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REVOLT
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M A T T A C H IN E SO C IE T Y TO DA Y (Yellow Booklet of General Informa­ R EV O LT O F T H E HOMOSEXUAL
tion) 1958 Edition. 24 pages. Gives general outline of Society, aims and by S ey m o u r K r im ..................... .... . . 3
principles, how to form an Area Council, lists discussion group topics
M cR EY N O LD S R E P L IE S TO KRIM
and ideas, tells brief history of Society and what Mattaciiine does. 25
I b y D avid M cR e y n o ld s.......................... 8
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G R EET IN G S by C. V. H o w ard ............................... 13
C O N STIT U T IO N A N D BY-LAW S (Blue Book of Official Information)
WHOM SHOULD WE NOT T E L L ?
1959 Edition. 16 pages. Contains revised constitution, by-laws add
by S ta n le y N o rm a n .............................. 15
articles of incorporation. 25 cents. ^
BOOK REV IEW : The F la m in g H e a r t............... 18
INFORMATION FOLDERS: “ In Case You Didn’t Know,” and "What
C A LLIN G SHOTS..................................................... 19
Does Mattachine Do.” Designed to be used as companion mailing pieces.
N E G L E C T E D ART O F B EIN G D IF F E R E N T
First tells of existence of homosexuality and purpose of Mattachine.
Second describes in detail the projects and functions of the Sdciety,
by A rth u r G o rd o n ................................22
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YO U R L E G A L RIG H TS (adapted for Illinois law), 8 pages. Discusses C A T E G O R IE S........................................................................26
rights of citizens, andoutlinesofienses as covered by statute in Illinois. ON R E -R E A D IN G GAY BOOKS by D ick T y n e r . . 27
25 cents. M A T TA C H IN E D IR E C T O R Y ..........................................31
E D U C A T IO N H A N D BO O K. 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
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M A TTA C H IN E SO CIETY
Publiihed Monthly, Copyright 1959 by Mottochino Sodoty, Inc.
Available now from the National Headquarters of the Mattachine Soci­
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CONTENTS
M A TT A C H IN E SO C IE T Y TO DAY (Yellow Booklet of General Informa­ R EV Q L T O F TH E HOMOSEXUAL
tion) 195S Edition. 24 pages. Gives general outline of Society, aims and b y S ey m o u r K r im .................................. 3
principles, how to form an Area Council, lists discussion group topics M cR EY N O LD S R E P L IE S TO KRIM
and ideas, tells brief his^nÿ of Society and what Mattachine does. 25
b y D avid M c R e y n o ld s..........................8
cents.
G R EETIN G S by C. V. H o w ard ....................... - . . . 1 3
C O N STIT U T IO N ANf/f'^Y-LAW S (Blue Book of Official Information)
WHOM SHOULD WE NOT T E L L ?
1959 Edition. 16 pages. Contains revised constitution, by-laws and
by S ta n le y N o rm a n .........................15
articles of incorporation. 25 cents.
BOOK REV IEW : T he F la m in g H e a r t..................... 18
IN FO R M A T IO N F O L D E R S ; “ In Case You Didn’t Know,’’ and “ What
C A LLIN G SHOTS.................. 19
Does Mattachine Do.’’ Designed to be used as companion mailing pieces.
N E G L E C T E D ART O F B EIN G D IF F E R E N T
First tells of existence of homosexuality and purpose of Mattachine.
Second describes in detail the projects and functions of the Society,
by A rth u r G o r d o n ...............................22
along with the services it performs. 100 for $1.50; 50 for $1.00; smaller REA D ERS W R IT E .......................................................... 23
quantities, 3 cents each. Unless specified, orders will be filled with PR O B L E M OF YOUTH WHOSE SE X 'IS M IX E P U P
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by W a lte r C. A lv erez^ M.D. . 2 5
YOUR L E G A L RIG H TS (adapted for Illinois law), 8 pages. Discusses C A T E G O R IE S........................................ .. • ............ ’. .. . 26
rights of citizens, and outlines offenses as covered by statute in Illinois. ON R E -R E A D IN G GAY BOOKS by D ick T y n e r, . 27
25 cents. ’ M A TTA C H IN E D IR E C T O R Y ......... ................................31
E D U C A T IO N H AN D BO O K. 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.
