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REVOLT HOMOSEXUAL mattaclilne PUBLICATIONS FOR SALE BY THE MATT ACHINE SOCIETY PublUhed Monthly. Copyright 1959 by Mottochlno Soeloty, Ine. Available now from the National Headquarters of the Mattachine Soci V olum e V MAY 1959 N um ber 5 ety are the following publications at the prices indicated. Please send remittance with order. AH orders sent postpaid. CONTENTS MATTACHINE SOCIETY TODAY (Yellow Booklet of General Informa REVOLT OF THE HOMOSEXUAL tion) 1958 Edition. 24 pages. Gives general outline of Society, aims and by Seymour Krim ...... 3 principles, how to form an Area Council, lists discussion group topics McREYNOLDS REPLIES TO KRIM and ideas, tells brief history of Society and what Mattaciiine does. 25 I by David McReynolds...... 8 cents. GREETINGS by C. V. Howard...... 13 CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS (Blue Book of Official Information) WHOM SHOULD WE NOT TELL? 1959 Edition. 16 pages. Contains revised constitution, by-laws add by Stanley Norman ...... 15 articles of incorporation. 25 cents. ^ BOOK REVIEW : The F lam in g H e a rt...... 18 INFORMATION FOLDERS: “ In Case You Didn’t Know,” and "What CALLING SHOTS...... 19 Does Mattachine Do.” Designed to be used as companion mailing pieces. NEGLECTED ART OF BEING DIFFERENT First tells of existence of homosexuality and purpose of Mattachine. by Arthur Gordon...... 22 Second describes in detail the projects and functions of the Sdciety, along with the services it performs. 100 for $1.50; 50 for $1.00; smaller READERS WRITE...... 23 quantities, 3 cents each. Unless specified, orders will be fiUed with PROBLEM OF YOUTH WHOSE SEX IS MIXED UP an equal quantity of each. by Walter C. Alverez, M. D. .. . 25 YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS (adapted for Illinois law), 8 pages. Discusses CATEGORIES...... 26 rights of citizens, andoutlinesofienses as covered by statute in Illinois. ON RE-READING GAY BOOKS by Dick Tyner.. 27 25 cents. M ATTACHINE D IRECTO RY ...... 31 EDUCATION HANDBOOK. Individual and Group Projects and Organiza tional Techniques. 1959 Edition. 64 pages, with semi-permanent soft cover. Compiled by Carl B. Harding, Director of Education, contains 10 chapters and 7 appendices. Essential assistance for discussion leaders, Mattachine officers, and others concerned with scope and problems of FOR MEMBERS ONLY-MATTACHINE LAPEL P//VS-S1.50 ea. presenting a public education program on homosexual subjects. Lasts hundreds of possible discussion topics, many sources of materials; Attractive small gold-filled lapel pin with locking clasp. $1.00 per copy. In Mattachine colors. Blue and Grey. Sold to Active, Sub scribing, Honorary and Advisor members only. Federal In addition to Mattachinu REVIEW (MonthlyX die Society and its tax included; add 4% state sales tax in California. branch offices issue the following periodicals and newsletters: WEAR YOUR SOCIETY'S EMBLEM-ORDER A PIN NOW! IN TERIM - Quarterly. National newsletter of the Society, subscription included^th each full payment of national dues. Published and mailed (Continued on Huge }1)
Primed in U. S. A. mdittweá/me f K K V I E l f V XT attacblne PUBLICATIONS FOR SALE BY THE MATTACHINE SOCIETY Publiihed Monthly, Copyright 1959 by Mottochino Sodoty, Inc. Available now from the National Headquarters of the Mattachine Soci Volume V MAY 1959 N um ber 5 ety are the following publications at the prices indicated, Please send remittance with order. All orders sent postpaid. CONTENTS MATTACHINE SOCIETY TODAY (Yellow Booklet of General Informa REVQLT OF THE HOMOSEXUAL tion) 195S Edition. 24 pages. Gives general outline of Society, aims and by Seymour Krim ...... 3 principles, how to form an Area Council, lists discussion group topics McREYNOLDS REPLIES TO KRIM and ideas, tells brief his^nÿ of Society and what Mattachine does. 25 by David McReynolds...... 8 cents. GREETINGS by C. V. H ow ard...... - ...1 3 CONSTITUTION ANf/f'^Y-LAWS (Blue Book of Official Information) WHOM SHOULD WE NOT TELL? 1959 Edition. 16 pages. Contains revised constitution, by-laws and by Stanley Norman ...... 15 articles of incorporation. 25 cents. BOOK REVIEW: The Flaming Heart...... 18 INFORMATION FOLDERS; “ In Case You Didn’t Know,’’ and “ What CALLING SHOTS...... 19 Does Mattachine Do.’’ Designed to be used as companion mailing pieces. NEGLECTED ART OF BEING DIFFERENT First tells of existence of homosexuality and purpose of Mattachine. Second describes in detail the projects and functions of the Society, by Arthur Gordon...... 22 along with the services it performs. 100 for $1.50; 50 for $1.00; smaller READERS W RITE...... 23 quantities, 3 cents each. Unless specified, orders will be filled with PROBLEM OF YOUTH WHOSE SEX'IS MIXEP UP an equal quantity of each. by Walter C. Alverez^ M. D. . 2 5 I YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS (adapted for Illinois law), 8 pages. Discusses CATEGORIES...... • ...... ’. .. . 26 rights of citizens, and outlines offenses as covered by statute in Illinois. ON RE-READING GAY BOOKS by Dick Tyner, . 27 25 cents. ’ MATTACHINE DIRECTORY ...... 31
EDUCATION HANDBOOK. Individual and Group Projects and Organiza tional Techniques. 1959 Edition. 64 pages, with semi-permanent soft cover. Compiled by Carl B. Harding, Director of Education, contains 10 chapters and 7 appendices. Essential assistance for discussion leaders, Mattachine officers, and others concerned with scope and problems of FOR MEMBERS ONLY-r.MATTACH/NP/LAPBL P/N$-$1.50 ea. presenting a public education program on homosexual subjects. Lists hundreds of possible discussion topics, many sources of materials. Attractive small gold-filled lapel pin with locking clasp. $1.00 per copy. In Mattachine colors. Blue and Grey. Sold to Active, Sub scribing, Honorary and Advisor members only. Federal In addition to Manaehine REVIEW (MonOily^ the Society and its tax included; add 4% state sales tax in California, ^ branch offices issue the following periodicals aqd newsletters: WEAR YOUR SOCIETY'S EMBLEM-ORDER A PIN NOW! INTERIM - Quarterly. National newsletter of tie Society, subscription included with each full payment of national du^s. Published and mailed (Continued on page 31) '
