For the girl, I would suggest that she have a little more confidence in the love of her parents and the flexibility of mind this engenders. To face calmly a situation which she has brought into being requires patience and, in some cases, the ability to endure vituperation, for there will be a certain amount of defensiveness in her attitude. She should understand that such a discovery is a guiltproducing situation for them and try to bear with the intense reactions of the first shock.

The most important thing for both girl and parent to remember is that the sexual habits or tendencies of a person do not make an individual either sainted or evil. Neither is required to abandon her own values or opinions. The basic requirements of good personal relationships romain the same whatever the orientation of the individual · trust, willingness to examine the reasons behind a world different from one's own, and love.

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DOB on New York Radio in September

"How Normal Are Lesbians?" is the title of a taped discussion prepared in New York during the month of July with the participation of Florence Conrad, DOB Research Committoe Chairman. The tape was made at the studios of radio station WEVD, for later broadcast as part of the "University of the Air" series directed by Mrs. Leo Steiner, psychologist and marriage counsellor. Discussants included Mrs. Steiner, Miss Conrad, and Mrs. Elsie Carlton, housewife. The discussion ranged over a wide field of topics relat od to Lesbianism, but took as its point of departure the surveys conducted by the Daughters of Bilitis (see the September issues of THE LADDER for 1959 and 1960). The program is planned for broadcast on the air September 12, 1961 and may be heard by listeners in the New York area.

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