I know it is impossible to adopt every suggestion, but one can get so much real inspiration from some of those letters. But the very existence of ONE (in any form) is a cause for rejoicing. So I wish you all long life and happiness in the great Cause and putting good intention into practice enclose something to help keep the wheels of ONE turning.

Dear Don:

Mr. G.

Nelson, England

I enjoyed the June issue, particularly "Orange Blossoms." I think Mr. Waltrip very talented. He deserves much encouragement. I agree with Randy Lloyd that the "ordinary" side of homophile existence is sadly neglected and our public image

suffers accordingly.

"As for Me" by George Francis produced in me an overwhelming sorrow and sense of tragedy that there are many who believe this and that they live in such a world as set down here. I say in all sincerity that it isn't so, and believe many of us have proved it isn't. And who, homo or hetero, is ever "accepted"? We are to the world whatever we have the courage to back up with our conviction and guts. No man who wills himself to the slightest part of individuality does so without the price of sacrifice for it. Only how much the man wants this individuality makes the paying for it worth it or not worth it. This is all there is to define the mature from the immature.

We are the world we believe exists. And we make the world we live in. We have the freedoms we are willing to defend, fight for, believe in and ability to realize. And sometimes risk all for die for. But most of all depends upon just how honest we are with ourselves. How many of us are rejected because we cannot accept ourselves? How much of the persecution we believe in is nothing more than our own unspoken guilt demanding punishment? The will to kill and be killed, to dominate and be dominated, to punish and be punished walks in many a delicate disguise, with all too gentle look and mincing step.

I did not like James Colton's "The Corrupter." I will grant that perhaps there is something worthwhile imbedded in it, but it didn't get it stated, certainly not to my satisfaction. p. e. britton

Dear ONE:

Pico, California

The last two issues have been a bit better than the preceding ones in 1963. Of special informative, thought-provoking interest were "The New Nazism" (May, 1963) and Randy Lloyd's article on homophile marriage (June, 1963). And the caliber of the fiction too

was above average: "The Corrupter" and Orange Blossoms' were very nice. But what about more stories on the order of "Francesca and the Wicked Giant' (May, 1962)? That was really fine.

You are doing a great job of helping each of us, merely by being there and putting out your publications, by, for, and about us. Makes me a little prouder to be homophilically inclined. Thanks. Thanks a lot.

Mr. S.

San Antonio, Texas

WORDS AND MUSIC Friends:

I hate to disappoint all you gals n' guys of ONE, but the song (June, 1963) referred to about Robinson Crusoe should be: "Where did Robinson Crusoe go with Friday on Saturday night?"

Mr. G.

Brooklyn, New York

Dear people of ONE:

Until recent months I had watched television only on occasion. Now I enjoy "The Tonight Show." As a student of trends and symptoms I was interested to see how Johnny Carson handled Liberace on the show. He was careful not to exploit the situation for gay humor. At one point, however, when Liberace held up a bathing suit with musical notes sewn on it, Johnny couldn't resist saying something about WHERE some of the notes were.

His best humor is derived from the assumption that the audience knows more about the facts of life than can be expressed on TV. My suspicion here is that the gay mode of humor has invaded TV via such programs. And where do you think such a trend is leading? I'd say toward more permissiveness.

Edward Denison

FROM LATIN AMERICA Dear Sir:

Texas

I read your information about "our life" in USA with great interest. To me it seems. wonderful. I am twenty-eight and love to paint, am very fond of good music, literature, theater. My preferred sports swimming, rowing, tennis, fishing and to go to the beach and the seaside every time I

can.

are

I am here very lonely. Here we have no reunion places, no bars, no magazines, nothing serious and the people, "our people", are very persecuted. Perhaps this is because most are very weak and have not the sense of friendship and are generally not very good. So I have conventional friends, some girls. All my real friends are in Europe.

Mr. P.

Buenos Aires, Argentina