Primed in U. S. A. J REVOLT OF THE HOMOSEXUAL bv^Seymour Krim and David McReynobb SG: Not necessarily, though my uality is ptfiy one tiny cause i egp would like it better if they among hundreds for tiie tension Th» following Inlorvlow fc*fwMn a homoMOMual and a ttralght were more dewey. But they still people have in living with each guy, togothor with a roply to tho Intorvlow, worn puhlinhod In go for men, not thar own kind. other today. 1 have little sympa VILLAGE VOICE, wookly nowtpapor of Croonwieh Vlllago, H: That’s, not completely true. thy for your so-called moral prin Naw York. Soymour KrIm wr^t* tho Intorrlow; David McR«y> Many womoi h a v ^ d e ^ hatred ciples. Morals change as we view nold* wroto tho roply. Tho artlelo* aro roprodueod horn with for the presumptioin of superiority li;fe differently, and it’s r i ^ t that we abandon them whet} we can pormloolon of tho nowtpapor, which Is locatod at 22 Groonwioh that the modem straight man puts on. no longer see their truth. Avo,, Now York II, N. Y. SG: I won’t argue with you. SG: Maybe you can’t see their The iniportant thing is that truth. But millions of people still by Seymour Krim i the essential sexual need for each have.hopes for leading some kind of traditional life—^with families, STRAIGHT GUY: You say I can talk frankly to you. other is- still there and will re main. It may sound obvious, but children, and the rest of the b it O. K. Why have so many fairies come out in the open re H: 1 have nothing but good will cently? Wherever I go I run into them—the Village, i East Go^ or nature obviously intended Side, Harlem, even the Bronx. men and women to make it with toward such people. But nothing gives them the right to impose HOMOSEXUAL: We no longer have the energy to hide. each other. I You can’t know the strain on a — ~ H: That seems • logical on the their desires on human beings who can’t or don’t want to fellow person in always pretending. As gwisbinir along 8th Street scream- surface. But when you look at his the same goals. It’s hypocrisy to Donald Webster Cory says in “The tag at the top of their voices? Are tory you’ll see that there’s never pretend that we live in a Victor Homosexual in America,” we have you naive enough to believe the been a culture without homosex uality. It’s always existed: among ian world or even one with been the great unrecognized ml- otf us see anything sympa- agreed-upon values. aonty. That tíme is ending. We theyp this’ the Greeks. Romans, even the American Indians. I believe it is a SG: Is it Victorian to wish for want recognition for our simple H: You’re ’ the naive one be- a complete life? People like your toman rights, just like Negroes, y^ur experience is limited. fundamental part of human life. SG: Then why do you think it’s self are amputated and therefore Jews, an wnnen. Such homosexuals are in the mi- always been outlawed? I’m fairly make bitter fun of it. But the ma 8 0 : You actually think you’ll nority, as much as a camping pros- sophisticated, but I believe so jority of us still have the possi be accepted on your own terms? titute compared with most women. bility of getting normal satisfac lb Certainly, Tor years homo- ciety had no choice in condemning SO: But you’ll admit that most tions out of living. sexuals in this country have homosexuals are much more ef- sodoniy. Let’s face it: if homosex uality were encouraged the fam H: No one is preventing you. 1 criQged behind a mask of fear. Le- feminate in their actions than personally think you’re deluding gaily they’re criminals, morally ordinary men? ily would disintegrate, a farce would be made of every moral yourself in pretending a normality they’re considered perverted, psy- H: I doubt that modem phy- principle on which we were which no longer exists. But that’s chologically they’ve tortured chology concedes such a thing as only my private opinion. I merely thesaselves. Cburageous gay people an ordinary man or woman. But raised, and the perpetuation of life itself could conceivably be want my own freedom to behave are now bfeginning to realize that let that pass. It’s true, I think, tiiat as I choose and must. ^ ttiey, are human beings who must we are more aesthetic or perhaps endangered. H; Editorial-page gas! The hu SG: Didn’t it ever occur to lyou fight tb gain acceptance for what outwardly fastidious than most man r:ite can certainly withstand that you might be literally sick? they are—ngt what others want men. But then it’s bem pointed a comparative handful of homo-, Suppose I were a compulsive mur them to be. out American womoi have sexuals if it’s going to survive. derer and said I wanted my own SO: ;Let me be blunt. Do you become increasingly vigorous, Nuclear weapons are obviously freedom to behave as I had to. think f does your cause any good Does this make them any less fe- a much closer threat. As for the You’d smile and have me lodced to see platinum-haired freaks male? family’s falling apart, homosex up.
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individual in terms of his tradi draw a line? You moralize, but H: But homosexuals murder in my life that I was only sick tion. you don’t have the courage to nothing except a preconception of in relation to a majority standard SG: Do you actually think'so carry your logic to the end. what people are supposed to be. SG: But your analyst didn’t ciety will give up its basic distinc SG; Listen, homosexuality is Certainly it’s occurred to [me that agree with you. And most psychia tions of right amd wrong, a work- obviously a substitute for the reg I’m “sick,” in your handy word. trists Would say that homosexu ' ing separation between normality ular thing. You never mention Every minority person in America ality is a fixation at an infantile and abnormality, just to accom this ABC of reasoning. You keep feels this pressure, sometimes to level and represents a sadly dis modate the guilt of homosexuals? trying to wipe out sexual differ the screaming-point, in fact I was torted and undeveloped person H: It must: Homosexuals have ences and pretend there are no in therapy for almost four years, ality. submitted too weakly until now basic distinctions between men and women. I’m convinced you do examinine every angle of my so- H: I’d find a moral judgement to judgements from above. called problem. in such a generalization rather now know that what you call sot'^ this because it gives you an ex SG: Well? than the modest impersonality ciety actually gets down to indi-' cuse to ac't like a woman. H: I-came to the conclusion that that’s supposed to distinguish viduals in positions of social pow H: I doubt if there’s a man alive I was'different, not side. Under science. Undeveloped by what er, who call the tune and set the who doesn’t feel “womanly” at the analyst’s guidance I dated standard? I once read that Carl standards. Many of us are no some time, if > ou mean respon women and even slept with sev Sandburg was an “undeveloped longer willing to put up with this sive, tender, sweet, even cuddly. The old categorip of a man be eral. But our love-making, the Walt Whitman” — and Walt, of degrading of our personalities. ing Mars and a woman 'Venus are “techni(^ues,” ended up exactly as course, was gay. So who’s infan Merely to live, we must'assert artificial: only insensitive people between tw'o men; I could become tile there? You use the words, ourselves as homosexuals whq are or poseurs pretend to a cartoon passionate no other way. I even “sadly distorted”—in comparison as proud to be what we are as you image of masculinity vs. femini imagined thej' were boys during to what? A fantasy of the ideal are of yourself. 