really can't think of any good or sufficient reason for ONE's publishing them and would consider it irresponsible and reprehensible to allow the additional legal traps and ambushes of this rather superfluous act.

As for publishing the advertisements of dealers in physique photographs, there could be no possible justification, certainly not the few doubtful dollars ONE could earn by linking its destiny, legally speaking, to the rather precarious existence of these dealers. ONE simply is not that kind of a Magazine. It would not publish such photographs or ads for the same reason it does not have a stamp collector's column.

However, I must register my protest and condemnation against the Editorial on photographs by William Lambert (January 1961), which is illogical, without justification, bigoted, harmful, a cheap cavil, and entirely gratuitous.

By gratuitous I mean, for example, that it so happens I have an aversion to physical (and hence, sexual) contact with Negro men. Over here on the Continent I cannot help but feel that the Europeans whom I see making a fuss over a Negro are somehow doing it as a "stunt" to shock people like myself. But, having stated my feelings, have I served any purpose? Have I not in actuality prejudiced my own cause? Could anything be more worthless than this cheap viewpoint? Of course I am ashamed of it. And this is what Lambert has done with his Editorial.

The entirely gratuitous condemnation of your brothers who happen to like or to collect physique photographs can result only in harm to ONE. Face the question realistically: Can the ownership of photographs of male nudes result in anybody's harm-except as a result of police action which disgusts everybody? Is ONE actually trying to ingratiate itself with the police?

But, then, people who own physique photographs are not Mr. Lambert's brothers! Have you people completely separated yourselves from the rest of humanity? Can you see nothing ludicrous in what Mr. Lambert, an illiterate enthusiast, has said in the name of American homosexuals . . .

Mr. V.

Hamburg, West Germany

TWO FAITHFUL "CLIP ARTISTS" Dear Friends:

I am enclosing two clippings about the misdeeds of policemen in our suburbs. Am sorry I missed out on one clipping of interest -was away visiting relatives over the weekend and couldn't take from their paper an article about a man who committed suicide with an overdose of sleeping pills after being arrested for a morals offense with an eighteenyear-old boy.

Thought I would clip the article when I got

home but there was no mention whatever of the case in our edition.

Dear ONE:

Mr. R.

Milwaukee, Wis.

Enclose several clippings and, speaking of Crime, it's a crying shame that every time a crime occurs the homosexual tops the persecution list. I strongly suspect that if we could compile statistics they would prove that heterosexual rapes and murders far exceeded any comparable crimes committed by homosexuals. Why must homosexuals be crucified by every possible means in these cases?

You will note the underlined paragraph concerning the business man who was brutally murdered by a common hoodlum, the type commonly known as a "hustler." Wouldn't it be refreshing to see an article or an editorial outlining an accurate account of the number of homosexuals who do not commit crimes at all other than being homosexual? Besides listing all of the great contributions made by homosexuals to such things as literature, theology, medicine, the arts, etc., which have so vastly benefitted the lives of his persecutors. Mr. W. Dayton, Ohio

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