found equally good, equally valid, but "Summer Encounter" possessed the greater charm, as charming as youth can be. "Lament" by James Ramp I enjoyed very, very much. Tangents is right in there, popping it on the button as usual. The book reviews were solid and perceptive; very helpful.

Conger, in his editorial, I feel omitted the most crucial point. It is maintained that we are security risks, not so much that we are human and subject to sexual temptation, but that our activities are criminal in the first place so that we are more subject to blackmailing pressures. So change the damned laws!

The Burnside article on bisexuality did not do the job at all. I found it murky and fancy-dancing the subject, until winding up so lamely and begging its subject so badly that it lands in the category of fine comic writing but, unfortunately, not by inten-

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P. E. Britton Pico, California

P.S. Now you tell me the readers are yapping. My God! That art is lovely! What has become of Gay society? What kind of frumps have we become? It must make you feel sick, as it certainly does me.

Gentlemen:

p.e.b.

I am a tolerant guy, but the pencil sketches in your August issue are beneath even your previous apparent standards of judgment and taste.

Please refrain from sending me any and all of your publications from henceforth and take my name off your mailing list. Mr. K.

Dear Don Slater:

East Orange, New Jersey

On the August issue, for shame! To the corner with you Don and don the dunce cap. Such lack of forethought is an abominable trait for an editor. Possibly it is good art, though I have my doubts, but you should have left it in the gallery. It gives the appearance of a campaign to increase sales. Let's leave that sort of thing to the weaker homophile and his muscle magazines. God knows there are enough of both around. Mr. B.

Dear ONE:

Los Angeles, California

I can already hear the groans of the Nice Nellies over your August issue. It's too bad that so many homosexuals really feel ashamed of themselves and of their fellow homosexuals. They should ask themselves if they feel the famous statue in Brussels of the little boy pissing (as the Bible expresses the act), which every tourist visits and photographs, is vulgar.

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The answer seems unavoidable that they will dislike your August drawings because of chills down their spines over what "They are going to think of us." Who cares what They think? Mr. H.

IT SEEMS TO ME . . Dear Editor:

St. Louis, Missouri

After having read many of your interesting and informative issues I decided to write and attempt a thank-you note for what I believe is a wonderful dedication to this present-day society. To be able to help the world understand that the homosexual is as human as any next-door neighbor is a tremendous task.

Down through history many of our very important writers, historians, generals and the like have been homosexual and in some places in the Bible there are hints that Jesus himself was soft and feminine. How true this is I cannot attest, even though as an ordained minister I have studied the Bible through and through.

The society we live in today has too many things that tend to depravity and sex offenses other than homosexual. I refer to such things as the filth that can be found on any newsstand, also in our movie theaters. To me there is more suggestive sex in them than in the actual heart and soul of the homosexual.

Statistics prove that the uptrend in illegitimate children is appalling. Rape and murder are also on the upward climb and those offenders when examined by doctors are usually men and women from very well bred families, are also married and with children. The rapist, murderer, extortionist, etc. USUally has no homosexual tendencies and seems to abhor the thought that they could be or ever have been associated with anything as low as a "homo."

I have given counsel to many of the Gay Set and find that letting them decide for themselves is always the best answer to their problems. So long as they can make useful citizens of themselves and do not become a hindrance to the so-called normal set I feel that if they are Gay, so what?

The things that some of our teen-agers do for kicks can be classified as abnormal, but somehow they are not. Dope, sex, mugging, and all the rest of the things that we read about in the newspapers are supposed to be close to normal, but to be different in one's way of thinking about sex is supposed to be the unforgivable sin.

I say it is not we who are to play God. Love in its true sense has no boundaries. I feel that to have found true love and friendship is the one thing God intended us to do and have found that the true honest homosexual is kind, considerate, temperate, ex-

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