accident in September, 1957, and after four months in the Letterman Hospital in San Francisco was discharged from the service. I was so lonely that I entered a Jesuit monastery at Los Gatos. After four years I left because I couldn't take it any more. If a person is the way I am I expect them to be man enough to admit it. But those people were hiding behind their religion and pretending that they were above the feelings that a man can have toward another. So, after a long talk with my spiritual advisor I left and went to Los Angeles and lived about four months in the most wicked of ways and lost myself completely. And then I realized that the physical love didn't mean as much to me as I thought. There was an emptiness in my heart that could never be filled and so I moved to the hi-desert country to Joshua Tree and Twenty-nine Palms and stayed in a little cabin for a year. And then one day a group of young Marines from the Marine Base marched by my cabin and just to look at their bright young faces and the rugged strength of their healthy young bodies made me decide I wanted to rejoin the world of people and be near them.

So now I have come to Tempe, and hope to work toward my Ph.D. and what is more important to me is to be around the young people. One of the most pleasant sights here in the summer time is that most of the college boys wear shorts and I can just sit and read my book in the park while actually watching the young people in the bloom of youth pass by. Sometimes I feel like a little of it rubs off on me and I can go back a few years and re-live a too-brief time in my life. And sometimes I know I am not alone but that he is beside me once again and I can almost feel the pressure of his hand in mine. That is why I know that homosexual love can be just as beautiful as any other. Because some day, some how I know we shall be together again and this time there will not ever be another parting.

Gentlemen:

Mr. V. H. Tempe, Arizona

Recently I have been thinking about the many men in our society who are unable to find employment. Most of them are good men, but are unable to find work because of lack of training or education, or some other reason. There are also men who make a good salary at an early age, such as salesmen and college graduates.

The high rate of unemployment is going to get worse before it gets better, due to the high birth rate and technological changes in our society. Now, I was thinking that some of these men would be quite happy to devote their lives to caring for certain other

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men, who would in return give emotional and financial security.

THAT EDITORIAL Dear Sir:

Mr. G. S.

Omaha, Nebraska

Together with your note from June 12 I received ONE for June. It took me some days to digest your EDITORIAL, and I beg you herewith, to take the few $$ for subscription till the end of this year as a small contribution and not to send me ONE anymore.

Not only, that a discussion about the terrible extermination of Jews, priests, minority groups should not be a theme of ONE, you have spat at the memory of the men,

women and children

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whom we lost.

Mr. F. H.

New York, N. Y.

I want to express the satisfaction I aot upon reading first, the fine editorial of Mr. Glover, and second, the letter of Mr. R. of Buffalo. Both express my sentiments exactly and are beautifully written. Incidentally, June 26th issue of Life has a fair article about homosexuals. It begins somewhat harsh and unsympathetic, but ends up quite safely. Mr. O. K. Buffalo, N. Y.

Dear Editor:

I do not think the idea embodied in your June issue editorial can be over-emphasized. 1 think passive acceptance of discrimination and persecution is the surest way of facilitating the continuation of these evils. Conversely it seems equally clear that a major factor in ending injustices is for those most affected to stand up and be counted in protest. . .

The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. says that people who accept injustice without protest deserve no better. The homosexual who pleads guilty when an unjust law is unjustly used against him or meekly accepts unfair dismissal when he can appeal can appeal is helping make these evils possible. He who courts. arrest or ridicule, through gross indiscretions, is actively detrimental to himself, other homosexuals, and society at large, in that order.

One of the most common questions asked by homosexuals is, how can we obtain acceptance by heterosexuals? The first and foremost answer is "accept yourself." Not an easy task, but essential to peace of mind. He who deceives himself into thinking his problems are someone else's fault pays a terrible penalty for this luxury. When one accepts an undesirable aspect of his being, he does not need the appoval of others because someone else's attitude is not important