Long prior to the Stonewall riots, ONE magazine—the first overtly homosexual journal within the United States—offered a favorable standpoint of homosexuality and inspired homosexual humans to withstand discrimination and persecution. regardless of a constrained per thirty days circulate of just a couple of thousand, the journal prompted the substance, personality, and tone of the early American homosexual rights stream. This ebook is a suite of letters written to the journal, a small variety of that have been released in ONE, yet such a lot of them weren't. The letters candidly discover matters equivalent to police harassment of homosexual and lesbian groups, antigay activity purges, and the philosophical, clinical, and spiritual meanings of homosexuality.

“Although Letters to ONE is technically a secondary resource, it frequently reads like a main resource. wanting really traveling the ONE archive, this paintings could be the closest that Loftin’s readers will come to listening to the voices of an past age of gays and lesbians.” — H-Net studies (H-Histsex)

“[a] amazing e-book … approximately homosexual and lesbian lifestyles within the Nineteen Fifties and ’60s.” — Los Angeles Times

Craig M. Loftin is Lecturer in American reviews at California nation college, Fullerton. he's the writer of Masked Voices: homosexual males and Lesbians in chilly struggle America, additionally released by means of SUNY Press.