collaboration with Gavin Arthur, San Francisco lecturer, the Midwinter Institute banquet.
There is a growing awareness of the mixture of the male and female components in each of us, Dr. Baker said, since it is being found that failure to accept the emotional roles as society-conceived Male and Female is a basis disturbance in modern marriage. Many women are becoming more assertivo, while the male may be more passive.
The key to the situation for both the homosexual and the heterosexual is self-acceptance, recognition of the male and female balance in the individual and making the most of the tools at hand to bring fulfillment of the potential inherent in each of us, Dr. Baker asserted.
"Nature does not work in straight rigid lines, but rather in cycles or sircles," Mr. Arthur stated.
On a chart similar to the familiar color chart, he pointed out the various gradations from the extremes of the male and the female and from thurkoterosexual to the homosexual,
Of particular interest to readers of THE LADDER may be Dr. Baker's explanation of the difference between a psychiatrist and a psychologist (this is a question which is constantly being asked). According to Dr. Baker, "The psychiatrist goes deeper, stays longer and comes up dirtier".
ONE'S YEAR OUTLINED BY CHAIRMAN
The initiation of the first homosexual news service to promote healthy aims in the press instead of the usual derogatory s' ant was announced by Ann Carll Reid, chairman of ONE, Inc.
Prass releases were sent to newspapers all over the country tɩ announce the 1957 Midwinter Institute. One paper responded with a request for all future releases, she said.
A nationwide telecast of a panel show centered around the work of ONE is being planned.
Then the Pegram is de-
finitely scheduled, Miss Roid promised that all friends of ONE would be notified.
Another highlight of the year was a visit to ONE by two prison shaplains one Catholic, one 1 Protestant.
According
to Miss Reid they were seeking help in ooping with the homosexual problem in prison. In their words, she said, "the only person qualified to help the homosexual is the homosexual."