Letters

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Dear Editor:

So we have DRUM and GAY and various new societies" to keep the insanely suspicious homos in a semblance of camaraderie. It will fail. You, at least, are trying to give a metaphysique" to this form of living. A credo a poetry a philosophy

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a life-long "raison d'etre." Sex is not everything, regardless of what the glutton says. Comradeship personal verbal interplay or just merely the presence of one a smile or tear or a group. A look the silences the meditative moods, like when listening to symphonies. The silken delicacy of divinity is ever so much more a prize than the coarse roar of insensate lust. Lust comes in waves; love is the ocean. Alas, some cannot swim; I can. Good going, sir. Mr. O.

Dear Mr. Conger:

Santa Monica, California

Is it possible to obtain reprints of "A Brief of Injustices" (ONE, Oct. '65)? If the cost is not too high, I would like to distribute copies here in New York, where the police department's entrapment policy has reached an all-time high. We have always had occasional entrapment cases here, but now it's like a great purge, which started at the first of this year. This was precisely the time the Temporary Commission for the Revision of the Penal Code recommended, by a vote of 10 to 2, that laws against sex acts by consenting adults in private, be dropped. So it seems to me that the police department decided to prove that homosexuals were a terrible menace, by making as many arrests as possible.

I would like to send copies of the "Brief'' to our Mayor-elect, who reportedly is sympathetic, and to other city officials, including the Justices of the Criminal Courts, editors of our newspapers, certain free lance writers, state and federal legislators, and to the Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court.

Best wishes for your continued success! Mr. B.

New York City

Dear Sir:

First, thanks for the issues of ONE treating the subject of "Religion and the Homophile." Now comes the October, 1965, issue, with the excellent "Brief of Injustices" and the fine editorial, briefing readers concerning the Council on Religion and the Homosexual, Inc. I am glad that responsible officials of ONE, Inc., are participants in the educational endeavour.

I read with interest the Catalog for 196566 of the Institute of Homophile Studies, published in ONE, Confidential for August-September, 1965. It only made me unhappy that I do not live in the Los Angeles area so that I could enroll in the Institute. I hope some day class materials can be reduced to printing, so that one could take a reading course, along with those able to attend classes in person.

It is my desire to congratulate the Editors and Staff of ONE Magazine for the improvements made to this Magazine in the past months. I have been receiving copies of the other publication (though I have specifically requested, in writing, that my name be dropped from their mailing list), so I have means of making comparisons.

Enclosed is a modest contribution in honor of your 14th Anniversary. Need I tell you wherein my interest and loyalty lies?

Dear ONE:

Mr. S. Utica, New York

May I express my pleasant astonishment at the document issued by the council on Religion and the Homosexual, San Francisco, and reprinted in the October ONE.

As some of you know, I have been an inveterate critic of churches and clerics for some time (cf. "As for Me," ONE, May '65). This amazing document gives me reason to ponder the harshness of my previous feelings. The bitterness which I have felt toward the churches' hypocrisy in the matter of homosexuality has been somewhat neutralized. Would that such a Christian atti-