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EDITORIAL

With this issue ONE begins its 10th year of publication. This is, then, our tenth anniversary issue and our 10th anniversary year. In honor of this milestone in ONE's history I have felt it appropriate to preempt our customary editorial space and, perhaps, a few extra pages, to review for our friends and readers some of the more significant events, both physical and idealogical, in ONE's not untroubled history. Significantly enough, there is a considerable number of names on ONE's subscription list which have been there from the very beginning; undoubtedly there are many newsstand buyers who have been with us from the first, yet, in all probability, there are few of today's readers who may realize and appreciate just how far ONE has traveled in its first nine years of publication.

The cause for which all homophiles must live and for which some, at least, choose to fight, is far from won. It will not be won, no doubt, in our lifetime. There are agonizing moments when to struggle seems purposeless and hopeless, but we cannot give up. Progress is being made. Most of us, however, fail to find within the arena of our own personal experience the milestones by which to measure this progress, and so we are not aware of it. But, because ONE, small though it still may be, is a larger entity than any of us its activities encompass a field large enough to provide landmarks by which we can measure our progress thus far and, perhaps, estimate the progress which may still be made by our generation.

It was in the fall of 1952 that the idea for the magazine eventually to be known as ONE was conceived. The idea was, at first, enthusiastically accepted and warmly supported by a comparatively large group of people who were then meeting under the auspices of the Mattachine Society in Los Angeles. The enthusiasm of most of these supporters died rapidly, however not because they felt any less warmly about the idea, but because they felt that the project was impractical-nay, not impractical, impossible. There remained, fortunately, a small handful who would not give up. This small remaining group continued to meet regularly, and plans progressed rapidly.

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