not complete. Regretfully, when we should have resources to produce an improved and expanded magazine, we have to trim every possible corner because the $1000 a month it requires just isn't there.

The limited personal resources of the officers and members of the board, plus the generous support of our loyal members, subscribers, friends, contributors, and pledgees at this time is not sufficient for us to meet current expenses and do otherwise. We cannot commit a corporation of such nebulous substance to an indebtedness any greater than has already been done.

As you know, Mattachine is not alone in its plight. Recently One, Inc., stated its case: A $7, 000 debt with its printer has it on the brink of ceasing publication unless well-deserved help is forthcoming fast.

Unfortunately the many thousands of potential supporters of the homophile movement's organizations are not always reached by its publications and appeals for help. Like the threadbare minister preaching to a small congregation, exhortations fall upon the ears of those already doing their utmost--the ones we need to reach are paying little or no attention. Or they are afraid. Or they just couldn't care less. Or they are concerned only with self.

But is this really the case? Are we all doing our utmostnot just through our own support, but, more importantly, selling the idea to others among our acquaintance? Do we convince our friends that they, too, have a stake in struggle for change that will enhance their self-esteem, integrity and worth? Must we today be so involved with our own personal lives that we cannot recognize that the greatest values lie in doing something for others and for generations yet unborn? Are we so self-centered that we care not for our less fortunate fellow men who need burdens lifted? Are materialistic creature comforts so important that we cannot share our good fortune to encourage others to cast off their feelings of rejection and inferiority to attain the dignity and happiness that is rightfully theirs as human being?

As the year ends and holidays of joy loom before us, hearts and minds open with consideration for others such as at no other time. Can we intelligently convince more of our friends that Mattachine and other groups similar to it perform a vital task which add much to the enrichment of our own lives? And are we willing to recognize that this work has worth which deserves more than token support from many who may not yet feel it is their responsibility to help pay for it?

These are searching questions which need thought and action, and they must be answered in terms of results if the work is to go on.

This message is scarcely the kind one would expect at the season of the year when expressions of joy in speech and song are everywhere. But it's hard to sing "Joy to the World" when creditors are hammering the doors of Mattachine and the bonds of poverty have it too strapped to meet its bills and function as it must for so many who come to it for help.

mattachine REVIEW

it is suggested that research should seek to discover the genetic-psychological-sociological conditions that produce inversion, the reason why there is so much hostility (both public and private) directed against homosexual males and so little against homosexual females, the conditions causing excessive effeminacy, the different kinds of variant sexual activities and the implications of them, the degree to which homosexuals are or are not security risks, and the ways and means for improving the sexual well-being and personal happiness of everyone. To these proposed topics for research might be added a critical examination of current concepts of masculinity and feminity, a consideration of the charges (and the disposition of them) and methods utilized by law enforcement officials in arrests of homosexuals, and a determination of the degree to which the leaders of society and the general public are being acquainted with recent views and studies dealing with homosexuality.

Mr. Cory makes the point in his introduction that he represents one generation and that Mr. LeRoy represents a younger generation which has grown up in a new society that has replaced the old. However, the specific and potential implications of this important fact have not been adequately made clear. One wonders what the differences between the two generations are. For example, how do they differ on such matters as knowledge of the subject of homosexuality, availability of help and guidance, self-acceptance or feelings of guilt and anxiety, attitude toward the heterosexual majority, and insistence upon recognition of homosexuals as individuals deserving considerate treatment and possessing certain undeniable rights.

The individual reader may want to quibble with the authors on a variety of minor points or disagree on a number of major ones. But the incomplete state of our knowledge and the personal bias brought to the subject by each reader makes this inevitable and unimportant. What counts is not that the authors have been unable to answer all questions or offer solutions to all problems but that they have dealt in a responsible and detailed manner with the phenomenon 'of homosexuality and have, in the process, revealed to us the homosexual as a very real human being deserving society's mature attention and concern.