Annotated Index of One: The Homosexual Viewpoint. Part 2
With special cover feature "Hello DOBs!" (welcoming members of the Daughters of Bilitis to their upcoming DOB Convention to be held June 23, 1962 in San Francisco; this issue contains a half-page announcement of the event but no internal articles on this lesbian homophile organization). Offered is the June 1962 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 10 #6). The title page states "ONE Magazine." 32 pages. Features include: editorial by Associate Editor William Lambert; article "Coming Out" by A.E. Smith; article "The Homosexual Minority: A Sociologist's Viewpoint" by Susanne Prosin; poem "Communication" by Tram Combs; short story "The Chosen" by James Colton (pseudonym of Joseph Hansen); homophile news column "Tangents: News & Views" by "Del McIntire" (pseudonym of Jim Kepner); short article "As For Me..." by Barbara Stephens (on the subject of persecution); poem "Passing Friends" by Victor J. Banis ("Don Holliday"); book reviews ("The Circle of Sex" by Gavin Arthur; and "The Strange Death of Lord Castlereagh" by H. Montgomery Hyde); short review of the movie "The Children's Hour" by Alison Hunter; letters to the editor.
July 1962 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 10 #7). The title page states "ONE Magazine." A stapled digest containing 32 pages. Features include: editorial by Women's Editor Alison Hunter; article "Homosexuals in American Society" by William (W.) Dorr Legg (which includes a Syllabus for a projected volume on the sociology of American homosexuals); one-page "Letter From A Summer Camp" (a fictionalized letter from "Mike" to his mother, and what appears to be a timid description of the crush he has developed on his counselor); homophile news column "Tangents: News & Views" by "Sal McIntire" (pseudonym of Jim Kepner); short story "Johnny-Boy" by Allan Anthony; poetry "Thoughts on a Summer Stroll" by "M.M.G."; article "As For Me..." by "Rickeno" ("Just a few months ago a friend in my home said, 'How can you afford to leave your copies of ONE lying around when you have so many people in that might question you upon seeing them?'"); book reviews (a lengthy review of "The Homosexual Revolution" by R.E.L. Masters, and a short review of "The Life and Death of Radclyffe Hall" by Una, Lady Troubridge); short story "Crying For the Light" by Paul Cherry; letters to the editor.
August 1962 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 10 #8). The title page states "ONE Magazine." A stapled digest containing 32 pages. Features include: editorial by Editor Don Slater; lengthy article "The Book That Failed" by Donald Webster Cory (pseudonym of Edward Sagarin) and John Leroy (a scathing review of R.E.L. Masters' "The Homosexual Revolution" - "One of the techniques used by Masters is a subtle and hence invidious form of argumentation ad hominem. He ridicules people by the liberal use of adjectives that are totally irrelevant, but that suggests a nefarious characterization"); short poem "Retribution" by Leo McAlbert; short story "Black Onyx & Golden Hued" by Michael Flemming; poem "Invitation" by Dorian Mode; homophile news column "Tangents: News & Views" by "Del McIntire" (pseudonym of Jim Kepner); article "On Homosexuals Anonymous" by Julia P. Stanley; a delightful one-page "CAMPOGRAM" (a word puzzle the solution of which will appear in the September issue); book reviews ("Latitudes of Love" by Thomas Doremus; "The Big Laugh" by John O'Hara; and "The Vigil of Emmeline Gore" by Rudolph von Abele); letters to the editor; the rear cover reproduces the tentative schedule for the Mattachine Society's Ninth Annual Conference to be held on August 25, 1962 at the Jack Tar Hotel in San Francisco.
This issue features a magnificent article on the history of the first homosexual organization in the United States by its founder, Henry Gerber, the short-lived "Society for Human Rights" founded in 1925. Offered is the September 1962 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 10 #9). The title page states "ONE Magazine." A stapled digest containing 32 pages. Features include: editorial by Associate Editor Marcel Martin; lengthy article "The 'Society For Human Rights'" by founder Henry Gerber; poetry "Liberation" by J. Lorna Strayer; homophile news column "Tangents: News & Views" by "Sal McIntire" (pseudonym of Jim Kepner); short story "Danny and the Old Man" by Clay Robinson; article "Should a Homosexual be Advised to Marry?" by Paul Britton; solution to the August word puzzle "CAMPOGRAM"; book reviews ("Sex Ways - In Fact and Faith" edited by Evelyn and Sylvanus Duvall; "Checklist & Supplement 1961 & Supplement 1962" - a bibliography of homophile literature compiled by Marion Zimmer Bradley; and "The Small Room" by May Sarton); a delightful one-page "CAMPOGRAM" (a word puzzle, the solution of which is stated to appear in the October issue, a copy of which, alas, I do not have); short story "Prelude to a Lush Life" by Armando Cesari; letters to the editor; four-page Announcement and Schedule of Classes from ONE's Institute Of Homophile Studies for the 1962-63 academic year.
November 1962 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 10 #11). The title page states "ONE Magazine." 32 pages. Features include: editorial by Women's Editor Alison Hunter; poem "Prayer To Aphrodite" by Sappho (circa 600 B.C.); article "The Price of Promiscuity" by Don Slater (on gays and venereal disease); short story "White Cranes" by Bob Waltrip; homophile news column "Tangents: News & Views" by "Sal McIntire" (pseudonym of Jim Kepner); a delightful one-page word puzzle "CAMPOGRAM" with the solution announced to appear in the December issue, although in fact it does not ("Our campogram is writing in cypher. Every letter is part of a code that remains constant throughout the puzzle - if you solve it, you'll know it"); book reviews ("The Homosexual Society" by Richard Hauser; "Another Country" by James Baldwin, "The Dark Side of Venus" by Shirley Verel, and anonymous pulp "All the Sad Young Men"); poem "Wall Mood" by Tom E. Michael; lengthy poem "To Which...to wonder..." by P.E. Britton; letters to the editor.
