READERS write

Letters from readers are solicited for publication in this regular monthly department. They should be short and all must be signed by the writer. Only initials of the writer and the state or country of residence will be published. Opinion expressed in published letters need not necessarily reflect that of the REVIEW or the Mattachine Society. No names of individuals will be exchanged for correspondence purposes.

REVIEW EDITOR: I have noted in var ious published material, the mention of your society and its purposes.

It is nice to think that there is an or ganization looking at our problem from a realistic point and fighting for a few rights which should be ours.

In Toronto, unfortunately, your society is literally unheard of, and I must express doubt as to whether the crowd even care less. The gay life here presents a rather glamourous existence on the crust but for anyone who has been around in it for sometime, knows how difficult it is after the tinsel becomes tarnished; thus we find that alcoholic consumption foms much of the existence and the best source of contact.

To my way of thinking, it's about time that some of these A.A. candidates crawl out of their bottle, accept what they are and do something about it towards promoting understanding for our life and themselves.

To look at them at a dance, you would swear they were having the ball of their life, yet just sit down and talk to them for a while and you find most are squir relled up like a rope. It would appear to me, that if these people could sit down and discuss these matters on an adult level, they could be one hell of a lot happier.

It took me seven years of sheer hell before I finally knew and was able to accept what I was. During that time, I drifted in and out of gay life, even mar rying a female in the interval just to prove how straight I was, yet I wouldn't be writing to you if I had been able to to make it or even could make it; there fore, one accepts what they cannot change. ...I don't wish to give you the idea that I'm some mighty crusader out to change the world. The fact is that I'm a fellow

that's gone through too much for too little a reason and if I could help some kid adjust one way or the other, then maybe I've been of some use to the world... Mr. B.G., Ontario.

REVIEW EDITOR: I feel bad about Mattachine's financial distress and com pletely understand when you say "Freedom is not free." I know the only way I can help the Society is to send in my dollars. It is a shame to live in the richest country in the world and with millions of homosexuals or people so inclined and then to find Mattachine without funds to operate for such a great hu

man cause.

As you may know, New York has so many charity organizations' along with the churches and temples asking for money. When they approach me I always think of Mattachine. I never give a dime to them for they are not for me or those like me, so I am for you and Mattachine and those like me. I know your progress is slow, but it is only because you people don't have the millions to push ahead faster. Now is the time to push the Issue into wider public view and then fight back. I am sincere when I say all this...-Mr. C.G., New York.

REVIEW EDITOR: ...In your country and in mine, people like me are regarded as those tobe chased from pillar to post, as it is something that the public are trying to keep under the mat instead of facing facts in a sensible way. I was raised and educated in the Netherlands where everyone has a für different out look on the subject, a very broad out. look, whereas in the U.S.A. and the U.K. bigotry and prudery are the master. Admittedly, we have the Wolfenden Report, which was merely a waste of time and

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paper as it was a foregone conclusion that it would not be acted upon, so we are back where we started...—Mr. A.W., England.

REVIEW EDITOR: Who said we're ger ting more broadminded as time goes on?

My post office box has been "tapped" and I have been interrogated about mail

received from San Francisco and other places.

Please hold forthcoming issues until I am in San Francisco this summer, when I can pick them up.

We never know such things can happen until they happen to us.-Mr. L.P., Fla. REVIEW EDITOR: .It is astonishing to me to hear that persons able to give $35,000 to charity are unable to give 3500 without bothering to account for it on their income tax. Surely they can give $500-$10.00 a week and call it "tip" money. No, you should not buy those wealthy men's excuses. The honest fact is that they just don't want to givesince they obviously can spare $10.00 weekly. Get 10 men to give you $10 a and $5000 is always assured.-Mr. T.R., Califomia.

OTHER U.S. ORGANIZATIONS WORKING IN THE FIELD OF SEX VARIANCE Los Angeles Mattachine Society, Inc., 806 South Robertson, Los Angeles 35, California. OL2-2282. Daughters of Bilitis, Inc., 1232 Market St., San Francisco 2, Calif., UN3-8196. One, Inc., 2256 Venice Blvd., Los Angeles 6, Califomia, RE5-5232. Mattachine Society of New York, 1133 Broadway, New York 10, N.Y., WA47743.

Mattachine Society of Washington, P.O. Box 1032, Washington 1, D.C. Janus Society, 34 South 17th. Street, Room 229, Philadelphia 3, Penna. Demophil Center, 15 Lindall Place,

Boston 14, Massachusetts. Dionysus, P.O. Box 382, Fullerton, California.

League for Civil Education, Inc., 226 Embarcadero, San Francisco, Calif., SU1-8361.

George W. Henry Foundation, Inc., 49 West 29th St., New York 11, New York.

THERE'S MONEY AVAILABLE-FOR WOMEN ONLY Applications close July 15 for the four $75 awards which will be given this summer by the Daughters of Bilitis from the Blanche M. Baker Memorial Scholarship Fund.

Each of the four DOB Chapters will handle applicants in its area. Information may be obtained from the San Francisco Chapter, 1232 Market St., Suite 108, San Francisco, Calif.; Chicago Chapter, 5065 North Damen Ave., Chicago, Ill.; New York Chapter, P.O. Box 3629, Grand Central Station, New York 17, N.Y.; and Los Angeles Chapter, P.O. Box 472, Norwalk, California.

Scholarships are for women 21 years of age or over. The applicant must be a full-time student, attend an accredited college, university, or business or trade school, and must have a "B" average. Awards will be made on the basis of need.

The Scholarship Fund was established in memory of Dr. Baker to further the education of worthy students. Dr. Baker was one of the first professional people to recognize the organizations in the homophile movement. She stressed the need for education-both of the public and the homosexual himself.