• Abstract and Figures
• Public Full-text

.E - GROOVY MUS!C - ATMOSPHERE SATURDAY AMD SUNDAY FROM MOON T!LL 7 P.M. __________ _____________________________________________ 2155 POLK STREET SAN FRANC!SCO PH O N E '. 775-9541 DtNNERS: TUES. - SAT., 6 TO 11 P.M. SUNDAYBRUNCH: 11A.M. T03P.M . SUNDAY a MON: SANDWtCHES 8 TO 12 P.M. YOUR HOSTS: BARBARA-FRANK - ROME LEE-DON V0L.3N0.8 JULY1967 STAFF Chairman, W. E. Beardemphl Advertising, S. Mathews Circulation, G. Hall Art, C. Thayer C. Adams, J. Bradley, L. Carlson, M. Carpenter, P. George, D. Hinojosa, D. Jones, P. Kelley, P. Lane, H. Lelue, F. Miller, J. Miller, M. Newton, B. Plath, B. Ruble, E. Smith, M. Smith. VECTOR is the monthly publication of the SOCIETY FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS, an organ­ ization dedicated to the education of all people who may be interested in better understanding the homosexual c o m m u n i t y . VECTOR articles represent the viewpoint of the writers and are not necessarily the opinion of the VECTOR staff or the SOCIETY FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. Advertising rates available on request. Published by: SOCIETY FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS 83 Sixth Street San Francisco, Ca. 94103 PA CE 4 NOEL: There is so little empathy, rapport of any kind anywhere. LEON: People think that be­ cause they're communicating sexually, that that's IT, like wow, nirvana, the whole bit. But with all the levels of communication open to man, it's so re­ strictive, limiting to con^ centrate only on that one. NOEL: And that's what we're trying to get away from. I 'LEON: They're both so busy love you doesn't have to being either homo or hetero mean I want to get you in they forget they may just bed. Man, a screw is a happen to be human beings screw, but let's not kid Edited by also. In the end, it is so ourselves into thinking easy to deceive oneself, be it's anything more if it David Noel Hinojosa unrealistic about sex. i s n 't . and Leon Christopher NOEL: Sex is everywhere; a LEON: If it happens, it hap­ fantastic abundance, yet no pens but that's not the im­ one seems to know what the portant thing. hell it's really all about. TAUREMINI: The modern, to­ (The following dialogue was It can be such a powerful day's person, is trying to edited from over six hours of means of expressing love, give new dimension to that taped conversations between but it can also express much misused term, Love. The Poet, who works in the pure utter hatred. How can Not . to de-emphasize the financial district; Tauremini, you get into bed with a role sex can play in Love, a noted mystic bead stringer stranger? God, we don't want to go and dancer; Mr. Christopher, TAUREMINI: It's not hard. back to the Victorian a poet; and Mr. Hinojosa, a period, but to broaden the regular VECTOR contributor.) NOEL: Thank you, I know; but still how's it done? perspective, to bring to the fore all of the word's NOEL: Sex, homo or hetero, LEON: You're so naked, so stark, not only physically possible ramifications. the hippie, freedom, love. Sensuality, lushness, ec­ LEON: Like wow, three simple but in every other way. Imagine the defenses put up stasy these don't have to uncomplicated topics. apply solely to sex. THE POET: Why don't we take in order to have an inti­ macy with a stranger. And LEON: Art is fantastically on the full spectrum of sensual; reading a poem, American mores as they this concerns heteros also. THE POET: We're living in a better writing one, sculp­ evolved from middle-class turing, all of these are English Puritanism? Or bet­ sexually orientated so­ ciety. Advertising, films, s e n s u a l . ter, the evolution of THE POET: What we're all poetry from Chaucer to books, every possible media of communication is used to doing, I think, here in Ferlinghetti. transmit vibrate sexuality. this room, is rebelling. NOEL: We may yet; don't be so We're fighting for an ac­ f a c e t i o u s . TAUREMINI: The real hippie-- LEON: Let's get away from ceptance of the total LEON: The homosexual, his bag human being. Like look, how's it different from labels. The real human being-- how straighter can you the average hetero's? With look than me. I work, I TAUREMINI: The real human both, on the whole, it's don't wear beads, I get a just sex involved, very