Letters

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ADAPTATIONS AND ADJUSTMENTS

Sirs:

It may be of interest to you that though everyone in this small town is convinced that I am a "queer," I have a huge practice. I never date girls; I have many boys who come to visit; my lover comes up often enough to be recognized and greeted on the streets and no one seems to mind. Quite tolerant I feel.

Dear ONE:

Dr. K., M.D. ---, Wisconsin

I'm getting mighty sick and tired of being classed with prostitutes, narcotics violators, police characters, etc. (see enclosed news clippings) so am enclosing a small offering to assist the cause.

Please, no more articles about our brethren who throw all caution to the wind and even advertise the fact that they are homosexual (see "As For Me," July, 1962). In the face of present-day public aversion to homosexuality only a "nut" or an independently wealthy person would flaunt his homosexuality before the public.

We would all like to, but unfortunately we all must earn a living and to do as "Rickeno" says he does would mean that most of us would soon be looking for a roof over our heads and something to eat. Until such time as the public, and the law, become more lenient toward us we have no choice but to hide our inclinations. Articles such as that "As For Me" only tend to make us angry. Mr. L. Roseville, Calif.

To the Editors:

Your Magazine has undoubtedly done a great deal to help homosexuals adjust to the repercussions of living on the outskirts of a society which does not approve of their actions. I feel you have grossly neglected the homosexual who marries heterosexually, bears children (sic!) and buys a home in the suburbs.

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I am associated with a law firm that is highly respected. Recently an attorney of thirty-five with excellent qualifications was not accepted for employment by my firm in favor of another man, precisely because he was not a family man. This is not an isolated case. An acquaintance who is employed by an employment agency told me that many personnel managers tell agencies that regardless of qualifications to send them no applicant who is not married; the reason instability.

What is the solution? Well, everyone must find his own, but I believe the majority follow my course. At thirty thirty I became conspicuously different within the social circle in which I both desire and have to live, I married an attractive girl and am a father of a three-month old boy. I have a lover who is the father of five children and who, with his wife, is frequently in the social company of my wife and myself. It would be unthinkable to go to a gar bar, or have a copy of ONE in our homes.

Through the course of the years, particularly after much drinking, I have discovered many married men to have homosexual tendencies which they later quietly admitted were there all the time. However, I feel that we are making a better adjustment to life than most of the homosexuals you write about. We have the security of a home and a family. We do not hate our wives, on the contrary, we are fond of them. But we are not about to fight the world and jeopardize our jobs. After reading ONE I cannot but help think that perhaps the personnel managers are not completely wrong, for, what is one of the basic characteristics of most of your subjects? Is it not instability?

Dear ONE:

Mr. I. Cleveland, Ohio

It makes me very happy to know that a corporation such as ONE exists and is helping those of us of the Third Sex to be accepted