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Prejudice Against Homosexuality
How Churchill Became Marlhorough
Let Us Be Proud I
The Mutiny
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^ Homosexual Literature--A Partial Picture
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Second Annual INTERUTIONAL ISSUE CONTENTS ARTICLES PREJUDICE AGAINST HOMOSEXUALITY, In view of the dearth of suit Our first International Issue a Dr. med- Wolfgang E- Bredtschneider ...... 5 year ago tried to give as wide a able German articles for trans representation as was possible of lation, we feel especially grati HOW CHURCHILL BECAME MARLBOROUGH, Marc Daniel 14 fied and honored that Dr. Bredt- foreign language publications, in LET US BE PROUD, L-W...... 22 translation. There were difficul schneider, a psychiatrist working ties however, especially in find in Frankfurt, Germany, submit THE MUTINY, Classen Von Neudegg ...... 25 ing translators from the Scandi ted his original article to us- In navian languages, auid mater addition he lightened our editor ON THE RACK, Scorpio ...... 27 ials from such countries as Italy ial burden by furnishing the HOMOSEXUAL LITERATURE, A PARTIAL PICTURE, and Spain. basic English translation of his Andre Beaudry ...... 29 article. The work needed to transform it into its present This year we have been guided SHORT FEATURES by a different goal: to select for shape was minimal- We trust translation those materials which that other foreign authorities WOLFENDEN REPORT ...... 2 will be stimulated by his exam might be presumed to have pri PERUVIAN RIDERS, a poem ...... 11 mary interest for our readers, re ple to submit original work of gardless of the source from their own to Mattachine Review. DO WE NEED A WORLD CENTER, Jack Argo 12 which they came. There is, there * * ' fore, but a single translation HEARD AND SEEN, Aiidre Baudry ...... 21 from the German periodical, WOLFENDEN REPORT Humanitas. which is unfortun As we go to press, word has DEPARTMENTS ately no longer published. It been received that the long- 1 EDITORIAL ...... 2 READERS WRITE ...... 33 seemed to the Editorial Board awaited WOLFENDEN REPORT I when we were independently se has finally been made public in LOOKING AHEAD...... 4 BIBLIOGRAPHY (Part III) , 36 London- Sir John Wolfenden was lecting materials for translation, A FOREIGN PUBLICATIONS .. 24 MATTACHINE DIRECTORY 38 that the available German-lang appointed three years ago to head uage articles were either overly a committee of 1 1 prominent English professional people, sentimental in treatment or too MATTACHINE REVIEW is published monthly by the Mattachinef preoccupied with internal legal charged with the problem of drafting recommendations for a Society, Inc., 693 Mission Street, San Francisco, San Francisco 5, situations- As a consequence, we Calif., a non-profit, non-partisan organization founded in the public have relied heavily on articles modernization of British sex laws. Many of our readers may interest for the purpose of providing true and accurate information which appeared in French origi toward the solution of problems of human sex behavior, particularly nally- Arcadia and La Caicla sec not realize that, under existing English law, penalties for homo- those of the homosexual adult. The REVIEW is available on many tion of Dar Krais have been oui U.S. newsstands (six alternate-month issues per year). main sources of materials (Continucd on page 20) . Printed in U. S. A. 3 ABOUT THE PREJUDICE AGAINST L 0 0 KIN 6 AHEAD
Hov.«ü», U.U., lor subscribáis (bu, uo, f will feature three important articles on the homosex by 1 WOLFENDEN COMMITTEE—This article will discuss re- Dr. med. Wolfgang E. Bredtschneider io m m e S o n s o, the Government Committee ol <3'« ‘ Bnta'n wluf ia s studied the problem of homosexuality and proximately thre^ years and issued its conclusions early in Septem " A thing may ba looked at in three ways: in a scien- ber. (See also page 2 of this issue). tifíc way, in a legal way, and in a reasonable way.” - 2 PROBLEMS OF HOMOSEXUALITY-“Among sex laws, none August Bier. are so punitive or inequitable as those concerning homosexu^ acts, ”. . . and thus let us ■ • . not do what is done but narticulwly male homosexual activities,” states Dr- Normari Reider, what still wants doing." - Martin Buber. £ Francisco physician, in a straightforward article reprinted from California Medicine- 3 NEW LIGHT ON HOMOSEXUALITY-by the research staff of Scientific literature in the Lxology magazine, is an analysis of a survey of 1^00 male homosex ABOUT THE AUTHOR German language which deaU uals, and concludes that persons who consider these people to be with homosexuedity is mainly vicious, depraved and mentally ill need to question their thinking. It any proof were needed that preoccupied with attempts to both the basic roots of prejudice find the causation of this sexu PLUS other articles and features, book department, bibliography and the ways it finds expression ality which is directed mainly to and letters from readers- Of special interest will be a report on the are not confined within any geo ward members of the same sex 4th Annual Convention of the Mattachine Society, held recently in graphical boundaries, this arti and, occasionally, with sociolog San Francisco. cle could help to furnish it- Dr. ical problems connected with Bredtschneider, Frankfurt - am - this. The literature in the Ger Main, a diplomata of the German man language also is much less D«:*mb«r Issue, due off the press on November 20, wUl present Board of Psychiatry and Neurol extensive than the corresponding these outstanding headline features: ogy, as well as diplomate of the literature in English- The many Gorman Board of Internal Medi variations among homosexuals 1. ADJUSTMENT OF THE MALE OVERT HOM OSEXUA^n are but superficially alluded to. important and fully documented paper read by its author, Evelyn cine, identifies himself as ”Psy- choanalytically oriented” in his The usual conclusion is that Hooker, Ph.D., of the Department of Psychology, Umversity of C^if- people living with this kind of omia at Los Angeles, at a recent convention of the American Psy therapeutic practice- Judging from his article, however, it sexual behavior and inclination chological Association. would be as wrong to classify are more or less sick or emotion 2 PANEL DISCUSSION ON HOMOSEXUALITY—First install him as a narrowly doctrinaire ally maldeveloped. Several re ment of papers read at the recent Mattachine convention where a analyst as to label him nation- cent court decisions demand that panel of five experts discussed the topic, “Must the Individual Homo alistically German. His patients the defendant submit himself to sexual Be Rejected in Our Time?” must benefit as much from the medical treatment. width of his cultural background It is understood thereby that 3. PRESS REACTION TO WOLFENDEN REPORT—Taking up and the depth of his thinking as the "cure" of a homosexual i.s where the November presentaUon left off, this article will describe do we, the readers of his article. successfully completed when his the pros and cons of Wolfenden report recommendations as voiced sexual appetite becomes directed by the press in Great Britain and the U S. xMXKtCte R B V i e W most hideous injustices- that they have fallen victims to even know