THE LADDER

MARCH, 1957 Vol. 1, No. 6

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Published monthly by the Daughters of Bilitis, Inc., profit corporation, 693 Mission Street, Rm. 308 San Francisco 5, California Telephone: EXbrook 7-0773

OFFICERS:

President Helen Sanders

Vice President · Del Vartin

Secretary Jean Peterson

Treasurer Toni Navarro

Publications Director Phyllis Lyon

STAFF:

Editor Phyllis Lyon Assistant Del Martin Circulati on Bobbi Demir.g Production Helen Sanders Art bob

MEN talk about Lesbians

It was a pleasant surprise to find in the February issue of MEN an intelligent appraisal of Lesbianism in an article entitled "The Twilight Women Among Us" by Edward Dengrove, M.D., with Doris Kulman.

Dr. Dengrove, a Fellow and Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry, feels that the first step in overcoming the "great pressures on the personality" imposed by society is to get to "know each other better" and so has collaborated with Miss Kulman in an explanation of the Lesbian problem for the sale reader.

"According to some estimates between three and five million American women depend exclusively upon other women for sex-