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ONE: THE HOMOSEXUAL MAGAZINE
The name of this pioneer homosexual organization and their magazine of the same name originates from a quote from Thomas Carlyle and appears on the title page: "... a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one ." {Begins in 1953. The first openly gay or lesbian national publication in the United States . In 1954 US postal officials seized and refused to mail an issue, calling its contents obscene and lascivious, prompting a long legal battle. In 1958 the justices of the US Supreme Court unanimously reversed the decisions of lower courts and established the right of gay publications to be distributed through the mail. For a more detailed history see http://www.planetout.com/news/history/archive/08021999.html } Copies can be found at: http://www.oneinstitute.org/nojs.html http://library.usask.ca/spcoll/srsd/journals/journals_list New York Public Library, Unversity of Colorado, and the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archive among other places.
Partial Annotated Index April, 1954 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Magazine (Vol. 2 #4). A stapled digest containing 32 pages, including front and rear covers. The cover features an illustration of fitness guru and notorious homophobe Benarr Macfadden, accompanied by a vicious statement made by him regarding "sexual abnormality" which begins, "The sickening, nauseating reactions that rack a wholesome personality forced to consider sexual abnormality, is emotionally natural to one who possesses normal, healthy instincts..." (inside, ONE reproduces a letter it sent to Dr. Arthur Guy Mathews of the Bernarr Macfadden Foundation, along with four vitrolic responses: three from the Foundation, and one on stationery titled 'Bernarr Macfadden's Vitalized Physicial Culture' in which the spokesman for the Foundation states, in part, that "any righteous man or woman serving on a jury will never convict a defendant who has killed a fairy").
December, 1955 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Magazine (Vol. 3 #12). A stapled digest-size magazine containing 32 pages including front and rear covers. Features include: *cover story and main article entitled "Are Homosexuals Security Risks?" by Marlin Prentiss ; *international news (with reports from Israel, India, and Ceylon); *photographic reproduction of bust "Antonio Dei Narni" by Donatello ; *news column "Tangents: News & Views" by Dal McIntire (Jim Kepner) ; *short story "Dark Spring" by Alan Salop ; *editorial by Robert Gregory ; *poetry by Jody Shotwell ; *book reviews; letters to the editor; advertisements to rear pages.
March, 1956 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Magazine (Vol. 4 #3) A stapled digest-size magazine containing 32 pages. Features include: news column "Tangents: News & Views" by Dal McIntire (Jim Kepner); several pages devoted to homosexuality in Canada with special focus on the efforts of then Ontario Attorney General A. Kelso's desire to tighten the Canadian Criminal Code to "make it simpler to convict sex deviates"; Canada's McRuer Commission on Laws Related to Criminal Sexual Psychopaths; and the Toronto Star Citizens' Forum on Sex Offenders, held in 1956 and drawing over 2,000 people (with accompanying newspaper articles, and excerpts from testimony); reprint from the February, 1950 article from "The Journal of the American Medical Association" entitled "Psychiatrically Deviated Sex Offenders?"; article "To The Women of ONE: Fear? Shame? Indolence? Snobbery? Which?" by Ann Carll Reid (from the monthly column "The Feminine Viewpoint"); book reviews; letters to the editor.
February 1957 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Magazine (Vol. 5 #2) A stapled digest-size magazine containing 40 pages. Features include: article "How Homosexuals Can Combat Anti-Homosexualism" by Albert Ellis, Ph.D. (a paper specially prepared by Dr. Ellis for presentation at ONE's Midwinter Institute held on January 26, 1957); report of the 1957 Midwestern Institute (ONE's 5th Annual Meeting); poetry "The Square" by "Miss Jay Howard"; short story "Young Actress" by Diana Sterling; travel article "A Bangkok Interlude" by Harry Otis (under the monthly column International News); short story "An Evening's Discourse" by Barrett Shannon Cooper; news column "Tangents: News & Views" by Dal McIntire (Jim Kepner); book reviews; letters to the editor.
March 1957 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Magazine (Vol. 5 #3) A stapled digest-size magazine containing 24 pages. From the introductory Editorial: "The Editors consider this issue of ONE the most important in their four years of publishing." This issue focuses on the two-and-one-half year battle with the court over the Postmaster's confiscation of ONE's October 1954 issue as "obscene, lewd, lasvicious, and filthy." The Postmaster's decision was first upheld by the Federal District Court, and ONE's appeal of that decision to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals was also squashed. The evolution of this case (ONE, Incorporated vs. Otto K. Olesen, Postmaster of the City of Los Angeles) is well-documented in this issue. At the time of printing, ONE announced its plans to appeal this latest ruling to the United States Supreme Court.
June-July 1957 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 5 #6), formerly subtitled "The Homosexual Magazine," A stapled digest-size magazine containing 32 pages. Features include: article "The Older Homosexual" by Wilfran Nicols; homophile news column "Tangents: News & Views" by Dal McIntire (Jim Kepner); short story "The Lone Scrub Oak" by Jay Kaiser; article "India's Hijras" by Harry Otis (as featured in the monthly International News column); short story "The Anticipation of Eve" by Emily Jones; book reviews; letters to the editor.
August-September 1957 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 5 #7), formerly subtitled "The Homosexual Magazine," A stapled digest-size magazine containing 32 pages. Of special note is the cover feature and inside article "ONE Salutes Rolf & Der Kreis" (on the 25th anniversary of the oldest surviving homophile publication, published out of Zurich, Switzerland); article "It Just Isn't Natural" by Jim Kepner (a response to the oft-held position that homosexuality is a "crime against nature"); short story "The Women's Club" by Diana Sterling; homophile news "Tangents: News & Views" by Dal McIntire (Jim Kepner); short story "Roger" by Geoffrey Wright; article "A Study of Sex Repressions: Italian & Irish" by Jack Roust; letters to the editor.
October-November 1957 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 5 #8), formerly subtitled "The Homosexual Magazine,". 32 pages. Special poetry issue, with featured poets Alden Kirby, J. Phoenice, Susan Smpadian, Forrest Anderson, Luther Allen, "Rick", Dan Martin, Jody Shotwell, and Bern Hard. Other features include: article "Some Historical Incidents" by J. P. Starr (short article on ancient Sparta); homophile news column "Tangents: News & Views" by Dal McIntire (Jim Kepner); short story "The Echo of a Voice" by Shoji Umo; article on the Fourth Annual Convention of the Mattachine Society by Sten Russell; letters to the editor.
December 1957 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint, formerly "The Homosexual Magazine" (Vol. 5 #9), 32 pages. Articles include: "A Gay and Merry Christmas to You ALL!" by Valentine Richardson (who writes, "If you think homosexuals have adjustment problems, you ought to spend a few years listening to the woes of the young-marrieds, with their in-laws, their budget worries, their endless infidelities, or near infidelities. Or, even worse, the middle aged and older heterosexuals, with their pitiable fixations on their children and grand-children, their nasty little sex frustrations, their pallid hypochondriac emotional patterns"); article "The Lonely Season" by Frank Golovitz (who holds an opposite viewpoint to that of Valentine Richardson. He writes, "Let's face it: most homosexuals are plenty miserable at Christmas. The whole social pattern makes it hard for them to be otherwise"); short story "On A Winter Morning" by Edward Denison; article "Ann Carll Reid & The Feminine Viewpoint" (with facsimile copy of her letter of resignation from ONE, Inc. due to health problems); short story "Revocation" by J. Lorna Strayer; homophile news column "Tangents: News & Views" by Dal McIntire (Jim Kepner); article "Erasmus" by Arent van Santhorst; book reviews; letters to the editor.
January 1958 issue of "ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint" (Vol. 6 #1); the title page states "ONE Magazine." 32 pages. Features include: Editorial by William Lambert; lesbian short story "Squills" by K.O. Neal; poetry by Julia Newman; article "The Homosexual & Democracy" by T. M. Merritt; article "It Is Natural After All" by Christopher Wicks (who argues for the genetic theory of homosexuality); article "Some Historical Incidents" by J.P. Starr (short article on Alexander of Macedon); article "6 Years After..." by Geraldine Jackson (a lengthy criticism of ONE Magazine upon its sixth year of publication; Ms. Jackson writes: "So get busy and put out a magazine with some life in it. You've been dead long enough!!!" The March 1958 issue features a special article that reprints portions of several letters received by ONE Magazine in response to this article; the discussion is lively, and either strongly supportive or strongly opposed to her viewpoint); book reviews; letters to the editor.