December 1962 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 10 #12). The title page states "ONE Magazine." A stapled digest containing 32 pages. Features include: editorial by Associate Editor William Lambert; lengthy short story "Kindness" by James Colton (pseudonyn of Joseph Hansen); homophile news column "Tangents: News & Views" by "Sal McIntire" (pseudonym of Jim Kepner); short tribute "To The Memory Of Robert Hull" by Henry - Harry - Hay, founder of the Mattachine Society and one of the founders of the Faerie Movement (Robert Hull was a charter organizer and executive committee member of the original Mattachine Society who committed suicide in 1962); book reviews ("The Anatomy of Dirty Words" by Edward Sagarin, whose pseudonym is best known as Donald Webster Cory, and "The Impresario" by John Money); a lengthy excerpt of the Petition finalized in May, 1962 by Germany's homophile Scientific-Humanitarian Committee to abolish Germany's harsh Paragraph 175 which made homosexuality a punishable act (Dr. Kurt Hiller, who was quite elderly in 1962, was one of the original founders of the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee and was instrumental in drafting the Petition); letters to the editor.
January 1963 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 11 #1). The title page states "ONE Magazine." A stapled digest containing 32 pages. Features include: editorial by Associate Editor Marcel Martin ("Once again the words homosexuality and treason have been linked together by politicians and journalists in such a way as to suggest that the two words are almost synonymous"); article "Sex and Sensibility" by Lewis Ferguson; lengthy poem "First Love" by Doyle Eugene Livingston; short story "Bull" by K. O. Neal; short two-line poem "Lament" by Leo McAlbert ("All I ever look for is attention and affection/All I ever get is a venereal infection"); homophile news column "Tangents: News & Views" by "Del McIntire" (pseudonym of Jim Kepner); one-page ad for marble-ware by Boji (which includes a photograph of a wall sculpture of Byron, and one of Oscar Wilde); two-page announcement for ONE's 1963 Midwinter Institute; short story "Sand Strip" by Jean Vitesse; book reviews ("Love In Ancient Greece" by Robert Flaceliere and "Act of Anger" by Bart Spicer); letters to the editor.
February 1963 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 11 #2). The title page states "ONE Magazine." A stapled digest containing 32 pages. Features include: editorial by Editor Don Slater ("It now appears that the fanatical prohibitions of the Church and State imposed on human sexual life with the resulting neuroses, physical and moral sufferings, despair and bitterness created thereby, are undergoing an incredible change"); article "What May One Read?" by Bill Donovan (with a photo-collage of front covers of various magazines of the period); advertisement for "Butch Bath Oil!"; poem "How Shall I Explain You?" by Carol Bradford; article "The Vigil" by Fred Jones (on overpopulation: "In the homosexual individual, nature is using a 'complete reversal' of its own reproductive devices in humans to check the growing threat of overpopulation"); short story "Gyre and Gimble in the Wabe" by Paul Cherry; short word-puzzle "CAMPOGRAM"; poetry "Gay Bar" by P. E. Britton; article "As For Me..." by Horace Smith ("Let it be understood that love is neither homosexual nor heterosexual"); book reviews ("Family Favorites" by Alfred Duggan, and "Forbidden Sexual Behavior and Morality" by R. E. L. Masters); one-page ad for marble-ware by Boji (which includes a photograph of a wall sculpture of Byron, and one of Oscar Wilde); short story "In Pursuit of Happiness" by Julia P. Stanley; poem "Our Time To Share" by Dorian Mode; letters to the editor.
With special cover feature and interior article on "Let's Push Homophile Marriage." Offered is the June 1963 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 11 #6). The title page states "ONE Magazine." A stapled digest containing 32 pages. Features include: editorial by Associate Editor K. O. Neal ("The law in our land does not only prosecute. It protects"); lengthy article "Let's Push Homophile Marriage" by Randy Lloyd; poetry "Identification" by Ralph Wyatt, Jr.; short story "Orange Blossoms" by Bob Waltrip; homophile news "Tangents: News & Views" by "Sal McIntire" (pseudonym of Jim Kepner); two poems by Carol Bradford ("Eighth Street" and "Downtown Walkup"); column "As For Me..." by George Francis ("What I want is acceptance - complete and public acceptance for what I am. I want my continuous day-time sham to end"); short story "The Corrupter" by James Colton (pseudonym of Joseph Hansen); book reviews ("Smith & Jones" by Nicholas Monsarrat; "Dictionary of Erotic Literature" by Harry E. Wedeck; and "Despotism, A Pictorial History of Tyranny" by Dagobert D. Runes); letters to the editor.
July 1963 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 11 #7). The title page states "ONE Magazine." A stapled digest containing 32 pages. Features include: editorial by Editor Don Slater; article "The Path of Truth" by Father Bernard Newman ("Twisted meanings and willful translations of ancient manuscripts have caused many people to doubt the very positive messages of love and understanding which were meant to be of assistance to all mankind"); short story "The Moralists" by F. H. James; poem "Proem" by P. E. Britton; homophile news "Tangents: News & Views" by "W.E.G. McIntire" (pseudonym of Jim Kepner); short story "Moment Musicale" by Clarence Alva Powell; book reviews ("The Sex Diary of Gerard Sorme" by Colin Wilson; "The World, The Flesh, And Myself" by Michael Davidson; and "More Loves Than One: The Bible Confronts Psychiatry" by Stuart E. Rosenberg); column "Readers on Writers" (where author Wilfran Nichols critiques Donald Webster Cory's article that appeared in the March 1963 issue entitled "Where Art was Love, Where Love was Sex, and Sex was Art"); short story "Conversation in a Bar" by James Ramp; poetry "Zakeribal" by Erskine Lane; poetry "The Political Prisoner. His Solo" by Gail Chugg; letters to the editor.