of such prohibiUons, towErds the other sex- Except Prejudice and superstition a more or less conscious feeling for some cases in which the or that they do not look upon feed in turn on the laws which of guilt which has been imposed such matters as of particular in homosexual interest was either they foster. Many people justify on them by force by the jnajor- terest- While psychiatry cannot rather superficial or one symp their opinions by pointing to the ity of "normals”: one feels much tom of a more polymorphous avoid considering the sociolog law: these laws would certainly less guilty if the guilt-arousing general maldevelopment, experi ical basis on which an individual not exist without reason; and the cause is congenital or inherited ence has shown the unpossibilily happened to grow up, and whUe lawmakers should certainly have than if it were “acquired’’ even of such cures. Hence it came to it has to regard their strong in known what they were doing in at very early stages of childhood. be considered satisfactory to help fluential and formative powers, enacting them. This thought will One feels uncomfortable if it is the homosexual patient in ad any general biology and any re be particularly^ stressed where possibly true that the psycho search of a biological-anthropo justing to the actual society he belief in authority is very strong. analytic theories of the “acquir is living in. In this way it was logical coloring should not need The "previously convicted” suf ing” of homosexuality came possible to remove many features to do so- fers more from such bias than closer to reality than all other Whenever I think of the ar- of the behavior of some homo from the law; a previously con theories. However, they should sexuals. which could be under Ucles in many representative victed person must necessarily consider that, according to the stood as the result of resentment, magazines I also notice a ten be a bad person who, has de very same theories about the de or of yielding to public opinion dency toward an apology, to served the penalty imposed on velopment of infants and chil which expects this or that be wards an explanation of the ho him; he cannot be trusted in the dren, heterosexuality is also ac havior from a homosexual per mosexual life. Quite frequently future. How many people be quired and not congenital or in son- Doubtless much good was “manliness” is stressed in arti- come punishable again only be herited and is by no means done by this. The scientific liter les and stories in a way which cause society refuses to accept “natural’’. Nevertheless, “acquir ature strives to find explanations arouses the suspicion tlwt even them back into its ranks after ing’’ means a process which and thus offer a plea to some ex here the supeiktition exists that they have already paid their of takes place in early childhood tent on behalf of the invert “male’’ and “female" are well ficial debt! Indeed, these are and is thus left untouched by However, homosexual acts are defined realities. There seems to actually truisms. Laws and a any real guilt. still more or less identified with be an inclination to believe that biased public opinion condition Actually, it is practically un "other transgressions”’, particu a man’s being in love with an each other, especially when important whether homosexual larly as far as the law is con other man means he has a femi strong human emotions are in ity is congenital or acquired nine soul, to say the least. In cerned- volved- Unfortunately Einstein very early. The results of thera Admittedly, all this is a "hot any case, there is a tendency to was right when he once re peutic attempts show this. It potato”, a field of human life wards an apology; such apology marked that it is more difficult may well be that a person is se which is loaded with emotion may be more comprehensible in to extirpate prejudices deeply duced into a homosexual act and it appears understandable this connection than anywhere rooted for generations than to during or after puberty or even that the principle of hie Rhodes else- split atoms- later; he can never, however, be hie lalta (we happen to live here Many laws feed on prejudice It cannot be repeated often seduced into becoming a homo- and now, in this environment and on superstition,. One has only enough that prejudices are par sexuaL and are part of this society and to think of the tragic folly of ticularly strong whenever the Very seldom is the idea put its structure) finds its way some witch hunts all over the world matters concerned are loaded forth that the problems of any how into the most scientific pub and of the deadly persecution of with emotion. Very clearly this minority are actually those of the lications, and that the invisible the Phillippines, a vegetarian is the case in sexual matters. surrounding majority which threatening finger of a conven sect in 17th century Russia, the When some homosexuals insist feels unable to deal with them tional morality and comfortable members of which did no other that their tendency is congenital appropriately. The majority pro tradition materializes within harm than prefer vegetables to or inherited, when they even jects its problems onto the mi them. The question is rarely meat- There is no need to men quote old scientific theories nority. All the difficulties of asked as to why other nations tion what is going on in our “en which nobody but they them these problems are depicted as have abolished those paragraphs lightened" days in many parts of selves believes any more, they belonging to the minorit.v and concerning homosexual relations the world; a list of unjust arid demonstrate thereby that they are forced upon it until the mi between consenting adults from unnecessary persecutions and themselves have succumbed to nority itself believes it- I may their legal statutes, or how it "inquisitory trials” would con prejudice. Above all they show cite antisemitism; but I may also comes about that they do not tain innumerable cases of the which science and reason have ancient times would be or womd cite the unfathomable patience self in a biased way as some been as one to show this to be have been a homosexual. The thing problematic. -As mentioned with which the Jews have en true. I cannot give here a de critical point seems to be that above the unholy ability to suc dured all the misery which was tailed enumeration of the condi the role, rank and position of brought upon them in the couree cumb to prejudice is not bound tions from which the thousands- sexuality as such with other to any particular direction of the of centuries; in a way, almost as of-years-old unfavorable criticism nations, cultures and in ancient sexual drive. In the .American if they had looked for it and de and prejudice against homosex times have been a fundament served i t ” Of course, these are Journal of PsychotheraPT- April uality have stemmed- I will re ally different one from that in 1952, p. 357, Dr. Harry Benjamin all unconscious processes. The fer only to the unrivaled paper Occidental culture. summarizes as follows: If ad individual behaves in a way by the Dutch psychiatrist Dr- C A careful, reasoned study of common to all psychological justment is necessary, it should van Emde Boas about the Socio- the development of that culture be made primarily with regard