With a fabulous cover photograph with accompanying article on gay bars. February 1958 issue of "ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint" (Vol. 6 #2); the title page states "ONE Magazine." A stapled digest-size magazine containing 32 pages. Features include: Editorial by Lyn Pedersen (Jim Kepner); article "The Gay Bar" by Robert Gregory; short story "Down In The Canyon, The Canyon So Low" by Don Rifle; news feature "Tangents: News & Views" by Dal McIntire (Jim Kepner); article "Victory! Supreme Court Upholds Homosexual Rights" by Don Slater (on the January 13, 1958 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in favor of ONE Inc. vs. the U.S. Post Office, which had banned the mailing of ONE's October 1954 issue, claiming it obscene); article "The Problem Of Meeting People" by Alice F. Horvath; poem "To Bassa" written by Sir George Sedley (1722); article "Homosexuality and Scientific Humanism" by T. M. Merritt; travel article entitled "I Met A Sikh" by Harry Otis; letters to the editor.
March 1958 issue of "ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint" (Vol. 6 #3); the title page states "ONE Magazine." 32 pages. This issue is largely devoted to a comprehensive report of ONE's Sixth Annual Midwinter Institute conference held in Los Angeles from January 31 through February 2, 1958. Under the general heading of "Homosexuality: A Way of Life," conference activities are subheaded "Hard-Hitting Attorney Speaks" (on the speech made by Eric Julber, Los Angeles attorney, who represented ONE, Inc. in their victorious court action against U.S. Postmaster Otto K. Oleson who had refused delivery of ONE's October, 1954 issue); "Homosexual vs. Heterosexual Living" (a lively debate between a heterosexual psychologist who argued that "Heterosexual Living is Better Than Homosexual" and Lyn Pedersen - Jim Kepner - the Associate Editor of ONE Magazine); "The Spartan Way" (readings by Rachel Rosenthal of passages from "The Corn King and the Spring Queen," a novel by Naomi Mitchison); "Sex Roundtables" (roundtable discussions on the following topics: "Is Homosexuality a Social Necessity?"; "Do Homosexuals Have Community Responsibilities"; "Promiscuity: Wrong or Right?"; "Should Homosexuals Get Married?"; "The Lesbian Partnership"; and "The Older Homosexual"). Other features in this issue include: "Readers on Writers" (responses to Geraldine Jackson's lengthy criticism of ONE Magazine printed in the January, 1958 issue); news feature "Tangents: News & Views" by Dal McIntire (Jim Kepner); short story "The Budget" by Emily Jones; short story "That Nubian" by Harry Otis; poetry by "Del" (Martin?); book reviews; letters to the editor.
April 1958 issue of "ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint" (Vol. 6 #4); the title page states "ONE Magazine." 32 pages. Features include: Editorial by William Lambert; article "The Single Homosexual" by Frank Golovitz; short story "A Night Out" by John Norris; short story "Art On Saturday Night" by Diana Sterling; news feature "Tangents: News and Views" by Dal McIntire (Jim Kepner); short article "The Fall of Ancient Greece" by Dr. John G. L. Pearson (reprinted from the Canadian newspaper "The Globe and Mail" for February 19, 1958 in which Professor Pearson refutes the myth of "moral decay" leading to ancient Greece's downfall); short article "St. Paul on Sodomy" by Kenneth McIntosh; poetry "David With Chocolate" by A. Faurot; a short memoir recounting the author's meeting with twenty-two year old "Harry" ("Excuse me sir, but do you have a light?" Harry asks Konrad, the author of the memoir, which is translated from the German); letters to the editor. Lastly, there is a stapled four-page insert to the middle fold announcing the first issue of "ONE Institute Quarterly Homophile Studies" containing the table of contents of the first issue, subscription form, and the purpose behind the issuance of the Quarterly).
With special cover feature entitled "Is Your Child A Homosexual?" and accompanying internal article entitled "To the Parent of a Homosexual" by Ruth M. Friedman. May 1958 issue of "ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint" (Vol. 6 #5); the title page states "ONE Magazine." 32 pages. Other features include: Editorial by Lyn Pedersen (Jim Kepner); short story "Mission San Juan Capistrano" by Arnell Larsen ("a young author who is trying to have his five novels on the homosexual theme published..."); poetry "Over on the East Side" by Gordon Hamilton; extensive two-and-one-half page "Directory of [Homophile] Organizations & Publications" (both nationally and internationally); news column "Tangents: News and Views" by Dal McIntire (Jim Kepner); short story "Aphrodite" (as appearing in the issue's "Feminine Viewpoint" column; translated from the German, it is prefaced, in part: "The German homophile magazine 'Der Ring'...has had a feminine section since the April/May 1956 issue. 'Aphrodite'...is always in the form of a letter from Alexandria, an airline stewardess, to her friend Dagmar...The letter may deal with anything Alexandria wishes to discuss with Dagmar - a novel with a lesbian theme, news of a women's organization in Israel. There is always, however, a personal touch to these discussions..."); book reviews; letters to the editor.
June 1958 issue of "ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint" (Vol. 6 #6); the title page states "ONE Magazine." 32 pages. With special cover feature on "Successful Homosexuals: First In A Series" featuring a photograph of a policeman (although I have not been able to confirm this, I am certain that - although never a policeman! - the person in the photograph is none other than Jim Kepner from ONE, Inc.); the accompanying article is entitled "The Successful Homosexual" (with an interview of highway cop "Patrick O'Connor" - his real name is not used - by ONE's Chuck Taylor). Other features include: Editorial by Don Slater (who begins "The life of a homosexual is cheap...", the theme being violence against homosexuals); article "Immortal Beethoven - A Repressed Homosexual?" by William H. Kupper, M.D.; poetry "He was a Young Boy, and Frail" by Doyle Eugene Livingston; news column "Tangents: News & Views" by Dal McIntire (Jim Kepner); short story "The First Edition" by Tucker Marten; "Readers on Writers" (ONE's readers respond to the article "St. Paul on Sodomy" written by the Rev. Kenneth McIntosh and published in ONE's April 1958 issue); article "More on the Problem of Meeting People" by Florence Jaffy (in the column "The Feminine Viewpoint"); poetry "Circumambient Love" by J. Lorna Strayer; article "The Road to Toleration" by Richard Wollheim (reprinted from the April 4, 1958 issue of London's "The Spectator"); a one-page letter from the editor of Switzerland's homophile journal "The Circle," Rudolf Burkhardt, who had recently spent six weeks in the United States, visiting the ONE Institute in Los Angeles; letters to the editor.
With special cover feature on gay beaches, with accompanying lengthy article "Gay Beach" by Frank Golovitz (with six photographs). July 1958 issue of "ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint" (Vol. 6 #7); the title page states "ONE Magazine." 32 pages. Features include: Editorial by Alison Hunter (ONE's Associate Editor); poetry "Rough Trade" by Brother Grundy; short story "Words That Hurt" by Matt Kent; short poem "Jon's Green Eyes" by "D.R.E."; article on lesbian relationships in the form of a letter from "Jo" from "Jay [female]" entitled "As for heartache..."; article "If One Needs Religion" by Allen Windsor; interview by ONE's Chuck Taylor of "Wilbur O'Donnel - call me 'Pete'" (pseudonym) - a thirty-two year old carpenter, as part of ONE's continuing feature entitled "The Successful Homosexual"; news article entitled "Registration Law Dealt Blow" (by an unidentified author, regarding California's registration of sex offenders); article "Report from Brussels" by Marvin Cutler (on the conference sponsored by the International Committee for Sex Equality held the previous May); book reviews; letters to the editor.
