READER'S RESPOND

"I AM SO VERY GLAD YOU RAN MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY'S LOVELY AUTOB10GRAPHICAL 'PICTURE GALLERY (LADDER, MAY 1961). I ALMOST WEPT WHEN I FIRST READ IT. SHE CAPTURES SO WELL THOSE HAPPY, YET MISERABLE, YEARS WE ALL GO THROUGH.

"THE LETTER RICHARD STUART BOLIN OF SEATTLE WROTE TO MR. KENNEDY IS REALLY A VERY GOOD, LEVEL-HEADED, NON-HYSTERICAL, INTELLIGENT AND LOGICAL PLEA. PERHAPS OTHERS OUGHT TO DO THE SAME.

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"EVERYONE OUGHT TO BUY THOSE RECORDS BY THE WAY (3 OBOLI TO APHRODITE) THEY ARE WELL WORTH THE PRICE. BEAUTIFULLY DONE. (INCIDENTALLY, DOES ANYONE KNOW WHO CHERISE' IS?)

"I'M SORRY TO HAVE TO WRITE THIS, BUT ANY TWO ADULTS OF ANY SEX WHO LIVE TOGETHER QUIETLY CONFINING THEIR SEX LIFE TO THEIR OWN BEDROOM AND NOT THE PUBLIC LATRINES RUN INTO VERY DAMNED LITTLE TROUBLE. WE SINFLY CANNOT ASK A HIGHLY PURITANIC SOCIETY THAT GATHERS ITS COLLECTIVE SKIRTS AND SOREAMS AT THE MENTION OF SEX TO VALIDATE A THOMOSEXUAL BILL OF RIGHTS' NOW OR EVER. WE HAVE ENOUGH TO CONCENTRATE ON JUST GETTING CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS. I'M SORRY, BUT WHILE I'M CERTAINLY A FIGHTER FOR OUR CAUSE AND AN ARDENT ONE AT THAT, I BELIEVE THE BILL OF RIGHTS' PROVIDES FOR ALL OF US INCLUDING THE HOMOSEXUAL AND THAT WE OUGHT TO STICK O BRINGING ITS PROVISIONS INTO USE IN OUR LIVES FIRST."

B.G., MISSOURI

"AS TO F.C. OF CALIFORNIA AND LAWRENCE DURRELL'S CLEA, FIRST OF ALL, THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET IS A SERIES OF FOUR NOVELS WHICH ATTEMPT TO PORTRAY ALL THE SEXUAL AND SENSUAL ASPECTS OF MANKIND. ALL FOUR ARE CONCERNED IN PART WITH MALE HOMOSEXUALITY AND THREE OF THE FOUR (THE FIRST, JUSTINE; THE SECOND, BALTHAZAR, AND THE FOURTH, CLEA) ARE IN PART CONCERNED WITH FEMALE HOMOSEXUALITY, ALTHOUGH IT 18 POSSIBLE TO READ EACH ONE SEPARATELY, IT IS ALMOST

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