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b v ^ S e y m o u r K rim a n d D a v id M c R e y n o b b
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 people have in living with each
were more dewey. But they still
guy, togothor with a roply to tho Intorvlow, worn puhlinhod In go for men, not th a r own kind. other today. 1 have little sympa­
V IL L A G E 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
that the modem straight man puts we abandon them whet} we can
pormloolon of tho nowtpapor, which Is locatod at 22 Groonwioh
on. no longer see their truth.
Avo,, Now York II, N. Y. SG: Maybe you can’t see their
SG: I won’t argue with you.
The i n i p o r t a n t 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
other is- still there and will re­ of traditional life—^with families,
STRAIGHT GUY: You say I can talk frankly to you. children, and the rest of the b it
O. K. Why have so many fairies come out in the open re­ main. It may sound obvious, but
Go^ or nature obviously intended H: 1 have nothing but good will
cently? Wherever I go I run into them—the Village, i East toward such people. But nothing
Side, Harlem, even the Bronx. men and women to make it with
each other. I gives them the right to impose
HOMOSEXUAL: We no longer have the energy to hide. their desires on human beings
You can’t know the strain on a — ~ H: That seems • logical on the
surface. But when you look at his­ who can’t or don’t want to fellow
person in always pretending. As gwisbinir along 8th Street scream-
tory you’ll see that there’s never the same goals. It’s hypocrisy to
Donald Webster Cory says in “The tag at the top of their voices? Are
been a culture without homosex­ pretend that we live in a Victor­
Homosexual in America,” we have you naive enough to believe the
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
tom an 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- make bitter fun of it. But the ma­
always been outlawed? I’m fairly
8 0 : You actually think you’ll nority, as much as a camping pros- jority of us still have the possi­
be accepted on your own terms? sophisticated, but I believe so­
titute compared with most women. bility of getting normal satisfac­
l b 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- which no longer exists. But that’s
chologically they’ve t o r t u r e d chology concedes such a thing as principle on which we were
raised, and the perpetuation of only my private opinion. I merely
thesaselves. Cburageous gay people an ordinary man or woman. But want my own freedom to behave
are now bfeginning to realize that let that pass. It’s true, I think, tiiat life itself could conceivably be
endangered. as I choose and must. ^
ttiey, are human beings who must we are more aesthetic or perhaps SG: Didn’t it ever occur to lyou
H; Editorial-page gas! The hu­
fight tb gain acceptance for what outwardly fastidious than most that you might be literally sick?
man r:ite can certainly withstand
they are—ngt what others want men. But then it’s bem pointed Suppose I were a compulsive mur­
a comparative handful of homo-,
them to be. out American womoi have derer and said I wanted my own
sexuals if it’s going to survive.
SO: ;Let me be blunt. Do you b e c o m e increasingly vigorous, freedom to behave as I had to.
Nuclear weapons are obviously
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? up.
family’s falling apart, homosex­
mtiffmeáiwe
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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
H: I’d find a moral judgement to judgements from above. and women. I’m convinced you do
examinine every angle of my so-
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.
degrading of our personalities. The old categorip of a man be­
eral. But our love-making, the Walt Whitman” — and Walt, of
Merely to live, we m ust'assert ing Mars and a woman 'Venus are
“techni(^ues,” ended up exactly as course, was gay. So who’s infan­
ourselves as homosexuals whq are artificial: only insensitive people
between tw'o men; I could become tile there? You use the words,
as proud to be what we are as you or poseurs pretend to a cartoon
passionate no other way. I even “sadly distorted”—in comparison
are of yourself. 'When this move­ image of masculinity vs. femini­
imagined thej' were boys during to what? A fantasy of the ideal
ment becomes powerful enough— nity. I’m not wiping out sexual
the whole thing. Believe me, I arrow-collar man or the imper­
and gay people refuse either to differences. Social change itself
tried incredibly hard to act fect flesh-and-booze mortals whom has softened the dividing/line. It
straight. But it finally just seemed Ive both know? I've discovered hide or flaunt themselves—it will
will be openly accepted. was once considered mannish for
a tortured attempt to be some­ that much psychiatric language 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
say? be like. If you lowered the ideal been recognized as the number-
at this today. Those who come
H: At first he said my fantasy- to the actual reality around us, one human perversion will sud­
after us will laugh at the pressures
ing of men when 1 was with a you wouldn't be so pious about denly be completely whitewashed.