ganasi* of a Vital Avarsion (So- shows that aversion, hatred and mass situations- to the position the homosexual In any case it can be easily siogenasa einer 'vitalen' abnaig- prejudice against homosexuality proven that the prejudice of a occupies in present day society ung). On the whole a repressive by no means stem from a "vital”, and society should more often majority also' becomes the pre process has taken place similar “natural” or "biological” force judice of a minority agaii^t be thp patient to be treated than to that which we find in the directed against this kind of sex the invert." individual case of a so-called ual outlet - or this kind of love- which the bias of the majority Contemplating mankind in was originally directed- Hence latent homosexual. His over ‘The idea that the majority we find the disposition towards time and space, no ‘‘natural” - strong aversion and reaction- of people are latent homosexuals or if one prefers the term, bio an apology concerning homose.x- formation against any homosex will have to be discarded, too, in logical” - repulsion against homo uality in scientific papers—m ay^ ual behavior or temptation are explaining the prejudice against sexual behavior and inclination even in this one—as well as in fed by his unconscious desire for homosexuality. This bias derives can be traced. The much used this very same thing. This un ultimately from everybody's articles written within the ranks term ‘‘against nature’’ is utterly of the homosexuals themselves. conscious desire, together with (mostly unconscious) severe guilt ridiculous and cannot stand up Therefore we will be unable to his unconscious guilt feelings feelings towards sexuality as against scientific or reasonable learn anything new either from about having it, may easily ren such. 'The sexual instinct, with the scientific aspect of things or analysis, as long as such analy der him a very sick, and often its possibility of homosexual ex sis is able to keep itself free seriously ill. human being; see pression, more than distinctly from the legal point of view. from bias- There have been Wherever we stand we should my paper "About the Treatment demonstrates that it has a per enough recorded instances in call to mind the reasonable as of Homosexuality" (Über die Be emptory, vital function and pect of the matter- handlung der Homosexualität) meaning even without the pur If prejudices and laws con However, such an apparently pose of propagation. The homo dition each other, and if history lIpBia S p ecial simple explanation of the pro sexual propensity is made the - as it applies to Germany es cess of repression on the whole prototype of the forbidden, the pecially - shows that laws ^ e would not be the only decisive disquieting; it becomes the com OERR^« y»»'- still more variable than preju element; first we would have to plete precedent of sexual free will »>•'•P'JrlpUnB r ..« '« - ask how such an overall re dom and is thus exposed to a dices or the “peoples voice,” it " • will i * would seem rather reasonable to ,lon. now ona ,^^_p,„bably pression could have occurred and general sexual “grudge” which deliberate on the brigin of the exact secondly we would have to con originally was not expressly di bias against homosexuality- Our sider the fact that the aversion rected against this particular effort should be to do what still . PMC.*“ “ » ' ’' ' ' ' ”'" against homosexuality found in kind of sexual behavior. 'These our days is also seen with people thoughts illuminate, perhaps, wants doing, not be concerned «tite lot themes, only with what has been done. books on homos who by no means are themselves more than the traditional ones In other words: homosexual latent homosexuals. The proba the precipitous profundity of the ity and homosexual behavior VVVILLAGE THEATER bility of everybody possessing bias against homosexuality and and life are in no way problems 2 ^ CENTER some homosexual tendencies can they may, as well, explain the in and of themselves. They are be disregarded here entirely. difficulties which so far have Stree"t made problems by any given Finally the conclusion certainly wrecked the attempts of upright majority and its prejudices. Un Hew would be wrong that every and unprejudiced people to pre der the influence of the latter, member of other cultures or of vail upon the authorities to as- the minority learns to look at it slune a more reasonable attitude ever, cannot be channeled any where but into fighting, war, toward homosexual acts in those persecution, sadism and illness- countries which still have the threat of punishment in their Laws have to yield to enlighten ment, reason and true justice. P e à 444d o H P id e U statutes. So far they have not succeeded in breaking through They will have to screen out an cient moral traditions and pre the vicious circle of law and judices- They will have to ex public opinion. Are these the dashing dandies Obviously, nobody can turn amine again and again their re back two and a half millenia ality contents. They will have to ¡n silk robes and perfume. The great achievements of the be careful not to give old preju The over-ripened meeklings. human spirit and human emo dices fresh fodder and supply Once lust's devoted groomsf them with newly constructed tions, which have been accom jusüfications- They must prevent ( plished during this period, and unnecessary suffering and harm- which perhaps have been made Homoerotic behavior has always Are these the fragile wastrels possible partly by limiting a Who once in jasmine plots choiceless sexual promiscuity, been, is, and will remain in all likelihood. Why fight against it Had drowned their souls in pleasure should not go unnoticed - even including the atom bomb- The constantly? Why deny its actual And crowned that pleasure god? and widespread existence? Why ideals of freedom in human re not, instead, render it useful for lations and of justice have a place here. These ideas should the sake of all? How angry, cleansed, they've shatter.id I will conclude with a word not constantly bow to the primi by Chesterton (re-translated from Their crippling chains to ride tive subjugation of prejudice, or the German): "'This is the mon To death’s humble acre all progress will become an ab strous moidorn heresy;-^o change surdity- In the end, prejudices Where only laurels thrive. are much more dangerous than the soul of man in order to ad the instincts themselves; the just it to imposed obligations, instead of changing the human latter can always be channeled Their country’s cry has kindled obligations in order to adjust into productivity without bias them to the human soul.” -j’ Their soul with freedom’s song, being necessary. Prejudice, how And purged the hearts with fire That were let sleep too long. K ew Form at