With three lovely pencil sketches by Sidney Bronstein (front cover, and centerfold). Offered is the August 1963 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 11 #8). The title page states "ONE Magazine." A stapled digest containing 32 pages. Features include: editorial by Associate Editor Richard Conger ("We can all be grateful to Miss Christine Keeler, in some ways at least. Her dalliance with John Profumo, British Secretary of State for War, with Soviet naval attache Evgeny Ivanov, with assorted West Indian bongo players, and, it is alleged, with a number of American military men, has put the whole 'security question' back into proper perspective"); article "Bisexuality and its Possibilities as a way of Life" by John Burnside; poem "Lament" by James Ramp; short story "The Poor Sport" by Chevy Foster; homophile news "Tangents: News & Views" by "Sal McIntire" (pseudonym of Jim Kepner); short story "Summer Encounter" by George Francis (with a short, interesting glossary of Australian terms used in the story, i.e. "icy-pole" is a popsicle; "gasper" is a cigarette; "nong" is a fool; "pump ship" is to urinate); book reviews (with a two-page review "City of Night" by John Rechy; "What Is Remembered" by Alice B. Toklas; "The Pastor's Counseling Handbook" by James L. Christensen; and "The Messenger" by Charles Wright); letters to the editor.
With special cover feature on "Today's Teenagers" and ONE's interview of a 19-year old gay teen male inside. Offered is the September 1963 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 11 #9). The title page states "ONE Magazine." A stapled digest containing 32 pages. Features include: interview "ONE Talks With a Teenager" ("The young man talking is nineteen years old. He is very good looking in a boyish way, with curly brown hair, smooth complexion, full lips - a little too much on the slender side perhaps. Persons with any knowledge of the common characteristics might guess correctly that he is a homosexual. He is not troubled by that fact. He is completely at ease and friendly. His name is Victor" - the interview itself is quite candid and refreshing, from the perspective of this young man who came out of the closet when 17 years old); short story "One Night at the Library" by Jeremy Stratton; homophile news "Tangents: News & Views" by "W.E.G. McIntire" (pseudonym of Jim Kepner); poem "Beginning of a letter, some questions and afterthoughts" by William Moore; book reviews ("Violation of Taboo" by Donald Webster Cory and R.E.L. Masters, editors; "Patterns of Incest" by R.E.L. Masters; "We Too Won't Last" by Ann Aldrich - pseudonym, as with Vin Packer, of Marijane Meaker; "Eros: An Anthology of Friendship" by Alistair Sutherland and Patrick Anderson, editors; and "Christianity and Sex" by Stuart B. Babbage); short story "The Cruise" by Robert Varjack; poem "Roberto" by Richard Caplin; letters to the editor.
October 1963 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 11 #10). The title page states "ONE Magazine." A stapled digest containing 32 pages. Features include: Editorial by Don Slater ("Swishes, butches, classes - yes, toilets too - are part of the homosexual scene"); article "From the First to the Second Cory Report" by Donald Webster Cory (pseudonym of Edward Sagarin, on the dozen years that had passed since his ground-breaking "The Homosexual in America" first appeared); poem "Peking Drama" by "A.F."; short story "Ships That Pass In The Night" by David Johnstone; five-page layout (on the occasion of ONE's eleventh anniversary) featuring two photographs of ONE, Inc. with reader's questions answered about the organization as well as a form for ONE's Fall Fund Drive; homophile news "Tangents: News & Views" by "S. M." (pseudonym of Jim Kepner); short story "Episode in the Life of A Boy 'Coming Out'" by Cal Rollins; poem "A Walk Along the Beach" by Jim Ploss; book reviews ("Does Pornography Matter?" edited by C.H. Rolph; "The Evolution of Walt Whitman" - a two-volume work - by Roger Asselineau; and "Toll For The Brave" by John Montgomery); letters to the editor.
November 1963 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 11 #11). The title page states "ONE Magazine." A stapled digest containing 32 pages. Features include: Editorial by Associate Editor Richard Conger ("Homosexual American men and women are citizens and taxpayers quite the same as others. There is no reason either in law or in morality for their sitting idly by while their hirelings - in the police, Army, Navy, or other civil service sanctuaries - disgorge slanderous and libellous offal upon the homosexuals who helps to pay their salaries"); lengthy article "Case History" by "A.L.H.S." (who addresses two points made by physicians and psychiatrists: "1. The homosexual's condition is the result of a seduction in earlier years by an older man; and, 2. The homosexual has absolutely no opportunity for gainful employment"); word-puzzle "CAMPOGRAM"; short story "The Bird's Song" by Dirk Vanden; homophile news "Tangents: News & Views" by "S. M." (pseudonym of Jim Kepner); poem "Girasole" by "Gabrielle"; short story "The Inquisition" by "J.S."; book reviews ("Bosie" - Lord Alfred Douglas - by Rupert Croft-Cooke; "Sex-Life and the Criminal Law" by John Roeburt; "The Shoes of the Fisherman" by Morris L. West; and "Love Is Life: a Catholic Marriage Handbook" by Francois Dantec); poem "Sailor" by S. Bronstein (Sidney Bronstein); letters to the editor.