once put upon men to keep up a
w'oman was a reflection of how the homosexual. H: What is a perversion? Truly
front of endless courage, indif­
deep-seated my problem was. SG: That’s a defensive argu- modern people find, it hard to see
ference to delicacy, superiority
He rpaintained it could be “cured” . ment. The standards that psychia­ the idea of perversion in any kind
over women. If I prefer gentleness
and told me he’d had success be­ try uses are rationally established of sex relationship. The entire
to harshness, I’m not being a
fore. But when I tirelessly tried after scrupulous and neutral re­ concept is beginning to die as peo­
woman. I’m being human—some­
to suppress my desire for men, search. ple realize that whatever can be
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 straightjacket notion
finally conceded that I would be use conventional middle-class' just and natural if it gives pleas­
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
he the outstanding popular sym­ iohich no lonpcr provides a ra­ ed against in job situations and
H: in my future you’d merely
bol of the Don Juan! All the tional basis for their prejudices. in the Army and Navy. We refuse
be seen as a person of limited
dearly-bought insight" that has We homosexuals wiH be in the to be fired from government serv­
tastes. But I don’t want to be
come out of alclosed-door suffer­ leadership of this fevolt, with this ice as ‘ security risks” and then
arrested in your present for lik­
ing which can po longer bear its phrase of Wilhelm Reich’s as a have the New York Times refuse
ing, men, coq au vin, bridge, Mo­
isolation will be given to Society motto: “That which is aUve is in "to print the details. We refuse to
digliani, and dry sherry! Thank
at large. itself reasonable. I t becomes a marry in order to disguise what
God that some people are forever
caricature when it iS not allowed we are, and we refuse to pretend
deprived of so-called normality so SG: I can’t see this occurring in
to live.” any longer to enjoy a hetero­
that they can one day see how my lifetime. No matter how slop- sexuality that is foreign to ihost
shallow and intolerant it is. When py-liber* I ever get I’ll always SG: You make it sound like a
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
H: But that’s the point. We’ve you will have to iacknowledge us.
will be seen as constituting a carry it.
finally rebelled against feeling From 4 to 7 million American
unique view of experience, offer­
H; You’re the prisoner of what .this way because our human na­ adults—at least—are not going to
ing insights to all people. The
you think is your honesty. We ture can no longer stand it. Look be treated like criminals or freaks
homosexuality of great figures of
live in a torn-open age where out for people whom you have because w e are no longer going
the past—not only your Prousts
and Whitmans—will be revealed, each minority is determined to driven to such an extreme! We to accept your evaluation of us.
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 R e p H e s io K r i t n
getting social acceptance. What have taken up jazz, grow beards,
TheGaj Underground- Krim sees as a growing demand
for recognition by society is noth­
or smoke pot; it represents a re­
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

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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
does not have any “rites of pas­ those members of the male alli­ a world I think that sex is not a
involved in the sexual relations
sage” to assure a boy that he has ance trying so ! desperately to driving force but only a kind of
pas.sword, a ritual as meaningless are involved by consent I don’t
become a man. He must prove his prove their masculinity.
