else, an alignment of positions among the American homophile groups, with ONE being the most "far out," the Daughters of Bilitis being the most cautiously conservative and the Mattachine Society standing somewhere in between.

Those at ONE, in reviewing the entire affair find themselves still, like Goethe, asking for "more light." They also find themselves more vividly aware than ever before of the need for education among the homophile public, meaning by that, the need by us all for specific education concerning homosexuality and all of the social and personal problems found revolving in confusion around that topic.

For it was an unhappy experience, even an embarrassing one, to watch the unedifying spectacle of wellmeaning and intelligent individuals as they floundered through a mass of non sequiturs and semantic confusions during the sessions, apparently quite unaware of the rich heritage that great thinkers of the past have left us concerning rights, and of how applicable much of this would have been to the assignments in hand.

Most of us, unfortunately, have yet to acknowledge that the mere ventilating of opinions, beliefs, personal experiences, conjectures and hopes have little significant meaning until subjected to the discipline of carefully-planned and systematic study. Most of us appear not to be ready yet to undertake so laborious a task. Most of us, unfortunately, still find ourselves unable or unwilling to think of homosexuality in serious terms, or even as being a topic worthy of our time and energy.

So What Comes Next? There is much remaining to be done before the texts produced by the five Drafting Committees would be apt to mean much in print to those who did not attend the Midwin-

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ter sessions. The class in Homophile Education is already busy at work continuing its careful tabulating of the questionnaires, a formidable task. It is also trying faithfully to make an impartial evaluation of the attitudes towards rights the many many letterwriters have expressed.

Those in the class have the somewhat unnerving feeling of being, like the Lilliputians, witnesses at the slow awakening of some great prostrate Gulliver, long asleep and still tied to earth by every hair of his head, yet inexorably and irrevocably arousing himself, evaluating the strength of his tormentors, testing his fetters and about to burst loose from his bonds.

It is a sobering experience, almost alarming in its implications. but vibrant with the pulsating challenges it presents. Small wonder then that some have quailed before the prospect, or have been unwilling to turn their eyes toward it.

And so we pause, as the curtain goes slowly down on a brief Midwinter prologue which has but sketched the outlines of that great, and as yet unwritten, drama-cycle which is sure to follow later on. For, is it to be believed that today's Gulliver, the millions of men and women whose lives each day are breathed in terms of "other love," will forever suffer the Lilliputians to bind him and tortuously constrict his movements? Let the reader answer this for himself.

Postscript

Despite the amount of work involved in the tabulation of the questionnaires it is desirable that even more of them be submitted, so that as large a sampling of attitudes as possible may be had. Hence the questionnaire is included again in this current issue of the Magazine.

It is requested that those who have not already done so fill it out and return to ONE Institute. Those who