SECURITY RISKS

Dear ONE:

The homosexual is a security risk by definition. "Official thinking," as Washington calls it, says he is liable to blackmail or willing to yield information to a secret lover who in reality is an enemy agent.

Although it is hard to discuss this question intelligently and without emotion, the picture is simple and clearcut. There is a substantial minority to whom homosexuality is nothing more than a state of being, as normal to them as being blonde, brunette, or white or black.

The Japanese military services throughout World War II accepted homosexuals, as they did Hindus, Shintos, or others. In the Orient they say it's not so much who you are but how you live that counts, so homosexuals were given the chance to live by the same code as heterosexuals. Japan had no Burgess and McLean story.

In Mexico homosexuality is no reason for discharge from the Gobernacion, their State Department. United States seems to be the only country which so severely persecutes the homosexual per se.

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What should be punished is promiscuity, heterosexual or homosexual. Lt. A.-U.S.A.F. San Francisco, California

Dear Friends:

Can I beg you to take a little time in your efforts for the homosexual to write your Congressman or Senator to comment on the revelations concerning military and other secret service activities conducted without the knowledge of the persons accused? If this is still a democracy then let's make it function by taking firm hold of our rights. Let our governmental servants know our thoughts on this matter.

Don Rifle

Santa Monica, California

MORE ON CHILD MOLESTATION

Dear Editors:

The article by Cristina Valentine (April, 1960) has served to jar some thinking-caps and scatter the dust. All that I have to say about the article is that it is merely an opinion, based on so much research. Unfortunately, to my way of thinking, the author started out with the conclusions and went on to justify them. I always thought research went the other way around.

Anyhow, I enjoyed much more reading the different points of view (June, 1960) than I did the article itself. It is through the presentation of these different views that

education comes. The history student doesn't read a single volume on world history and come away a historian. He must delve into the works of as many writers as possible, for each has something to say that may be of value.

Let me here and now submit my request that ONE continue to publish such controversial articles, and follow up with the responses gleaned from the readership. I believe that publication of the opinions of the readers serves well to promote among the general public an interest, knowledge and understanding of the problems of variation," to quote from the face-page of the Magazine. What better way to get a point across than to call forth responses from the ranks of variants themselves?

Dear ONE:

Mr. S.

Springfield, Missouri

The article by Cristina Valentine was of little more than passing interest to me, but I do greatly approve the fine letters concerning it that you have printed. The selection of the article was sound on this basis alone. Your aim is to tell the whole story. By all means do tell it. Why must all readers approve of all features? It is nice to hear only the good things, but-.

I am constantly amused by the fact that each new one who "comes out" thinks he has invented Gay Life. One of your functions should be to point out our traditions. A psychologist of my acquaintance tells me it is one of the first things she tells the new Gay who comes to her for aid. She says it really does one good to know he belongs to a group with traditions-a touch of the "normal" that does no one harm.

Dear ONE:

Mr. D.

Spokane, Washington

A few days ago the Miami papers carried a story about two sixteen year old boys who were having overt homosexual experiences with boys from eight years and up, and were paying the younger boys to cooperate. Juvenile Court is trying to decide whether to warn them or turn them over to a psychiatrist.

I am led to wonder who is really responsible in cases of "seduction of minors." I have on more than one occasion while sitting in a movie had some young kid solicit. I have sense enough not to accept any such offers, but they are made. There are quite a few teen-agers who hang around the Gay Bars some looking for money, others just for pleasure.

Mr. L. Miami, Florida

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