manliness repeatedly (and end­ as the dog’s ritual of wetting on. feel 'this way because I think
The “male alliance” al^p works every lamp- post. It is not the homosexuality is a jolly good
lessly). The only way he can
in- reverse—those boyil’v^ho can­ form of sexual expression but the thing which we can trac§ all the
prove it is by doing “manly"
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 ture, producing corps of clean­ toe individual. Krim might have
may not respect his differentness,
boys group together to reassure shaven, fresh-scented z o m b i e s pointed out; by the way, that one
to accept this externally imposed
themselves they are really men. who eat, sleep, walk, talk, and are -reason for toe repressive (and
definition and move into homo­
The gang must do exciting and dead. It is a sub-culture in which totally ineffective) laws we have
sexual society. A friend of mine,
dangerous things. Women are ob­ sex is substituted for real per­
a homosexual and a gifted chore­ is because we have -the feeling
jects external to the gang—things sonal relations. As a sub-culture
ographer, once told me that while that if we pass a law repressing
to be conquered sexually, and it produces nothing of value. The
not all men were homosexual
evidence (through the conquest) Negro subculture has been and re­ someone else’s homosexuality, we
when they started to dance, al­
of manliness. But the real emo­ mains tremendously vital — be­ have somehow proved that we
most every single male dancer
tional ties too often lie within the cause they desperately want to be ourselves are not homosexual. Any
ends that way. Wny? In Fraiice,
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
ber of men become homosexual seek to end that desolate sep­ it would be correct to say that
theory of the “male alliance”—
because homosexuality is an aration. Out of the Negro strug­ someone with a strong hostility
first developed I believe by, my
escape from reality. Their motive gle we saw the birth of jazz— toward homosexuals has a latent
friend John Kitsusi, a West Coast
is not that of rebellion, but sim­ a contribution beyond words. But homos«cuaI drive equal to the
sociologist— is an essential part
ply escape. The homosexual’s gay what has the homosexual society
of American culture. The stag hostility.
underground is a world of night produced as ft' society.? Those
party and the fraternal order are And now, finally, let me sug­
lights, mystery, and youth for­ writers, posts, and artists who are
as necessary on the adult level as gest that while I think the “ho­
ever beautiful. It is a deodorized 'homosexual and who have pro­
the gang is On the juvenile leveL mosexual society” is a pretty de­
world, without children or pain duced soUd and enduring works
This endless attempt to prove cadent mess, I also think homo­
or ugliness or death. It is pre­ of ait have done so in every case
masculinity by close association sexuality is one legitimate form
because they saw themselves as
with other men is simply a de­ cisely because it is a way of life sexual expression which the
human beings first and as homo­
vice which produces homosexuar- which avoids the responsibilities larger society ought to accept,
sexuals second. In every case
ity. of marriage and children that I thereby going far toward wiping
where a homosexual fails to make
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-
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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? MJyihunch
women and to raise families. For is that there would be much less
some men it is equally normal homosexuality in the U n i t e d
üreetíDgs
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, tween twelve and one. Is something wrong. Honey?”
when we see the French general and would do íár more to elimin­ “ 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 “ Bill, honey, you’re the sweetest gjiy in the world. And I’m the luckiest and
All genuine progress results
happiest person in the world. I mean it - honesUy, I have to pinch myself a
from finding new facts. N o law
ON hundred times a day to be sure that all this isn’t just a beautiful dream. Honey,
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?”
th e 'LA W already established the laws. It is
“ Not a thing in the world. For the first time in my life everything is right and
for us to discover them, and to
you’re vAat I needed to make everything right. Honestly, I’m just so damned
learn the facts by which we can
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 heeler M c M 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
if ....”
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, "^ a t’s the thing that’s important to me. If |
—H e r b er t 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 STA N LEY NORMAN'
going to be home for dinner on time tonight, aren't you?’’
“ Oh, yeah, th at'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?’’
S h o u ld 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
just came in the door with two of the biggest, thickest, juciest steaks you ever
NOT Tell?
