worth of a person or thing. Then I could take one more step toward accepting myself and the world as it really is. Please accept my deep-felt gratitude.

Mr. B.

Los Angeles, California

A POX ON CALIFORNIA Dear friends:

As a loyal supporter since 1952 you can be sure I appreciate your untiring efforts toward making our world a better place in which to live, but I was very upset to see the very trite comment on vacationing in Florida (Tangents, June, 1963). Spoken like a true Californiaite!

Certainly we deplore the actions and methods of the Johns Committee, but what of the raids and purges elsewhere? I know of a Florida bar in business since 1946 which never has been raided. In fact there are several like that around here.

South Florida is is fast becoming more cosmopolitan each year and is in truth a great place to vacation in. You seldom hear of someone being rolled or beaten up. Because of a few hard-headed, ignorant North Florida politicians it seems totally unfair to perhaps frighten someone from the pleasures that do exist here.

After all, bus station restrooms aren't the safest place in California, or most anywhere else. Anyhow, to quote Ann, three lashes. with a wet noodle to whoever wrote a very foolish and thoughtless paragraph.

EDITOR'S NOTE:

Mr. R.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

There is hardly a hamlet in California that has not (since 1952, Mr. R.) had a great deal more than noodle-lashing in TANGENTS, in articles and editorials, or the LETTERS, to say nothing of towns in Texas, of New York City, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Charleston, Boston and elsewhere including most of the allegedly glamorous capitols of Europe. Please go back and check your copies from the years and months past.

Bad doings, directed at the homosexual, are not restricted to any geographical locality. The Magazine's job, so it has seemed to us, is to tell the story, whatever it may be, wherever it may have happened. And it does so happen that Florida and California, where population increases are surging the fastest, get more than their share of the bad doings, all too often these days. We wish with all our hearts that Florida would take an even larger share of the flow than it does, lest we here get shoved right off into the Pacific by the swarmings. LET'S "SHARE" A LITTLE

Dear Sir:

The movement (or is it a religion? No,

one

say your U.S. income tax people) which calls itself MRA, while not seeming to be decidedly FOR anything, is most certainly and vehemently, AGAINST many things, two of which are sex, hetero and homo.

The last time I read one of their mildly amusing full-page newspaper advertisements, I fell to wondering why this should be so, but soon gave up. Then I ran across an issue of Maclean's Magazine (Toronto, May 4) which carried a lengthy article about MRA. While it didn't come out and say so, it was easy enough to read between the lines and suspect that the group's founder was a latent homosexual, with a fear of sex and a hatred of women. Apparently he never married and always had around him a group of athletic young men.

As we know, those who wax vociferously against homosexuality usually have a latent streak of it hidden in their make-up; those who have a fear of sex, are also usually fascinated with it. One of the most important activities of MRA training is what is called "sharing," when a group of people sit about for hours and tell in great detail of their hidden thoughts and previous experiences and the sexual ones seem favoured.

Apparently at such "sharing" sessions presided over by Buchman himself the revelations were especially juicy, so much so in fact, that it is reported he was once kicked out of Princeton. By the way, one of the minor things that MRA is against is suede. shoes. They are OK of themselves but "in Europe and America the majority of homosexuals" wear them. Gee whiz! I'd better fly out and buy a pair!

FAN MAIL

Dear Sir:

Mr. E.

Vancouver, British Columbia

Just a note to tell you how much we enjoyed the June Magazine. Every month it cheers us up. We enjoy the up-to-date editorials, TANGENTS, and the Letters to the Editor. However, we enjoy most the fiction. My favorite author is Bob Waltrip. His "White Cranes (November, 1962) has remained my all-time favorite. His "Orange Blossoms'' (June, 1963) was great too. May we expect more from him in the future? We hope so. Mr. D. and Mr. G. Texas

Dear friends:

I look forward greedily to each copy and like to read first Letters and then TANGENTS and the Editorial, but not necessarily in that order. I wonder if anyone thinks like I do that more space for Letters at the expense of some of those sheets of poetry might be an improvement?

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