Now, if you do not consider the REVIEW to be a propaganda organ, my ob jections are pointless. A letter such as Mr. M. G.'s would belong and rightly so in an open forum type of publication. On this point, however, I'd like to say that I think there is more of a need for propaganda, especially on a national scale, than for an exchange of ideas. The danhere is, of course, that following this line of thinking, I am tempted to go through the issue line for line pointing out every instance of creating a bad pub lic image that I can find...

Please understand one thing: I did not write this in hopes of seeing anything in print, but rather to communicate with you.-Mr. C.H.I., Illinois.

Editor's noTE: In spite of it's dictionary definition, propaganda bas many unsavory connotations. Undoubtedly, it is because of these connotations that our disparagers have labeled us a "propaganda 'organ." However, we yet believe that an airing of the facts will produce the best and most lasting results. Other ''propaganda òrgans" seem to bave abandoned this principle as far as bomosexuality is concerned-but they can't bold out much longer.

REVIEW EDITOR: It disturbs me to realize that perhaps the single most im portant aspect of the de Kaplany case has received no public recognition or consideration. It illustrates in cruel and tragic fashion that the traditional prejudice against homosexuality is so extreme and so violent that a large but undetermined number of men attempt to evade whatis for them the natural espression of their emotional lives; to repress the natural expression of their sexuality, and to live in ways which outwardly are acceptable to the standards of society. Society does not recognize homosexuality and goe's to extraordinary lengths to enforce its repression. The outcome in the de Kaplany case is so horrible that it is difficult to contemplate the case.

As of this date I have seen not one word that society has a share in this tragedy, in refusing to recognize, to tolerate and to channelize diversity in emotional lives. If homosexuality were a dignified and acceptable alterative, fewer people would attempt to evade the truth in their own lives.

Such a case as that of de Kaplany is both gruesome and spectacular; and there are untold numbers, hosts of others, who revenge themselves on an ungenerous

life, an ungenerous fate, unwittingly but destructively, in more subtle, sophisticated ways. There is an enormous spectrum of imbalance ranging from de Kaplany to Hitler which is a hideous monument to our traditional ignorance and fear and intolerance.-Mr. W. B., Calif.

REVIEW EDITOR: I've been a subscriber since the beginning in 1955, so I will have been receiving your magazine for over a decade (in 1965); therefore I must like it. However what I can't understand is why the magazine should not make money for those who run it and also subsidize the worthwhile work of Mattachine. After all, the muscle boy mags appeal to about the same people as does the REVIEW, and they make money. I travel quite a bit and observe that the REVIEW is sold increasingly openly but usually side by side with the muscle boy mags. Pictures, which would be appealing to most of the readers, especially on the front cover would help you to compete. Even semi-technical mags, in their field, make use of appealing (to most of their readers) pictures. Almost all of the potential buyers of the REVIEW are bored by learned articles in which the experts speculate as to the cause and cure of homosexuality. It is just a way of life and as to how or why it happened, even in the individual case, is of little importance, and generalizations about all the gay ate of none, either. As for cures, if someone does come up with something that works, we won't need the REVIEW to find it out. Such a cure would make page one in all the pa. pers. The fact of the matter is that most of the gay could not afford extensive psychotherapy even if they wanted it and there were enough practitioners to handle the case load. I feel most of the approach needs to be social and even political to obtain for a minority its rights. Good fiction, especially that about those of the age group of most of. the readers and that does not reek of the clinic, is always good. Down to earth articles about sexual trouble areas for straight and gay alike, sadism and masochism, alcoholism, drug addiction, prostitution, extortion, and robbery. Also a lonely hearts section, not for my benefit but for that of many who are willing to take certain risks with those in the tabloids. By certain safe guards, you could minimize these risks and completely protect yourselves. Well do it your way; I'm sure you will and keep up the good work. I hope circulation in-

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creases. Mr. E.B.C., Penna.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Now how are you go. ing to sell pears by hiding them under a pile of twigs? Muscle mags, tabloids, etc., are something else again.

THE ALBANY TRUST

REVIEW EDITOR: Thank you for your helpful notice of the Albany Trust in your January issue. It may interest your readers to know the precise relationship between the Trust and the Homosexual Law Reform Society.

The Society was set up in May, 1958 to work for enactment of the Wolfenden recommendations, chief of which was that homosexual acts between consenting adults in private should no longer be a crime. Its Honorary Committee of about a hundred distinguished people includes members of Parliament from all three political parties, eminent churchmen, doctors, lawyers, writers and other leaders of opinion.

While the Society concentrates on the objective of law reform and runs a con⚫ tinuous public campaign to this end, it quickly became apparent that a wider foundation was needed to promote public education in the broadest sense on sexual deviation and related problems, to encourage research, and to deal with the many cases of personal difficulty which began to reach us. Certain members of the Homosexual Law Reform Society's Executive Committee therefore founded the Albany Trust, which is a charitable body with a constitution allowing it to carry out these wider activities which are outside the province of a law reform society.

Thus your statement that "the Albany Trust seems to sponsor the Homosexual Law Reform Society" is not quite cor rect: they are in fact complementary" to one another.

We shall be pleased to send fuller details of our work to any of your readers who write to us.-Antony Grey, Secretary, Albany Trust, 32 Shaftesbury Avenue, London W.1, England.

REVIEW EDITOR: Your issue for February 1962 was duly received, and, of course, included the Act passed by the Illinois legislature. The copy arrived shortly before an important debate in the House of Commons on the Private Members Bill of Mr. Leo Abşe. Our

Member of Parliament for WillesdenWest, Laurie Pavitt, intended speaking in support of Leo Abse's Bill. So I sent to Mr. Pavitt my copy of the February Mattachine REVIEW. After the debate (unfortunately Mr. Payitt was not called to speak) the REVIEW was returned through the post to me. It has never ar rived. Wherever it is, I hope it is doing good!

May I draw your attention to the dreadful dilemma which now faces Mr. Macmillan, our Prime Minister? It is ob viously undesireable to employ in our Foreign Office persons like John Vassall, who became the victim of an alleged homosexual incident with Soviet persons. Surely Mr. MacMillan must now feel it undesireable to employ persons with heterosexual tendencies following the revelations concerning the senior Foreign Office official, Miss Barbara Fell, who improperly gave information to a Yugoslavian, and who in conse quence was sentenced to two years imprisonment! Mr. D.P., England.

OTHER U.S. ORGANIZATIONS WORKING IN THE FIELD OF SEX VARIANCE

One, Inc., 2256 Venice Blvd., Los Angeles 6, Califomia.

Daughters of Bilitis, Inc., 1232 Market St., San Francisco 2, Califomia. Mattachine Society of New York, 1133 Broadway, New York 10, New York. National League for Social Understanding, P.O. Box 29048, Hollywood 29, California

League for Civil Education, Inc., 1154 Keamy St., San Francisco 11, Calif. Demophil Center, 15 Lindall Place, Boston 14, Massachusetts. Homosexual League of New York, P.O. Box 318, New York 9, New York. Janus Society, 34 South 17th. Street, Room 229, Philadelphia 3, Penna.. Dionysus, P.Q. Box 382, Fullerton, California.

Mattachine Society of Washington, P.O. Box 1032, Washington 1, D.C.