COULD EVER BEGIN TO HOLD. SECOND, WE HAVE ALLIES IN MANY PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT GAY, IN SPITE OF OUR FEELINGS OF DISCRIMINATION. THEY INCLUDE PEOPLE OF ALL CLASSES, RELIGIONS, POLITICAL BELIEFS, AND OCCUPATIONS. OUR BIGGEST ALLY IS THE MORAL RIGHT, THE RIGHT WHICH HAS UNITED US WITH MANY UNKNOWN FRIENDS. THIRD, AMONG OURSELVES WE FIND EVERY ELEMENT WHICH SOCIETY AS A WHOLE CONTAINS. E HAVE DIFFERENT RACES, RELIGIONS, AND SEXES; WE HAVE WRITERS, ATTORNEYS, SCIENTISTS, AND BUSINESS PEOPLE; WE HAVE CLERGYMEN AND WHITE COLLAR WORKERS; WE HAVE RICH AND WE HAVE POOR. Fo FOURTH, WE HAVE A CAUSE WHICH IS COMMON, ONE THAT TOUCHES EVERY INDIVIDUAL AMONG US. IT IS A CAUSE THAT IS SUBSTANTIAL AND WORTH FIGHTING FOR, NOT SO UNLIKE THE CAUSE THAT FREED OUR COUNTRY. FIFTH, AND PERHAPS THE MOST IMPORTANT, THERE ARE HEROES AMONG US, EVEN IF CORY FEELS TO THE CONTRARY. THERE ARE SOME OF

US WHO ARE WILLING TO MAKE THE SACRIFICES OF BATTLE.

"HOMOSEXUALS EVERYWHERE HAVE BEEN MADE THE SCAPEGOAT OF SOCIETY. THE PREJUDICES HELD AGAINST US ARE IN MOST CASES BUILT OLT OF SIGHT OF THE VERY SAME SCIENTIFIC FINDINGS AND THEORIES WITH WHICH AMERICANS IN THIS SCIENTIFIC AGE SO CLEVERLY RATIONALIZE THEIR BEHAVIOR BUT NOT THAT OF THEIR FELLOW MAN. HOW LONG WILL WE SIT QUIETLY AND WATCH SOCIETY KINDLE THE FLAMES BENEATH THE STAKES ON WHICH WE BURN WITH OUR OWN LEGAL AND MORAL RIGHTS?"

D. S., ILLINOIS

"AS A SIDELIGHT TO THE NOVEMBER ISSUE FEATURING A COVER DRAWING BY ME, A COPY SOMEHOW TURNED UP WHERE I WORK AND FOUND ITS WAY INTO MY SUPERIOR'S HOT LITTLE HANDS AND I WAS IMMEDIATELY DISCHARGED WHEN I ADMITTED THE ART WORK WAS MINE; HOWEVER, I AM AN AFL-CIO UNION MENBER AND THEY WORKED IN MY BEHALF ALONG WITH ME, AND I WAS REINSTATED AFTER A WEEK OF MUCH WRANGLING. VERDICT: IT IS NOT A CRIME TO CONTRIBUTE ART WORK TO ANY PUBLICATION. I HAD BEEN FIRED FOR MISCONDUCT CONNECTED WITH MY JOB, NO LESS! MY COWORKERS, EVEN AFTER THEY LEARNED THE GENERAL THEME OF THE LADDER, IMMEDIATELY CAME FORWARD AND READILY TESTIFIED ON MY BEHALF. SINCE THIS WAS A RATHER UNUSUAL HULLABALOO THAT DID TURN OUT ELL, I THOUGHT YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN HEARING OF IT."

KERRY, NEW HAMPSHIRE