With special cover feature and accompanying article of the same name by Hollister Barnes entitled "I Am Glad I Am Homosexual" (a radical notion for its time, particularly when appearing on the cover of a public magazine, and one that generated heated debate). August 1958 issue of "ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint" (Vol. 6 #8); the title page states "ONE Magazine." 32 pages. Other features include: Editorial by William Lambert (Associate Editor); poetry "The Young Bather" by Martin Armstrong; short story "The Brothers" by Gordon Hamilton (on the relationship between Karl, an American prisoner of war during World War II, and Art, his German guard); news column "Tangents: News & Views" by Dal McIntire (Jim Kepner); lesbian short story "The Daystar" by Toni Dabney; poem "Lost" by Sten Russell (reprinted from the lesbian homophile publication, "The Ladder"); one-page news article entitled "Beach Round-Up" (reprinted from the June 3, 1958 issue of "The Miami Herald" and written by columnist Jack Kofoed, on the series of raids conducted by Miami Beach police a few days previous, which resulted in the arrest of 47 gay men on Miami beaches and in Miami bars); book reviews; letters to the editor.
September 1958 issue of "ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint" (Vol. 6 #9, mis-numbered 8); the title page states "ONE Magazine." 32 pages. Features include: Editorial by Lyn Pedersen (Jim Kepner, Associate Editor); article "Arab Revolt" by Bruno Roger Vitale (on T. E. Lawrence - Lawrence of Arabia - and his love for Dahoum, a young Arab boy); poetry "How Thin Your Nose Is" by Manfred Wise; short story "Mrs. Cartwright" by Keith Barton; news column "Tangents: News & Views" by Dal McIntire (Jim Kepner); article "Why Do They Persecute Us So?" by Carol Robin (featured in the column "The Feminine Viewpoint"); poetry "I Do Not Wake To Grope" by J. Phoenice; three-page synopsis of one week's segment of "TV: Crime Story," a panel discussion aired late Saturday nights on Los Angeles' television station KTLA (this segment was on the topic "sex crimes" with a lengthy discussion of homosexuality, often quite hostile); book reviews; letters to the editor.
October 1958 issue of "ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint" (Vol. 6 #10); the title page states "ONE Magazine." 32 pages. Features include: one-page article (with opposite photograph) of the house located at the corner of Dalton and 27th Street in Los Angeles - the birthplace of ONE Magazine on October 15, 1952; article "The Ambiguous Heroes of John Horne Burns" by Daniel H. Edgerton; lesbian short story "Hauviette" by Jody Shotwell; short story "Leopard on a Spot" by Dan Martin; news column "Tangents: News & Views" by Dal McIntire (Jim Kepner); five-page reader response (under the heading "Readers On Writers") on Hollister Barne's article "I Am Glad I Am Homosexual" appearing in the August 1958 issue; poetry "If I Have Offended You" by Doyle Eugene Livingston; book reviews; letters to the editor.
December 1958 issue of "ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint" (Vol. 6 #12); the title page states "ONE Magazine." 32 pages. Features include: Editorial by Don Slater; article "Christmas in Zurich" by Rudolph Burkhardt (editor of the Swiss homophile journal "Der Kreis" - "The Circle"); poetry "A Pagan Hymn on Christmas Eve" by Joseph Upper; short story "A Place To Go" by Matt Kent; news column "Tangents: News & Views" by Dal McIntire (Jim Kepner); lesbian short story "Renascence" by Emily Jones; memoir entitled "My Uncle & Oscar" by Harry Otis; book reviews; letters to the editor.
ONE's Seventh Anniversary Issue. January 1959 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 7 #1). The title page states "ONE Magazine." 32 pages. Features include: Editorial by Lyn Pedersen (Jim Kepner, Associate Editor); article "Swish or Swim" by D. B. Vest; short story "Moment of Truth" by Arnell Larsen; news column "Tangents: News & Views" by Dal McIntire (Jim Kepner); poetry "Love Poem, Sort Of (for a West Indian friend)" by Tram Combs; lesbian short story entitled "Pages from a Journal of Waning Affection" by Lou McLean; a new column entitled "Toward Understanding" by Blanche M. Baker M.D., Ph.D. ("The purpose of this column is to create a better understanding of homosexual problems through the psychiatric viewpoint"; the column is accompanied with Dr. Baker's photograph); letters to the editor.
February 1959 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 7 #2). The title page states "ONE Magazine." 32 pages. Features include: Editorial by Alison Hunter (Associate Editor); lengthy poem entitled "The Tragedy of Masks" by Doyle Eugene Livingston; short story "The Raft" by Lee Mitchell; news column "Tangents: News & Views" by Dal McIntire (Jim Kepner); lesbian short story in the form of a letter from "Jay" to "Jo" (featured in the column "The Feminine Viewpoint"); gay travel and history article entitled "Only In Lima" by Harry Otis; article "A Frenchman Reviews 'ONE Institute Quarterly of Homophile Studies'" (published by the Educational arm of ONE, Inc. and written by Marc Daniel, translated from the French homophile journal "Arcadie"); column "Toward Understanding" by Blanche M. Baker M.D., Ph.D. ("The purpose of this column is to create a better understanding of homosexual problems through the psychiatric viewpoint"; the column is accompanied with Dr. Baker's photograph); book reviews; letters to the editor.
With special cover story and accompanying article entitled "A Little Of My Life" by Miss Vivian Messetti (the article is in regard to her "peculiar sex oddity, that of a Female Pseudo-Hermaphrodite"). March 1959 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 7 #3). The title page states "ONE Magazine." 32 pages. In addition to the cover story, other features include: Editorial by William Lambert (Associate Editor); lengthy news article by Lyn Pedersen (Jim Kepner) entitled "Court Upholds Gay Bars" (California's District Court of Appeals struck down the license suspension of a bar in Oakland, closed in 1956 by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control "because its patronage consisted almost exclusively of homosexuals and lesbians"); lesbian short story "The Room Upstairs" by Jody Shotwell; poetry "The Darkness of the Night" by Clair Stern; news column "Tangents: News & Views" by Dal McIntire (Jim Kepner); article "Roger Casement: Traitor, Martyr, or Pervert" by James (Jim) Kepner (accompanied with a photograph of Roger Casement); column "Toward Understanding" by Blanche M. Baker M.D., Ph.D. ("The purpose of this column is to create a better understanding of homosexual problems through the psychiatric viewpoint"; the column is accompanied with Dr. Baker's photograph); book reviews; letters to the editor.
April 1959 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 7 #4). The title page states "ONE Magazine." 32 pages. Features include: Editorial by Don Slater; article "The Decline and Fall of Marriage" by Hermann Stoessel; poetry "Serenade" by Harlan Connor; short story "The Yellow Sands" by Ellis Donnell; article "Mental Health and Homosexuality" by "D.S." (Don Slater, on the theme of "Mental Health and Homosexuality" chosen for the 1959 Midwinter Institute conference held in Los Angeles); news column "Tangents: News & Views" by Dal McIntire (Jim Kepner); lesbian short story "Boundaries" by Ann Wooster; special book review article on the life and writings of Jean Genet; article "The Homosexual Nudist" by Kermit Josephs; poetry "Mind Weaving Patterns" by Willis Eberman; letters to the editor.
With special cover feature and accompanying article by "Didgeon" entitled "Between Consenting Adults" (on age-of-consent issues). Offered is the May 1959 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 7 #5). The title page states "ONE Magazine." 32 pages. In addition to the cover story, other features include: Editorial by Alison Hunter (Associate Editor); interview by Chuck Taylor of school teacher "Don Winters" (pseudonym, a gay elementary school teacher; this interview is part of ONE's series entitled "The Successful Homosexual"); short story "The Woman and His Love" by J. Lorna Strayer; article "Why Not Compromise?" by Frankie Almitra (featured in the column "The Feminine Viewpoint"; on issues related to lesbian "fems" and "butches"); article "The Halloween Party" by "A Charleston Reporter" (on the murder of a gay man and subsequent trial); article "How Stupid Can The Pentagon Get?" by Hollister Barnes (on the exclusion of homosexuals in the military); column "Towards Understanding" by psychiatrist Blanche M. Baker; book reviews; letters to the editor.
