From Over the Sea

In the March issue we published a letter in the "Readers Respond" column from a young woman in Germany. She was

at that time planning on publishing a magazine similar to THE LADDER, since she felt that the homophile magazines now issuing from Europe do not give adequate coverage to the women.

"Kontakt" has not as yet been forthcoming (there being many extenuating circumstances in setting up any publication let alone a Lesbian magazine!), but we have received literally volumes of mail from this young enterprising journalist. We would like to share some of her thoughts with our readers these after reading a file of LADDERS we sent her.

"You might be interested that a circle has opened in Stockholm about the same time that your magazine first appeared. It has many members I guess nearly a hundred and is called 'Stockholm clubben Diana'. As you do, they have lectures by doctors and psychologists (the one remarkable one is Frau Otterson-Jenssen, former assistant of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld).

"But because of experience I can see that you have the best chances to succeed of all other organizations I have seen. Perhaps it has something to do with your casual and practical American thinking. We some times lean too much to the sentiments Am I right?

"In pre-war Germany (and before Hitler) there were many interesting organizations here. Some of their members later on became 'rebels' in a political way. I do not know if it is known to you that homosexuals have been in concentration camps. Their backs were marked with a pink triangle. Because of this I was amazed when I saw the triangle you use it as a sign. (The boys here, too.)

"I am most interested in your library and the book-list of Marion Zimmer Bradley. I know many of the mentioned books, and I have even seen in England pictures of Rad-