January 1964 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 12 #1). The title page states "ONE Magazine." A stapled digest containing 32 pages. Features include: Editorial by Don Slater; article "A Serious Look at the 'Second Cory Report'" by Ray Evans, Ph.D (a highly critical review of Donald Webster Cory's new book, "The Homosexual and His Society" co-authored by John P. LeRoy; Dr. Evans writes "The style ranges from pseudo-science to second-rate fiction..."); poetry "Moonlight" by Brooke Whitney; short story "Uncle Bob" by John Paul Tegner; homophile news "Tangents: News & Views" by "S. M." (pseudonym of Jim Kepner); solution to the November, 1963 "Campogram" (a passage from John Rechy's "City of Night"); book reviews ("The Prison Life of Harris Filmore" by Jack Richardson; "Behind the Mirror" by Robin Maugham; and "By Cecile" by Tereska Torres); article "The Echo of a Growing Movement" by Donald Webster Cory and John P. LeRoy (on the historic conference held in Philadelphia over Labor Day weekend, 1963, sponsored by the newly-formed East Coast Homophile Organizations - ECHO - founded by the New York and Washington, D.C. Mattachine Society, the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis, and the Janus Society of Philadelphia); poetry "Mother" by Robert Barufaldi; poetry "The Bottom of the Monstrous World" by Gail Chugg; letters to the editor.
With special cover feature and internal article on "The 'Other' Homosexuals." Offered is the February 1964 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 12 #2). The title page states "ONE Magazine." A stapled digest containing 32 pages. Features include: Editorial by Associate Editor K.O. Neal; article "The 'Other' Homosexuals" by Stratton Ashley ("Eight young men were at the bar [Eugene's, located in New York City]...'Eugene's' boys were not queer in the usual sense of the word. No, they were by their own definition 'butch'...as butch as they could possibly make themselves. As one crew-cut habitue said: 'We are most interested in those qualities regarded as masculine in each other. We cultivate those qualities in ourselves and look for them in others. No one is more 'out' [i.e., excluded] in our group than the queen who swishes.' Take the crew-cut's apartment as a case in point: heavy leather chairs, guns over the mantelpiece, ship models...Marlboro could begin filming their next ad right there"); poem "Recognition" by Brother Grundy; short story "A Good Year For Frabjous Fushsias" by K. O. Neal; homophile news "Tangents: News & Views" by "S. M." (pseudonym of Jim Kepner); poem "Antisonnet: Thamyris to Hyacinth" by T. L. Pebworth; short story "Reminiscence" by Cecil de Vada; book reviews ("The Problem of Homosexuality in Modern Society" edited by Hendrik M. Ruitenbeek; "The Wanting Seed" by Anthony Burgess; and "Venus Plus 'X'" by Theodore Sturgeon); letters to the editor.
March 1964 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 12 #3). The title page states "ONE Magazine." A stapled digest containing 32 pages. Features include: Editorial by Associate Editor Marcel Martin; article "A Serious Look at Dr. Ray Evans" by Donald Webster Cory and John P. LeRoy (regarding Dr. Evans' highly critical review, in the January 1964 issue, of their book "The Homosexual and His Society"; Messrs. Cory and LeRoy begin, "When pot shots are taken wildly and aimlessly, they strike in curious places..."); article "On Matters Personal and Impersonal" by Donald Webster Cory (pseudonym of Edward Sagarin; in this article, Mr. Cory - still smarting from Dr. Evan's critique of his book - defends his professional credentials as well as his primary position on homosexuality, even though homosexual himself: "For [Dr. Ray] Evans should understand, and ONE editors should know, that the major characteristic of homosexuality is anonymity"); short story "Red Leaves" by James Colton (pseudonym of Joseph Hansen); poem "Prohibition" by Alix Morgan; homophile news "Tangents: News & Views" (no author given); reader-contributed column "Readers on Writers" (the first segment entitled "The Mature Man" by Skip Ward regarding W. Dorr Legg's recent article entitled "A Moral Imperative?"; the second segment is entitled "Research and Development" by James Rogers, who writes "If the consequences of homosexual acts can be shown to be good - even if just occasionally - the intrinsically sinful theory of the nature of homosexuality is thereby refuted"); book reviews (which includes an essay on Jean Genet by Edmond Barnard as translated from the Swiss homophile journal Der Kreis entitled "The 'Complete Works' of Jean Genet: For Persons Strongly Perverted"; book reviews "Uncommon Men" by Kemper Simpson; and "Unlike Others" by Valerie Taylor); letters to the editor.
April 1964 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 12 #4). The title page states "ONE Magazine." A stapled digest containing 32 pages. Features include: Guest Editorial by "Mrs. R.A." whose letter to ONE, Inc. is reprinted in full ("I have been very close to homosexuals and observed and talked frankly with many, since discovering my son to be 'gay' about eight years ago...It makes my blood boil to hear giggles and snide remarks made by those on the 'other' side of the fence, who haven't the slightest conception of why an individual is a homosexual"); article "On Life and Art and the Homosexual" by Bob Waltrip; short story "Dream-Town" by Drake Beardsley; poem "Caller Of My Monday Nights" by Michael E. Schrader; homophile news "Tangents: News & Views" by "S. M." (pseudonym of Jim Kepner); advice column "Ask Randy" by Randy Lloyd ("Dear Mr. Lloyd, we're a gay married couple that's being driven crazy by these two ex-cruising buddies of my lover..."); poem "How Well I Remember" by P. E. Britton; short story "Steam Daddy" by Ferell Arliss Garret; book reviews ("Atrocity" by 'Ka-Tzetnik 135-633'; "Jubb" by Keith Waterhouse; "The Grapevine" by Jess Stearn; and "Lost On Twilight Road" by James Colton, pseudonym of Joseph Hansen); letters to the editor.
