Following the comment on his book review in the letter from Noel Garde in April issue of the REVIEW, William Glover had some comments to make...not just brickbats for Garde, but comment for us all to think about:

REVIEW EDITOR:

It is a nice evening, Saturday, here in Bossier City. I did nothing all day, as usual. I did go to Shreveport and lift a few weights at the Y. And now I have finished reading the April issue (and INTERIM and the plea). Your pleas for funds seem to do about as much good as my weight lifting. I feel in the mood to spout.

You should be proud of the April issue and your work. I feel that probably your best work would be more of "Never Pay Blackmailers." The whole substance of my ideas is pointed out in reverse in the letters in which it is pointed out that you are preaching to people who do not need it, and yet neither I nor any sensible person can believe this. If the present readers and members really knew and understood the facts of life, the organization would be growing by leaps and bounds and more money would not be needed for the members themselves would be giving their time and talent to telling the world of Mattachine, which is the only purpose of the organization I subscribe to. I am an infallible Christian optimist who believes that once the people know the facts they will do what is right.

All I want to do is be positive that every person in the whole world knows the facts about sex. I want no child to suffer alone while in another house, city or nation another child suffers just the same as the first and they both could be comforted by the knowledge Mattachine has. If they ignore the facts and, as is usually the case hate Mattachine for telling them about themselves, then that's bad but can't be helped. The fact is that Mattachine must do a better job of publicity, and most of that publicity must be done by individual members. And such work can be done without actual names being used. I do not cry for those who lost their bars in New York. I suggest they read Exodus and stop sitting on their behinds waiting for God and heterosexuals to do the work they should be doing. How many of the people in the bar that. night it closed were members of Mattachine and gave the price of a beer to help spread the facts? I have given numerous people copies and news of Mat tachine and I doubt any has joined, but when they get in trouble, as they will, they will cry out to God and ACLU or Mattachine to help them. They deserve no help, for they knew the facts and ignored them. But I do have a duty to be sure that everyone knows about Mattachine. I have written newspapers and police chiefs, all of whom ignored me, but at least they can't face God and say no one ever told them that it was wrong to violate an individual's rights. which God granted and only God has the right to dictate.

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REVIEW

Founded in 1954 First Issue January 1955

VOLUME VI

MAY 1960

NUMBER 5

TABLE OF CONTENTS

William Glover Writes

Delusion, fiction by Heather

Controlling Venereal Disease

Justice Editorial: Courts To Blame Calling Shots

Schoolboy Homosexuality by

Arthur Freeman Readers Write Book Reviews

Homophilic Bibliography

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