'When this move nity. I’m not wiping out sexual the whole thing. Believe me, I arrow-collar man or the imper ment becomes powerful enough— fect flesh-and-booze mortals whom and gay people refuse either to differences. Social change itself tried incredibly hard to act has softened the dividing/line. It straight. But it finally just seemed Ive both know? I've discovered hide or flaunt themselves—it will that much psychiatric language will be openly accepted. was once considered mannish for a tortured attempt to be some women to drive a car, smoke on thing I’m not. is based on a too-pure and debat 3G: You’re kidding yourself if you believe , that what’s always the street, d rin l at a bar, earn SG: What did your psychiatrist able ideal of what people should an independent buck. We laugh been recognized as the number- say? be like. If you lowered the ideal at this today. Those who come one human perversion will sud H: At first he said my fantasy- to the actual reality around us, after us will laugh at the pressures you wouldn't be so pious about denly be completely whitewashed. ing of men when 1 was with a once put upon men to keep up a H: What is a perversion? Truly w'oman was a reflection of how the homosexual. front of endless courage, indif modern people find, it hard to see deep-seated my problem was. SG: That’s a defensive argu- ference to delicacy, superiority the idea of perversion in any kind He rpaintained it could be “cured” . ment. The standards that psychia over women. If I prefer gentleness of sex relationship. The entire and told me he’d had success be try uses are rationally established to harshness, I’m not being a concept is beginning to die as peo fore. But when I tirelessly tried after scrupulous and neutral re woman. I’m being human—some ple realize that whatever can be to suppress my desire for men, search. thing you might be ashamed of, and it came upon me anyway, he H: Bushwa! Many psychiatrists done with the body is ultimately with your straight jacket notion just and natural if it gives pleas finally conceded that I would be use conventional middle-class' of masculinity. less miserable as a homosexual. American ideals of psychological ure without Causing harm. Be The rest of the therapy tried to well-being as their standard. I realistic. Why^is it any worse for SG: You mean because I don’t blot out the guilt that I and all There is nothing universal about a man to perform oral intercourse mince, I’m a barbarian? Because I gay people feel for not being per them. They merely happen to re with another man instead of with don’t simper or speak in a falsetto mitted to express ourselves. flect the majority attitudes at this a woman? Or for two women to or try to goose a waiter. I’m be SG: Then he finally did say you time. In the future you’ll see the do so, instead of woman and man? hind the times? Yeah, fm a brup, were abnormal, or sick, but had equally suave acknowledgment of Or for masturbation to involve I like women, steak, baieball, po|c- to make the best of it—correct? different standards, including the two men instead of woman and er and bourbon. Maybe Til be ar H: Yes. But I myself was be right of the homosexual to fully man? Do you think our organs rested in this beautiful future of ginning to realize for the first time express himself as a “healthy” themselves are prejudiced and yours.’ j self-appointed judges of a life pets. We refuse to be discriminat ed against in job situations and H: in my future you’d merely he the outstanding popular sym iohich no lonpcr provides a ra in the Army and Navy. We refuse be seen as a person of limited bol of the Don Juan! All the tional basis for their prejudices. to be fired from government serv tastes. But I don’t want to be dearly-bought insight" that has We homosexuals wiH be in the ice as ‘ security risks” and then arrested in your present for lik come out of alclosed-door suffer leadership of this fevolt, with this have the New York Times refuse ing, men, coq au vin, bridge, Mo ing which can po longer bear its phrase of Wilhelm Reich’s as a "to print the details. We refuse to digliani, and dry sherry! Thank isolation will be given to Society motto: “That which is aUve is in marry in order to disguise what God that some people are forever at large. itself reasonable. It becomes a we are, and we refuse to pretend deprived of so-called normality so caricature when it iS not allowed SG: I can’t see this occurring in any longer to enjoy a hetero that they can one day see how to live.” my lifetime. No matter how slop- sexuality that is foreign to ihost shallow and intolerant it is. When SG: You make it sound like a py-liber* I ever get I’ll always of us. Life is too fast and mad homosexuality achieves legiti see homosexuality as anti-mascu holy crusade, when you really feel today for us to accept old-fash macy, it will be seen as a branch line, perverse, a short-circuit of inside — from what faggots haye ioned socially-induced suffering. of a river rather than a contam nature’s obvious logic in creating told me—that you’re miserable But accept it or not, we will 'orce ination of the source. When it is two sexes. And a pathological Star and almost unworthy to live. our way into open society and givcQ, unity, homosexual culture of David for those who have to you will have to iacknowledge us. will be seen as constituting a H: But that’s the point. We’ve carry it. From 4 to 7 million American unique view of experience, offer finally rebelled against feeling H; You’re the prisoner of what adults—at least—are not going to ing insights to all people. The .this way because our human na be treated like criminals or freaks homosexuality of great figures of you think is your honesty. We ture can no longer stand it. Look because we are no longer going the past—not only your Prousts live in a torn-open age where out for people whom you have to accept your evaluation of us. and Whitmans—will be revealed, each minority is determined to driven to such an extreme! We as Byron’s is beginning to be, and proclaim itself as good as the refuse to live any longer as exotic Baby, remember my words! M c H e y n o td s RepHes io Kritn getting social acceptance. What have taken up jazz, grow beards, The Gaj Underground- Krim sees as a growing demand or smoke pot; it represents a re for recognition by society is noth bellion against thq established Seymour Krim deserves credit for tackling the question ing but, the use of homosexuality order. I remember when I lived of homosexuality in the March 18 issue of The Voice. With as a channd. of rebellitm against in Santa Monica that every week something like 10 per cent of the adult male population in^ society. /Negroes and Puerto Ric end during the summer gangs of volved, homosexuality is due for some serious attention. ans, fcff example, become homo teen-age homosexuals would de However, Krim is off base in suggesting that queer sexuals and are often proud of scend on the beach. And they did brigades are about to storm the “gay underground” is to fad to it because it represents a sub such a public job of being queer citadels of prudery, with Reichian culture which has few color or that one had to wonda* if perhaps slogans inscribed on their se- sub-cuhure which is every class lines—the common denom the laddies weren't protesting quinned banners. First, homosex- inator is sex. In addition, the their homosexuality too much. 1 uals os a group aren’t going to homosexual sub-culture -has the doubt very much that their “gay lead any revolt because the last >i atmosphere of glitter and a pre ness” had'any deep sexual roots. thing they want is to gef involved Channel of Rebellion tense to luxury which is difficult I think it was simply an exotic in any real struggle. They just Krim speaks of homosexuals to find in the drab and crowded ’ form of juvenile delinquency. want to be let alone to lead their coming out of hiding to demand streets of Harlem. Must Prove It precious lives in their presently and insist on their lights as a Or in the case of teen-agers, established dainty fashion. Sec- group. This is nonsense. The many have turned to homosexual I’d like to suggest several fac ond, in implying- some kind of homosexuals who are flaunOng ity in the same way that others tors that contribute to the in- moral integrity and fervor to the themselves have no interest in
