positive approach to patients that bas resulted in our excellent record for therapy security and safety. I take this opportunity to thank and commend you all for practicing the type of pat ient care that the experts in our field rightly advocate."

APRIL FUND APPEAL CREEPS ALONG SLOWLY

As of April 28, only 18 persons had responded to the Mattachine Society's Birthday Fund Appeal, a plea mailed out in letter form with copies of April REVIEW. "If anybody ever needed a birthday present it's poor ole Matta-

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chine," was the heading on the letter.

Amount of the response was $196.01 (the letter had stated that $3000 was needed right away to help pay some long overdue bills). There was one donation each in the amount of $1, $2, $3, $4; four donations for $5, and one donation for $6.01.

Larger amounts came from: M.L., $50; W.G., $25; I.M., $20; S.K., $15. Five individuals (R.K., F.J., Anon., N.C., and J.J.) each contributed $10. Another interesting sidelight of the amounts received so far: All but $40 of the donations came from California members and friends.

Coming Up in San Francisco MAY 27-30

FIRST ANNUAL CONVENTION

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$12.50 for all events, including luncheon and banquet

On the Public Program (May 29):

Research report: Comparisons between male and female homosexuals; Panel Discussion: "Why the Lesbian?"

Aftemoon Session: "Civil Liberties-the Homosexual's Responsibilities" Banquet Address: "Legal Problems of Lesbian Couples"

Featured Speakers: Del Martin, Mrs. Bernice Engle, Dr. Frank A. Beach, Miss Patricia Lyon; Dr. Norman Reider, Mr. Leo Zeff; Rev. Fordyce Eastburn; Alfred M. Bendich, Miss Artemis Smith,

Write for details and advance reservations to

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mattachine REVIEW

WILLIAM GLOVER WRITES (Continued from Page 2)

Which brings me to the subject of the book reviews. I do not intend to buy those books. They are unnecesssry, as the letter says your REVIEW is, since the only people who will read them are already believers. Will any members of Mattachine write a newspaper and ask to have the books reviewed? Will any member protect others' rights, religious and racial and political and sexual so that his own will be protected? I doubt that these books will help people to do these things. Rather the best book on religion for people in mental conflict is No Peace of Mind, by Harry C. Meserve (published by Harcourt, Brace). Seldom do your readers even bother to write to tell of pleasure or displeasure with the REVIEW. Why don't they make the letters column an open forum for interchange of ideas, hopes, etc? But here is another gripe. Why do readers (few in the REVIEW) often think that for the price of a maga zine or paper they will be given instant solution to their problem or problems which they themselves have been too lazy to solve and which in some cases experts have difficulty in even diagnosing?

And God bless and help these aunties who want to have the name and address and next open bed date of the handsome young tricks and expect to get them so easily as by buying a magazine. They need to know the facts, but I feel sorry for them for they must never have known the great love and companionship of another individual, for if they had they would know that such wonderful things don't come easily, and also know there is much more enjoyment out of a sexless meeting with some people than with a restroom minute with Tarzan or Apollo or Marilyn Monroe.

I wonder how many members take an interest in politics, which is one of the few ways they will ever have of being accepted? Have they read Elmer Davis' But We Were Bom Free? (Bobbs-Merrill) In fact the best sex affairs come thru mutual interests such as religion, politics, civic projects, etc. Only a part of sex is physical and that is achieved thru ejaculation no mat、 ter how caused. So your mind must be used, and here is where the American people fail, for they want no part of work, mental or physical. We are still existing on our forefather's work and if we don't do some on our own soon, Russia or the bomb will do it for us. Many American people are getting everything better than they deserve. Many don't vote, they don't protect their rights, they don't educate their children to the facts of life, they let old grouchy virgins dictate what they can read and see, and no one is to blame for the results but the people themselves. From what I hear, there is no other country any better than ours, but this is certainly no consolation.

We must be bold and identify Mattachine as not out to recruit, but to help people become the best they can, homosexual, normal (bisexual) or heterosexual. God would have created us all alike if He had wanted us that way, all