MATTACHINE r ev iew in its October issue adopted a new foimv- at Growth of the magazine during the past three years has dic-^ tateiarexpansion of its editorial staff, a graduation ^nto profession S and a higher level of editorial content- New officers of the MaUachine Society have laid plans whereby the magazine w^l keeP pace with the growing organization of laymen and professiona people seriously at work in seeking truths about and presenting this knowledge to the American public for the bene fit of society as a whole. This means that more than ever the magazine-as '«'«11 as the From “Song of Bolivar: Junin’s Victory,” by organization— is dependent upon the continued and expanded sup Jose Joaquin Olmedo (ca. 1815). port of members, readers, friends and other interested persons evepr- Translated by Bernardo Franco. where. Without such help neither the Review nor the orgamzation for which it speaks would be possible. n An international center (United we think that if all who are in Homosexual Publishers — UHP) terested would concentrate on an could help to overcome some of international center, much more tiiese problems- It ought to be can be done with economy and set up by at least the majority of them with a center in Europe And we might also get a clear Homosexual Publications Ask for Mutual Goals and branches in the United er view into each group's strict States and other parts of the ly national atiairs and problems world. It should consist of an than we now do- Do We Need a World Center? international library, of a trans ICSE now puts most of its en lating team, of a book service, a ergy into the main goal of public news service and an article shop enlightenment and scientific re by Jack Argo, ICSE editor It could deal with general ma search. The money brought in terials as well as with exclusive for this purpose is sufficient, as ly prepared ones. We could con niaterial in different countries we know, and we eire constantly I have been working as a con centrate all the power that is thinking of new ideas and new of this civilized world? now spread over the world into tributor for D«t Kreit. Zurich, I am not now dealing with the methods to break out of the since 1951- I have also worked one unique center to avoid strictly national aspects and vicious circle- The idea suggested for several German homosexual duplication of effort. problems, maybe I wiU later in cannot expect financial support periodicals such as Die Gelaehr- The money necessary for sus from the underdeveloped inter this article. I am thinking, rafeen taining such an office could be ten. Frankfurt, Die Intel (now of the questions faced by all o, national movement, at least not Der Weg), Hamburg/Berlin, Hu- collected within the framework at the present time- But we and Hellas, Hamburg, us every day where I can now of a special corporation fqimdcd see several writers and editors think the value of the idea is Freund and the late Zwiihen den by the participants. It does not contained within itself and con working in different countries, need to be erected within the Andem. both published by each one separate and somewhat tains also the key for solving its Charles Greiger, Hamburg. Now organizational set-up of ICSE, own financial problem. I am working primarily for the isolated- but should certainly keep in We need exchange of ideas, ar constant touch with ICSE. ICSE I will bring this suggestion be periodicals of ICSE, such as ticles, news, documentary ma newsletter, ICSE-Kurier and with its present contacts could fore our annual meeting in terial- We need it translated from Frankfurt and the results of it ICSE-Press- All this has brought work as an initiator of this idea and into several languages- We you can read later in our Newt- me more and more to the con and help to bring it into reality- need books to refer to and re Utter- Meanwhile, do consider clusion that we need mutual Translated articles of One and ports of the several movements this idea in your publication and goals and regulations for editing Matlachine Review have ap and organizations. In short, we discuss it in your groups as well- and writing in homosexual pub peared in various Europeon pub need an international center for Maybe someone will come up lications- We know that there are lications, and European articles with a constructive solution- other national homosexual maga this work- in -American publications, but The attitude and structure of zines in France (Arcedie), in firms and groups, however, Denmark (Pan and Vennen), in the Netherlands (Vriendschap) makes it difficult to bring them all to one table- Some are put and in the United States (One, out by organizations making^ no .Mattacbine Review and the profit or putting'that profit into 'Ladder.) And" we are all aware their work; others profit for CHANGES OF ADDRESS that homosexuality is in many their own benefit like any regu Notic* of Chong* of oddr*» ihouW b* Mnl not respects the same problem all l*t> fhon fwo w **kt prior fo th* dot* chongo over the world, so far as its es lar publishers, such as Vennen, bocouM *ff*cliv*. Sand th* oddrost ol which sential signs and qualities are Der Ring and Der Weg- But, coptu or* now boing r*c*l»*d and th* n*w leaving aside this particular oddrou ot which you wiih to rocoiv* copias. concerned. Should we, and car, iwoblem. they all should be in we, waste time, money and en ergy, paper, contributors, trans terested in our idea because they lators, etc., for one and the same all lack sufficient material- I of England, and young perhaps went somewhat too far Antinous was deified and ven in the latter direction in erated in temples because, to the winning the favors of Lady day he died, he remained faith Castlemaine, Duchess of Cleve ful to his lover, the Emperor land and mistress of the King. Hadrian. However, I think that Caught in her apartments by very few of the ships sailing the her royal lover, he had to jump heraldic seas came originally from the window. He was then from the Isle of Lesbos- It has exiled to Tangiers to meditate been said that the Princess of upon the wisdom of keeping Lambelle and the Duchess of away from the king's mistresses, S e M m c Polignac enjoyed unusual pas but found some consolation in times with Marie Antoinette, but the fact that the good duchess, this I do not believe. On the responsible for his predicament, by Marc Daniel other hand, I have no doubt but gave him 500 pounds for pm that Queen Anne of England did money. When his sister pleaded truly love her friend, Sarah for him, he was soon allowed Jennings, and that the fame of back in England. As everyone knows, not all of wealth have fed the roots of the the Churchills started with this The king responsible for thi.s the coats of arms of noble fami Almanach de Gotha, as have the affair. was old Charles II, a skeptical, lies were created out of blood weaknesses of many a great lady blase, and cynical man who, al and glory, and not all can trace or - why not? - some handsome Around the year 1650, Sir though amply supplied with their noble ancestry all the way young men. After all, where Winston Churchill was a hard bastards by his many mistresses, back to the Crusades- Gold and would the Rochechouarts and the working, little known gentleman had been blessed with no legiti Antins now be without Mme. de from Devonshire. His family, of mate child. His heir was, there Montespan? Or the Maillys - if French descent, was extremely fore, his brother, the Duke of the Duchess of Chateauroux had faithful to the Stuart dynasty. York, a skinny and autocratic MORE MARC DANIEL? resisted the advances of Louis There was not much ambition in prince who, furthermore, was XV? his life, and his name would be leaning toward Catholicism at a The article which received the Sovereigns have also shown forgotten but for his two child time when the word “papist” in greateit amount