May 1964 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 12 #5). The title page states "ONE Magazine." A stapled digest containing 32 pages. Features include: Editorial by Don Slater ("A three-part radio broadcast on homosexuality April 13, 14, and 15 calls our attention once again to the mess that can be made when a popular radio show decides to 'inform' the public on this 'controversial' subject"); lengthy book reviews by ONE's leading reviewers ("The Ethics of Sex" by Helmut Thielicke, in two reviews by the Rev. Robert W. Wood and Lewis Ferguson - "Did Jesus lay the basis for a theology of sexual ethics?"; "338-171 T.E. [Lawrence of Arabia]" by Victoria Ocampo reviewed by Thomas M. Merritt; "Radcliffe" by David Storey reviewed by William Edward Glover; "Sex Crimes In History" by R. E. L. Masters and Eduard Lea reviewed by "T.M.M."; and "The Homosexual Condition: A Study of Fifty Cases in Men" by Ernest White and reviewed by James Colton, pseudonym of Joseph Hansen); short story "Holiday" by Jody Shotwell; article "La Vida Alegre: A Report on Latin America" by George Francis; short story "A Beautiful Affair" by Bob Waltrip; poem "Note To J." by Douglas R. Empringham; poem "Train Terminal Blues" by R. J. Stark; letters to the editor.
June 1964 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 12 #6). The title page states "ONE Magazine." A stapled digest containing 32 pages. Features include: Editorial by Associate Editor William Edward Glover; article "The Language of Love" by Arthur Bradbury (on sexuality); poem "Note To J." - a different poem from the one with the same title in the previous issue - by Douglas R. Empringham; homophile news "Tangents: News and Views" by "W.E.G.M" (pseudonyn of Jim Kepner, with significant coverage of the recently-released report on homosexuality by the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee); short story "The Faces of Love" by Gary Martin; book reviews ("Return to Lesbos" by Valerie Taylor; and lengthy article "[Jean] Genet: A Defence" probably by Marcel Martin - in reply to the critique of Jean Genet printed in the March 1964 issue of ONE Magazine as translated from the Swiss homophile publication Der Kreis); poem "At the End of the World" by Dennis McCalib; letters to the editor.
July 1964 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 12 #7). The title page states "ONE Magazine." A stapled digest containing 32 pages. Features include: Editorial by Associate Editor K. O. Neal; article "...And the Pursuit of Happiness" by Hollister Barnes (on censorship in France, with material on Maurice Girodias); poem "The Connoisseur" by Brooke Whitney; short story "Green Leaves" by Kyle Mead; homophile news "Tangents: News and Views" by "W.E.G.M" (pseudonyn of Jim Kepner); lengthy five-page poem "Tom Hunt" by Richard Chase; book reviews ("My Days and Dreams" by Edward Carpenter; and "Hissing Tales" by Romain Gary); short story "The Spear of Cyparissus" by Eric Williams; letters to the editor.
August 1964 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 12 #8). The title page states "ONE Magazine." A stapled digest containing 32 pages. Features include: lengthy Editorial by W. Dorr Legg (Chairman of ONE's Educational Division, on the feature story entitled "Homosexuality in America" appearing in the June 26, 1964 issue of LIFE Magazine. Mr. Legg writes, in part, "The medical and psychological professions have used more subtle forms of brainwashing. To homosexuals they have said, in tones patiently compassionate, 'you are psychologically underprivileged, emotionally stunted, social misfits - let us help you to become real men and real women. You can, if you will but try'"); article "Can A Homosexual be Christian?" by Honorius Bratton; poem "One" by Brenda Crider; homophile news "Tangents: News and Views" by "S. M." (pseudonyn of Jim Kepner); short story "The Wall Around His World" by David A. Johnstone; book reviews ("A Moveable Feast" by Ernest Hemingway; "Julian" by Gore Vidal; "Honey on the Moon" by Maude Hutchins; and "Man on Fire" by LeGette Blythe); article - possibly stemming from his actual experience - entitled "Is Homosexual Rape Legal?" by Kenneth Marlowe; movie review ("Honeymoon Hotel" starring Robert Goulet and Keenan Wynn); article "Jody Goes to a Convention" by Jody Shotwell (on the 1964 Convention of the Daughters of Bilitis held in New York); letters to the editor.
October 1964 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 12 #10). The title page states "ONE Magazine." A stapled digest containing 32 pages. Features include: Editorial by Don Slater (on "snoopy postal inspectors"); article "The Myth of the Homosexual Vote" by A. E. Smith; poem "Much Have I Traveled" by "T"; short story "The Cliff Dancers" by Bob Waltrip; homophile news "Tangents: News and Views" with no author credit (but from the frank and witty style of writing, undoubtedly by Jim Kepner); article "Race and Sex" by Andrew Bradbury (on the "homosexual dimension to the current Negro revolution"); poem "Tomorrow" by J. R. Cain; book reviews ("Old Acquaintance" by David Stacton; "Nymphomania" by Dr. Albert Ellis and Edward Sagarin - who normally uses his pseudoynm "Donald Webster Cory"; "An Honorable Estate" by Lane Kauffmann; "The Symbolic Meaning" by D. H. Lawrence; and "Honey for the Bears" by Anthony Burgess); short story "Mural on a Blank Wall" by Edward Mason; poem "In-Class Theme" by R. J. Stark; letters to the editor.
December 1964 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 12 #12). The title page states "ONE Magazine." A stapled digest containing 32 pages. Features include: Editorial (a reprint of the first editorial appearing in the first issue of ONE Magazine, in March 1953); a splendid article featuring two male lovers entitled "The Lesson from the Twins: An Interview at Christmas Time" by Valentine Richardson (of Jon and Don, no last names provided, with a photograph of the two elderly men sitting in their garden; "Don was a married man with nearly grown children, at long last discovering himself in middle life and struggling toward some solution for his situation. Jon was about twenty-five years younger and still living at home with his parents. One meeting led to another, and another. Before long each had visited the other's home for dinner. There were gifts exchanged, most disastrously an expensive one to Don upon Jon's return from a trip to Europe. That did it. Wifey became suspicious and wanted to know what was happening? Being an honest person, Don told her"); poem "Proem" by P. E. Britton; short story "Haircut" by K. O. Neal; homophile news "Tangents: News and Views" with no author given, but probably Jim Kepner; four-page poem "And Alone Now" by Peter Farlekas; book reviews ("Prostitution and Morality" by Harry Benjamin, M.D. and R. E. L. Masters; "The Journals of Jean Cocteau" edited by Wallace Fowlie; "John Addington Symonds" by Phyllis Grosskurth; and "The Lesbian In America" by Donald Webster Cory, pseudonym of Edward Sagarin); letters to the editor.
