, and am quite bisexual in my clinical interests.

With best wishes for increased depth of understanding as the. years go on,

Blanche M. Baker

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Yes, Abdallah Chaamba was only thirteen when hunger drove him to offer himself to the old French Army colonel; he was barely sixteen when the man threw him out in the sun drenched Sahara to die of hunger, cold, and thirst. During those three years everything that a morbid human mind conceives that can possibly be done with a human body just ripe for love, was attempted and brutally carried out by the colonel, so that tears, not bread, was the daily ration of that boy born to write of the starry skies above his head, of