Yet, these are the places we are forced to frequent to meet and be with our own kind. Living alone is no joke. To contemplate living alone for the rest of one's life is staggering.

With more scavengers, blackmailers, hustlers, loafers, trade-baiters these days it would seem the genuine homosexual would be more alert to the prospects of love, but the opposite is true. Periodically I settle down in a complete state of aloneness from sheer disgust and frustration from all the flyby-nights who have no intelligent relationship to offer.

Then, I once again venture out, thinking that maybe I've misjudged the pack intolerably and there may still be hope of encountering a little honest love. Those that seek a new friend every time cannot hope to find peace of mind and something worthwhile to live for. To find and share a life should seem the logical goal for a social

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ONE, Incorporated:

Mr. H.

Burbank, California

I've read with interest the letters of those who wish to correspond with others like themselves. I want to find a Gay woman that I could marry for companionship and social prestige, and a man I could meet at regular intervals for friendship and sexual gratification. Both would be welcome if I could find them without having to cruise Gay bars or streets but rather through correspondence where both parties could express each other's desires and plans explicitly, or through personalized introductions through a club.

This could be a tremendous help to a good many unhappy people, especially those who are reluctant to approach others. Can you imagine the appreciation for this type of help that would be yours if you could find a perfect mate for a person who has been lonely for years and had little or no hope for ever finding happiness? Please consider it seriously.

Dear Sir:

Mr. D.

Canoga Park, California

Please do not send any more mail because I was searched by the local police and a postal inspector who had several letters that I had written to other people in connection with a correspondence club in New York City. It appears that their lists were being distributed all over the country and fell into some very undesirable hands and they in turn began transposting obscene material through the mails.

I had some magazines that you can buy on any newsstand and they took them and demanded that I write a confession. I was told I would be hearing from them and un-

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derstand that there have been a number of arrests in Connecticut as well as New York. Please do not write to me as it will be censored by the postoffice.

Mr. C.

THE POPULATION EXPLOSION Dear Sir:

New York

Many authorities are alarmed by the apparent increase in the number of homosexuals. All population is increasing, naturally the number of homosexuals is increasing. Perhaps when the population begins to reach a critical point the number of homosexuals increases at a faster rate, as a safety valve. However, if this is true there should be a very high percentage of homosexuals in Asia.

I am coming to the conclusion that the Magazine is the most interesting and entertaining publication I read. This is probably a prejudiced viewpoint.

Mr. S.

Omaha, Nebraska Practice birth control the natural way. Be

Dear Mr. Slater, Editor:

Gay!

Mr. G.

I DID/DID NOT LIKE Dear Sirs:

Eau Gallie, Florida

You've just got to put me out of my misery! Of suspense, that it. I went nuts last February trying to figure out the CAMPOGRAM (Toasted Susie is my ice cream." Gertrude Stein). Please, please either print the solution soon, or at least send it to me. By the way, I found John Paul Tegner's "My Coleus Romance" (April, 1963) very touching in its sensitive evocation of the torments of youthful romance and of how the young manage to bear them and to re-

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Gentlemen:

Mr. B.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

It would be hard to beat the pungent, well-written items that appear in TANGENTS, but I am afraid that in May Mr. McIntire is guilty of one of the very things ONE crusades against, i.e., the damning of the many for the misdeeds of the few.

In what he calls STRAIGHT LOGIC he places the blame for William Higg's difficulties with the law upon the people of Mississippi-not, mind you on the the police officials or on a group of racial extremists but on the people (all 2,178,914 of them) who live in that state. How's that for a bit of straight logic? He goes even farther and imputes to the entire population ignorance and sins and lack of decency.

One must not indict an entire state or region because of the actions of some of the people who live there. ONE's writers should