Lower Lounge. At least, that is what the program said, but the Lower Lounge turned out to be in the mezzanine. But I was there . . . oh yes! Cocktail party most successful much table-hopping . . . and chance for people to talk to people . . . instead of just being talked to!

Concluding event of the day was the banquet in the North Gallery. Food delicious .. as was luncheon menu. The after-dinner speaker was, as mentioned before, the Reverend C. Edward Egan . . who did to Ruth and Naomi what the Rev. Wood did to those other two gals. Except that when he got to the "Whither thou goest" bit, his tone changed and he

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read the passage from the Bible most beautifully. So touchingly in fact that this reporter shed tears... and afterwards went up and planted a kiss on his pretty cute little cheek. A real Ivy-League minister he was!

In all . . . the convention was a great success. Attendance was about 125 I think I heard . . . with about 2/3 of this amount at the luncheon and dinner. Everyone seemed satisfied and happy. Those involved in putting the convention together really worked and deserve a great deal of credit. We had no "incidents". everyone was on his (and her) best behavior ... and it was really great.

Jody Shotwell

ON BOOKS

Dear Mr. Slater:

Several weeks ago I purchased Radcliffe from the Book-of-the-Month Club. As an avid reader on anything that concerns the diverse subject of homosexuality, and by past literary achievements of David Storey, I had thought the book would be good reading.

I must say in all fairness (from the homophile's standpoint) that the majority of the. book doesn't even make good dialogue. Perhaps in some literary styles, brevity is passe, but I believe the aim of the central theme is a long, drawn out affair with no real interest to the subjected plot of the book.

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The book does focus clearly in passages to the pointlessness and unfruitful accomplishments that confront man in many given situations in life, but I believe Mr. Storey capable of better writing. (March, 1964 ONE)

Mr. B. S.

Knoxville, Kentucky

ON MEN Dear Jim:

I would like you to know that while I recognize myself for what I am, and wouldn't be any other way, that the homosexual does not have many friends and it appears to me that our cause is more or less hopeless. People will not accept us for what we are, and so I am afraid that too much recognition of conditions as they actually are may turn out to be a detriment to us as a group. I believe fully in a campaign to allow adults to live in private the type of life they choose, but we must remember this is private and not public. The public can not and will not accept us for what we are, even with more education in that field people are going to judge us by emotions and not by logic and another important thing I have discovered, we are considered a great danger by the female populace. It is almost like a built-in instinct with them. Having been exposed to both types of physical experience from the two groups and knowing from personal experience that my own sex is capable of giving more pleasure and real love I can understand the hostilities present in the female as she sees what she considers her primary role in life being taken away from her.

Until I was 28 years old I had never had any sex experience. I was much too busy working and studying in my spare hours philosophy and religion. And then I fell, and I fought it every inch of the way. The most wonderful person I ever hope to meet, and I had five months of heaven and then he was sent to special duty to Korea and I lost him just six weeks before the war ended. But such is life and then I was injured in a jeep