friend to my home. I have and will continue to pay and pay for this, for I was arrested by them. I had to pay fines of $600 plus legal fees of $425, plus two years of therapy at $2500. The threat from the judge was that if I was brought back during my probation I would face life imprisonment, which a person can get under Pennsylvania law as it was modified under the Barr-Landrum Act in 1961.

Although there was no publicity in the papers a court attendant recognized me and had me fired from a good job. This leaves me in the position of no income, unable to leave the state during my probation and with difficulty in finding a new position.

The results of increased dissemination of information on the subject of homosexuality has not presently increased tolerance. Perhaps this will improve at a later date, but for the present a homosexual must to all intents and purposes not put into practice the drives he feels, for most surely the wrath of society will sooner or later fall upon him and trample him into the dirt of the earth.

Hey:

Mr. B.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

When ONE hears of the murder of a gay person why not contact the D.A. and furnish arguments against letting the culprit go free on the excuse of saying, "He made a pass at me?

Are you doing anything specifically in any particular locations to test existing laws? To effect changes? How about sending reprints of significant articles (they must be logical and convincing to legal-minded straight people) to state and federal judges? Have you drawn up such a mailing list?

Appeals only to gay readers won't help greatly they are already converted. We need a militant attack on existing laws.

Gentlemen:

Mr. A. Akron, Ohio

I am interested in ONE's 1963 Midwinter Institute, now past, and sorry I could not have attended as I am particularly concerned with the legal status of homosexuals in USA. Would it be possible to print and sell the minutes of the Institute, or at least the salient parts?

Thank you for your reply concerning my inquiry about the Homosexual Law Reform Society of Great Britain. It seems like a most curious attitude that this organization would not welcome a visit from one who is a member of the group which it is trying to help.

I am quite in agreement with you that the homosexual must win civil rights as the Negro has and, like the Negro, must in all probability organize and agitate for these rights.

Mr. K. Miami, Florida

DAUBING TAUBMAN

Dear friends:

An undated clipping from the New York Times has come to hand, lavishing valuable column inches with what would seem a high degree of editorial indulgence to some meanderings of Times Drama Critic Howard Taubman. To a hill-billy like myself the merit of his "Helpful Hints to Tell Appearances vs. Truth" (sic!) remains one of those esoteric mysteries which doubtless are plain to that rarefied in-group populating Manhattan.

To others, Howard's Hints may sound like utter nonsense, the sort of nonsense that seems to flow at times all too easily from the mouths of oracles, especially somewhat provincial oracles.

For benefit of those who manage to get along without the Times be it said that the gist of the three-column complaint is that the New York stage is shot through and through with homosexuality, both overt and disguised, this season. Cited are plays by O'Neill, Pinter, Sidney Kingsley, Hermann Gressieker and Inge, containing "palpable specimens of homosexual content."

These are bad enough, but really upsetting to Howard are what he conceives to be the disguised references to homosexuality, the situations which if inverted (sex-wise) would seem to him to make better sense; "the hideous wife who makes a horror of the marriage relationship"; "the husband who hasn't touched his wife for years"; etc. He sighs for a time and some miracle which would "oblige playwrights obsessed by homosexuality and its problems to define their themes clearly and honestly."

Come now, Howard, are you so innocent as to imagine your public does not know why this cannot be? Are you so unaware of the dynamics of social sanction (known to every college freshman class in sociology) as not to be able to diagnose the phenomenon? Do you really expect us to believe that a playwright who is not "obsessed by" heterosexuality would find a stage for his work unless it be liberally smudged over with a whitewash of those appearances calculated to deflect the wrath of those self-same social sanctions?

Please, Mr. Taubman, like the shoemaker with his last, stick to your drama criticism, but do leave social interpretations to the more knowledgeable.

MONTREAL THE MAD Dear ONE:

Mr. G. Ashland, Oregon

Montreal is still far superior to NYC and is now hopping more than ever. It is sad that ONE does not have an outpost of intelligent gay people up here in this northeastern frontier who have immediate contact with the many gay and local developments.

A gay guy or a car full of guys (most

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