being then, puts the em­ haircut every two weeks. phasis on love. Love in little to do with love. This whole hippie idea, NOEL: You've got a point art, love in people, in )this philosphy of love, is everything. And sex depend­ there. Homos seem to want a state of the mind; it's ing upon the person, can to hold out their sexual incidental whether you look orientation like a badge, play a very small part in Haight-Ashbury personified just as a great many his loving. or not. heteros do. THE POET: That's were the LEON: And you know that's the mistake is made, sex is great thing; a great many thought of as a synonym for straight-looking people are love, among both a great really with it, they know many hippies and ninety per­ where it's at. And vice- cent of the non-hips. versa, unfortunately. A lot Sexual empathy seems to automatically imply love-- (Cont. on Following Page) LEON: But what a falsity. PA C E 5 And that's the difference between THE HIPPIE, THE HOMOSEXUAL and the homosexual scene. The (continued from preceding ot crying for acceptance into of hippie-looking pe structure of society. We're pathetically square. her in a new one. But the NOEL: They're caught are bound and determined to style. Sometimes you ety; meanwhile, society ad- ten years and the homosexual human being is. All in the past and not in the where is the reality? . Thus, the homo becomes so- LEON: We sound as if tionary rather than its avant ment and they're valueles many homosexuals really know NOEL: Yes. It's all part and now in the fields of art ceptance, and judgements more to do with reality culture? homosexual has got to fight for f i l m s . LEON: People can't accept other peopl as a human being. Once he's got result, no love. We're always making j no one will care what his sexual ments, criticisms that,do nothing but ferences may be. Befcure that though, he rect barriers between* us and the other* imself, has got to start acknowledging person. / others as humans and not as "gay" or "het- TAUREMINI: It isn't a question of live and e r o " . let live, but accept and love. Accept the LEON: These damn labels. We're living in a total person, with all of his quirks, and label society; mechanistic too, dog-eat- who are we to judge whether they are dog. Man is a machine; eats, sleeps, quirks or not? works, screws. NOEL: But that is so hard, you know. Because NOEL: Man, the Work Machine, the Screw Ma­ people are all bound up in the image-bit.* chine. But what about the Love Machine? And once it's discovered that there is a LEON: Wow, that's a term for you. The Love great deal more complexity than the image M a c h i n e . Wait till Madison Avenue gets a- implied, then wow--like I don't want to hold of that. First they mechanize sex, have anything to do with you. now it'll be love. THE POET: That's why it's so easy to believe TAUREMINI: The whole world should go on a you're in love, when you don't know the self-realization trip. person well. You just haven't discovered LEON: That's another thing; everyone seems those things which could later, but to take drugs, but what do they get out of shouldn't alienate you. them? Smoke grass, then eat or have sex or LEON: And how can there be love when you anything, but don't learn anything about don't know the person, when you haven't yourself. That world be disastrous. Wow, accepted the total human being? 1984 is here. NOEL: That's the reason divorce is so preva­ NOEL: But we're fighting it; all of us, in lent among hetros, and that homosexual our own way, each of us a voice in the unions rarely last. The people cannot, dark, and all the others like us, and will not accept one another. Love is grand we'll make it. as long as it's smooth sailing. LEON: I am optimistic, believe it or not. As LEON: But remember it's not really love. long as we can write and sing, we'll be Love isn't unless all of you has been ac­ heard. After all, we're not demanding any­ cepted, and that takes a great deal of thing so outrageous. Just that love be. time, because you're constantly, like it NOEL: The homo, the hetero, the hippie, all or not, in a process of growth. You're of us beautiful, every single person changing each and every minute. beautiful because we're linked by our one NOEL: And that's where the acceptance comes.

Load more

  32

Copy Link