He insists is that we follow common sense and don't impose our way on others, and that we fight if necessary to keep others from dictating to us. I do not laugh at the policemen who have been assaulted while posing as queers' to trap other queers, but they found out scientifically that few people have received from God the ability to tell a man's inmost thoughts and way by looking at him.

I should comment on the letter about my review. Certainly the point that I failed to play up and inform the reader of the homosexual part of a book in a magazine devoted to homosexual information is well made. I didn't do so for many reasons. First, the idea was to get people to do something for themselves without sex as a motive: read a book. Also I didn't want to give the plot away for fear some would skip to the juicy details and miss the point, which was NOT that it is OK to be queer, but that men can sometimes do what is right even when they risk the chance of being labled as like those they protect, such as the American Civil Liberties Union is everyday. Who is to say that the senator was homosexual? Do you not know that the vast majority of men have had homosexual acts and some of those who have not are insane because they feared such acts? By scientific reasoning many millions of men could be labled homosexual. This is obviously not true, so the term should sooner or later be defined. Some cops are notorious for having sex with victims, hetero or homo, but I don't think such cops are queer, except in taking second-best sex on a catch as catch can basis rather than wholesome sex with a partner who cooperates willingly and fully. Few true homosexuals (if any) got that way by being seduced at a tender age by a villain. Many got that way by being falsely branded queer by their own parents and loved ones or ignorant neighbors and the child did not have the facts to prove that no man is branded by one sex act and so ashamedly and secretly resigned himself to a life of fear and shame, afraid to discuss or seek information on the subject. Parents must accept full blame for not telling their children the facts and thus causing such heartache and sorrow for those they claim to love. Society, by laws, education, and publications and counseling must equip parents NOW to stop the vicious circle by telling their children what their own parents failed to tell them... that God made sex for fun and plea sure as well as procreation; that (in the near future) pills will make it possible to use sex well, but that knowledge of the true worth of sex must be given to ensure that it will be well used and not become as personalitywrecking in modern times as it has been in ancient times. Most homosexuals I know are unhappy and wish they were heterosexual. Many heterosexuals I know envy homosexuals whom they think have sex all the time, etc. The fact is that God made all animals bisexual and that it is an individual's own fault if he doesn't enjoy sex. And no organization or religion or book is going to give him a quick way to success. I fear that some readers will take heart,

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falsely from Advise and Consent. This book is not a homosexual book. It does not promise a new world tomorrow nor does it even begin to consider the subject of sex. It merely invites the reader to see what can happen to God's creatures when they live, even if just for a little while, as the laws of God intended. I wonder how many people had read the book before reading the review, and how many bought the book after the review and what the latter thought and what the former thought, and what the people who haven't read the book think.

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REVIEW EDITOR: I must compliment you on your March issue-it is especially good. Because it is, I would like you to mail copies to the following addressees... and keep up the wonderful work. Miss M. C., New York

REVIEW EDITOR: I am interested in the article of Dr. Omer C. Stewart—if you can any other material re homosexuality, transinour own and in primitive vestism, etc.,. (Indian) cultures, please do so.—Mr. R. A. P., New York

REVIEW EDITOR: Enclosed are my dues -keep up the good work. The poetry of Allen Ginsberg is of much greater value to the readers than the writings of some "Bergler Square." I'm coming out to your city in late August or early September and will take in the convention in San Francisco (Labor Day Weekend).—Mr. E. N. C., Pennsylvania

REVIEW EDITOR: Iregret that I am neither willing nor able to become a member of the group of individuals that are aiding the "understanding" you so badly desire. I regret, too, that a "society” such as yours should be permitted to continue its disfigurement of the moral face of America. You don't need understanding, gentlemen, you need annihilation! Were it within my power, I should attempt to have your group not only suppressed, but outlawed com pletely. I do not regret learning of your group and its aims for it is well to be aware of the traps and mines in the road of life.

It is unfortunate that a society such as yours should have the state-approved freedom it has, under the guise of "bringing to public attention" the plight of certain poor souls. In reality what you advocate, gentlemen, is the complete overthrow of our moral Christian principles for which our forefathers fought and died. My hope is that the California legislature may see through your scheme before it has spread its mangling tentacles throughout the.na-

tion. Needless to say, I do not wish to hear any further from you.—J. B. J., Washington (State)

REVIEW EDITOR: Enclosed is my check for subscribing membership. I think it is interesting that although I have been enr gaged in the practice of psychiatry for over 10 years, I was unaware of the existence of the Mattachine Society until I attended the recent annual meeting of the American Orthopsychiatric Association in Chicago. I ordered a copy of the booklet, "The Homosexual in Our Society," and subscribed to the REVIEW, thinking it was probably devoted to topics of general interest in psychiatry or its related fields. The question of homosexuality is almost always encountered in my work, usually in the form of impulses or tendencies a rising in predominantly heterosexual individuals who find such impulses or tenden cies "foreign" or "unnatural” even while admitting that they seem to arise from within themselves. I do not-nor would I expect to see well-adjusted homosexuals 25