8 m creasing homosexual population. equally the badge of the new For one thing, American culture American homosexual and of round of splendid parties. In such niess Of the State, so long as those a world I think that sex is not a does not have any “rites of pas those members of the male alli involved in the sexual relations driving force but only a kind of sage” to assure a boy that he has ance trying so ! desperately to are involved by consent I don’t become a man. He must prove his prove their masculinity. pas.sword, a ritual as meaningless as the dog’s ritual of wetting on. feel 'this way because I think manliness repeatedly (and end The “male alliance” al^p works lessly). The only way he can every lamp- post. It is not the homosexuality is a jolly good in- reverse—those boyil’v^ho can prove it is by doing “manly" form of sexual expression but the thing which we can trac§ all the things and by not doing “un not fit into it, who feel they have way of life which attracts many. way back to Plato. It is just that manly things" — like writing po to paint, to write, to' dance, find Walking Dead no group has the right to legislate etry or taking up dance or themselves called queer. It is all I do not see, therefore, any individual morality because no painting. The confused years of too easy for the young boy, who capacity io revolt in “gay soci adolescence generate the “gangs” group can judge what is moral for knows so little of himself and ety.” It is a destructive sub-cul of American culture, in which toe individual. Krim might have may not respect his differentness, ture, producing corps of clean boys group together to reassure pointed out; by the way, that one to accept this externally imposed shaven, fresh-scented zombies themselves they are really men. definition and move into homo who eat, sleep, walk, talk, and are -reason for toe repressive (and The gang must do exciting and sexual society. A friend of mine, dead. It is a sub-culture in which totally ineffective) laws we have dangerous things. Women are ob a homosexual and a gifted chore sex is substituted for real per jects external to the gang—things is because we have - the feeling ographer, once told me that while sonal relations. As a sub-culture to be conquered sexually, and that if we pass a law repressing not all men were homosexual it produces nothing of value. The evidence (through the conquest) someone else’s homosexuality, we when they started to dance, al Negro subculture has been and re of manliness. But the real emo most every single male dancer mains tremendously vital — be have somehow proved that we tional ties too often lie within the ends that way. Wny? In Fraiice, cause they desperately want to be ourselves are not homosexual. Any gang. And when the deepest emo for example, we find leading bal accepted into the larger frame blow against the queer is really a tional ties are with one's own sex, let dancers with a wile and lour work. They did not voluntarily blow struck against a part of our there is an explosive potential for kids. separate themselves from Amer selves which we cannot accept Or homosexuality and for guilt This And finally I believe a num ican society as a whole, and they understand. I think in every case seek to end that desolate sep theory of the “male alliance”— ber of men become homosexual it would be correct to say that aration. Out of the Negro strug first developed I believe by, my because homosexuality is an someone with a strong hostility gle we saw the birth of jazz— friend John Kitsusi, a West Coast escape from reality. Their motive toward homosexuals has a latent a contribution beyond words. But sociologist— is an essential part is not that of rebellion, but sim homos«cuaI drive equal to the what has the homosexual society of American culture. The stag ply escape. The homosexual’s gay hostility. produced as ft' society.? Those party and the fraternal order are underground is a world of night writers, posts, and artists who are And now, finally, let me sug as necessary on the adult level as lights, mystery, and youth for 'homosexual and who have pro gest that while I think the “ho the gang is On the juvenile leveL ever beautiful. It is a deodorized duced soUd and enduring works mosexual society” is a pretty de This endless attempt to prove world, without children or pain of ait have done so in every case cadent mess, I also think homo masculinity by close association or ugliness or death. It is pre because they saw themselves as sexuality is one legitimate form with other men is simply a de cisely because it is a way of life human beings first and as homo sexual expression which the vice which produces homosexuar- which avoids the responsibilities sexuals second. In every case larger society ought to accept, ity. of marriage and children that I where a homosexual fails to make thereby going far toward wiping For every homosexual who feels thihk many men Choose it. 1 ex that basic identification and tries out toe gay underground. But it compelled to “announce” his ex pect lid one is more surprised instead to produce art based on isn’t enough for those who are istence by slithering down 8th than .such a homosexual, who his sub-culture, it is fragile, brit “normal” to “accept” the existence Street, there are countless others wanted only to escape reality, tle, and cold beyopd words. of -those who are queer.” The who act more like men than most when rleath taps him on the HOWEVER, I am with Krifn 100 solution may lie ini a different men. The tight levis, rough plaid shoulder, interrupting forever his per" cent in feeling that sexual re kind of cultural approach to sex shirt, leather jacket— these are wonderful social life, his endless lations between adults—whatever on the part of all of us. If the homosexual is sick, so perhaps is sex is Involved—is not the busi- \r the heterosexual. It is just as We don’t like another man to em neurotic to be afraid of embrac brace us, or put his arm around ing another man as it is to fear us—we are the society of the embracing a woman. U is normal swift firm handshake. Why?