misleading of the articles recently appearing (February 1 to 14) in the Hollywood Citizen-News was also sent to ONE. We reprint it herewith as one example of the uprising of public indignation which greeted the rabble-rousing attacks upon homosexuals launched by the Citizen-News. Happily, ONE's vigorous exposure to public officials, judges, legislators and hundreds of others (fully described in January ONE Confidential) appears to have put a stop to a campaign which had been expected to continue until March 1.

Miss Carol Collins Citizen-News

1545 North Wilcox Avenue Hollywood, Calfornia Dear Miss Collins:

I have hesitated long and thoughtfully before drafting this letter to you with regard to your recent series of articles in your newspaper about the sexual deviate.

I have hesitated because I have never before been moved to write a letter to an author or a publication. I have hesitated thoughtfully because I fear that you desire reand in writing I am demonstrating a reaction, and I fear your encouragement because of reaction any reaction.

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I do not like your articles. I do not agree with their accuracy or intonation, and I do not believe in your stated motivation. But you will read no caustic ranting and raving in this letter. What you will read, and I hope you read it carefully, is a categorical comment on your series a comment that is born of objectivity.

I am the father of four, the oldest being a most handsome sixteen year old son. I am no more desirous of having him attacked or molested than I am in having my

arm cut off, and I believe that my position in that regard allows me to "straddle the fence", so to speak, and feel objective about the problem. Nor am I a complete stranger to the homosexual society. A number of my friends and acquaintances are so inclined, and I am forced because of my knowledge of them to speak out with a certain amount of objectivity-prejudiced neither for nor against.

So much for that. I hope my comments will bear me out.

First of all, it seems to me that you have not brought anything new to the subject. Your articles are full of the same old stereotyped observations which have been made for years by those who do not really know their subject. For the sake of brevity, I'll comment on the most glaring.

Your two reporters who observed some Hollywood street corner got an eyefull all right. But what they saw was the action of a group that the majority of homosexuals would find just as repulsive and foreign. In any group of race, creed, color, or sexual proclivity, there are dregs. There are people and places to which the well bred and astute of any group look with disfavor. Your reporters might have. found a more representative homosexual, and probably in just as great a percentage, at the opera, for instance, or any legitimate theatre, or Bullocks Wilshire on Saturdays.

For here you have failed to expose the fact that homosexuals are everywhere in every occupation -living seemingly normal lives and behaving themselves in public.

Your Dave Heyler has quoted the case of one Carl Armstrong. I hope Mr. Heyler does not feel that these are the actions of a typical homosexual, although they are stated as such. No one can deny that Mr.