the blind. To further this subject, either by letter or by reading the magazine would only be a waste of your time and mine, and you seem to be doing all right without my help.-Mr. K. A., New York Editor's Note: Won't our readers and members send us their comments on Mr. K. A's letter? We do not feel that there could be one "editorial" answer that would cover the ground thoroughly.

REVIEW EDITOR: Just a few lines to say that your Review is improving by the month and speaking for a host of friends, thanks for the achievement in bridging human differences. Your work is being praised by all I know. Keep up the good work. Enclosed please find another small contribution towards your crusade. Good luck!—Mr. W. W, New York

Editor's Note: We greatly appreciate your contribution. As we ap. proach the end of our third year of publication, the Review is still not in the black, though it is currently paying its way. Once our indebtedness is cleared up, contributions such as yours will go toward improving its content and format even further: we hope we never get to the point of resting on our laurels.

REVIEW EDITOR: I wish to congratulate you on the Bibliography of homosexual literature appearing in the August issue of Mattachine Review. I am looking forward with anticipation to the appearance of Part Two in the September issue. I want to contribute the suggestion that you publish two further bibliographies: 1.) a bibliography of significant homosexual fiction, and 2.) a bibliography of homosexual biography. Biographies of noteworthy homosexuals would comprise an interesting constellation. Besides the names of musical and literary greats, it would be instructive to find the names of such figures as Frederick the Great, Julius Great, Julius Caesar, Plato, Leonardo da Vinci and James I. I suppose you would have to observe a cut-off date in the 19th century in order to avoid trouble with living persons.-Mr. J. L. Y., New York

Editor's Note: The Bibliography will continue for some months, in subscriber issues as well as those on newstands. The fiction section will follow the current listings.

I love your magazine so don't misunderstand me. It's really quite curious though why people have to justify just being people, isn't it?-Mr. E.L.E., Georgia

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REVIEW EDITOR: Occasionally we hear belittling reference to articles in the Review containing "special pleading". I do not agree that defense, whether in writing, speech, or social action, is any 'kind of special pleading". Pleading implies begging, a far cry from the approach of demand. I believe the time has come for homosexuals to demend their civil rights as agressively as Negroes are demanding theirs. We will get no where by pussy-footing our cause. In their hearts, people respect those who stick up for their rights, even when by non-violent means. It has been said there is nothing so powerful as an idea whose time has come. The time has come for social enlightenment on this subject kept so long in the dark in our culture. And some people in their lethargy need to be shocked into consciousness.—Mr. E.A.B., Denver

Editor's Note: We cannot counsel you to use demands or aggressions and only hope you won't come begging on our doorstep if YOUR aggression stirs up retaliative aggressive acts against YOU. Education and enlightenment are the Mattachine Society's goals, but shock techniques are not its way. Problems disappear through evolution: they are only aggravated by revolution.

REVIEW EDITOR: Congratulations on an exceptionally fine "Interim" publication in promoting better understanding in others, you who are devoting so much effort in this direction, will gain self-understanding in abundance-Mr. K.F., California

Editor's Note: "Interim" is the national newsletter of the Mattachine Society. It is circulated four times a year, only to members of tho organization, contributors, subscribing members, exchange publica. tions, and certain public agencies and institutions of the sex education and associated research fields.

REVIEW EDITOR: As a homosexual and subscriber to your fine publication, I never cease wondering and casting about for the reason such a periodical as this is necessary. Here is the way I think we should see this thing: All of us are creatures of nature. Why should one particular breed have to set up a defense to justify its existence. After all, we did not order ourselves to be put here . . . mattachine REVIEW

REVIEW EDITOR: What if Pope did write a letter to Dr. Arbuthnot? What business does Sporus have putting his shabby two cents' worth into the Mattachine Review? If he'd pseudonymed himself as Edgar Zylch or Mortimer Snerd, what he had to say would still have been tasteless. Who let him get away with his spurious (or is it Sporius?) literary snobbery? Borrowing a name from the eighteenth century ain't gonna lend no eighteenth century elegance to his pose.-"Dr. Samuel Boswell". London, England.