yours as good because it not only educates the public in understanding homosexuals and homosexuality, but better yet it allows homosexuals to understand their problems. Homosexuality therefore becomes way of living rather than a form of extreme deviant or neurotic behavior.

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Our society does not provide a role for its homosexuals. As women achieve a more dominant role in our society the incidence of homosexuality should show a rise and our society will provide a more tolerant and accepting attitude. The mere publication of your Magazine shows this, for I doubt very much if homosexuals could organize and publish a Magazine representing the homosexual viewpoint as little as twenty years ago.

Mr. H.

Pasadena, California

ASSENT AND DISSENT Dear sirs:

Kudos to the artist who designed the cover for the September 1962 issue. It ranks as one of the best, with its tasteful combination of space, line and color. Enclosed is my Buck-of-the-Month offering.

Dear ONE:

Mr. P.

Galesburg, Illinois

Paul Britton's article on marriage (September, 1962) was very close to home. It was timed just right for my final decision on whether to marry this girl I think I am in love with. I may be dense, but I got nothing from J. Lorna Strayer's, "Liberation."

Dear fellows:

Mr. F.

Dallas, Texas

Congratulations for Paul Britton's fine article on marriage. At least one "authority" agrees with this view. In his brief book HOMOSEXUALITY, TRANSVESTISM AND CHANGE OF SEX, DeSavitsch writes " ... it is quite certain that the homosexual who marries and has children performs an act against nature, which we should neither encourage nor sanction."

Dear sirs:

Mr. H.

Pomona, California

Mr. T., of Cleveland (October, 1962) announces that he is married, with a home, a wife and a child of three months. He is responsible, stable and is deserving of a job. He is safe as anyone can possibly be. In addition to all this he enjoys the infinite luxury of sexual relations with men and therefore counts himself a homosexual, which he is not.

He is Superman: all things to all men and all women. Depends on when you look. He giveth and he taketh away, for behold, unless ye be like unto him (heterosexual) ye

shall die; for then ye are homosexual and therefore unstable and therefore not deserving of a job, nor to live.

Can anything be simpler? You must NOT be homosexual. You MUST be heterosexual. Montonous, isn't it?

Dear Editors:

Mr. H.

Brooklyn, New York

Well, well, well. Ducky for Mr. T. of Cleveland. Now all that the homosexuals need do is marry and have children. Then, as pappas, they can have all the affairs they wish with other pappas, and approach (or should I have said "make application to"?) personnel managers with the greatest

assurance.

They will, of course, be paragons of marital fidelity, noble examples to their offspring and, most important of all, STABLE. If all homosexuals have wives and children they will never need to fear dismissal from jobs or suffer any incompatibility from a heterosexually oriented milieu. Employers and society can then grant them the noble virtue of STABILITY.

Isn't it admirable that Mr. T. serves not only the highly respected law firm which employs him, but all of us poor UNSTABLE suckers with this brilliant solution?

Gentlemen:

Dr. E.

Michigan

Re a Homophile Monastery (October, 1962), I think that under certain carefully planned rules it can be quite successful, though at present in the run-of-the-mill monastery if an applicant is merely suspected of being a homosexual he is immediately ousted.

As an employee, though never an actual member of the community, I have lived at various intervals on a monastery grounds. I was able to observe the monks very closely and worked with them. The superiors watched like hawks for any weak or effeminate traits in a novice.

Here is where the homophile monastery can contribute its greastest good. A male of otherwise good religious material knows that he will not be excluded from this tolerant and understanding community if he otherwise lives up to the strict discipline of monastic life. He may be able to lead a happy, useful and well-adjusted life even though he has deviate tendencies.

Should he be so unfortunate as to slip occasionally, providing there is no public scandal, his weakness might be forgiven, provided he is punished and humbly accepts the punishment of a just and fitting pen-

ance.

Brother Martin Buffalo, New York

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