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), "T he 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 e a si^ 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 Att«e4iiu 15
 whohavedeclared them selves such. made their adjustment, reading the it in a loved one, they do not know
right out and let family snd friends
Ve can refer to plays or movies in articles in the Hattad>ine Review, what to do, or how to act. The im­
know just what we ate, not to continue
which the homosexual theme is touched particularly those having to do with mediate reaction is apt to be un­
to live lives of hypocrisy and deceit, favorable and hostile. Ignorance often
upon or to books in which homosexual the various aspects of the homophile
to tell the truth no matter how it may spawns intolerance, and intolerance
or Lesbian love are handled discrim- in bis or her adaption, and joining
hurt those neatest us and to take the leads to bigotry, misunderstanding,
inatelyfand sometimes quite patent­ discussiiMi groups whose purpose it
chance of severing ourselves com­
, 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). <Ve are lonely and energies to creative, original
sympathy nor understanding of the some knowledge of the homophile
enough in a society still hostile to­ work without having to spend his life
complex, perplexing problems facing problem. If they know something of
ward the deviated individual and mi- in a segregated fashion, fabricating
the individual who feels “ different.” its content, how it can best be ana­
nori^ groups. Ye need to cherish the apologies for his existence; the so­
At first, the homophile may not real­ lyzed and criticized, where to seek
resppct and love of intimates as long cieties which have made it possible
ize fully vAy he or she is different further knowledge or advice, they
as possible, until we are so sure of for homosexuals to avail themselves
and may n eed guidance and assurance. will want to advance rather than ob­
our position that we can risk losing of the companionship and respect of
Later, when he knows with certainty struct the homophile’s adaptation to
that respect and love. It is not always loved ones without having to lead a
that he is different-and the reasons - society. They would not resort to
wise to defy custom or the feelings double life. And last, but not least,
he will seek the companionship of venting their wrath against a homo­
of those nearus merely to satisfy our the tremendous good that can be a-
others who are different. It is impor­ sexual any more than they would a-
ego or to establish our true identity chieved in the future by releasing
tant that he know where to find com­ gainst one who became physically or
•with sudden fanfare. Much of what homosexuals from the awesome stigma
panions who can help rather than mentally ill. If we are to help our­
the above three authors referred to is imposed upon them by our present
work toward his detriment. By joining selves, we must enlighten those near­
true, but we might arrive at the same laws and attitudes, which are guilty
the Mattachine Society and reading est us, helping them to comprehend
goal by a more devious route than of creating untold-of neurotics and
t\ie MattiKbine Review, the homophile the homophile problem before they
that suggested by them. resultant mental breakdowns.
can learn how others have made their have to encounter it personally with
It might be wiser to outline an oper­ To wage such a campaignthehomo-
adjustment. Ifh e isn e a t a city where someone they know.
ation for assault upon the fortress of phile needs to know a great deal about
discussion and therapy meetings are
ignorance, a campaign in which we himself. This knowledge he can gain
held, he can meet others who are deep­ NEWSSTAND READERS: Th# April l« «i»
wage war without exposing our vul­ by reading certain books*, becoming
ly and sincerely interested in sol­ of R E V IE W did not oppoor o«i now*-
nerabilities to openly to the barbs acquainted with individuals who have tto n d i In Nnw York and L o s A n go lo i, bo-
ving their problems. eouto It coma o H iho p in ss Into. It con-
of the adversary. Ve might do this hy
Many adults who are normally broad­ tolnodon oxcollant itorjr, "T lio H iio tlo ro ,”
pointing out gradually, at opportune •E llis, Havelock, STL'DIES IN THE PSY­ and othor big roaturos. If you mltaod your
CHOLOGY OF SEX. Volume 2; SEXU.\L ! minded and considerate in other mat­ copy, sond 50g to tbo Rovlow offico, é W
moments, the existence of homosex­
INVERSION, Third Edition, 1928. ters are still woefully ignorant of the M issio n St., Son Francisco 5, and ono
uals in various orofessions known to
Cory, Donald Webster, THE HOMOSEX­ homosexual problem. When faced with w ill bo mollsd to you first e lo ss soolod.
the general public, or homosexuals UAL IN AMERICA, 1951. ]
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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
P L A Y IN G 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
F L A M IN G H E A R T bjr D#berah D eutsch* Gotten: B nie o 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
V N E X P U R G A T E D ’C H A T T E R L E Y ' 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 IS H 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
I would say it’s written by someone who’s never done any writing before but will be the first complete version of
currently the subject of an important
has strong views on the subject. Curiously enough, she makes fun of homopbilic the D. H. Lawrence classic to appear
case pending in the U. S. Supreme
novels - page 251 - with their usual violent endings of suiciiie or murder, but in the country. Lawrence wrote the
Court to determine the constitution­
ends her own story with the wife trying to kill her homophile husband and then final edition of the novel in 1928; it
ality of movie censorship in advance
shooting herself. was privately printed in Italy, but
of distribution. The film has been
The story could have been a good one, but the ending isn’t convincing. It’s as there has never been a comparable
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 I E 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
be limited to ‘adults only.’He likened 17 COPS CATCH 1 HOMOSEXUAL lizing the salaried time and energy
Lacking in reports on the meas­
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 a s well as any discussion about abo^ 12 reported that a well-planned joint sirable way to use tax dollars to en­
censorship is an infringement on the action among 17 connfy and city force the law in your county? Court
tion or birth control.
