Dear Mr. Slater:

I would like to congratulate you and your staff for the job you are doing in bringing the viewpoints of other ways of life into the open and before society in general.

I found the articles on pornography interesting (May, August, 1961) but I feel the subject of censorship deserves even more deeply penetrating reports. The matter of censorship is plaguing media other than publishing in the same traditional, unrealistic manner your articles point out.

Dear Mr. Editor:

Mr. S.

New York, N.Y.

Enjoy every story and article appearing in the Magazine. I like the poignancy of the delectable little stories which invariably make fine use of semantic values. Have both fun and instruction glossing over the letters appearing in end pages. Some are a trifle cranky, others garrulous, but the majority are soundly sympathetic to your objective program, and therefore to be classed as "on the beam." The authors certainly represent variety and relieve monotony. Beyond all, you demonstrate that you are very fair in your disclosure of cross-section response. The Magazine infatuates, exhilirates and enlightens.

Gentlemen:

Mr. D. Chicago, Illinois

After too long an absence from the Homophile Minority Forum, it was like old home week to have a dollop of Jeff Winters' vigor-

and unsparing prose hollering from amongst the pages of the Magazine's decennial (January, 1962) issue. Your correspondent, himself teetering on the brink of falling into the category of "dirty old men," quite relished a return engagement with the editorial rough-and-tumble of this terrible infant-several of whose punches would appear (from his faggot point of view at least) to aim true.

Thus it causes deep regret to have to ring up a "no score" on his "Some Notes. on Phallic Worship." As a normally healthy homophile, your correspondent has never enjoyed more than a momentary flash of prurient interest in male genitalia of wood, clay, leather, cake dough, or metal.

Dear Jeff Winters: the phallus, or phallos, at no time (except in the patois of the ignorant and/or the ill-informed) was, or is, a term signifying the lovely male sexual member itself. Phallus signified only an effigy of the male member, and in today's society effigies and such-like are, if you'll excuse the expression, strictly for the birds! Henry Hay

Westwood Village, California

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Dear Friends:

You have me appearing as mystifying rather than provocative as a result of the abbreviation (January, 1962) of the page I wrote you. Let it be an example of what not to do to letters. What to do with them must often present a delicate problem. Cut and paraphrase where you must, but try to keep the bite of particular references and allusions.

Speaking of bite, Geraldine Jackson and Jeff Winters bite effectively.. Geraldine's "Homosexuals Anonymous" idea calls for pioneers and a long period of time. M. F.'s theater commentary is witty and informative. I believe the would-be sophisticated movie audiences are ready for strong doses of sensational homosexuality, provided the hero finally goes straight and marries the girl. We read that the first American-made dose is coming in lesbian form-"The Children's Hour." And ask Doyle Eugene Livingston to look up the current usage of the verbs to lie and to lay.

Edward Denison Texas

REVENUE, AND THE SHORTAGE THEREOF Gentlemen of ONE:

In looking over recent issues of the Magazine I notice you have a few advertisements appearing. Have you ever considered the additional revenue possible by expanding it?

Speaking for myself a service I would like to see is personalized personnel. I'm very hesitant about pulling up roots and coming to L.A. without even a a possible position in mind. The average employment agency deals too much with volume to offer satisfactory service to those living at a distance from L.A.

Dear ONE:

Mr. B. Minster, Ohio

I just opened up the Magazine (December, 1961) and read the tragic financial news. Had been so busy preparing for final exams that I didn't have time to read it before. Have examined my checking account and find in it a dismal $3.22, but because I appreciate ONE so much and feel that your problem is worse than mine, enclose a check for $3.

Hello:

Mr. P.

College, Illinois

So very concerned about your financial condition as surveyed in ONE Confidential (December, 1961). A poor college student can't do much but here's $5 to add to the $15 I sent in September. Shortly after February I'll mail in an additional $15. (EDI-