of favorable great generosity toward some of furiated most Englishmen. comment in our International ren, Arabella and John. The their male companions, without elder, Arabella, had grown into James had two daughters, Issue 19S6 was Marc Daniel's , necessarily going so far as the a quite slender young girl, not Mary and Anne. As presumptive The Twelfth Man, a capsule bio exuberant Catherine the Great, without charm- She eventually heirs to the throne, the two prin graphy of Philip von Eulenburg. who made a prince out of her managed to capture the atten We hope our readers will be cesses had been educated by Potemkin. Quite a few attrac tion and heart of the heir to the Anglicans, and their uncle the equally pleased with this second tive noblemen have managed, throne, James Stuart, Duke of King had given them Protestant translation from his series of rather unexpectedly, to establish York, and became his official husbands; Mary had married profiles which are appearing in the fortunes of their families on mistress. She presented him with William of Orange, Stathouder ARCADIE. If the response from close intimacies with some king several children, one of whom, of the Netherlands, and Anne our readers is great enough, it or emperor, Luynes, Saint-Simon, the Duke of Berwick, became had wed George, brother of the might be possible for us to Cihq-Mars would not be such one of the ablest generals of the king of Denmark. schedule more than one such resounding names today if it had early eighteenth century. Their mother, the Duchess of translation a year- But if we not been for Louis XIII’s pen Sir Winston's son, John, bene York, for many years had had a don't hear from you directly we chant for “special friendships,’’ fited from his sister's, influence- pleasant and well-behaved young can only assume you don't want The Duke-Marshall of Epemon He joined the King’s army and lady, Frances Jennings from them, and you will have to wait started his career as a “mignon” , was rapidly promoted, thanks to Hertfordshire, as one of her until the next International Issue of Henri III of France- The ^ his looks, his courage, and his ladies-in-waiting. Frances was appears in 1958- gallant Duke of Buckingham successes with the fair sex. He indeed so very pleasant that for was the favorite of King James IS years both King and Duke oi Anne conformed quite happily. •'Royal Highness” and “humble fine but pinched lips- The ex York had been seeking her fa With the arrival of adolescence, servant’’, which did not fit the pression is full of life, ironical vors—and so well-behaved that Anne’s feelings altered; she nature of their relationship. and captivating at the same she had managed to discourage would weep whenever her “be Sarah became Mrs. Freeman and time - but also slightly disturb them both. Frances was one of loved” had to leave the palace Anne was Mrs. Morley. ing. In the portrait she wears live children of Sir Richard for as much as a few days The marriage of “Mrs- Morley” rather a severe black dress, very JenningS) and her young sister Later when she grew old enough to the Prince of Denmark, a simple, with a mantilla over her Sarah would, from time to time, to organize her own personal ‘‘royal nonentity’’, did not bring blond hair. She said of herself visit her at court. household, she selected Sarah much change into the lives of that she was essentially simple And this is where the extra Jennings to be one of her ladies- the two friends, save that, at and sincere, with no taste for ordinary story of the Churchills in- waiting. regular intervals, Anne had to be intrigue, but her letters show her actually begins- “This friendship was too confined to give birth (14 times) to be dominating and ill-temper passionate to go unnoticed- The or secluded to mourn her child ed; she pestered Anne in order to When Churchill returned from two friends would lock them ren, none of whom reached ma obtain the dismissal of her own Tangiers, the dashing 26-year-old selves in Anne’s apartments for turity. mother. Lady Jennings, with officer fell passionately in love several hours every day. Sepa whom she was at odds. with young Sarah at first sight ration meant deadly ennui to How were the two friends liv The princess, on the other She was then a blonde beauty of .both and they were quite open- ing between the years of 1680 hand, with all her dignity and 16, lively and witty, but not ■dy jealous of each other Anne and 1690? We can get a fair pic occasional fits of temper, was much impressed with her valiant ^used to say that she wanted ture of their life from the mem actually soft putty in the strong suitor. For two years she re Sarah to be exclusively and en oirs written by Sarah a few years hands of Lady Churchill. As the mained deaf to his entreaties, tirely hers, and that she could after Anne’s death, as well as daughter to the heir to the answering his pathetic letters not bear her absence.” from other documents of the throne, Anne lived in a small with ironic, sometimes unkind, i Who wrote this? Sir Winston period- A portrait of the princess, palace, close to the Royal Palace little notes, openly laughing at Churchill, Prime Minister of engraved about 1680, shows her at Whitehall. It was called the him. Then, caught at her own Elizabeth II and descendant of as a pleasant looking girl, her “Cockpit” because cock fights game, or perhaps out of bore John and Sarah Churchill, in the round face enlivened by large had formerly been held there for dom, if not by calculation, she book he wrote about his famous eyes and a laughing mouth, her Henry VHI. She spent days sur gave up. In 1678 Sarah Jennings hncestors- hair parted into two bundles of rounded by her small entourage, became Sarah Churchill. But in Under the circumstances, curls, and a friendly, if some riding in Hyde Park and boating Sarah’s heart was another pas Sarah’s marriage to John prob what enigmatic expression- Her on the Thames, which at that sion that was much more impor ably wounded Anne severely. chin was rather accentuated and time was as jammed with plea tant to her. However, instead of showing any her bosom perhaps betrayed the sure boats, barges, and galleys While still a young girl, not resentment or jealousy, Anne be corpulence that was to come in as the Grand Canal in Venice. too many years before, her sis came very friendly to the young later years. All this is surround The reconstruction of London ter had often taken her to the husband and showered her fa ed by a light and symbolic at was just being completed after Royal Palace to play with he vors on the new couple- mosphere - a bouquet held by a the great fir6 of 1666, and the daughters of the Duke of York While John - who had been graceful hand, a tree, and a por gentry was enjoying itself in the -Mary, the dominating and stub made a baron in 1682 and a col tico. ’The portrait cannot reveal frivolous and luxury-loving mood born elder one, and Anne the onel in 1683—was fighting wars Anne’s greatest charm - a voice of the Restoration. The King sweet and carefree, if sometimes or undertaking diplomatic mis that was exquisite and all har lived at S t James or Whitehall unexpectedly temperamental one. sions for the Duke of York, his mony, the supreme gift for a wo in the Winter and at Hampton Anne was a full fouT years wife and the princess were liv