March 1965 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 13 #3). The title page states "ONE Magazine." A stapled digest containing 32 pages. Features include: Editorial by Don Slater ("Why is it that ONE today is primarily a male organization? Have we lost the women to the Daughters of Bilitis and its Chapters throughout the United States - or to the Minorities Research Group of London? Is this what our lesbian friends really want - to be only with other women?"); article on and interview of "Elmer Gage: American Indian" by Bob Waltrip (Elmer Gage and his aunt, both Mohave Indians, are interviewed; "[Elmer] lives on the Colorado River Indian Reservation along with his 83 year old aunt, whom he calls his grandmother...In his small town, Elmer is almost universally known as a homosexual. The white townspeople consider him something of a village idiot. The Indian boys tease each other about sleeping with him, yet their teasing is somehow not ridicule of him. Among the Indians he is accepted with equanimity, and their laughter is as much at themselves as at him. His fellow tribesmen treat him as if he were an unattractive woman..."); short story "Somebody else, all of a sudden, Somebody new" by K. O. Neal; poem "Lines for the almost gone..." by Louis Sacriste; homophile news "Tangents: News & Views" with no author given, but probably Jim Kepner; article "Silks and Satins" by Charles Elkins ("We are the transvestites. We love to dress in women's clothing."); book reviews ("Last Exit to Brooklyn" by Hubert Selby; and "Show Me The Good Parts: The Reader's Guide to Sex in Literature" by Robert George Reisner); poem "Frankincense: Three Letters to C" by Abel Jones; article "Readers on Writers" (where "T.M.M." responds to a previous article); letters to the editor.
April 1965 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 13 #4). The title page states "ONE Magazine." A stapled digest containing 32 pages. Features include: Editorial by guest editor Ray Johnson (on the anti-obscenity bill drafted by Los Angeles County District Attorney Evelle Younger and introduced in the California State Legislature); article "The Right to Read" by Joseph Hansen; short story "Legacy" by James Colton (pseudonym of Joseph Hansen); homophile news "Tangents" with no author given; poetry "Three Poems" by Douglas Empringham; column "The Feminine Viewpoint" by Jane Race (which I believe was the pseudonym of author Jane Rule); short story "Valse Triste" by Bob Waltrip; short one-page story "The Drinking Party" by Stephan Foy; book reviews ("Greek Love" by J.Z. Eglinton; the "International Journal of Greek Love" edited by J.Z. Eglinton; "The Boy, A Photographic Essay"; "Sex Behavior of the Homosexual" by Lucius B. Steiner; "Naked to the Night" by K. B. Raul; "Rough Trade" by Lou Rand; and "My Spanish Youngster" by Martin Elmer); letters to the editor.
June 1965 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 13 #6) containing historical information on the departure of long-time ONE board member and former editor Don Slater, who claimed legitimacy of ONE, Inc. (the upcoming litigation would turn out to be quite ugly, costly, enormously time-consuming, and a tragic drain on ONE's limited resources). The title page states "ONE Magazine." A stapled digest containing 32 pages. Features include: Editorial (in three sections: the first, "OFFICIAL NOTICE FOR YOUR PROTECTION" that states, in part, "There has been no change of address for ONE, Incorporated, nor for any of its divisions and departments"; the second, a letter from the Board of Directors to Richard Conger, which begins "Yesterday this Board voted to ask you to assume editorship of ONE Magazine, to replace Don Slater, who was dismissed April 23 and is no longer connected with the magazine or with ONE, Incorporated. We have observed for years and with growing dismay a once idealistic and trustworthy man's deterioration. Starting with rudeness and petty quarrelsomeness, his conduct became intolerable"; and the third, a letter from Richard Conger to the Board of Directors accepting their offer to be editor of ONE Magazine); article "The Heterosexual Minority" by Andrew Bradbury ("The idea that the majority of human beings are homosexual will strike many as amusing"); short story "Fascinated...but not Interested" by Ahmad Azarmi; poem "The Hall" by R. J. Stark; homophile news "Tangents: News & Views" with no author stated; article "Suicide!" by Joseph Hansen; short story "I Want To Stay" by Carol Harris; column "As for me...a forum for your ideas" containing two articles (the first, reprinted from the October, 1955 issue of ONE Magazine in which the author - "Carle" - states "...it is best to remember that for every one of us [homosexuals] that commits a mistake, a hundred others are forced to prove that they are not also in error"; and the second, a contemporary untitled article by Jane Race - I believe the pseudonym of Jane Rule - who begins, "One of the commonest plaints in the lesbian press concerns the real or anticipated attitude of parents on learning that their daughter is a lesbian"); a textual synopsis of each issue of ONE magazine from 1963; letters to the editor.
September 1965 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 13 #9). The title page states "ONE Magazine." A stapled digest containing 32 pages. Features include: Editorial by Richard Conger ("Had more of us remembered that social justice is as inevitable as the sunrise, there need have been no Watts [riots]"); column "As for me...a forum for your ideas" contributed by "Charlotte" (on her visit to the offices of ONE, Inc.); lengthy review and commentary by R. H. Crowther of the recently-released book "Sexual Inversion" edited by Judd Marmor; two poems - "Earlier" and "Later" - by Leo McAlbert; homophile news "Tangents: News & Views" with no author given, but probably by Jim Kepner (a lengthy report largely focused on news out of England, as well as shorter entries, including "Homosexuality Criminal, Says American Scientist" and "Queers in Castroland"); short story "A Broken Bow" by Alan Scot; book reviews ("The History of Prostitution" by Vern L. and Bonnie L. Bullough); letters to the editor.
