Your Name Is SAFE

The following article is reprinted from the second issue of THE LADDER which was published in November, 1956. It is being reprinted because the subject is still a bugaboo to many. We trust this article will help allay some fears. ED.

Already, with only one issue of THE LADDER published, we have run up against the fear that names on our mailing list may fall into the wrong hands, or that by indicating interest in this magazine a person will automatically be labeled a homosexual.

This is not so.

Subscribers to THE LADDER include many people from the professions lawyers, social workers, psychiatrists, businessmen as well as the numerous individuals who are interested in the problem, either from a personal or intellectual standpoint.

Daughters of Bilitis is not outside the law we advocate no illegal actions by anyone. It is an organization solely dedicated to education and research with reference primarily to the Lesbian and secondarily to the entire subject of sexual variancy.

The organization has obtained legal counsel on all phases of its operation, and within the very near future will file for incorporation under the laws of the State of California. (This incorporation was granted in January, 1957. Ed.)

As stated, our aims are simple. We are not a political organization, nor are we affiliated in any way with any group either of the past or present. It is true that

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