man. Court or Windsor in the summer. yoimger than Sarah, and quick ing together or writing long let Sarah, as painted by Sir John Anne attended the festivities ly developed a deep admiration ters to each other whenever cir Lely at the age of 30, had an with her friend Sarah and with for the brilliant Miss Jennings. cumstances separated them for a oval face enlightened by almond- her went himting or visited the In their games, Sarah conducted few days. Anne had suggested shaped eyes that glistened like spas, in spite of stormy political and organized everything. Mary that they should use pseudonyms emeralds and were charged with events and the very uncertain would sometimes object - and in order to prevent gossip and lightning, a tiimed-up nose, and future. In fact, the Stuart dyn was summarily dismissed > but to eliminate such words as asty was pursuing its somber completely, deserted by support Mary died in 1694; William fol Mr. Masham. destiny, which had sUu:ted with ers of the King, yet not rallied lowed her to the grave in 1702; There followed violent scenes the execution of Mary, Queen to the cause of William. Anne, the Archibishop of Canterbuiy such as the one that took place of Scots, and continued with daughter of one and sister-in- came, ceremoniously, to advise during a solemn Te Deum to that of her grandson, Charles I, law of the other, remained a Her Royal Highness that she was celebrate the victory of the Duke Anne’s grandfather. symbol of security for the people now Queen Anne the First of Marlborough at Oudenard in Charles II died in 1685 and of London. From 1702 the life of Anne 1709. Lady Marlborough had se was succeeded by his brother Churchill had joined forces and English politics are closely lected the jewels the Queen was James II, but the latter's blun with William, “the liberator’’, interwoven, but politics were to to wear, but Mrs. Masham did ders, despotism and, above all, and his wife- Sarah began to wreck the loving friendship be not agree with the choice, and his Catholicism, rapidly made feel that the ground of the tween Mrs. Morley and Mrs. the Queen sided with the latter. him extremely unpopular in “Cockpit’’ was becoming unpleas Freeman. ’There were very harsh words spite of undeniably positive antly slippery. It was probably For a while matters proceeded from Sarah. qualities such as his earnestness an easy matter to convince Ann^ smoothly enough. The day after Soon after, the Queen made and loyalty. The Protestants, who to let the Bishop of London her coronation, Anne elevated remarks about all the wealth be were a vast majority in England, stage a quick, melodramatic ab John to the Knighthood of the stowed on the Churchills and turned to William of Orange, a duction. As a matter of fact, Garter and showered him with about the ingratitude of this strong supporter of the Reform Anne was now afraid that her distinctions, while Sarah was be little Sarah Jennings who, “after ation and husband of Mary, the father might come back and ing treated with equal gener all .... ’’ The Duchess replied King’s elder daughter- William, punish lier for her neutral atti osity. with some aggressive letters, ambitious and cynical, negotia tude and she was more than will During the wars with France, threatening to publish her cor ted with Parliament and the An ing to escape. One evening she John Churchill proved himself respondence with the Queen. glican Bishop of London, landed retired early, pretending a head one of the most brilliant gener ’Ihe final rupture came after at Brixham on November 5, 1688 ache, and stayed in her room als in English History, so that another impassioned argument with a small army, and pro with her inseparable Sarah and his successes made the reign of The duchess moved out of the claimed his intention to depose another lady-in waiting. At mid Anne almost as glorious as that Royal Palace, taking with her his father-in-law and enforce the night someone whistled in a side of Elizabeth I. ’The years 1702 even the marble mantlepiece strictest Reformation. street. It was the Bishop, in a to 1714 vfere marked by a series and the locks of her apartments. This situation was nothing comfortable carriage, well sup of victories. For his triumph at Anne died in 1714 at the age short of distressing to poor plied with delicacies. Last min Blenheim in 1704, John received, of 50. a very heavy, bitter, and Princess Anne, who loved her ute excitement, whispers in the as a gift from Parliament, Blen dispirited woman. Sarah, who father and was also very fond of concealed staircase, a woman's heim Castle, a magnificent res had lost her only son but had her sister Mary However, she shoe lost in the mud (this was in idence; soon after he was given married all of her daughters hated William, who had shown November), and the carriage the title of Duke of Marlborough brilliantly, lived in a golden re open dislike of Sarah, but she spirited Sarah away. ’This start ’The relationship between Anne tirement with her husband, who was a sincere Anglican and, in ed quite a drama. Rather than and Sarah, however, was losing never stopped worshipping her. the civil war that was develop be separated from her friend, most of its previous harmony. She died in 1744, at the age of ing, the English people looked to Anne took refuge with the Duke Anne supported the Tory party, 84. and was remembered as a rather peevish, unbearable, and her as the second ^heir to the of Somerset and Sarah soon join while Sarah remained faithful throne. At this point it becomes ed her at his estate. to the Whigs, friends of her hus unscrupulous old woman. rather difficult to ascertain the ’This resulted in further com band. Political arguments be ’The liaison between Anne and parts played by Sarah and John plication. William, infuriated, tween the two friends were get Lady Marlborough is a histori Churchill. There is no doubt, withdrew from Anne all royal ting very frequent, and their cal fact, but precisely what was however, that John, who owed a distinctions and honors, includ tempers were not improving the nature of their relationship? large share of his fortune to ing her body-guards. The opposi with time. Also, there was Mis.s The letters between Mrs. Morley and Mrs. Freeman are undoubt James II, betrayed his lord and tion had a field day when Anne Hill—Abigail Hill, a young cous joined the party of William of was held up by a pack of ruffi in of Sarah who had been intro edly love letters. Pamphleteers Orange. The King fled from Lon ans on her way back from a duced to the Queen. Abigail soon hostile to the Queen, or to the don and began to prepare for the visit to Hampton Court But the became very close to the Queen Churchills, prc«nptly concluded that their friendship had not fight. The capital was abandoned wheels of fortune kept turning. and married her first secretary, does not seem to go further than been Platonic. But does it really A reoular feature of ABCADIE is a one-page editorial re|»rt under the rumors about it from var matter? The two women were ious sources during the past year t h ii ^ r a l title of LE COMBAT d’ARCADlE. ThU «“ T »>• • • “'■ beautiful and loved each other. cinl^discuiiion of an incident in the di^y P«»»- « «P®** Let us hope that they were able and a half said it would. We ex pect to receive our copy in time homosexuai writing, in another ‘ to express their love in a perfect to include the actual recommen u«l who ha. performed signal manner with as mutual and as dations in our next (November) anTthingelse that has bearing on ARCADres total surrender as they wished. issue. For December we plan a aditon of this Parisianl monthly, ARCADIE is not only e critical review of the reception bu. . 