June 1959 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 7 #6). The title page states "ONE Magazine." 32 pages. Features include: Editorial by Lyn Pedersen (Jim Kepner, Associate Editor); article "Have yourself a Gay Vacation this July" by Jessica Farr; select reprints from "Lisa Ben's" exceptionally rare lesbian mimeographed publication entitled "Vice Versa" published in 1947 and 1948; news column "Tangents: News & Views" by Dal McIntire (Jim Kepner); gay travel article entitled "But Not Alone" by Harry Otis; lengthy poem "We Dine Out, Blanche And I" by Peter Kane; article "The Traffic in Pornography" (by Alex Comfort and reprinted from the March 19, 1959 issue of the "Manchester Guardian"); column "Towards Understanding" by psychiatrist Blanche M. Baker; book reviews; letters to the editor.
With special cover feature and interior article on "The Homosexual and the Beat Generation" by Wallace de Ortega Maxey. July 1959 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 7 #7). The title page states "ONE Magazine." A stapled digest-size magazine containing 32 pages. In addition to the cover story, other features include: Editorial by William Lambert (Associate Editor); short story "The Last of the Masks with Profuse Apologies to Oren Boyton and a Couple of Other Cats who may be Hiding under Local Pianos" by Lou McLean; news column "Tangents: News & Views" by Dal McIntire (Jim Kepner); short story "The Force" by Jess Luther; poetry "Other People" by Willis Eberman; one-page article "Report From New York" by Alden Kirby (on a recent poetry reading given by Gregory Corso and Frank O'Hara); column "Towards Understanding" by psychiatrist Blanche M. Baker; book reviews; letters to the editor.
With special cover feature and interior article on "Men Who Find Lesbians Desirable" by Del Martin (who, along with her partner Phyllis Lyon, founded the lesbian homophile organization "The Daughters of Bilitis" and its magazine, "The Ladder"). Now very elderly, they were the first same-sex couple married last year (2004) at San Francisco City Hall, although the ceremonies were later overturned by the Court. August 1959 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 7 #8). The title page states "ONE Magazine." 32 pages. In addition to the cover story, other features include: Editorial by Don Slater; short story "An Added Convenience" by Scott Walters; news column "Tangents: News & Views" by Dal McIntire (Jim Kepner); two lengthy poems entitled "The Ballad of B.A. Beach" and "The Insomniad: An Essay on Original Sin" by "Brother Grundy" (with an accompanying announcement of his death, as well as a half-page memorial); one-page news article entitled "Dr. Evelyn Hooker Speaks at V.D. Council Luncheon" by "D.S." (Don Slater); short story "Blackbirds" by Ann Wooster; column "Towards Understanding" by psychiatrist Blanche M. Baker; letters to the editor.
With special cover feature and accompanying article incorporated into Jim Kepner's news column "Tangents: News & Views" entitled "The Campaign That Deviated" (on the 1959 San Francisco Mayorial race in which one of the candidates accused incumbent Mayor George Christopher as providing homosexuals with a "hospitable" atmosphere in that city). November 1959 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 7 #11). The title page states "ONE Magazine." A stapled digest-size magazine containing 32 pages. In addition to the cover story, other features include: Editorial (a joint effort, on ONE's Seventh Birthday); lengthy short story entitled "Joel Beck" by Doyle Eugene Livingston; poetry "Poems For L." by Ann Wooster; column "Towards Understanding" by psychiatrist Blanche M. Baker; book reviews; letters to the editor.
January 1960 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 8 #1). The title page states "ONE Magazine." 32 pages. Features include: Editorial by Lyn Pedersen (Jim Kepner), column "Readers On Writers" (containing readership response to ONE's September 1959 "Pen Pal" issue; Lyn Pedersen was strongly supportive of a ONE-based pen-pal exchange, and William Lambert strongly opposed. Their debate "triggered a conflict" of issues, and reader response is very strong); poetry "Longing" by Jacqueline Lawson; article "The White Peacock" by Pierre Foreau (on gay composer Charles Griffes); centerspread list of activities, including panel discussions, to be held at ONE's upcoming Sixth Midwinter Institute (the theme being "The Homosexual in the Community"); news column "Tangents: News & Views" by Dal McIntire (Jim Kepner); short story "Initiation" by J. Lorna Strayer; column "Towards Understanding" by psychiatrist Blanche M. Baker; book reviews; letters to the editor.
February 1960 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 8 #2). The title page states "ONE Magazine." 32 pages. Features include: Editorial by Alison Hunter (Women's Editor); poetry "This Time of Calm" by J. Lorna Strayer; article "Augmented Families" by J. P. Starr ("Family life as we know it cries aloud for reformation"); short story "The Girl with the Red Gold Hair" by Harry Otis; lengthy poem "A Dream One, In the Night, All and Everything: A Love Poem" by Manfred Wise; article "Is There An Alternative?" by Arthur Sartoris (who writes, "Society asks, 'will homosexuals really be responsible?' Can they be trusted? And the answer, if we are to gain, must be a convincing 'Yes!' Time and time again, homosexuals have postponed their own emancipation by replying in the negative."); short story "Lonely Town" by Drake Beardsley; column "Towards Understanding" by psychiatrist Blanche M. Baker; short article "What is Unlawful?" by Lyn Pedersen (Jim Kepner) on England's famous "Wolfenden Report" on homosexuality, recently released; letters to the editor.
March 1960 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 8 #3). The title page states "ONE Magazine." 32 pages. Features include: Editorial by Don Slater (on ONE's Sixth Midwinter Institute held on January 29-31, 1960); article "A Home Of Your Own" by Charles K. Robinson (on owning a home); article "Disease or Way of Life?" by Richard Hall (who later wrote the gay classic "The Butterscotch Prince"; this article is a strong rebuttal to Dr. Edmund Bergler's rabid book "Homosexuality: Disease or Way of Life?"); short story "The Junk Dealer" by K. O. Neal; news column "Tangents: News & Views" by Dal McIntire (Jim Kepner); article, in the form of a fictional letter from Jay to Jo entitled "On Being Obvious" (until the world accepts us, Jay writes, "...to imitate the other sex in any way at all, whether it be in mannerisms, or dress, is to look for trouble..."); short story "Incident on a Summer Day" by Frankie Almitra; column "Towards Understanding" by psychiatrist Blanche M. Baker; Book column focused this month on the suppressed ancient Greek novel with homosexual content "Leucippe and Clitophon"; letters to the editor.
April 1960 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 8 #4). The title page states "ONE Magazine." 32 pages. Features include: Editorial by William Lambert (Associate Editor); lengthy article "Homosexuality as Compared with Child Molestation and Other Compulsions" by Christian Midence Valentine; short story "Fata Morgana" by Jeremy Hammer; news column "Tangents: News & Views" by Dal McIntire (Jim Kepner); article "Christian Faith and Sexual Relationships" by "H.S."; poetry "The Sea of Cypris" and "Hymn of the Night" from "The Collected Works of Pierre Louys"; column "Towards Understanding" by psychiatrist Blanche M. Baker; reprint of Dr. Evelyn Hooker's short talk entitled "Summary of Paper: Value-Conflict and Value-Congruence of a Homosexual Group in a Heterosexual Society" read at the American Psychological Association meeting in Cincinnati, on September 1959; letters to the editor.
June 1960 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 8 #6). A stapled digest-size magazine containing 32 pages. Features include: Editorial by Don Slater; column "Readers on Writers" (in which the readership responds to Cristina Midence Valentine's controversial article "Homosexuality as Compared with Child Molestation and Other Compulsions" which appeared in the April, 1960 issue of ONE); news column "Tangents: News & Views" by Dal McIntire (Jim Kepner); poetry "I'll Still Love You" and "Strange Fire" by Sten Russell (long associated with ONE Magazine, and an Associate Editor, Sten Russell's portrait appears on the front cover); poetry "Celestial Mechanics" by Alden Kirby; poetry "Mirrored Truth" by J. Lorna Strayer; poetry "Hands of Han" by Pierre Foreau; poetry "Objet d'Art" by Peter Kane; short story "Some of My Best Friends are Jews" by Jay Wallace (on prejudice); column "Towards Understanding" by Blanche M. Baker M.D., Ph.D.; letters to the editor.
