EDITORIAL

What does ONE stand for? What are its aims? The question is continually being put, despite a ten-year record that might be supposed to speak for itself. The inquiry often betrays a certain confusion between ONE and ONE Magazine in the minds of the inquirers.

An excerpt from ONE's Articles of Incorporation appears on the inside cover of every issue of the Magazine. Those who have given this excerpt their careful attention will readily see that the many activities of ONE, Incorporated in its four main Divisions and its lesser Departments have been designed to faithfully implement the course the Corporation set for itself in 1952. That some of the activities described are still present only in rudimentary forms and exhibit many shortcomings must be charged principally to the almost paralyzing poverty the Corpporation has experienced since it was founded.

Every advance made and such progress as the Corporation has achieved has come about through the painfully slow, though heartening, coming into self-awareness of the homophile population, an awakening which has spurred it to contribute to the betterment of its own lot through active work in and financial support of organizations such as ONE.

The newsstand "image" of ONE is ONE Magazine. The Magazine is, of course, the visible expression of but one aspect of the whole structure of ONE, Incorporated. As such, it has particular functions to perform. What are these?

They are almost impossible of achieving within the few pages which the support of the Magazine's readers provides. Let no one imagine the editors are happy at the limitations imposed upon them by so few pages in which to say so much. For the Magazine must be many things to many people.

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