Letters

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ENTRE NOUS

Gentlemen:

My first issue (January 1961) was not only interesting but enlightening. I especially enjoyed the article "Know Your Bartender," also found "Tangents" very interesting. In "Letters'' I got disgusted at Mr. L., from New York City. Is he so ashamed of the fact that he reads ONE that he has to buy a copy with a newspaper to cover it? Why doesn't he receive it through the mail?

Mr. V. Pittsburgh, Pa.

Dear ONE:

We both enjoy your Magazine and feel that its value is far greater even than your deepest hopes. Apart from helping society in general it also brings our own closer together, adding a brilliant insight into the lives of those such as ourselves.

Let's have more from Dirk Vanden. His "In the Shadow of the Lady's Torch" (April 1961) reminded us of so many. We hope our friend in the story finally found the right guy. Mr. Z. and Mr. O. Denver, Colo.

Dear Don and Bill:

Here I am back with the old Testament Jews in the wilderness. I'll be glad when they progress as far at least as the Moses period. Am proud and happy to report that "integration" here is just a dirty word found in Yankee newspapers. No nonsense here still got our separate drinking fountains!

A colored girl makes my bed; a colored boy cleans the bathroom; colored men and women prepare the food I eat, and would care for my child if I had one. But, by golly, they ain't going to sit by me in school or church like they was good as I am! No sir.

I must be careful though. When something is serious to these people down here, it usually is very funny to me.

1r. E.

Fort Worth, Texas

Dear Editor:

"Case History" (April 1961) was so typical of many of us. To be exact, it reflected my own. feelings, attitudes and anxiety to the nth degree. I have gone through all the stages he mentioned except from twenty on, because I am only twenty-one now and hope to find the happiness the fellow in "Case History" found, and is still finding.

I go to a university and belong to a fraternity so I have to control my emotions and fears at all times because someone might find out what I really feel for a few of the members. I stay away from the dances because of the non-attraction to girls beyond the point of being merely friends, joking, etc.

It was wonderful just writing to you. Hope you will keep up all the good work you all are doing.

Mr. C. Stamford, Conn.

EDITOR'S NOTE:

Mr. E. is a Friend of ONE who has returned to his native Texas after several years' absence. His letter is printed here as illustrating the truism that the homosexual can not possibly harbor prejudice against members of other minority groups while at the same time asking and hoping for fair treatment for himself. "What's sauce for the goose, is sauce for the gander."

BLASTS AND COUNTERBLASTS Dear Editor:

The letter of Mr. G., of San Francisco (February 1961) reaches its climax with, "You weak, nellie swishes haven't got enough guts to stop trying to say 'Pretty please' to heterosexuals and to start fighting them instead,' has forced me to write the Editor-a thing I rarely do.