1«, having to do with homosexuality can be designated. HEARD. WOLFENDEN REPORT accorded it by the British daily a n d seen appeared in the April 1957 issue. (continued from page 2) and weekly press. -Although there is always the possibility sexual acts may rise as high as that any change in British law ARCADIE’S FIGHT life sentences, whereas prostitu may find some reflection in this tion in itself is not illegal- The country, we do not anticipate prostitute may be arrested only that there will be any immedi when her solicitation on the ate change noticeable. Its value HEARD.... AND SEEN street can be considered an here wUl be primarily in pro “aimoyance.’’ moting some change of mental The 155-page report apparent climate, without which legal re In the Latin Quarter. Chez Dupont- A group of “honor” students. ly explodesno bombshells. It visions are impossible. They are talking. Animatedly. v,„.„««,viifllitv what -¿ey, look fiere! With all these stones «>* homo^xua y. wouM you do, if a character made advances to you.
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REVIEW arrived in Mexico- It was the way he has been living; socially same in "the cities where the the homosexual would be seek From Dm Knii, Noy»mb«r 1956 Hebrews ‘ set themselves up- ing a new way of adapting. But Moses, when he banned homo what does all that signify? -Are sexuality, did not intend to set these things the causes or the himself up in opposition to any consequences of homosexuality.’ proper behavior of mankind, but Let us grant that it may be a LET US BE PROUD! was simply taking action against question of causes, though I a practice ¡which might quickly don’t think this is generally the have drowned his people in the case- Would we then have to ad Some Reflections on the Subject of Homosexuality population he thought it his mis mit that it would be necessary sion to occupy, to supplant, yes, to prescribe remedies, root out complexes, or transplant the in by L. W. even to exterminate. It is obvious that homosexual dividual to another social set ity now does not need to strive ting? Would it not rather be na ture herself who alone should Whenever the subject of homo not to violate our own personal for the eminent role it had in antiquity. Thanks to the progress have the right to lead these m- sexuality comes up, the usual ity, whose naturalness and that social cohesiveness has dividuals toward a proper means attitude is one of hostility. This frankness ought always to be re of not reproducing their own made, all men are not com stems from a persistent mis garded as one of its beauties. I kind? In a word, would not pelled to practice it. Homosex understanding of human nature, think it obvious that we would homosexuality then become a uals themselves would not want acting as if it stUl felt obliged be greatly helped if we could natural means of racial, or fami to wage war with a part of it feel solidarity with each other them to- But homosexuality re mains no less firmly inscribed lial, selection? self- Whenever he meets this and would lean for support on If this is so, it ought to be in human nature and necessary attitude, the homosexual goes on institutions like "The Circle-” welcomed by all those who are the defensive- By doing so - and But it is necessary to realize to the very existence of the overly fearful of introducing peaceful human community For it happens more often than any that we in no way need be into their family strain any val of us realizes - he plays an in ashamed of what we are. those people’1*1 whom this lean iant that does not correspond ing is strong enough to dictate evitably losing game- Whatever The homosexual man loves to the usually expected norm- his specific reaction may be, all another male. Now the love of the choice of sexual object, it Homosexuality would then be too often he shows a lack of a man for a man, independent onb' expresses the excess of a seen as a natural and free vari quaUty which, in the past, made awareness of his own worth - as of any strictly sexual connota ety of eugenics, the only truly possible the building up of hu a homosexual- He does not rea tion (although the impulse may man communities - and even in human ^ne- lize that he represents a con come from a sexual basis) is a It may be, then, that along structive element within society- necessity for all social life. our own day it is what still with chastity homosexuality is From his assumption of this makes social life possible. the only human legitimate means In primitive societies, where It has been said that homo attitude there comes a loss of the group had to struggle of birth control - a contempor sexuality may be due to ^ naturalness which can be seen against a still all-powerful self ary problem if there ever was in all his relationships with the organic cause; in that case, the ishness, homosexuality permitted individual homosexual would be one! world around him. These reflections on homosex social life to extend outward be biologically determined- It has There is no denying that we uality seem to have some value yond the limit of the family cir also been said that homosex homosexuals are often forced to They ought- in any case, Jo help cle. Homosexuals spread their in uality is the result of mental lie; a world which feels inimical fluence by the mere fact of their complexes; psychologically, that us to reaUze that, far from being justified, the hostility that we to us cannot expect that we will existence and this influence was is, the homosexual would be a frankly admit to being as we necessaiy to the building of possessor of symptoms that meet makes litUe sense, how ever much it may claim to do are. We have to resort to war groups larger than those of im could be set in a reverse direc so- Moreover, we will not fail to like strategy because they mediate family. This is a fact >o tion. It has even been said that proclaim that, by being as we make war on us! That, however, which ought to be recognized- homosexuality is a means the are, we serve society. Far from is not a solution. We need to Cortez, the great Spanish con individual has of freeing himself being ashamed of ourselves and learn to affirm ourselves, what quistador, found homosexuality when he feels satiated with the ever the price required, in order generally wide-spread when he from HUMANTTAS from hiding in secrecy or semi- of false humility or of flaunting secrecy, we ought to join to of public opinion that a hostile gether ever more openly. We society now obliges us to cling then can make apparent to all to. We shall be able to gain re the beneficial role we might spect by being proud, imostenta- play in the fuhire of humanity, tiously, as is proper to useful along with the right to be and memlwrs of a physically and to live in a modestly discreet morally healthy people, fellow- manner. And we would ceaso citizens of a proud society to THE MUTINY having those detestable attitudes whom the future belongs.