November 1965 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 13 #11). The title page states "ONE Magazine." 32 pages. Features include: Editorial by Richard Conger; poem "October 1" by Yves Bourguignon; lengthy book reviews - "From time to time it has been the custom to present in these pages a group of book reviews as a leading feature" (titles reviewed in this issue are: "How Many More Victims? Society and the Sex Criminal" by Gladys Denny Shultz; "Women's Prison: Sex and Social Structure" by David A. Ward; "The Erotic Revolution" by Lawrence Lipton; "That Cold Day in the Park" by Richard Miles; and "In Defense of Homosexuality" by R. O. D. Benson); short story "Brothers under the Breech Cloth" by James Hampton; homophile news "Tangents: News & Views" with no author given, but probably Jim Kepner; poem "Sailor" by Harry Otis; short story, possibly autobiographical, entitled "Interview with a Hustler" by Nathaniel Copley; article "Tolerance" by Paul Menken (as featured in the column "As for me...a forum for your ideas"); letters to the editor.
December 1965 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 13 #12). The title page states "ONE Magazine." 32 pages. Features include: Editorial by Richard Conger ("Civil rights are not Christmas presents someone GIVES you"); a splendid, five-page article entitled "The Homophile Movement" by Sidney Rothman (an excellent introduction to its history in the United States); poem "Secret Places" by Pablo; poem "Someone Seen and Known" by Anela; short story "Along the Way" by Roger Summers; poem "A Light So Clear" by Douglas R. Empringham; lengthy homophile news "Tangents: News & Views" with no author given, but probably Jim Kepner (including "Reading Breeds Crime, FBI Man Alleges"; "California Bookmen Strike Back At Censorship Laws"; "Youthful Sex Offenders 'Rejects of Society'"; "Austin's Homosexual 'Dens'"); short story "Elantheros, The Man Who Is Free" by Herbert Hartrum; book reviews (a scathing review of "Homosexuality: Its Causes and Cure" by Albert Ellis and reviewed by Thomas M. Merritt, Ph.D. - he writes, in part, "In conclusion, when a person has had a long and honorable career, has solved his financial problems, has a smooth and satisfying love life, reasonably good health, and friends on all sides, and still has a finger pointed at him and is told: 'You are a neurotic, a border-line psychotic,' what is he to think?"); letters to the editor.
January 1966 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 14 #1). The title page states "ONE Magazine." A stapled digest containing 32 pages. Features include: Editorial by the Board of Directors of ONE, Incorporated (on the American Civil Liberties Union, and their ground-breaking "Committee on Sex and Civil Liberties" organized by the ACLU's Southern California Chapter, the recommendations of which were adopted as official policy by the national organization; shortly after adoption, the ACLU "entered actively into defense of a case referred to it by ONE's Social Service Division, that of a school teacher accused of a homosexual charge, who had been acquitted of it, yet faced loss of his credentials as a teacher in the State of California"); the full text "Statement of Policy Regarding Sexual Behavior Submitted to the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California" prepared by Chairperson Dr. Vern L. Bullough and other members of the Committee on Sex & Civil Liberties; article "To Europe...With ONE: An Account of the 1965 Tour Conducted by ONE's Social Service Division" by Jim Kepner; memoir "Love at Thirteen" by Hayes Hill; poem "The Unnamed" by J. T. Montgomery-Hand; homophile news "Tangents: News & Views" with no author given (but probably Jim Kepner); short story "Crossroad To Nowhere" by Stephen W. McDermott; poem "klyptic thirty-three" by Paul Mariah; poem "just touch me" by Donald C. Mitchell; book reviews; letters to the editor. Memberships to ONE, Inc. as well as subscription rates were falling by this time.
February 1966 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 14 #2). The title page states "ONE Magazine." A stapled digest containing 32 pages. Features include: Editorial by Managing Editor Robert Gregory; article "...Where the Mainstream Flows: An Account of the Exciting, High-Quality 1966 Midwinter Sessions of ONE, [a] Traditional Top Event in the Homophile Movement Since 1955" by Richard Conger; short story "A Sudden Realization" by James Edwin; poem "Find Me Someone" by Donald C. Mitchell; poem "You, fair youth" by Stephen Foy; article by Dr. Franklin E. Kameny (from the Washington, D.C. branch of the Mattachine Society) in the column "Readers on Writers" in which Dr. Kameny responds to Richard Conger's ONE editorial of November 1965 (with subheading "Reader Franklin E. Kameny of Washington, D.C. takes up the cudgels in defense of homophile picketing, knocking over straw men right and left as he does so. The question remains: is picketing not already pretty 'old hat'? Pros in the civil rights struggle tell us this is so; that the modern trend is to use fresher techniques"); poem "Paradox" by Beth P. Wilson; short story "How had it happened exactly?" by Friedrich Hager; homophile news "Tangents: News & Views" (probably by Jim Kepner); book reviews; letters to the editor. Memberships to ONE, Inc. as well as subscription rates were starting to fall by this time.
