the Ladder

FEBRUARY 1959

Volume 3, Numbor 5

Published monthly by the Daughters of Bilitis, Inc., a nonprofit corporation, 165 O'Farrell Street, Room 405, San Francisco 2, Califomia. Telephone Yukon 2-9290,

THE LADDER STAFF:

Phyllis Lyon, editor; Patti Brown and Elva Ann Schmolke, editorial assistants; Jaye Bell and Barbara Johnson, production managers; Winnie Little, circulation manager; Fran Mac, advertising manager; Astrid Berger, European correspondent.

OFFICERS, DAUGHTERS OF BILITIS, INC.: Del Martin, president; Marty Elliott, vice president; Patti Brown, recording secretary; Billio Tallmij, corresponding secretary; Carol Wilson, trea❤ surer; Ston Russell, publications dirastor.

THE LADDER is regarded as a sounding board for various points of view on the homophile and related subjects and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the organization.

contents

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Miss Travers, a story by Theresa Corolla... Homosexuality and Creativity by Meredity Grey......... 7 Transvestism in Women by Gene Damon & Lee Stuart......11 Mood Miscellanea Poetry........

The Lesbian in Contemporary Literature by Lennox

Losbiana.

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Strang..............16

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New York DOB Sponsors Talk by Holon King.. Calendar of Events.....

Roaders Respond....

Cover by Kerry (with apologies to the Higgins Ink Co.)

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