or laughed at by others. I am a very sensitive person and know how terribly lonely some of these poor lost souls are. Anyone who truly understands the loneliness of these boys who can never become men, how can anyone ridicule us? I wish we didn't have to "walk in shadow."

Can a homosexual ever be happy? They are all such sad and terribly lonely men. I cannot understand how God wants these poor unhappy creatures to be around the normal ones. There should be government housing projects where these lonely men can live together and be sort of segregated, for the sole purpose of letting the normal people of the world live in happiness.

Everything I have ever tried to do has ended in failure. I am twenty-four. I wish I had the magic power to make all the lonely homosexual men of the world happy. I understand how it is with them, because I am one myself.

Dear sir:

Mr. D. Portland, Maine

Would you please send me some information regarding your publication? I am a male member of the gay set. My profession is that of a male stenographer.

Madame Eterna Du Barry Ottawa, Ontario

COURAGE AND DIGNITY Dear sirs:

I came upon your Magazine quite by accident today. I am twenty-two years old and came out in Europe two years ago. I know very little about American gay life and had wondered just why we did not organize in some way. I think seeing ONE was one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. I could not get over the very concept of your publication. I cannot tell you how pleased I am to have found someone who is willing to pay our cause more than lip service. It does one good to read something in defense, instead of against. I do not believe many eastern people have heard of your organization and the work it is trying to do.

Being a homosexual with dignity in the east is far from being easy. I have never been ashamed of my chosen way of life, nor shall I ever be, but it is very necessary to wear a mask. It gives me a sense of pride to know that there is an organization, although small and as yet not well known, trying to bring our submerged society above ground.

Dear sirs:

Mr. D.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

I notice a letter from Omaha, Nebraska (September, 1962) suggesting you put your

name on your mailing envelopes. Please don't. I heartily agree with the good work you all are doing but personally don't think the time. is ripe yet to advertise that much. If you do put your name on the envelopes I'm afraid here's one person that will have to cancel. Mr. J. Toronto, Ontario

Dear ONE:

I think a great many of us are basically cowards but would like to project ourselves more into the open. I've been a coward for years, but now I've decided to help ONE to be more well known. As yet I can't leave the Magazine in view around the house, but I've started leaving it in view on the seat of my car, etc. It takes courage, but that's something ONE's editors certainly have shown in their work.

Dear sirs:

Mr. L.

Windsor Locks, Connecticut

I have been reading your Magazine for the past four years, since I left home. From reading it my fears that I was one of a small criminal minority have changed to a complete acceptance of myself the way I am.

It seems to me that one of the basic problems of our people is the disparaging remarks made in newspapers, books, radio, etc. Have you ever thought of establishing a Committee on Publication, such as the Christian Science Church has in all fifty states? Its job is to answer and correct misrepresentations made in public media.

Editor's Note:

Mr. R.

New York, N. Y.

ONE's Bureau of Public Information, established in 1953 for just such purposes, was described by its Secretary in Letters (February, 1962).

BOOKS, QUARTERLY, ETC. Dear friends:

I have just finished reading James Barr's Game of Fools and feel I should at least send this short note to thank you and to say to Mr. Barr MAGNIFICENT. Please, please Mr. Barr, write us some more plays of this superb quality. We need them desperately. Of course I'm a little late, by about eight years.

By the way, the "Campogram" (August, 1962), was fun! It took me about an hour to decipher the quotation from the Kinsey book, the clue for me being that the letters WR were for TH, O for A, etc.

Dear Mr. A. E. Smith:

Mr. U. Washington, D. C.

As a musician I was very interested in the article about Tchaikowsky (QUARTERLY, Number 12), also yours on Whitman (QUARTELY, Number 4). I hope some enterprising contri-