Letters

The views expressed here are those of the writers. ONE's readers cover a wide range of geographical, ecoWnomic, age, and educational status. This department aims to express this diversity.

LET'S TREAT MAMA! Dear ONE:

I trust you saw the Doty article in the TIMES. Actually, the article is about par for the course and no worse than most. The most misleading aspect seems his contention that homosexuality is generally regarded as "curable." While I cannot vouch for their attitude being typical, I know a number of psychiatrists who will not treat homosexuality per se. They will treat an individual who cannot function because of homosexual conflicts, the objective being either to reorient him to a heterosexual pattern or to strengthen his personality

an acceptance of his homosexual behavior. The determination has to be made on the basis of the particular factors in each case.

One wealthy young man was sent by his mother to a succession of psychiatrists, each of whom interviewed and then turned him down. The latest explained that the rejection was based solely on the boy's apparent complete adjustment to his pattern and on the doctor's finding nothing to treat. He did, however offer to treat the mother in order to help her to accept her son as he is. H. S.G. NYC

DON'T JUST BITCH BUT DO SOMETHING! Gentlemen:

Please forgive me for taking this opportunity to write you in the same envelope in which I am sending a small contribution. I enclose this message not to qualify the check nor to excuse it but to add my voice in a writing manner to those who have faith in you and your work. Faith in you might be easier to those who are not near you and who can allow their imaginations to carry a more glorious picture of you and the building in which you carry on your business. My faith is based on the cold hard fact that you are what you are and I've seen you, know you, and have attended almost all your Sunday meetings since I first began my association with you. Don't

Cone

let those many people who would change you immediately into a Saturday Evening Post with high quality get you into a muddle about your taste in content. I feel that the magazine is like a symphony, some parts are exciting, some parts are terrific, and others are for bridges between the terific and horrific.

The magazine is not "great" but then neither are the letters that criticize it, for they do not criticize constructively by suggesting what should be in place of what they object to. In fact, if they really wanted to build something out of the monthly, they should try to write something for it.

Editor:

El Monte, Calif.

We, as any other group, are prone to find fault about anything that doesn't go our own way. People are especially zealous in finding fault with either the editor, the art, or even the covers of ONE. I wonder how anyone can really take sides against ONE. When you think that for every hundred or so issues of a heterosexual magazine, there is only one magazine for the homophile, then you can get some idea of the size and task ONE copes with. ONE has to be our LOOK, LIFE, TV Guide, and all the others we read each week. I say, instead of finding fault with ONE, let's get behind them and help them. I am sure you would appreciate constructive criticism, but the sarcastic you're-bound-to-go-out-of-business letters-well, anyone can do without. ECD

Texas

TWO LETTERS ON RELIGION, THE FIRST FROM A HOMOSEXUAL, THE SECOND FROM A HETEROSEXUAL: 1) A homosexual speaks: The Editors ONE Magazine Dear Friends:

Thanks for printing the letter from Mr. K of Miami in the December issue. It expressed the sanest view I have yet encountered on homosexuals and religion, in sharp contrast