some years now I have envisioned and hoped for an organization like this. For most of the se years I was out of the country, so did not know about the formation of ONE, Inc., or your own organization, until very lately.

Your research project sounds most useful. I think that some day another project must be undertaken, handled if possible by trained psychologists or psychiatrists (of the objective variety), that will attempt to measure personality traits and patterns among homosexuals. There has been a great deal of supposedly scientific writing by psychoanalysts like Edmund Bergler and Frank Caprio, painting a lurid picture of the homosexual all homosexuals. I have always thought, after cooling down from reading such material, that a good comprehensive survey, using whatever tools and methods personality testers use nowadays (and even though I am pretty soeptical about some of these tests), that such a survey would disprove those claims and show them to be biased and due to the limited material these psychoanalysts have to work with. (But of course the results might be otherwise the study might show homosexuals, on the average, to be about as claimed by these people. The objective investigator would then have to decide how good the tests were, and most important, the effects of the homosexuals' life experiences in shaping their personalities something that Bergler and Caprio refuse to do.)

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F.J., Chicago, Ill.

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