^What and natural for men to live with are we really afraid of? MJyi hunch women and to raise families. For is that there would be much less üreetíDgs some men it is equally normal homosexuality in the United and natural to be able to express States if we were not so afraid .sexually their affection toward of it. The important thing in' re BY C. V. HOWARD other men. I am not saying we lations between two people is not must develop a bi-sexual culture. their sex, but their spiritual I am saying that bi-sexuality is selves. There can be no perversion probably as normal as hetero when ^ex is used as a form of “ Hello." sexuality and would occur more communication between people, to “ Hi!” often in a healthy culture. express loVe, affection, or-respect. "Bill! What’s the matter? Where ate you?” The Firm Handshake Such an attitude toward sex ‘H’m at the office. Down in the booth in the lobby. Why? Did I scare you?” Just now American society is in would be a liberating influence “ No. Well, yes, yon did, too. It’s only ten o’clock and you always phone*be- a pretty bad way. We snicker in * every sphere of our society, and would do íár more to elimin tween twelve and one. Is something wrong. Honey?” when we see the French general “ Nope, nothing’a wrong. In fact, everything is right. I just got a yen to hear kiss the soldier on both cheeks as ate the homosexual underground your voice so I sneaked down to caU you. Isn’t that something! I left you - he pins the medal on his chest. than all the laws we can pass. let’s see - exactly one hour and thirty-seven minutes ago and I've got so little willpower when it comes to you that I couldn’t resist the urge to call and tell yon I’m nuts about yon. I guess I’ve really got it bad. What were you doing?” THOUGHTS All genuine progress results “ Bill, honey, you’re the sweetest gjiy in the world. And I’m the luckiest and happiest person in the world. I mean it - honesUy, I have to pinch myself a from finding new facts. No law hundred times a day to be sure that all this isn’t just a beautiful dream. Honey, ON can be passed to make an acre yield it’s so perfect that every time the phone rings I’m afraid that something has three hundred bushels. God has happened. Uke now, for example - you’re sure nothing’s wrong?” t h e 'LAW already established the laws. It is for us to discover them, and to “ Not a thing in the world. For the first time in my life everything is right and learn the facts by which we can you’re vAat I needed to make everything right. Honestly, I’m just so damned happy that it worries me. And how about that - two months ago who would ever obey them. have beUeved that this inhibited guy would be talking Uke a young bridegroom? —W h e e l e r M cM il l e n Stick with me and in a few more months 1 may turn into a real human being.” “ What were yon doing? Did I dra^ you away from the dishpan or sometting?” “ No I ironed a couple of your shirts and 1 was just puttering around. BiU, Laws have their proper place, what about the drapes in the bedroom? Honey, don’t you think they’d look better but the responsibility of worthy i f . . . . ” citizenship is a personal one. We ” Now, cut it out! That's your department. I've told you a dozen times you each have a separate and individual can do mything you want to in that department. You could hang up some ol^ share in eradicating social evils and potato sacks at the windows and I wouldn’t even notice. The only thing I want in refusing to perp>etuate practices to see in that apartment when I co#e home is you. So relax about what I think - odious to a free nation. just fix it up so you’U be happy, "^at’s the thing that’s important to me. If | —H erbert Br o w n e l l , J r. you’re happy. I’m happy. Period, ho, exclamation point.” “ Okay, Bill. Believe me, Honey, I’d take the potato sacks and you before I’d take the swankiest apartment in town with anyone else. Look, Honey, you’re BY STANLEY NORMAN' going to be home for dinner on time tonight, aren't you?’’ “ Oh, yeah, that's why I called. How would you like to doll up in your best h bib and tucker and let me take you to the fanciest restaurant in town tonight? I’d like to show yon off. I feel like spending a little money for a change - some thing real special. How about it?’’ “ So you didn’t forget! Honey, you’re just about as subtle as a Mack truck.’’ “ Forget? Forget what?’’ Should W e “ Our anniversary — thought you were going to catch me, didn’t you? Well, I didn’t forget either. Four weeks ago today and t h ^ ’re the most perfect four weeks of my life. But dinner at a restaurant is out — 0-U-T — out! “ 1 haven’t ironed any shirts and I wasn’t working on the drapes. Honey, I NOT Tell? just came in the door with two of the biggest, thickest, juciest steaks you ever saw in your life. And I bought two of the biggest artichokes you ever saw in your life; one'of the most beautiful bottles of Scotch you ever saw in your life; and the most gorgeous bunch of flowers I could find in front of Magnin’s. ^ Reading the articles in the Hatta- toward bringing homosexuality out in “ We’re going to have the most romantic, candle-light dinner you can imagine chine Review entitled “ Whom Should the open where it can be discussed and we’re going to have it right here at home. Hey, wait a second — the mail We TeU?’’ by Carl B. Harding (Au and the public informed. There is an just came. Hang on, Hooey. Let’s see if we got anything interesting.’’ gust, 1956), "The Problem of Hypo other way we can accomplish almost “ Okay, I’ll hang on. Make it snappy.’’ crisy. . .Doesit Affect Homosexuals?” the same thing without exposing our by Ward Summer (April; 1956) and true identity so abruptly as suggested ^Lt****************** “ Discard the Mask” by Bob Bishop in the three articles mentioned above. (April, 1958) one gathers the impres We can first prepare the ground, as “ Bill. Bill, do you suppose you could come home for the rest of the day? sion that it is better to reveal our it were, making it more readily ac- Would your boss let you off? It’s pretty important. This 'vould have to happen identity as a horn sexual first and ceptabletothe idea of homosexuality. right now!’’ ' then later take steps to inform our We can prepare our listeners for what “ Golly, I don’t know. But I’ll ask. What is it? You really sound shook up. listeners of what homosexuality is. it is, how extensive it is, and the Bad news from home? Tell me — old Bill can fix it.’’ This involves a great deal of courage, need to recognize homosexuals as a “ Come on home. Bill. Honey, please come on home!’’ more than many homosexuals have, sizable minority which includes many “ I don’t know if I can. But I’ll try. But, golly, what is it? It can’t be that to come right out and tell their friends professional and business people of grim - you sound as if you’re pregnant or something!’’ and associates of their deviated na high standing in the community. This “Veil, I wish to God I was! I wish to God 1 was pregnant!’’ ture. It is a fine thing if we, as homo approach will smooth the way and “ Then what is it? Tell me. Old Bill will fix it. Old Bill can fix anything, you sexuals, can bring ourselves to the provide the right opportunity or time know that! Tell me!’’ point of revealing in an honest, forth to tell them what we really are. To “ Well, okay, old Bill. Old Bill can fix anything! Let’s see you fix this - I right manner what we really are. Many reveal our true identity first, especi just got my lousy, goddam, draft notice!’’ will respect-our stand once we have ally to those who may not know much this couragfe^ to “ Remove the Mask” . about the homophile or who would be Butwhatofthosewhohavenot reached easi^ repulsed by learning that some The past cannot be changed, this point where they are ready to let one they knew was a homosexual, is ' the future is still in your power. their gu^rd down completely? These neither wise nor kind. The authors —H ugh W h i t e individuals still want to do their part referred to above would have us come 14 m A tt«e4iiu 15 made their adjustment, reading the it in a loved one, they do not know right out and let family snd friends whohavedeclared themselves such. articles in the Hattad>ine Review, what to do, or how to act. The im know just what we ate, not to continue Ve can refer to plays or movies in particularly those having to do with mediate reaction is apt to be un to live lives of hypocrisy and deceit, which the homosexual theme is touched the various aspects of the homophile favorable and hostile. Ignorance often to tell the truth no matter how it may upon or to books in which homosexual in bis or her adaption, and joining spawns intolerance, and intolerance hurt those neatest us and to take the or Lesbian love are handled discrim- discussiiMi groups whose purpose it leads to bigotry, misunderstanding, chance of severing ourselves com inatelyfand sometimes quite patent , is to help the homophile solve ormeet thoughtlessness, and cruelty. With pletely from family and friends. ly). We can tell about the well-known ,his or her own individual problems. out realizing what they ate doing, There is much to say in favor of the figures of history known or alluded to they may project their worst concepts above advice, particularly in con as homosexual, the cultures which Let us think twice before commit and fears of the homosexual, talking fronting boldly our worst fears and recognize homosexuals as a minority ting ourselves as to “ ;¥hom We Should and acting in a manner they would discovering, once for all, the exact group and which extend them thb res Tell.” The homosexual needs all the sincerely regret at a later date. They ground upon which we stand in rela pect they deserve. .Ve can list the support that he can obtain from friends may develop an antipathy toward the tion to our closest allies. Yet, is this important contributions made by homo and loved ones while he is making very ones they love. It is human na the wisest and best thing to do? '.Ve sexuals down through the ages. We his adjustment, which adaption is not ture to mistrust that which they do should consider other approaches be can speak of the civilizations which easy, at best. The awful truth con not understand. It is for these reasons fore gambling on losing the respect have given the homosexual the assu fronts him that he faces a hostile, ob that we need to absorb the shock by of loved ones (which goodness knows, rance that he can devote his interests durate society which evinces neither first preparing our loved ones with we need very much). If the writer’s name weren’t a woman’s, I’d say it had been written by some one who had (^ce been some sort of a belle or else lived a wild life. He is quite' proud of his sexual prowess, is proud of the way he’s lived and yet tries to be moral and preach to people. Unfortunately, he’s gotten rather deeply embedded with an artificial way of living, perhaps by too many years of being in the wrong set. So, like Jay Little, even when trying to be moral and speak of the essential injustice of the way of life he can’t say anything that really strikes home to the reader. Nor can he think PLAYING THE GAME FROM THE GRANDSTAND clearly about reality, though he tries. You can’t have your cake and eat it; if you want to write truthfully you havp:lt) start Uving it. Or, at the very least, you havp FLAMING HEART bjr D#berah Deutsch* Gotten: Bnieo Hiimphrlos« Inc., 1959. to learn something of the teclitti^ues that go into good writing, as with Truman 271 pogotf $3,75- Reviowod by Jock Parrish* Capote. i ii “ The Flaming Heart” is about halfway between Jay Little (Maybe Tomorrow) ani Eve Linkletter (The Gay Ones). It is not quite as effectively salacious as the first and not quite as submoronic as the latter. The writer’s techniques suMest that she was weaned on a diet of Dickens and James Jones. She has a bad habit of interrupting the action with monologues of sometimes two pages long, and constantly makes her own personal comments on the action. It's distracting and takes you away from the story. Dickens and Thackeray did it, but it’s not done any more. I am puzzled as to how a woman could have written it since much of the pic ture given of homophile life could only have been obtained by one who had lived it- I The reasoning is sometimes infantile,' preachy, and once in a great while per ceptive. She tries to be heroic, especially in a long sermon one of the charac ters makes at the end, and fails to ring true. r VNEXPURGATED ’CHATTERLEY' York and London. More recent paper She has little knack for making the figures of the characters $tand out sharply NOW P U B L ISH E D IN V. S. back versions have drawn from these. for the reader, iihen I say the characters don’t stand out, I mean that she doesn’t Dial Press of New York printed Law cut away unessential material from around them so that they stand out sharply - An unezpurgated version of “ Lady rence’s first version in 1944, but the the way a painter leaves space around the figures in a painting. There is remark thatterley’s Lover” is to be pub New York Society for the Suppression ably little desaiption of people or things, it consists mostly of narration of e- lished May 4 in a clothbound edition by Grove Press of New York. This of Vice seized it. vents in chronological sequence and person after person talking with other people. A movie version of the story is will be the first complete version of I would say it’s written by someone who’s never done any writing before but currently the subject of an important the D. H. Lawrence classic to appear has strong views on the subject. Curiously enough, she makes fun of homopbilic case pending in the U. S. Supreme in the country. Lawrence wrote the novels - page 251 - with their usual violent endings of suiciiie or murder, but Court to determine the constitution final edition of the novel in 1928; it ends her own story with the wife trying to kill her homophile husband and then ality of movie censorship in advance was privately printed in Italy, but shooting herself. of distribution. The film has been there has never been a comparable The story could have been a good one, but the ending isn’t convincing. It’s as condemned by the New York State if she didn’t know how to end it, and so resorted to thé wife’s act of violence. edition printed in either the U. S. or England. In 1930 the first of several Regelits. There are also some errors in the proofreading, as on page 171 where the hero Grove’s edition will be heralded by feels deeply sorry for his wife and the sentence states, “ He often pitted her” — abridged editions was printed in New rather a strange thing to do to someone you care for! méUüaeÀüw, R E V IE W large space advertising in such media gave birth t wice out of wedlock and Major concern, it seems, is rape. But I understand that in the past two years as Sew York Times, Setturdoy Review would order her sterilized. Doctors there is today before the state’s Sen the California Appellate Court has, and the Seiv Yorker, It will be issued and county officials supported the ate Judiciary Committee a bill to re- held that homosexuals are not a me initially in a run of 10,000 copies. proposal(which has not yet passed), quireregistrationof all sex offenders. nace to society and have not in pointing to the burden of illigitimate Main support