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Hoping to Meet

I very like your The Guide, because I can know more about life gay and lesbian in U.S. and I hope to meet a nice person through The Guide.

George Willers
West Springfield, Mass.

Howdy from Cuba

Hello dear friends of The Guide. Thank you very much for your kindness with me. I received your magazine by mail. It made me feel very good to see my advertisement published in it. You are the most authentic creation in this sense: people get in touch with the gay world through this wonderful magazine with all the information about it, and all thanks to you.

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.G.
Matanzas, Cuba

No-No for Prisoners

The Guide, June 1998 Volume 18 #6, has been received by the Superintendent of designee and is impounded based on violation of requirements set forth in Department of Corrections Rule Chapter 33-3.012: (2) (i) It pictorially depicts sexual conduct as defined by s. 847.001 Florida Statutes, as follows: (1) actual or simulated sexual intercourse; (2) Sexual bestiality; (3) Masturbation; (4) Sadomasochistic abuse; (5) Actual contact with a person's clothed or unclothed genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or, if such person is a female, breast; (6) Any act or conduct which constitutes sexual battery is being or will be committed.

Florida Department of Corrections
Union, Florida

Someone really has a job reading prisoners' mail to make sure they can't read anything about masturbation? What do you tell your kids you do?

What's in a Name?

I read that the University of Vermont is about to hire the first time "Coordinator for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Ally (LGBTQA) Services."

This is the first time I've ever seen this type of name. As I sit here almost ready to throw up on my keyboard.

Keith
via the Internet

Sex Prepped!

I really appreciate your site and the great connections you offer. I am planning to visit Hamburg, Berlin, and Amsterdam. I feel very well prepared for a great sexual experience. Thank you!

I suggest that with hotels, especially ones outside the US, you add a phone number and an e-mail address when they have one. It would save your readers doing extra research and maybe more reservations would be made. I will certainly tell the establishments that I stay at that The Guide is the reason I am there.

Richard
via the Internet

MaleBox Forwarding

One like myself responding to a "Male Box" listing is at best uncomfortable about having an intermediary agent such as yourself forward the mail. If the advertiser's reply is delayed or withheld, the natural presumption will be that the fault must rest with the forwarding service.

Using the "bulk" and other cost-saving rates benefits available, a simple card, worded in a fashion generally like my enclosed sample, would easily compensate for the "post-card" rate expenditure. The good will, confidence, and repeat business for you due to this simple service may be incalculable.

I hope you readily see the wisdom of my plan and implement it pandemically. I await your thoughtful consideration of and compliance with this suggestion.

J. S.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Three times a month we forward all letters sent to MaleBox advertisers for whom we have a good address (unless the sender fails to follow our instructions, in which case the letters are returned along with an explanation as to what's wrong). Responders desiring to hear from the advertiser they are contacting must, of course, include a way to get in touch with them; if you've not heard from an advertiser you've written, don't blame us. We charge nothing for forwarding letters (except the stamps); acknowledging each of the hundreds of letters received each month would be far too costly both in money and time to be feasible, so our "compliance" to your suggestion will not only not be "pandemic," it will be "non-existent." Thanks, though. **