York, issues a list of recent and older books on the homosexual theme. Pan-Graphic Press, 693 Mission St., San Francisco, maintains a book service as does ONE, Inc., 232 South Hill St., Los Angeles. "Gay Bar" may be obtained from the DOB as shown in the ad in this issues. -ED.

"FIRST: Permit me to congratulate you upon your splendid 'open letter' to Ann Aldrich (smack her hide!). I shall be much interested in her reply. How can we censure the otherwise-uninformed public for entertaining prejudice when their only acquaintance with the Lesbian is that learned through such writers as Ann Aldrich? Reading the se misrepresentations leaves me depressed for days.

"But my chief objection is not the pained reaction which mature people like us experience: it is the unmeasured harm it does to a young adolescent, one just awakening to variance. Should her introduction to this condition be one of these stories, then what can result other then a 'guilt complex'? Consider how complicated, even impossible, an adjustment is likely to become when she tries to compare the sordid mess of these stories with what her inner self tells her is natural, beautiful and fulfilling. The same applies to the male variant.

"There is some truth to the statement of some heteros that the homo life is undesirable. But ONLY because the hetero has made it that way thanks in part to people like Ann Aldrich!

"And by the way, your open letter suggests that she might belong to the minority group of which she writes so disparagingly. This amazed me: for some reason, I had always been naive enough to suppose that the homophile harbored no such traitors as this one! A repressed homo, yes; I can readily conceive that a variant refusing to accept himself as such might write defensively but how could a person bring shame upon his own admitted condition?

"SECOND: Added congratulation for your new-type cover! I like this treatment, for a change, very much. Though the hand drawings are effective also.

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