for this comes from the creased propensity to commit sex 'ADULTS OSLY’ FILM TAG children*on public welfare rolls, but Ohio Parent-Teachers Association crimes,” , VOIDED IS CHICAGO private citizens have attacked the and Cleveland law enforcement offi In addition to the sound logic pre U. S. District Court Judge Philip proposal as contrary to reli cials. Such laws have been declared sented in the above comment, one L. Sullivan recently declared uncon gion, cr^tlyi unweildy and as cruel unconstitutional in other states either mote pertinent question might be stitutional a Chicago ordinance re and unusupl punishment for “ immoral wholly or in part. asked of the Marin County citizens: quiring a movie with a sex theme to behaviOT.” Is such action as the above — uti 17 COPS CATCH 1 HOMOSEXUAL be limited to ‘adults only.’He likened Lacking in reports on the meas lizing the salaried time and energy the censorship statute to “ burning ure were any statements about the IS WELL-PLASNED TRAP of 17 police officers to obtain the down the house to roast the pig.” role of fathers in illigitimate births, San Francisco Chronicle on April arrest of one homosexual - the de He affirmed the argument that such as well as any discussion about abo^ 12 reported that a well-planned joint sirable way to use tax dollars to en force the law in your county? Court censorship is an infringement on the tion or birth control. action among 17 connfy and city right of freedom of expression as 1 police officers and agents of Cali records show that so many of these guaranteed in the Constitution. “ A BIRTH COSTROL FAVORED, fornia’s Alcoholic Beverage Control “ misdemeanor vagrancy” anests are I picture is either obsceneorit is not,” MICHIGAS STUDY REVEALS Department resulted in "catching” promptly dismissed by judges. One the decision stated. The harmful im Birth control has became a wide one homosexual in a har-restaurant wonders what other serious crimes pression that such a film might create spread topic in all strata of American in nearby Marin County. The “ stage” in Marin county went unnoticed while does not diminish with advancing age society, a survey by the University was set for catching a lot more of the 17 officers were so busy setting of the viewer. Movie in question was of Michigan shows. In interviews them, but tiiey didn’t show up. their trap. Finally, one is also in clined to wonder if perhaps the hunt Paramount^ “ DesireUnder the Elms.” with more than 27(X) wives aged 18 to A few days later this letter appeared ing of homosexuals supplies a novel The decision condemned the ordin 38, only 1 in 20 flatly opposed fam in the Chronicle: form of amusement to the police force? ance also because it set the adult ily-limitation practices. Unqualified “ You reported on April 12 that a age (for purposes ¡of vie|wing certain task force of 17 State, county and city 'approval of some kind of birth control ORPHAN ANNIE A TERROR, motion pictures) at 21, and granted police officers were busy in Sausalito was voiced by 62% of the wives who PSYCHIATRIST DECLARES wide censorship authority to five were questioned. Most of the inter as a vice squad, hoping to catch ho A University of Cincinnati psych old ladies (widows of former police viewed women considered 2-4 child mosexuals. < I am wondering what the iatrist called Orphan Annie of the officers). The decision called the law ren ideal family size. law is which makes this action pos comics a greater threat than smut lit “ capricious” and “ vague in its lang sible. What is the exact legal offense \ erature when he appeared on a panel uage.” which could be charged against a per OHIO LEGISLATURE BUSY son, even obviously homosexual, sit discussing the merits of newsstand STERIUZATIOS URGED OS STROSGER SEX LAWS ting in a restaurant?...Is there a censorship not long agp. “ Obscene TO CUT ILUGITIMACY The Ohio legislature is attempting clear-cut statute against simply being literature is not much of a problem. Dr. James L. Titchener, assistant \ North Carolina legislators came up to achieve what laws, enforcement homosexual which makes the present professor of medicine, stated. Per- ^ with a bill to permit sterilization as practices and courts have almost ‘vice raids’ legal? It would seem that sonality difficulties, he said, develop a means of curbing illigitimate births. never succeeded in doing in most an individual’s sexual action with an out of a long history of relationships .. It would give the state Eugenics other states (althou^ they have also other adult, when violence is not in with other people, “ not because board authority to classify as “ gross tried): halting major sex aim es by volved, is a personal matter, of no ' (ContieueJ on page 28) ly sexually delinquent” a woman who heaping the penalty on minor offenders. reasonable concern to the police. Being Different REVIEW EDITOR; k yoony man oikad m* botwoon odulto in private, without uoo of to Inqoiro whelhor you mlgfit bo oblo to od- violonco or fraud, woro no longer o crime, vloo hiio concomlag tho mllltory oorvico then much of tho otlgroo would dlooppoor, and tho draft. If ho woro to toll tho draft end 00 would tho ovllo that permit black board ho woo homaooiani to avoid lolor mail to flourioh. Then the hemooexuot would compìIcotiono In lorvico would thio Infor no longer bo a oocurlty rlok. Seems To Be mation ovor undor any elrcumotoneot bo Tho oxocutivo oocrotary of o chapter of \ . modo avallablo to onyono ouch oc polico, the American Civil Liborilax Union ra- 1 loglilotlvo Invootigotlng groupo, and tho contly oddraoood o group whora he woo llko, whotoln hit futura ao a toachor would ookod what teocheto who ore hOmoeexual bo ondongoradT Or would It bo bottor for ohould do to ovoid expooura end Ihoreby him to go,Into dio oorvico (ouch oo tho looo their lobe. He oiiowered; "T h b n change army) and contact a poyehlatrlot? 1 havo your |ob and your Reid of employment." Neglected Art ooon In print tho novy'o vlow that o poy Wo do not advioo anyone to declare him- chhitriot'o othlco ora to bo oocondory to oolf before entering tho^ormod forcoo. In- hlo dutloo 00 on offleor but know nothing otood wo advioo all eoncomod to oook the ofthoarmy’o praoont ottitudo. -Mr. H.U.S., advice of on attorney, o poychiatriot, o min- When I was 11, my parents miserable — utterly, abjectly Collfom io. Inter, or oil three beforemaking e decioien. sent me to a summer camp miserable. Why? Because I Votorano benofito, poooporto, bonding on o EDITOR'S NOTE: Anyono who doclorao job and other thingo con be affected or de run along semi-military lines. was different, different from hlmoolf to bo homoonmol to hlo draft boord nied to theoo 00 declaring. Thio oipy oound Part of each camper's Uni the others, diJFferent from the or to tho military Itoolf at iho timo of In like a haroh anowor. But until lowo end crowd. duction con bo roaoonably oura that tho In form was sup attitudoo ore changed, it lo the fo^t. posed to be a INTO LATER LIFE formation lo fllod ooinowhora - probably Boy Scout hat, There must be few of us who pormonontly. Wbllo thIo Inforantlon lo net, REVIEW EDITOR: I etriinot toll you how low- crowned, cannot recall from .such cfaiild- wo prooumo, avolloblo to anyono, wo boi levo much I appraeioto tho bibliography you The