and should begin to know better. You ought to be ashamed of the trashy little mag you the turn out. I've seen better prose in South Alabama "Swine Breeder Monthly." Really, you haven't turned out a first class mag in the last two or three years. I think it is because you have become a tight, hard, brass-queen little group. I think you have driven away anybody with any real talent. That's my opinion-over five thousand miles distant about your January, 1962, editorial by Marcel Martin.

Dear sirs:

Mr. V.

Hamburg, Germany

I didn't care too much for the story, "The Boxwood Garden" (February, 1962). It was well written and not uninteresting; but it leaves a bad taste when complete. What was the purpose of the whole trip? And who was the most selfish throughout? What was accomplished, or changed, or even touched by the episode? And, most important, how much of a chance could this sort of a friendship have of lasting?

SALUTE TO ILLINOIS Dear ONE:

Mr. W. Houston, Texas

Homosexuals in Illinois are delighted at the passage during the last session of the Illinois General Assembly of the humane and intelligent law concerning homosexual relations between consenting adults.

At the same time a majority of us realize, I hope, that we must not abuse this guarantee of our rights, but rather must assume the responsibilities which it places on our behavior.

This new law should stimulate homosexuals in the other forty-nine states to crusade for guarantees of their rights too. Now that Illinois has given us protection from blackmail and vice vice squads I I am prompted to devote myself more diligently to my goal in the attainment of more guarantees of basic rights for homosexuals.

I have long felt that the discrimination against homosexuals in our Armed Forces is unrealistic and unfair. As you know, many homosexuals have served Our country loyally and with distinction. As far as I am concerned, my homosexuality could never cause me to be a security risk, because I would never allow a blackmailer to coerce me with his threats of exposure.

If the Armed Forces were to remove their discrimination against homosexuals there would be even less reason for them to fear blackmail. Let us hope that the

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Armed Forces will learn a lesson from the State of Illinois.

Dear sir:

Mr. B. Galesburg, Illinois

Thank you for informing me that the State of Illinois has eliminated its laws against homosexual acts in private. I have not yet been able to find out whether the State has a law against making a homosexual offer, so-called disorderly conduct, or the like.

The latter type of law traps more homosexuals than the actual law against sodomy by mutual consenting adults committed in private. I would like to purchase a book listing the countries which are most permissive as regards homosexual behavior. The only list I can find is in the back of the Wolfenden Report and this this list is very limited.

Dear sirs:

Mr. V.

New York, N.Y.

All should be happy about the progress made in the Illinois laws, noted so joyfully in your February issue. While the difference noted locally will not be as great as such a move would produce in some other states (Illinois has been more lenient, I believe, in laws regarding the homosexual, with not too great an attempt at enforcement in general)-it seems that the importance of a national scope is indeed. great. What is your guess as to the next state to take such a forward step?

Dear ONE:

Mr. N.

Houston, Texas

Thank you for your note of recent date. Report in the pages of ONE that the Post Office has suffered any defeat in its court action against the International Body Culture Association, of Chicago, and I may be less certain that there is imminent danger for "queers" who use the U.S. mails to write other "queers."

Mr. S. Stockholm, Sweden

HOMOSEXUALS ANONYMOUS

Sirs:

I think we should have a "Homosexuals Anonymous" as I read about (January, 1962) in the article by Geraldine Jackson. We need somewhere to go to talk to someone about our needs, our problems, our likes and dislikes. I am all for things that will bring us together.

I have tried to find a Homophile Institute here

branch of your in Boston

but