March 1966 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 14 #3). The title page states "ONE Magazine." A stapled digest containing 32 pages. Features include: Editorial by Richard Conger (on gays and the military draft: "One of these days some courageous homophile is going to stand up and say, 'I refuse to answer such a question [sexual orientation]. It is my moral right to so refuse. You are immoral to ask it'"); article "Press Control & The Tyranny of the Majority" by R. H. Crowther; short story "It's Been Nice Knowing You" by Jean-Pierre Renoux; homophile news "Tangents: News & Views" most likely compiled by Jim Kepner; article "Consultation & Dialogue: A Truly Remarkable Coming Together" (containing the text of the January 1966 report entitled "Consultation on Religion and the Homophile" written by three young members of ONE who joined approximately twelve clergymen over six sessions, under the auspices of the newly-formed "Committee on Religion and the Homophile," to discuss the status of gay men and lesbians in the mainstream churches); poem "The Broadening and the Deepening" by Mary-Faith Albert; column "Readers on Writers" (in which reader Craig Lee of New York City comments on various stories and articles in recent ONE issues); book reviews; letters to the editor. Memberships to ONE, Inc. as well as subscription rates were starting to fall by this time.
Final year of publication. April 1967 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 15 #4). The title page states "ONE Magazine." A stapled digest, down to 16 pages in length and predominately featuring reprints from ONE Magazine's formative years during the 1950s. Features include: column "The Feminine Viewpoint: By and About Women," a tribute to Ann Carl Reid (from ONE's December 1957 issue: "In the spring of 1953 about a half year after ONE's founding, a tiny brown-haired girl shyly approached the staff member who was speaking to a group of sixty or so people about ONE and said she would be glad to help in some way. Thus Ann Carll Reid and ONE first met each other"); a reprint of Ann Carll Reid's letter of resignation to ONE, Inc. dated October 21, 1957 (due to her recent surgery and poor health); reprint of ONE's reply letter to Ms. Reid (honoring her for her invaluable contributions to the organization, hope for a full recovery, and offer to accept the post of Honorary Member); poem "Remembered Music" by Carol Tylir (from ONE's December 1955 issue); short story "The Gateway" by Jody Shotwell (reprinted from ONE's December 1954 issue); and short story "Sappho Remembered" by Jane Dahr (reprinted from ONE's October 1954 issue). With short Editor's Note to title page ("Readers have written to ask if the recent policy of republishing material from earlier issues of ONE Magazine implies a scarcity of new manuscripts. Far from it! Because of very heavy expenses during the past two years arising for reasons beyond ONE's control, the Editors have been compelled to temporarily forego the cost of new typeset, and use fine material from earlier issues. Most of it is entirely new to the majority of current readers and represents writing of enduring interest. The Editors hope, however, to again present new materials as soon as finances permit"). Memberships to ONE, Inc. as well as subscription rates were dramatically falling by this time (only two more issues were published).
Final year of publication and second to the last issue. June 1967 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 15 #6). The title page states "ONE Magazine." A stapled digest, down to 16 pages in length and predominately featuring reprints from ONE Magazine's formative years during the 1950s. Features include: article "Arab Revolt" by Bruno Roger Vitale (from ONE's September 1958 issue on T. E. Lawrence: "Be that as it may, Lawrence did fall in love with the boy Dahoum. He fell in love and his true life began"); short story "Four o'Clock Tea" by John Paul Tegner (reprinted from ONE's August 1955 issue); poem "To Ourselves" by Douglas Empringham; article "Sodom: A Homosexual Viewpoint" by R. H. Crowther (reprinted from ONE's January 1955 issue: "Recently, a European correspondent, who wished to remain anonymous, wrote to ONE, in part, as follows: 'In one copy of a predecessor of WEG...was printed something which was of infinite help to me and which I have used over and over again in writing to my friends. I quote it, translating from the German, from memory, as I have not the source by me. I cannot, of course, vouch for its truth - but true or not, it enshrines Truth as I have always seen it. In some remote monastery in Asia Minor was discovered part of a lost Codex of the Gospels which throws a vivid light on Jesus' attitude towards homosexuals. Here is the relevant extract: 'As Jesus and His disciples walked through Galilee there came to Him a man weeping and crying - 'Master, have mercy upon me, for men curse and revile me because of my love for a young man, my servant, with whom I live.' And he said, 'Because my heart burns with love for this young man, my servant.' And Jesus said to him, 'If your love be with sin, it shall be cursed; but if your love be without sin, it shall be blessed. Go in peace'"). Memberships to ONE, Inc. as well as subscription rates were dramatically falling by this time. Rare.
ONE Magazine's Final issue. July-December 1967 issue (single issue) of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint (Vol. 15 #7-12). The title page states "ONE Magazine." A stapled digest, down to 16 pages in length. Unlike the previous few issues, the articles and entries are contemporary to that year, as follows: Editorial by Richard Conger (in response to the complaints from the occasional reader: "'Why do you print those ridiculous stories? Pocketbooks about gay life are a dime a dozen these days, and, believe it or not, most of them are better written than the junk you print in ONE Magazine'...[These complaints, however] cannot compare in decibels with the 'Oh, that awful poetry!...Save the space for something that means something...A bunch of sick queens trying to make like they know something the rest of us can't figure out'...'Book reviews? Who reads books these days?'"); poem "Chance Encounter" by "Pablo"; short story "His Royal Yen" by Harry Otis (inspired by Rasputin's murderer Prince Felix Yusupov, whose photograph appears with this story. Mr. Otis provides the following preface: "Whenever I see the name of Rasputin's guitar-playing assassin, Prince Felix Yusupov, it's impossible for me not to associate it with a ruggedly handsome young traffic cop, a hornet-happy backhouse near Westport, Conn., and a Manhattan speakeasy bathroom"); poem "At the Library" by Monica Lee; book reviews ("Counseling the Invert" by John R. Cavanagh; "The Juvenile Homosexual Experience and Its Effect on Adult Sexuality" by Robert H. V. Ollendorff; "The Asbestos Diary" by Casimir Dukahz; "A Case of Human Bondage" by Beverley Nichols; and "Valentino" by Brad Steiger); letters to the editor. This was ONE's final issue of a fifteen-year publication history, the writings of which laid the groundwork for the nation-wide activist gay liberation movement which was shortly to follow. Rare.
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