ONE INSTITUTE OF HOMOPHILE STUDIES The Education Division of ONE, Incorporated

2256 Venice Boulevard, Los Angeles 6, California

announcement and schedule of classes 1962-63 academic year

Education is one of the purposes for which ONE (a non-profit California corporation) was organized in 1952. Its charter calls for "dealing primarily with homosexuality," through research, "educational programs," publications and other such means as are enumerated in its charter.

HISTORY AND ORGANIZATION

ONE's Education Division in January, 1955, sponsored its first public meeting-a Midwinter Institute. Repeated annually since then these Institutes have presented psychiatrists, psychologists, attorneys, clergymen, writers and others, attracting visitors from many parts of United States and Canada as well as from overseas.

Public interest in these programs encouraged the Education Division to make plans for serious academic

study of homosexuality on a continuing basis. During the summer of 1956 an Education Division committee reported its finding that scientific and academic study of homosexuality at that time exhibited numerous short-comings.

Notable among these were (1) scholarly timidity in dealing with a topic considered socially distasteful; (2) almost complete absence in institutional budgets of funds for furthering study of the topic; (3) medical, psychoanalytic or other bias limiting the viewpoints of most research; (4) culturally-conditioned

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