August 1960 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 8 #8). 32 pages. Special cover feature and interior material on gays in the military. Features include: Editorial by William Lambert (Associate Editor); short story (and possibly fictionalized memoir) entitled "Courage" by Richard Rand as told to Geoffrey Wright (about a gay Korean War veteran receiving an honor from the President of the United States); lengthy article "The Homosexual Draftee" by Robert Gregory; article "Sergeant 'A' - Sergeant 'B'" by Paul Marc (on two Air Force sergeants who were arrested under Article 134 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice for "flagrante delicto"; court-martial charges were filed against Sergeant 'A' - curiously, as stated in the article, "Sergeant B was safe from local wrath by being a visitor from another base far removed"); poetry "Two Riddles" by Charles Partridge; poetry "Ancient Dress" by Leo Albertieri; short story "Thursday Evening" by J. Lorna Strayer; short story "The Merchant and the Student: A Fairy Tale" by Arcades Ambo; book reviews; letters to the editor.
September 1960 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 8 #9). A stapled digest-size magazine containing 32 pages. Features include: Editorial by Sten Russell (Associate Editor); article "Reflections on Love and Marriage" by "Didgeon" (and dedicated "For Rudy - si quaeris, circumspice"); short poem "Short Point for Future Feet" by Marvin Bell; news column "Tangents: News & Views" by Dal McIntire (Jim Kepner); short story "Mona Lisa" by Cecil de Vada; article "Homosexuality and Overpopulation" by Ellis Radick; poetry "Sonnet" by E. V. Griffith; article "Ordinary Decency" by "T.M.M." (reflections stemming from the recent arrest of a photographer charged with "violating the standards of ordinary decency"); article "The Gay Park" by Matt Kent (who begins, "Recent issues of ONE have featured the gay bar and the gay beach but not a word about the gay park. What an injustice to the non-drinking, non-swimming reader!"); article "Japanese Doctor Claims Homosexual Rate High Among Alien Residents" (reprinted from "The Japan Times"); book reviews; letters to the editor.
October 1960 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 8 #10). The title page states "ONE Magazine." 32 pages. With cover feature "Are Homosexuals Security Risks?" and accompanying Editorial by Don Slater who discusses this topic based upon the recent defection of William Martin and Bernon Mitchell to Moscow ("Assuming that the pair are homosexual, and we believe they are, we find it curious that they would want to go to Russia to seek happiness and fulfillment..."); short story "Marquita" by Jody Shotwell; short story (and possibly fictionalized memoir) entitled "Cornball: The Kid Pro" by James Hiner (about "Cornball" and his friend who met in basic training during World War II); poetry "Shall Creeping Time Creep Up On Me" by Jim White; news column "Tangents: News & Views" by Dal McIntire (Jim Kepner); short story "The Gentle Deception" by Neill Summers; book reviews; letters to the editor.
December 1960 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 8 #12). The title page states "ONE Magazine." 32 pages. With cover feature "Homosexual, Servant of God" and accompanying internal articles, one entitled "Rahab, The Harlot of Jericho" by the Rev. Robert W. Wood. Other features include Editorial by Lyn Pedersen (Jim Kepner, Associate Editor); an "Open Letter [to] The Honorable Davie Fulton, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada" from "Michael" (regarding Canada's recent report from the Royal Commission on "The Criminal Law Relating to Criminal Sexual Psychopaths"); article "Guilt and the Homosexual" by the Rt. Rev. Thomas Martin and Father Bernard Newman; short story "The Answer" by Jeffrey Lawrence; news column "Tangents: News & Views" by Dal McIntire (Jim Kepner); article "The Church and the Homosexual" by the Very Rev. G. P. T. Paget King; article in the form of a fictionalized letter from "Padre Urbanus" to "My dear Tim" (on a homosexual's relationship to God and vice-versa); a one-page personal letter to the readership from Blanche M. Baker, M.D., Ph.D. (who wrote the column "Toward Understanding") announcing her inability to continue the column due to serious illness; letters to the editor.
January 1961 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 9 #1). The title page states "ONE Magazine." 32 pages. With cover feature on gay bars with accompanying internal article entitled "Know Your Bartender" by Robert Charles Jemison. Other features include Editorial by William Lambert (Associate Editor); "We Regret To Report" announcement and memorial on page two of the editorial of the death of Dr. Blanche M. Baker, on December 11, 1960, at her home in San Francisco; poetry "Take A Walk, Mister Big?" by Doyle Eugene Livingston; short story "Ron's Zircon" by Harry Otis; news column "Tangents: News & Views" by Dal McIntire (Jim Kepner); short story "The Nice Kid" by Ann Bannon (who would publish, in the following year, her very popular lesbian pulp novel "Beebo Brinker"); book reviews; letters to the editor.
March 1961 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 9 #3). 32 pages including front and rear covers. Features include Editorial by Alison Hunter (Associate Editor, on "Your Rights in Case of Arrest"); article "Homosexual Procreation" by James R. Steuart; short story "The New Butcher Boy" by Ives Cerny (translated from the French by Clarkson Crane); news column "Tangents: News & Views" by Dal McIntire (Jim Kepner); poetry "Sonnet" by William V. Stone; short story "The Scavengers" by J. J. Ploss; letters to the editor.
April 1961 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 9 #4). The title page states "ONE Magazine." 32 pages. With a lovely cover photograph entitled "John, Mowing." Features include Editorial by the Editorial Staff; article "ONE Midwinter Institute: A Report" by W. Dorr Legg (the topic of the conference was "A Homosexual Bill of Rights"); article "An Official Statement" (a positional statement read by Jaye Bell, president of the lesbian homophile organization "The Daughters of Bilitis", at ONE's Seventh Annual Banquet on January 29, 1961); poetry "John, Mowing" by Pierre Foreau; short story "In the Shadow of the Lady's Torch" by Dirk Vanden (later popular gay pulp author); column "Case History" by "R.P." (on the life and experiences of this gay man); poetry "Lyric for Lesbians" by Jacqueline Lawson; article "The Case of the Mail Order Minister" by "R.H." (a very interesting account of the Reverend Ronald Stiles of Cleveland's "Miracle Revival Center" who was charged and convicted of "immoral acts with young teen-age boys" - all of the young men retracted their original accusations during trial); book reviews; letters to the editor. Of special note is the four-page readership Questionnaire stapled (as issued) to the center of the magazine ("Your reply will be a help in the drafting of a "Homosexual Bill of Rights").
June 1961 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 9 #6). The title page states "ONE Magazine." 32 pages. With a special cover story, with lengthy internal material, on the pivotal homophile organization the Mattachine Society. Features include: Editorial by Sten Russell (Associate Editor); article "Homosexual Diaspora: A Tale of Two Cities" (on the "stormy history" of the homophile organization the Mattachine Society, their financial problems, the recent decision by the Board of Directors to revoke all Area Council Charters, and the New York Mattachine Society's decision to retain their name and work independently from the mother organization based in San Francisco; contained in this report is a letter to ONE, Inc. from Albert J. de Dion, Chairman of New York's Mattachine Society, as well as a lengthy report from David L. Daniels, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mattachine Society, Inc.); short story "The Firebird" by Bob Waltrip; news column "Tangents: News & Views" (this time by Sten Russell); poetry "His Face" by Janz Arwin; short story "The Pickup" by Lance Knight; poetry "Small Talk" by Victor J. Banis (later author of several delightful gay pulps); book reviews; letters to the editor.
July 1961 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 9 #7). The title page states "ONE Magazine." 32 pages. Special fiction and poetry issue, with cover feature and accompanying lengthy article entitled "Secrets of the Gay Novel" by Ann Bannon (famous for her lesbian pulp novels, in particular "Beebo Brinker" published the following year). Other features include Editorial by William Lambert (Associate Editor); poetry "Cloud-Portrait" by Forrest Anderson; short story "Two on a Beach" by J. D. Dolan; news column "Tangents: News & Views" by Del McIntire (Jim Kepner); poetry "Autumn Harvest" by Jon Seybold; short story "Overture" by Wayne Lincoln; poetry "The Kiss and the Dream" by Doyle Eugene Livingston; book reviews; letters to the editor.
August 1961 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 9 #8). The title page states "ONE Magazine." 32 pages. Features include Editorial by Don Slater; lengthy article entitled "Postal Censorship: Why the Post Office Has No Time For Your Mail" by Robert Gregory (on the "ominous trends set in motion these days toward limiting and even proscribing what American citizens shall be permitted to read"); column "Case History" (on the life and experiences of "John" who "had found ONE Magazine on a newsstand. Bought it one minute and got on the bus the next, to come to the office as the earliest applicant for ONE's Social Service Division"); news column "Tangents: News & Views" by Del McIntire (Jim Kepner); book reviews; letters to the editor.
