Dear Friends:

I was interested in the account of the ancient Greek novel, Leucippe and Clitophon, (March, 1960) for the character Menelaus put well into words my own feelings anent sexual relations with males vs. sexual relations with females. Plato did likewise for me about love in his Symposium and Phaedrus many years ago when I was just turned eighteen. One Saturday while in the public library to do research for a term paper in Freshman English I found the Symposium. Great was my surprise and joy when I for the first time saw an exact statement of my own feelings and views. This was several years before I knew that there was anyone else in the world who had the same thoughts and feelings toward the male sex that I did.

It gives one pause to think in realizing that Nature so repeats its patterns that without any knowledge of the thoughts and feelings of others one can independently develope the same thoughts and feelings. Yes, I would have been very much at home with Charmides, Menelaus and Clitophon in their time.

About ten years later, when I fully knew the facts of the gay world, I went one evening with my mother, youngest sister and a girl friend of my sister to a concert in Grant Park. After the concert, as we were driving home, my sister and her friend started to talk about the different boys and girls they had seen trying to pick one another up. This was news to me! I had noticed boys trying to pick up boys at this and other Grant Park concerts, but it had never occurred to me and I had never previously noticed what was apparently so natural and obvious to everyone else, boys and girls. boys and girls "cruising" one another.

Dearest ONES:

Mr. S. Chicago, Illinois

I thoroughly enjoyed Dr. Baker's advice (February, 1960) to that one in the Army. WE here are most fortunate in that most of our Gay society conduct ourselves properly and our public officials are broad-minded, intelligent individuals. They know we exist, and after midnight on any Friday or Saturday night the downtown area is ours. We conduct ourselves properly in the bars and on the streets and everyone is happy with the arrangement.

After having lived in New Orleans, San Antonio, San Bernardino and Manhattan I have never run across nicer, more understanding people than those here in Kentucky. 'Tis a shame Louisville doesn't have more adequate job opportunities, for if it did it would surely be the Gay Capital of the fifty states. A word for that dear one in the Army, Seek and ye shall find." I know because I

was in the Air Force and the Marine Corps and I had a ball. Loved it. And all of them. Mr. P. Louisville, Kentucky

Dear Friends.

While I have been in Europe a couple of times and have seen some of the gay bars there I shall send for the directory of them which was advertised (May, 1960).

I am wondering if you know of any such directory in U.S. I don't know, why such material should be confidential or secret, for they are public places and a matter of common knowledge in most cities. I am especially interested in Denver, Tucson, Phoenix, San Diego...

Dear Sir:

Mr. P. Lansing, Michigan

Why don't the lesbians write more for the Magazine, also letters? It would seem to me that they would read the Magazine as much or more than the boys, since most of them aren't as social.

Dear Sir:

Mr. P.

Venice, California

You claim you wish to promote among the general public an interest, knowledge and understanding of the problem of variation." In this I am all for you. So please don't spoil every fine magazine by publishing anything in the future like "The Junk Dealer, (March, 1960).

Mr. S.

New York, N. Y.

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