accompanying have been including in the REV IEW . I hove wide - b r i m - hood episode and fewer still It oafo to oooumo that FBI and othor duly who do not carry some of this oudioriood Invootigativo agoncloo in our boon mooning to write to ook permloolon to med, to be worn article was written gavommont ohould have accooo to ouch in ropraduco a port of It and make It available every afternoon deep-rooted fear into adult life. formation. Thio wo do not pooltivoly know; for frIOndx, mentioning, of couroe, the oerirce when we lined fay Arthur Gordon But if we value leadership,, howovor, tho homoooouol lo today rogordod of Inforemtlen... Mr. D. S., Ouelrac. if we prize achievement, if we ' oo o "oocurlty rlok,” by o il branchoo of tho E D IT O R ’S MOTE: Permloolon for ouch dio- up for formal for the Hollywood inspection. are, concerned with our own ormod forcoo, and In tho gevornmont Itoolf. trlbutlon lo granted, providing the copieo Thin 10 an oam plo of homoooouallty Itoolf ore iwt offered for oole. A booklet form of But my par Citizen-News, in pairiful struggle toward ma ents, through turity, we have to learn to (and not overt hemoooxuol deto) conotltutlng o oltnllor bibliography lo now available overcome Uiis childish con crimlnol ototuo. through V illage Booko In New York ( I K some catastro a series of Lenten In C ollfe m lo , and probably In moot othor Oiriotophor Street). Publlcotlon of tho re phic oversight, cern. ototoo, thorn ora ototutoo oimod at getting maining Inotollmonto of Iho bibliography lo sent me off in messages foe 1959. The rewards of differentness knovm homoooxuolo out of tho toochlng pro- expected to bo reoumed very ooon when the stead with one are easy enough to see. No foooion In the pubMc ochoelo. Tho Ideo, It material arriveo from New York. * matter what field you choose— con bo prooumod, io that ouch poroono ora of those Army R E V IE W E D IT O R : I " " campaign hats, vintage of 1917. science, entertainment, law, prono to attack tho young. Aetuolly homo- portunlly of mooting you In your offlee. It was wide-brimmed, all education, the business world oooualo ooldom do that; ooporto ooy ihot Truthfully, I went there reluctantly. I dIAr’t right; when I put it on, I was —the demand is for individu child moloototlon lo moot gonorally tho ro- know whol to expect. But you folko put me practically in total darkness. als, whose performance is oult of variouo oox ropraoolono, and many at eooe at once and I woo thrilled thotl hod oo-eallod hotorooomiolo ore Involved In met you and I feel thot contoct with your As for the crown, it seemed to afatove average and therefore theoo octo. different. At any dinner party, oocloty w ill nuraly help my eon - and I ) rise half a mile straight in the Throughout tho armed forcoo, profooolonol think If he will otoy Interented he con bo air. the liveliest and most attrac othicol codoo Involving conftdoncoo botwoon of help to you oo well oo your being belp- Whenever I wore this hat, in tive, guest is the one whose doctorondpotlontara oocondoiy to tho code ful to him. I oholl vioit you again when I stead of being inconspicuous ideas and observations are of tho armed forcoo itoolf. Tho raooon lo return to Son Frandoco. —Mrn. G., N. Mex. . stimulating tiecause they are obvlouo, and wo could not expect It to bo and somewhat homesick little dthorwioo. Herravor, wo DO toko iooun boy, I became a freak. different. REVIEW EDITOR: I congratulate the Soc I have no doubt that a man’s with tho over-all policy thot hameooxualx Or so I thought. Looking per oo ora oocurlty rloko.,; If tho eonoura, iety on the general otendord of the REV IEW back now, across more than earning power parallels almost ro|octlon, opprobrium and oieom ourroundlng and Ito Intoreoting ortleleo. One article In exactly his capacity to produce homoooxuollty wore token away, and if the particular from tho copy you oont (Moreh 30 years, I can smile at the new ideaa, to show unusual 1958) woo of help to mo In dvercomlng the memory. But believe me, it lowo wore changed oo thot conoontlng octo was no joke at the time. I was (Continued on page 28) 23 and sinners. He was not afraid The rule-of-thumb is very difficulty of boing o homosoxual. TKI» NEGLECTED ART to use violence, as when He simple; be as different as you ortlclowa*"SolfAceoploneoV. Rojoetlon," OF BEING DIFFERENT drove the money-changers out like, but try to be tolerant of by Hatty B«n|amin, M. 0. But I Koto gooo of the temple. the people who differ from 0 loogw oy «Inco thon- Itio, In fact, bocoo»* (Continued from page 26) you. of tbo Innor »ocurlty which I now hovo that It takes courage to be differ 1 am w illin g to oxtond o helping bond to persistence or energy, to take ent, but there is also an art to WE’RE NOT ALIKE to ethori. If oikod. Out of ongwloh ond charge—in other words, to be it. It’s a gentle art, an unob- , Actually, no'two people are (uffering com«» compaxolon. - Mr. R. B., trusive art, but it requires real alike, and if we all granted different. to one another the right simply A u ilto lla PRB-OCCUPATION skill. It’s the art of not an tagonizing people unnecessar to be ourselves, we would be R E V IE W E D IT O R : In o moyomotit »och o i WITH SELF The fear of being different, ily by your differentness. different enough. Mottochino, only quollty poopio oro intof When he was eight years ostod In quollty valu«. A . X««' like most fears, tends to di ATTITUDE OP fully roolixo, artleloi in iho REVIEW ore minish when you drag into SUPERIORITY old, someone asked Henry not cufficlontly »lontod to copluro the light and take a good, look The beginning of wisdom in Thoreau what he was going to attontibn» of xoriou* poopio toorord tho at it. At the bottom of such this area is to realize that be when he grew up. “Why,” oponings of undorolondlng. Like attract» fears lies an intense pre-occu people don’t object to different- said the boy, “I will be I!” He like ond choapno*» can only bogot iu»t that. n ^ neariy so much as they was, too. And wljat we re A» pointed out'before, I wi»h to reiterate pation with self. i ; ^ Thatijomical hat, bai^ in my object to the attitude of su member best about him now is thot the »hollow, flippant, un»1o y » homo- precisely his differentness. »exual doe» not rood the R E V IE I^ . The»» childhood, might have cauSed periority that so often goes ignoraani»»» pooh-pooh tho whole thing ond , some momentary merriment or with it. 5o take a look at your life reaching them In th I » gen ero «on I» o » “ «J- teasing, but the whole thing Some very rugged individual and check the areas where le»» to»k. It connot be done now. It I» q u i^ was too trivial to have lasted ists never learn this lesson. you are letting a foolish fear enough to try to reoch »eriou» p ^ p le . Tl*e long. I was the me who kept Billy Mitchell’s concept of air of “whai people might say” young, who have ¡u»t dl»eov«e m attachine REVIEW 1958 VOLUME ready for shipment ^ in dark blue cloth, stamped in gold to match volumes for previous years. Includes Interim and index. Total 426 pages. 1957 VOLUME available as above, total 556 pages. Also limited quantity of volumes for 1956 (454 pages), and 1955 (292 pages). These volumes contain many single issues otherwise unavailable. 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