September 1961 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 9 #9). The title page states "ONE Magazine." 32 pages. Features include Editorial by Robert Gregory (Managing Editor); article "The Homosexual Stereotype" by Marcel Martin; poetry "Stranger in a New Pale Green" by J. Lorna Strayer; curious, lonely Gertrude-Steinish philosophical musings entitled "Philosophia" by Thomas L. Waugh ("Hollywood U.S.A. Is stark at night and dark at night. Stark dark Hollywood U.S.A. And being gay here is a problem here a problem that it is no where else although it may also be stark and dark. Stark dark gaiety and being gay and living gay and gay..."); news column "Tangents: News & Views" (this month's column by Harry Otis); short story "Prelude to..." by Jacqueline Lawson; poetry "Love Song" by Victor J. Banis; "Letter to a G.I." (from "Brian Keith" who writes, "Dear Dave, This is in memory of an anniversary - the anniversary of October 27, 1943, when I first heard you singing in North Africa..."); short story "In the Darkness a Strange Angel" by Manxman Andrews; book reviews; letters to the editor.
October 1961 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 9 #10). The title page states "ONE Magazine." 32 pages. Features include Editorial by Alison Hunter (Women's Editor); lengthy poem entitled "A Question of Values" by Carol Bradford ("Or whisper...'Queer'...Or...yell...'Hey! Lady-lover!'?"); news column "Tangents: News & Views" by Del McIntire (Jim Kepner); short story "One and One Thousand" by G. T. Worland; short story "All the Way" by Frank Hammill; poetry "Lover; After Several Years Have Passed, Perhaps-" by Charles K. Robinson; article "A Heterosexual Viewpoint" by Peter Genung ("Now that I have read several issues of ONE Magazine, I feel impelled to strain your good nature slightly by offering some unsolicited thoughts from 'the other side of the fence' on the acceptance of homosexuals by heterosexuals"); book reviews; letters to the editor.
November 1961 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 9 #11). The title page states "ONE Magazine." 32 pages. Features include "To the Readers of ONE" (an angry report from the Board of Directors regarding the last-minute cancellation of ONE's "Cruise Through Europe" by Continental Travel Service out of Los Angeles); article "A Matter of Language" by Marcel Martin (on the question of terminology used for gay relationships); poetry "Somewhere Below Fourth Street" by Carol Bradford; short story "A Beginning" by Arcades Ambo; article "Blueprint for Partnership" by Jim Egan ("Let us assume that you have finally met someone with whom you want to spend the rest of your life and he, in turn, feels the same about you. You are ready and willing to establish a permanent partnership - but how to start?"); short story "And the Truth Shall Set You Free" by Gabrielle Ganelle; book reviews; letters to the editor. Of special note is a mimeographed solicitation sheet stapled to the centerfold, as issued, and part of ONE's 1961 Fall Fund Drive, headlined "Give a Couple'o Bucks, or Three".
December 1961 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 9 #12). The title page states "ONE Magazine." 32 pages. Features include Editorial by Don Slater with Christmas greetings from the staff; news column "Tangents: News & Views" by "Del & Cal & Hal & Val McIntire" (a delightful, subtle joke: all of these pseudonyms belong to Jim Kepner! This column contains a lengthy year-end review of homosexual events by the "nose-for-news McIntire Bros."); poetry "Draftees" by Pierre Foreau; short story "The 'Shane' Complex" by Eugene Squire; a marvelous two-page cross-word puzzle on all things gay entitled "Queerzzle"; book reviews; letters to the editor.
ONE's Tenth-Year Anniversary Issue. January 1962 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 10 #1). The title page states "ONE Magazine." 32 pages. Features include: lengthy six-page editorial article covering ONE's ten-year history by Associate Editor Marcel Martin; lengthy four-page poem entitled "Love is the Night" by Doyle Eugene Livingston; short story "Fragment From An Unfinished Work" by Martin Block; article "Note On Phallic Worship" by Jeff Winters; poem "Embarcadero" by Forrest Anderson; article "Theatre: Not Only For Our Own Satisfaction" by "M.F." (in which the author answers New York Times critic Howard Taubman who writes in the edition of November 5, 1961, that there is "increasing incidence and influence of homosexuality on New York's stage...[and]...in the other arts as well..."); poem "Fragment II" by Sten Russell; poem "Summer's End" by Helen Ito ("to B.L."); article "As For Me..." by Geraldine Jackson (in which she proposes a "Homosexuals Anonymous patterned much after the highly successful Alcoholics Anonymous"); book review ("The Big Smear" by William R. Reardon); poem "After-Love Song" by "M.F.B."; lengthy letters to the editor on ONE's Ten Year Anniversary.
February 1962 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 10 #2). The title page states "ONE Magazine." 32 pages. Features include: editorial by Associate Editor William Lambert ("If it is unpleasant to keep saying that we will no longer tolerate second-class citizenship treatment, or being pushed around by those who have no comprehension of American traditions of freedom, then ONE intends to be unpleasant"); article "An Income Tax Guide For Homosexuals" by Dale Mallory; poem "John, Passing" by Vincent Synge; homophile news column "Tangents: News & Views" by "Del McIntire" (pseudonym of Jim Kepner); short story "Aftermath of An Experience" by Carole M. Brand; article "Doesn't Anyone Ever Stay Home?" by Gene Guillardo ("Why do we pin so much importance on gay bars?"); solution to the December, 1961 "Queerzle" crossword puzzle; short story "The Boxwood Garden" by John Thorne; book review ("The Youngest Director" by Martyn Goff); letters to the editor.
March 1962 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 10 #3). The title page states "ONE Magazine." 32 pages. Features include: editorial by Women's Editor Alison Hunter ("The cause of heterosexuality is unknown. It has always been with us. It is found in all walks of life"); lengthy article "Toward A Rational Approach To Homosexuality" by Donald Webster Cory (pseudonym of Edward Sagarin, from an address given at ONE's 1962 Midwinter Institute); short story "Crossroads" by K.O. Neal; homophile news column "Tangents: News & Views" by "Sal McIntire" (pseudonym of Jim Kepner); poem "The Lamb Has His Day" by J. Lorna Strayer; book reviews ("Victim" by William Drummond, and "Sons of the Fathers" by Martin Kramer); article "Edward Denison's Letter To Dear Young Cousin" ("Why ask me where and how to meet people? Are you assuming that because I've bummed and barred around for some years I'm a successful meeter-of-people?"); three poems by James Colton (pseudonym of Joseph Hansen, each poem is titled by number); letters to the editor.
With special cover feature on "Homosexuals Anonymous." April 1962 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 10 #4). The title page states "ONE Magazine." A stapled digest containing 32 pages. Features include: editorial by Editor Don Slater ("...we wish that some of the people who write about us and discuss us would bother to get the facts before they do"); two articles "presented [as a] result of the suggestion by Geraldine Jackson in ONE's 10th Anniversary number that a Homosexuals Anonymous modeled after Alcoholics Anonymous should be formed" - the first, "A Brief History and Commentary of H.A." by Valentine Richardson, and the second, "A Friendly Reply to Geraldine Jackson" by D. B. Vest; poem "Ganymede Revisited" by Richard Berger; homophile news column "Tangents: News & Views" by "Del McIntire" (pseudonym of Jim Kepner); short story "Beebo and Paula" by Ann Bannon (featuring characters from her "Beebo Brinker" series); poem "Interim" by Ralph Wyatt, Jr.; book reviews ("Homosexuality" by Irving Bieber, and "McCaffery" by Charles Gorham); letters to the editor. INDEX CONTINUES ON NEXT PAGE: CLICK HERE | ||
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ONE QUARTERLY: HOMOPHILE STUDIES This scholarly and historical homophile journal - a groundbreaking publication devoted solely to explore the historical roots, psychology, and culture of homosexuality - had a very limited distribution and is extremely scarce. Copies can be found at http://www.oneinstitute.org/nojs.html
Partial Annotated Index #4 (Winter 1959) of "ONE Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies" edited by James (Jim) Kepner and W. Dorr Legg and published by The Educational Division of ONE, Inc. A stapled journal containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. This issue contains the following: *Editorial by W. Dorr Legg ("Should the Social Sciences Tell the Truth?"); *article "The Curious Controversy Over [Walt] Whitman's Sexuality: A Seventy-five Year Controversy" by A. E. Smith; *"Preliminary Analysis of Group Behavior of Homosexuals" by Evelyn Hooker (this was the genesis of what would become her critical and influential "Hooker Report"); *Correspondence from readers.
