Dear Sirs:

I wish to thank you for the materials you sent me in regards to your organization. I am very interested in your organization. The Magazine certainly fulfills a need. I do, however, have some questions. Throughout your material you referred to "Friends of ONE." Exactly what is this? I would appreciate more details about it. Also mentioned was ONE Confidential. Is this another publication?

At the present time I am a librarian and teacher in a school for juvenile delinquents. It so happens we have the worst juvenile criminals in the state. From time to time we do get boys sent here for no reason other than that they are homosexual.

The state can send the adult who has been consorting with the juvenile to the penitentiary, but they are at a loss as to what to do with the juvenile, so they send him here into an impossible situation. Some are highly intelligent and some are barely able to function on the moron level.

There is a great deal of "pressuring'' for sex here and the larger boys often force the smaller boys into homosexual acts. The "pressure boys" do not regard themselves as homosexuals, but do consider their forced partners as homosexual. It comes as quite a shock to them to find that the staff regards them as homosexual.

An oddity of this place is the use of the word "punk." I have been around quite a bit and never before heard 'punk' used

a synonym for homosexual. "Punk" is a noun as "he is a punk." If someone has been "punked" it means that he has been the receptor in anal intercourse. Fellatio is of course a "blow-job" and 'running-thehand" is masturbation of someone else. The boys, both homosexual and heterosexual, masturbate masturbate quite frequently and have no qualms about anyone witnessing them. In fact, the showers are rampant with this activity, despite the presence of guards and other personnel.

We have very strict security with cells and almost constant supervision, but sex finds a way. In the past month we have had 16 cases of gonorrhea. The disease was spread through anal intercourse with a 15-year-old boy. We can only guess as to how many cases are still undetected.

I believe the greatest suffering for the homosexual (especially the juvenile) comes from a lack of communication. Many do not understand themselves or know facts about homosexual life because they are isolated from the homosexual communities. The heterosexuals sit around and talk about their sexual problems and sex life in bullsessions, but the isolated homosexual does not have the opportunity to learn from this

type of communication. Despite my age (39) I did not begin to understand myself until. I read Cory's book. I say thank God for Donald Webster Cory and the information and understanding he has given to the world about the homosexual. I have on two occasions answered questions that homosexual boys (17 and 18 years) had by permitting permitting them to read The Homosexual in America.

Dear Don:

Mr. L. Midwest

I've decided finally to write you before I go absolutely crazy. Your Magazine has given me something that others have failed to give me, and that's a viewpoint from our side. So many are just a few facts, whereas your's isn't. I'm writing because I'm almost at my breaking point, and don't know where to turn or who to talk to. Anyone I might talk to just does not know what I'm talking about, or what type of feeling I have.

Gentlemen:

Mr. C. Dearborn, Michigan

I am a free lance writer doing a research project on homosexuality in America for a forthcoming non-fiction book. The angle will be both the pros and cons of the new acceptability the homosexual is achieving through legal moves, both legislative and judicial; the church leaders who have taken a stand on the issue; the medical viewpoint; social acceptance as highlighted by the fact that the Walter

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