CONVERSATION WITH A CHANCE ACQUAINTANCE AROUND TO HER ATTITUDES ON ANY PRESSING SOCIAL PROBLEM, WHETHER IT'S POLITICS, SEGREGATION, JUVENILE DELINQUENCY, CENSORSHIP OR HOMOSEXUALITY.

"YOU MAY NOT MEET TOO MANY MEMBERS OF THE GAY WORLD BY THIS PROCESS, BUT YOU'LL MEET INTERESTING PEOPLE, AND MORE TO THE POINT, YOU WILL HAVE SHARPENED UP YOUR OWN PERCEPTIONS AND BECOME EXTROVERTED ENOUGH TO RECOGNIZE OTHERS OF YOUR KIND WHEN YOU DO RUN ACROSS THEM. AND SOONER OR LATER YOU WILL. BUT IF YOU'RE AN OYSTER, YOU'LL PASS THEM BY WITHOUT SPEAKING OR RECOGNIZING... AS YOU'RE DOING RIGHT NOW."

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L.B., TEXAS

TWO OF THE FEATURES I

"EACH MONTH, WHEN THE L'DDER ARRIVES, I SIMPLY DROP EVERYTHING ELSE AND READ IT FROM COVER TO COVER. LIKE BEST ARE 'READERS RESPOND' AND 'LESBIANA”."

G.G., PENNSYLVANIA

"THE CONTENTS OF THE LADDER ARE GETTING BIGGER AND BETTER WITH EACH ISSUE. HATS OFF TO YOUR FINE STAFF. SPECIAL PRAISE TO NIK FOR HER HUMOROUS AND WITTY PRINCE'S PREDICAMENT', A TENDER TALE OF MUCH SIGNIFICANCE." (DECEMBER, 1959.)

S.M., CALIFORNIA

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"OH, HOW LOVELY, HOW DELIGHTFUL THE FAIRY STORY BY NIK SURE THE 'PRINCE'S PREDICAMENT PROBABLY PLEASED EVEN PEOPLE WHO HATE TO BE PLEASED. (DECEMBER, 1959.) IF SHE CAN DO MORE LIKE THAT PLEASE RUN THEM, SUCH DELICIOUS SATIRE AND HUMOROUS LITERARY ALLUSION.

"EDITORIAL ON GAY BARS EXCELLENT. I WISH, HOWEVER, THAT PEOPLE WOULD NOT DICTATE WHAT IS PROPER IN CLOTHING. MY GOD, ADMIT IT, SOME WOMEN SIMPLY LOOK BETTER IN MASCULINE CLOTHES, NOT FOR THE

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