sexual's expense." You say the Service is now offering lame excuses for discontinuing their pen pal division. pal division. Your editorial of October further seems to imply that even to be on the mailing list of this Service is skirting danger. Yet-and here's the rubI became familiar, got my name on their mailing list, in fact, by answering their advertisement in your magazine. The advertisement which appeared in your magazines during the summer of 1963 listed a photography guide.

You belittle these organizations as groups operating for a fast buck and not for the homosexual's genuine interest. I agree that many such organizations exist and that we should be warned of them. But I would like to ask you what your motivation was in accepting advertising from such a firm. A fast buck, it would appear; yet, you should have been guiding us away from instead of toward such an organization.

Up to the present, I have always had complete confidence in doing business with any firm that advertised in your pages, simply because I felt that you at least had our interest at heart. It would seem now that one must suspect all of your advertisers, which is exactly what I am doing.

Dear Editor:

Mr. E.

Baltimore, Maryland

Why isn't something done to help the sick, the poor, the deranged, the ignorant, the bigoted, etc., in homophile publications like the prurient body building type? All your hard work is vulgarized, reduced to cheap "carny" and tawdry efforts by such as these mags.

All the orgasms in the world will not cure cancer. All the lubricious, lustful writhings in eternity will not feed a starving baby. All the scatological wordage in the lexicon of pornography will not heal the heartbreak of the bereaved. If homophile actions and writings would survive, they'd better follow Whitman's shade into glory. Or Wilde down insight's sure road. Or da Vinci's Last Supper into spiritual heights artistic. Or Tchaikovsky into the universal language of sublime music.

GETTING PERSONAL Dear Mr. Slater:

Mr. S.

Santa Monica, California

Just to let you know, that I have been reading newsstand copies of ONE, and I think its pretty good. Someday, I will make my mind up, and subscribe to it.

Why is it that my 'brothers' segregate themselves when cruising? There is

bar, that I like to cruise in, and I always

get funny stares, because I am a man of color. We're all looking for companions, why be hypocritical?

Would anyone care to debate the issue? Why must we segregate amongst ourselves? Let the "straight" people do that.

I fail to give my name because of the complication. Please do not print the city either. If someone wants to get in contact with me, tell them to try the Personal's column in one of the dailies. I'll take it from there.

Dear Mr. Slater:

Anonymous Michigan

As I write this I hope you don't mind me expressing my views. Being new to this publication and organization, it helps my perspective to homosexual life.

I agree with the young man (19 old Calif.) about young fellows having to be discreet although lonely and unrewarded. Green Bay has some discreet, and some otherwise. Pictures are still my outlet.

I enjoyed the article on sex in prisons and of colored people with whites. I met a colored boy on a visit to a large city and we had a pleasant discussion and enjoyed each other in intimate relations. I was ok for him and vice versa. Some white gays think I am a dumb ugly farmer.

Mr. B.

Green Bay, Wisconsin MATTERS LITERARY & OTHERWISE Dear Mr. Slater:

I should have learned a long time ago that ONE and I just don't operate on the same wave length. But when I can't even get a Letter to the Editor printed-ye gods!

Actually, that letter would serve excellent answer to Mr. A. E. Smith's absurd attempt to prove that a minority group is not a minority group. What unites Negoes, for example, but the fact of their being Negro and the response of others to that fact And if the homosexual vote is a "myth," is it because homosexuals have no political interests in common or because they have failed, as yet, to be aware of those interests. The Negro and other minority groups also failed to vote as a group until they merged as self-conscious minorities.

Certainly, homosexuals have many interests besides their homosexuality just as Negroes have many interests besides Civil Rights. Bloc voting cannot be defendedexcept as a defensive tactic by a disadvantage minority. This year's Presidential election presented a clear and definite reason for homosexuals to vote in protection of their interests as homosexuals. As I wrote