#5 (Spring 1959) of "ONE Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies" edited by James (Jim) Kepner and W. Dorr Legg and published by The Educational Division of ONE, Inc . A stapled journal containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. This issue contains the following: *article "An Examination of the Sex Theories of Albert Ellis, Ph.D. - Are Homosexuals Neurotic?" by Jim Kepner; *"Sexual Unorthodoxy and the Law" by Stanley Fleishman ("A Critical History of 'Obscenity' in the Courts"); *article "The Berdache and Theories of Sexual Inversion" by W. Dorr Legg; *book reviews ("An Unhurried View of Erotica" by Ralph Ginsburg; "Education Handbooks" published by the homophile Mattachine Society; and "Homosexuality: A Cross Cultural Approach" by Donald Webster Cory, pseudonym of Edward Sagarin); *correspondence from readers.
#6 (Summer 1959) of "ONE Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies" edited by James (Jim) Kepner and W. Dorr Legg and published by The Educational Division of ONE, Inc . A stapled journal containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. This issue contains the following: *Editorial by Thomas M. Merritt; *article "Philosophy for the Homophile" by Thomas M. Merritt ("Are the schools of Philosophy relevant to homophile problems?"); *article "On Gertrude Stein" by A. E. Smith; *article "When Should Deviates Seek Voluntary Treatment?" by Helen Kitchen Branson (author of "Gay Bar" during the same period); *article "Homosexuality in History" by W. Dorr Legg (an introductory chapter for a proposed textbook); *book reviews ("Escal-Vigor" by George Eckhoud, first published in 1899 in Paris); *Correspondence from readers; *Announcement and Schedule of classes for the ONE Institute of Homophile Studies.
#7 (Fall 1959) of "ONE Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies" edited by James (Jim) Kepner and W. Dorr Legg and published by The Educational Division of ONE, Inc . A stapled journal containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. This issue contains the following: *"Some Facts About Lesbians" by Virginia Armon, Ph.D. (which introduces the lead article and study following); *"The Bilitis Study" (an 11-page study reprinted, with slight changes, from the September, 1959 issue of "The Ladder," the publication of the lesbian homophile organization, The Daughters Of Bilitis. From the first paragraph: "In an effort to make a small beginning in the collection of descriptive data on Lesbians, "The Ladder" in June of 1958 mailed out a four-page questionnaire to all subscribers, covering items of general information, family, and personal history. Of the more than five hundred questionnaires sent out, one hundred sixty completed replies were received over the following twelve months, of which one hundred fifty-seven were considered usable. The number of replies was disappointingly small, but the results have nevertheless been tabulated, analyzed in part, and are presented herewith as having some interest for those wishing to see an eventual extension of the meager knowledge now available in this field."); *article "World Religions and the Homophile" by Jim Kepner; *"New York Court Clarifies Obscenity Issue" ("U.S. District Judge Frederick van Pelt Bryan says Postmaster General not competent to rule on obscenity. Citing ONE Inc. v. Oleson").
A massive special issue devoted to the "Right of Association." #8 (Winter 1960) of "ONE Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies" edited by James (Jim) Kepner and W. Dorr Legg and published by The Educational Division of ONE, Inc . A special issue numbering 134 pages. From the editorial which introduces this issue: "The editors of Homophile Studies take considerable pride in being able to present, complete in this issue, one of the most remarkable sets of legal documents relevant to homosexuality that has come to our attention...The California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control in March, 1956, charged 'Mary's First and Last Chance,' a bar located in Oakland, with violating...the State Business and Professions Code, which explicitly penalized the using of such premises 'as a resort for prostitutes, pimps, panderers, or sexual perverts.'" The six court documents that are reprinted in this issue stem from that case, as follows: 1) Brief of Amicicuriae on behalf of Appellants; 2) Appellants Closing Brief; 3) Court Decision; 4) Appeal; 5) Petition for Modification of Opinion Without Change in the Judgement, and Petition for Rehearing; and, 6) 'Exhibit B' to previous Petition. The famed San Francisco attorney, Morris Lowenthal, was the author of the briefs and attorney to the appellants (Albert L. Vallerga and Mary Azar, owners of "Mary's First and Last Chance.").
#9 (Spring 1960) of "ONE Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies" edited by James (Jim) Kepner and W. Dorr Legg and published by The Educational Division of ONE, Inc . A stapled journal containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. This issue contains the following: *article "Homosexual Culture" by R. H. Crowther ("Continuing one of the most critical of debates in the attempt to elaborate a field theory of homosexuality"); *"Towards a Quaker View of Sex" ("An English Quaker commission in an enlightened discussion of homosexuality"); *article "The First American Gay Novel" by Noel I. Garde (on "IMRE: A Memorandum" written by Xavier Mayne, pseudonym of Edward I. Prime-Stevenson, privately printed in 1908); *article "The Sex Problem in the Armed Forces" by Harry Benjamin, M.D. ("A survey of Repression and Permissiveness"); *book reviews ("Walt Whitman's Poems" edited by G.W. Allen and C.T. Davis; and "The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and Her World" by John Malcolm Brinnin).
#10 (Summer 1960) of "ONE Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies" edited by James (Jim) Kepner and W. Dorr Legg and published by The Educational Division of ONE, Inc . A stapled journal containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. This issue contains the following: *Editorial by W. Dorr Legg; "One Institute 1955-1960" by Robert Gregory ("A Report on Its First Five Years of Classes"); *"Homosexuality and the Law" ("Excerpts from the House of Commons debate on the Report of the Wolfenden Committee"); *"A Bill of Rights" ("The Workshop Method as applied to a Group Project in Homophile Education").
#11 (Fall 1960) of "ONE Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies" edited by W. Dorr Legg and published by The Educational Division of ONE, Inc . A stapled journal containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. This issue contains the following: *Editorial by W. Dorr Legg; article "The Phylogeny of Homo Crescens" by D. B. Vest ("There is an inherent drive in man's make-up which is rapidly modifying extreme masculinity-femininity into an intergrade type"); *article "Homophile Ethics" by Thomas M. Merritt ("A rational examination of some assumptions concerning sexual acts"); *article "A Methodology for the Study of Historical Aspects of Homosexuality" by Marc Daniel.
#12 (Winter 1961) of "ONE Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies" edited by W. Dorr Legg and published by The Educational Division of ONE, Inc . A stapled journal containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. This issue contains the following: *Editorial by Thomas M. Merritt; *"Abstracts Department - With Critical Comment" by Ray Evans (selections on the topic of homosexuality taken from a variety of non-gay publications, with comments); *lengthy article "On [Peter Ilyich] Tchaikovsky: His Life and Loves Re-examined" by A. E. Smith, featuring a lovely photograph of Tchaikovsky when a youth; *book reviews ("Sex Offenses" by M.G. Shimm; and "The 'Third' Sex" by Drs. Clifford Allen, Harry Benjamin, Albert Ellis, et al).
#13 (Spring 1961) of "ONE Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies" edited by W. Dorr Legg and published by The Educational Division of ONE, Inc . A stapled journal containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. This issue contains the following: *Editorial by W. Dorr Legg ("Report of progress on an attitude-personal-data survey of male homosexuals"); *article "Prostitution" by Harry Benjamin, M.D. ("Male and female prostitution: its social, medical and legal status"); *debate "The Hay-Daniel Interchange" ("The debate between [Mattachine founder] Henry [Harry] Hay and Marc Daniel on points of dispute in historical interpretation"); *article "Pederasty and Male Prostitution" by Andrew Bradbury; *"Abstracts Department - With Critical Comment" by Ray Evans (selections on the topic of homosexuality taken from a variety of non-gay publications, with comments); *book reviews ("The Correspondence of Walt Whitman" in two volumes and edited by Edwin Haviland Miller; and "The Triumph of Tchaikovsky" by John Gee and Elliott Selby).
