EDITORIAL

As we look about us at the beginning of 1964, we might well ask, what is the meaning of the present world situation? Everything seems to be popping and changing so fast what with populations exploding, planned trips to the moon, immense increases in our physical powers, physical inventions, technological and economic advances. Few areas of our world and our lives remain static today.

Only in the understanding of human nature, which province very much affects all homosexuals, do we fail to keep pace. Yet, even here, where gains are not so readily measureable, some sort of movement is discernible. The homosexual world, while not exploding, is exploring, is groping, is collecting together, is trying to find a place in the ever-growing search for meaning. The homosexual world is getting rid of the feeling of "strangeness," and the homosexual is doing something about his situation.

Reflecting this changing scene-interpreting, analyzing, and perhaps, provoking it is ONE Magazine. ONE is now in its twelfth year. It is the oldest U.S. publication of its kind in existence today; and it is the most widely read in all the world. No homosexual can afford to miss what is going on. Yet many garden-vegetable variety homosexuals believe it is the better part of wisdom to remain aloof from any knowledge of current happenings. It is no longer necessary or even prudent to remain uninformed. Rather, it is the responsibility of every thinking homosexual to be enlightened or run the risk of not keeping pace with his own world.

ONE Magazine offers a responsible presentation and reliable reporting of this world: its changing legal codes, proposed legislative reforms, new psychological and medical theories, new books, new motion pictures, and it offers news of the homophile world's current events. ONE Magazine tries to bring meaning and understanding to our present existence.

It is our hope in the coming months to reach many more people, as many as possible, with our point of view, and readers will find changes in ONE this year with this purpose in mind. It is necessary to continually find ways of expanding our range of influence. We like to think that one day all those who "want to know" will read "the homosexual world's best-selling magazine."

Don Slater,

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Editor

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