Letters to the Editor	Letters Archive

Where's Bronski?

Love your e-mag/web site... but where's Michael Bronski's book and movie reviews? I truly feel that Mr. Bronski's reviews are some of the most astute queer criticisms around today. So please, do find the way i.e., new web design to include Mr. Bronski's reviews on the web site. Many thanks for an always provocatively written publication.

A Long Time Reader

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

We are soon to unveil our new, improved web site, which will feature Michael Bronski's reviews and all our other now-missing content.

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Caveat Lector

I'd like to inform you that [one of your MaleBox advertisers] is a scam-artist. He wants you to send him money and promises you the world. In fact, he's in prison for attempted murder and will likely die there. He's sucked $700 out of me.

A.F.

Manchester, Connecticut

Sorry you had a bad experience. We don't allow anyone to solicit money in a MaleBox ad and have always urged those answering ads to use common sense: sending money to someone you know only through a few letters risks being taken.

'Marvelous' Things Thru MaleBox

Thanks to your services, I found someone just by answering an ad, I discovered a guy who makes me feel something I've not felt in a long time. Had I not answered his ad, I would have gone through life without knowing him!

Thank you so much for forwarding my letter. The most marvelous things can happen when two people meet.

D.M

Thonon-les-Bains, France

Florida Fan

I read every issue from cover to cover. I love your editorials and have copied and sent them to many friends. Keep up your great work.

B.G.

Miami, Florida

Guide 'Welcome Antidote'

Your magazine is a welcome antidote to all the sex-negative hysteria perpetrated by the right-wing whether they be gay or straight.

E.M.

Phoenix, Arizona

Awesome! Fabulous! It Sucked!

Blanche Poubelle is right on the mark to note that "bashing" is beating ["Loose Lips," December 1999]. "Gay bashing" almost sounds amusing now, like the chillingly cute allusion "road rage."

Something else that irks me is the ubiquity of "it sucks," played for cheap laughs in movies and sit-coms. Even gay boys on Will and Grace say it. It's not the use of a "dirty word" that bothers me, but the derogatory use of the word as if it were dirty.

Babies and puppies suck their mother's love and nourishment. I suck. Most of my best friends suck. Hummingbirds and honey bees do it. Muscle hunks among the trees do it. Leather bottoms on their knees do it. White House interns well, you get the idea, and so did Cole Porter.

"It sucks" should be the highest praise. I tried to get William Safire to say so, but that pompous pontificator didn't respond. Won't you lock your "Loose Lips" around my crusade?

R.B.

Phoenix, Arizona

Your wish is our command; see this month's "Loose Lips."

Guide Pole's 'Last Chance'

I saw your magazine. I think your magazine is very good. You help many people find love or friendship. You are the best magazine what I know. I do not speak English very well, so I am sorry for errors.

I would like to give advertisement in your magazine, but have not money because I have not job. You are my last chance on change my live. Can you help me?

R.M.

Rzeszow, Poland

Surely a charming 23-year-old such as yourself should have no trouble attracting men's attention; good luck with your MaleBox ad.