hy Classen Von Neudegg
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Address Postbox 1564, Amsterdam, and shivering toward the square Holland. (Single copies 50 cents each -may be ordered from at the center of the camp, ques Mattachine Review.) tions flew in anxious whispers- We found the answer on the square: Three gallows that must VRJENEISCHAP have been erected overnight— their wood was raw and shiny. Monthly magazine in Dutch with articles about male and fe "Execution!” The whisper male homophile problems, published by Cultuur en Ontspann- spread like wind through the ings Cenfanim (C.O.C), Bob Angelo, editor. Subscriptions $4 per barley. end to those three S.OB’s!” Tire year. Address Postbox 542, Amsterdam, Holland. “They can’t, prisoners of war. adjutant grinned subserviently. “Not all . ■ political prisoners. . "Don't just stand there like a security risks . • block of wood, get ’em!’’ The ad .\RCADIE “God!” jutant hurried off and disappear We waited while the sky grew ed behind the barracks. Monthly literary and scientific review in French, A. 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The ing out of tightened muscle and hangman followed at leisure. pain rose at the center of the ON THE RACK Having deposited their cargo square. • by Scorpio at the gallows the guard retreat The commandant had descend ed to the barbed wire fence at ed from the tower to get a bet Literature makes decidedly generous use of our problem as one of the back of the square- Only the ter view. He was laughing now. hangman remained by his vic the most lively sources of its inspiration. If it were to establish be The adjutant broke into a guf tween us and others those bonds of understanding and charity which tims, who stood quietly, staring, faw, his adam’s apple bobbing not seeing- With their haggard we crave, we would certainly be the first to rejoice- But alas! Most up and down. Over the rest of often, we come across essays, novels or worthless plays which fur faces and stooped bodies there us, silence hung like a passion was a frightening resemblance ate outcry. ther falsify the already false judgment that society holds over us. And from loud, inopportune publicity, we emerge distorted heroes, between these three which had “To the gallows!’’ never been there before- On ridiculous, unmanly, selfish, compulsive menaces just as Julien Green They died quietly, indifferent points out to us in a singularly convincing manner. their jackets the word “homo" ly , too broken to know death. had been stenciled- “Homo?" We were ordered back to our At the dawn of a new era clamoring for a close collaboration of Man? There was no such inscrip barracks. The men moved slowly all men, for a common sharing of our energies (and God is my wit tion on the hangman’s coat, nor alone or in pairs but. as though ness that we are capable of bearing our portion of grandeur and on those of the guard or the deeply ashamed, neither speak sacrifice), it is distressing to witness the flourishing of poorly docu commandant who stood at the ing nor looking one another in mented, barren, grotesque literary works which, very fortunately in top of the tower, bellowing out the face. I lingered for just an a sense, are most often laughable. the accusation in three imperfect inconspicuous moment; the languages- It is with mixed feelings of sadness and pity that I have become nightmare had no reality. It was acquainted with two plays from the American theatre which, to It was a time of war; flames, too hard to believe that those death and destruction had swept credit the reviews about them, must have achieved top success in two lifeless swaying figures were the United States. They were presented recently in Paris, in faith over the German Reich—out of Leo and Hans, comrades I had these flames, this death, this de ful adaptations, but they did not meet with an especially enthusi known, spoken to; too hard to astic public. And for good reason! struction, three young men had believe that the third, blood sought to salvage a moment ot stained and near naked, was The first, by Robert Anderson (adapted by Roger-Ferdinant) is brotherhood, of love-that was Herbert who had once been so Taa and Sympathy- The fine interpretation by Ingrid Bergman does their crime- Their punishment close to me; too hard to believe not in any way change my judgment- It is a sober story of slander, followed- that the day was Easter Friday, in which a student is wrongly accused of pederasty, because of his Two members of the guard when long ago a Christ had died gentleness, his timidity with women and his way of combing his came up and tore the clothing of for the human race, and the hu hair . . . The end is painfully ironic since the real “culprit" is an the three wide open, then com man race stood by. other man, the very husband of the woman whom the student se menced to beat them- It was a cretly loves! custom, a few hours before such Mattachine Review is an ideal and beating, to feed the men to sa lasting gift for friends and assoc The second play is by Tennessee Williams (the well-known author iates at Christmas or any other time of Tha Glass Managaria and A Straatcar Namad Datiia). Its adapta tiety with heavily spiced foods- of the year. Every copy of the mag The men screamed- The other azine is new until it has been read. tion is credited to Andre Obey. Its title is Cal on a Hot Tin Roof. prisoners stood silent, hardly See pages 38-39 of this issue for sub One might well have called it “Cat in Heat ”; literature would have scription rates and prices of bound lost nothing by doing so. breathing; their faces were deep volumes, back issue sets and single ly shadowed in the scarlet-spun copies. Please specify gift orders ’The story relates the adventure of Brick, husband of Margaret, dawn, but their eyes were filled so that appropriate card may accom whom the latter reproaches for his sexual frigidity and his penchant with fire. pany the acknowledgement. for drinking. Why does Brick drink at this point? He drinks in or- 26 maferteiime 27 r
der to forget the death of a very dear friend whom he loved in a very special way. And he blames Margaret for the death- In fact the friend, in order to avoid suspicion, tried to become Margaret’s lover. But because of his very nature, he could not go through with it, be came desperate, and killed himself- In the play there is even a vi brant scene in which Brick, having drunk too much, tells his father the whole truth; carried away by emotion, he even goes so far as to admit to the old man, who believes himself in perfect health, that the latter is suffering from an incurable cancer. In the last scene, finally. Brick implies that he will perhaps succeed in becoming for Margaret what she so much desires and that an heir will be the ^omo¿e/xucd j£tie^
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