#14 (Summer 1961) of "ONE Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies" edited by W. Dorr Legg and published by The Educational Division of ONE, Inc . A stapled journal containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. This issue contains the following: *Editorial by W. Dorr Legg; *article "A Study of Homosexuality in France" by Marc Daniel ("The Golden Age in the time of Louis XIII and Louis XIV, translated by Marcel Martin, Ph.D." - Marc Daniel was a regular contributor to Arcadie, the homophile journal published in France); *"Abstracts With Critical Comment" by Ray Evans (selections on the topic of homosexuality taken from a variety of non-gay publications, with comment); *article "Behavioral Responses to the Sex-Companionship" by W. Dorr Legg ("An examination of some of the basic drives that impel homosexuals to engage in Cruising"); *a nearly two-page letter from Mattachine Society founder Henry [Harry] Hay who writes in response to "Andrew Bradbury's thesis, in the Spring 1961 Quarterly, on paederasty as a heterosexual vice or perversion..."
#15 (Fall 1961) of "ONE Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies" edited by W. Dorr Legg and published by The Educational Division of ONE, Inc . A stapled journal containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. This issue contains the following: *Editorial by Leslie Colfax; *article "Biological Factors in Sexual Behavior" by Ray Evans ("With special reference to homosexuality, from a lecture given at ONE Institute, December 3, 1961"); *"Abstracts With Critical Comment" by Ray Evans (selections on the topic of homosexuality taken from a variety of non-gay publications, with comment); *article "A Study in Homosexuality in France, Part II, Conclusion" by Marc Daniel; *letters to the editor; *Indexes for Volumes I, II, and III.
#16 (Winter 1962) of "ONE Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies" edited by W. Dorr Legg and published by The Educational Division of ONE, Inc . A stapled journal containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. This issue contains the following: *Editorial by Thomas M. Merritt; *article "An Invitation to Research" by John Burnside ("The Secretary of the Research Council describes ONE's program and invites cooperative efforts by scholars"); *article "Homosexual Behavior in the Bible" by Rev. Robert H. Wood; *article "Classification of Homosexuals" by Magnus Hirschfeld ("Translation of a chapter from his monumental Encyclopedia of Homosexuality"); *article "Toward an Effective Approach to the Problem of Homosexuality" by Jack D. Lang, M.D. ("A physician calls for recognition of biological aspects of human sex behavior and for greater tolerance in appraisal"); *article "Does Homosexuality Have a Biological Basis?" by Alfred Craig.
#17 (Spring-Summer-Fall 1962, Volume V #2-4) of "ONE Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies" edited by W. Dorr Legg and published by The Educational Division of ONE, Inc . A stapled journal containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. This issue contains the following: *Editorial by W. Dorr Legg ; *article "Adaptation Treatment of Homosexuals" by Magnus Hirschfeld ("Translated from the German for this publication"); *article "Ancients and the Greek Cult" by J. P. Starr ("Chapter from an extensive unpublished manuscript of unusual frankness"); *article "The Sociology of Homosexuality" by W. Dorr Legg ("Extracts from outline for a textbook on the subject as derived from courses given at ONE Institute since 1955").
#18 (Winter-Spring 1963, Vol. VI, No. 1-2) of "ONE Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies" edited by W. Dorr Legg and published by The Educational Division of ONE, Inc . A stapled journal containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. This issue contains the following: *Editorial by John Burnside ; *article "The Hammond Report: A Deposition, with Subsequent Commentary, on the Conspiracy of Silence anent Social Homophilia" by Mattachine Society founder Henry [Harry] Hay (from his first paragraph: "One of the most spectacular examples of the Conspiracy of Silence on the American anthropological scene is the burial by omission of the once-famous 'Hammond Report,' the observations by a Dr. Wm. A. Hammond, physican and surgeon attached to the United States Army, which were made between 1850 and 1852, of certain deviant phenomena observed of the Indian Pueblos of Laguna and Acoma in the New Mexico Territory."); *excerpt "A Description of Indian Life" by John Tanner (from his narrative first published in 1830); *article "The Role of Homosexual Men and Women in Society" by Magnus Hirschfeld ("A further Chapter translated from the German for this publication");
#19 (Summer-Fall 1963, Vol. VI, No. 3-4) of "ONE Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies" edited by W. Dorr Legg and published by The Educational Division of ONE, Inc . A stapled journal containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. This issue contains the following: *Editorial by W. Dorr Legg ; *article "A Modern Confrontation: Psychiatry Challenges Old Concepts of Criminal Law, a Dilemma of Today" by Thomas M. Merritt ; *article "Existentialism and the Homosexual Poet" by David Lee Pagari ; *article "The Sociology of Homosexuality" by W. Dorr Legg ("Extracts from outline for a textbook on the subject as derived from courses given at ONE Institute since 1955"); *article "Was St. Thomas a Homosexual?" by Marc Daniel (not on the St. Thomas from the New Testament, but rather Thomas a'Becket); *book reviews ("In The Beginning: Early Man and His Gods" by H.R. Hays; and "The Protestant Report: Who Will Cast the First Stone?" - a report on the Interim Report of the Anglican Church, the Griffin Report of the English Catholic Church, and the Wolfenden Report of the English Parliament on homosexuality, published for German-speaking Protestants);
#20 (Winter-Spring 1964, Vol. VII, No. 1-2) of "ONE Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies" edited by W. Dorr Legg and published by The Educational Division of ONE, Inc . A stapled journal containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. This issue contains the following: *Editorial by W. Dorr Legg ; *article "Man's Personalistic Evolution" by Thomas M. Merritt ("The Homophile of the Future Part I"); *article "What's Ahead for Homo?" by D. B. Vest ("The Homophile of the Future Part II"); *article "Music: The Hermaphroditic Art" by Brian Jennings ("Notes from a Lecture-Recital given in One Institute Assembly Hall, April 5, 1964"); *article "Homosexuality, A Psychoanalytic View" by Elliott Gower ;correspondence ;indexes for Volumes IV, V, and VI .
Next to last published issue. #21 (1967, Vol. VII, No. 3-4) of "ONE Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies" edited by W. Dorr Legg and published by The Educational Division of ONE, Inc . A stapled journal containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. This issue contains the following: *Editorial by W. Dorr Legg ; *article "Toward Understanding" by Blanche M. Baker M.D. ("Some principles and therapeutic suggestions for counseling the male homosexual drawn from twenty years of an eclectic psychiatric practice"); *article "Observations on Male Homosexuality" by Robert B. Dean ("Recent empirical and non-empirical psychological and psychiatric research studies reviewed"); *book reviews (including "The Transsexual Phenomenon" by Harry Benjamin; and "The Erotic Minorities" by Lars Ullerstam).
Final issue published. #22 (1970, Vol. VIII, the final issue published) of "ONE Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies" edited by W. Dorr Legg and published by The Educational Division of ONE, Inc . A stapled journal containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. This issue contains the following: *"Final Report of the NIMH [National Institute of Mental Health] Task Force on Homosexuality" (the famous "Hooker Report"; the chairperson of the Task Force and primary catalyst behind this important study was Dr. Evelyn Hooker, Ph.D.); *article "Introduction to a Sociological and Attitudes Survey of 388 Homosexual Males in the United States and Canada" (undertaken by the Research Division of ONE, Inc.). | ||
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About this site: Ebay is an amazing place and reasource. There I found these wonderful detailed and annotated descriptions of various important and early gay publications. I felt compelled to save and share them. They are published here with the author Brad Confer's consent. They were written for the sole purpose of selling the material on Ebay and not with scholarly intent, but they are such a rich resource as is, that I present them here. They were written for the sole purpose of selling the material on Ebay and not with scholarly intent, but they are such a rich resource as is, that I present them here. It has taken me almost as much work as Brad to collect, reformat, organize and publish this information. Please write me if this site is helpful to you. If you want to contact Brad, his business is Bloomsbury Books and you can email him at bloomsbury@earthlink.net Most of these issues can be found at the New York Public Library and the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archive among other places. | ||
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