Letters

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TO VOLUME IX AND TO 1961: GREETINGS

Gentlemen:

Several years ago you published the number of your subscribers by states and countries. I was rather shocked by the stunningly low numbers. There must be many, many people who would be interested. Most likely they simply never heard of ONE. I myself came across it by merest chance.

To come to the point, I've been racking my brain for a way of "promotion." Needless to say, I've come up with nothing but straw (aside from the old: pass it on to your friends routine, which I have duly practiced). Should you discover the golden egg in the straw, I would be glad to poach it for you in New York City in my spare time.

Dear Sirs:

Mr. F.

New York, N. Y.

I do hope the enclosed two dollars helps toward the expansion of ONE. It isn't much, but I know that every little bit helps. You have a fine Magazine going. I do hope you will be able to continue it.

Dear Don:

Mr. J. Topeka, Kan.

It was with surprise that your news of the impasse in publishing ONE reached me. But what came as a greater surprise was the fact that only 2% of those who purchase the Magazine each month contributed to the Fall Fund Drive.

For what it is worth, my opinion would be that most of the remaining 98% either read ONE for kicks or simply view it as a piece of pulp not worth the price of the hour's reading it affords. If eighty-three readers attempted to prime the pump with an average donation of $15 are there not others among the Friends of ONE, and well-wishers who are equally concerned? I sincerely hope so.

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Otherwise, Kinsey's Report must be further off than many sociologists suspect and the number of those who overtly avow homoerotic sympathy, understanding AND practice betrays a complete lack of substance-in the philosophical sense. Their avowals being per accidens.

Dear ONES:

Mr. P.

-, Mich.

A dollar every payday for ONE keeps the wolf away....

Dear Friends:

Mr. X.

Los Angeles, Calif.

Here is my share of the "Dollar a Year" Fall Fund Drive campaign. You are not asking too much, believe me! I hope you have had a good response. Carry on with the wonderful work you are doing, and God bless you all. Mr. S. Edmonton, Alberta.

Dear Friend:

Enclosed is a birthday check. I hope you get many more of them from those "millions of men and women who belong to the homosexual minority." But you won't. Why?

Because the average homosexual doesn't give a damn about other homosexuals, or the minority of which he is supposed to be a member. He despises himself. He despises his kind. He is riddled with a secret dread of being found out. He learns how to conform himself to the behavior of the circles in which he has to move, and, when he comes to feel relatively safe, congratulates himself.

Then, if by any chance, someone crosses his path with talk of the minority rights of homosexuals and with the suggestion that it is time people crawled out of their holes to begin a little agitation, he is at first amused at such eccentricity and so exchanges a few bantering remarks, then ends by dismissing the whole thing with cynical contempt.