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
Paramount^ “ DesireUnder the Elms.” A few days later this letter appeared clined to wonder if perhaps the hunt­
with more than 27(X) wives aged 18 to
The decision condemned the ordin­ in the Chronicle: ing of homosexuals supplies a novel
38, only 1 in 20 flatly opposed fam­
ance also because it set the adult “ You reported on April 12 that a form of amusement to the police force?
ily-limitation practices. Unqualified
age (for purposes ¡of vie|wing certain 'approval of some kind of birth control task force of 17 State, county and city
ORPHAN ANNIE A TERROR,
motion pictures) at 21, and granted was voiced by 62% of the wives who police officers were busy in Sausalito
PSYCHIATRIST DECLARES
wide censorship authority to five were questioned. Most of the inter­ as a vice squad, hoping to catch ho­
mosexuals. <I am wondering what the A University of Cincinnati psych­
old ladies (widows of former police viewed women considered 2-4 child­
officers). The decision called the law law is which makes this action pos­ iatrist called Orphan Annie of the
ren ideal family size.
sible. What is the exact legal offense comics a greater threat than smut lit­
“ capricious” and “ vague in its lang­ \
which could be charged against a per­ erature when he appeared on a panel
uage.”
OHIO LEGISLATURE BUSY discussing the merits of newsstand
son, even obviously homosexual, sit­
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.
to achieve what laws, enforcement Dr. James L. Titchener, assistant \
North Carolina legislators came up homosexual which makes the present
practices and courts have almost ‘vice raids’ legal? It would seem that professor of medicine, stated. Per- ^
with a bill to permit sterilization as
never succeeded in doing in most an individual’s sexual action with an­ sonality difficulties, he said, develop
a means of curbing illigitimate births.
other states (althou^ they have also other adult, when violence is not in­ out of a long history of relationships ..
It would give the state Eugenics
tried): halting major sex aim es by volved, is a personal matter, of no with other people, “ not because
board authority to classify as “ gross­
heaping the penalty on minor offenders. reasonable concern to the police. ' (ContieueJ on page 28)
ly sexually delinquent” a woman who
Being Different R E V IE W E D IT O R ; k yoony man o ik a d 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 concom lag 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
mail to flourioh. Then the hemooexuot would

Seems To Be
board ho woo homaooiani to avoid lolor
compìIcotiono In lo rv ico would thio Infor­ no longer bo a oocurlty rlok.
mation ovor undor any elrcumotoneot bo Tho oxocutivo oocrotary of o chapter of \ .
modo av allab lo to onyono ouch oc polico, the American C iv il Liborilax Union ra- 1
lo g lilo tlv o Invootigotlng groupo, and tho contly oddraoood o group whora he woo
llko, whotoln h it 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

Neglected Art him to g o ,In to dio oorvico (ouch oo tho

army) and contact a poyehlatrlot? 1 havo
ooon In print tho novy'o vlow that o p o y
chhitriot'o othlco ora to bo oocondory to
looo their lobe. He oiiowered; "T h b n change
your |ob and your Reid of employment."
Wo do not advioo anyone to declare him-
oolf before entering tho^ormod forcoo. In-
hlo dutloo 00 on offleor but know nothing otood wo advioo a ll eoncomod to oook the
o fth o arm y’o praoont ottitudo. -M r. H.U.S., advice o f on attorney, o poychiatriot, o min-
When I was 11, my parents miserable — utterly, abjectly C ollfom io. Inter, or o il three beforem aking e decioien.
sent me to a summer camp miserable. Why? Because I Votorano benofito, poooporto, bonding on o
E D IT O R 'S N O T E : Anyono who doclorao
run along semi-military lines. was different, different from hlm oolf to bo homoonmol to hlo draft boord
job and other thingo con be affected or de­
the others, diJFferent from the nied to theoo 00 declaring. Thio oipy oound
Part of each camper's Uni­ or to tho m ilitary Itoolf at iho timo of In­
like a haroh anowor. But until lowo end
form was sup­ crowd. duction con bo roaoonably oura that tho In­
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, R E V IE W E D IT O R : I etriinot toll you how
cannot recall from .such cfaiild- wo prooumo, avolloblo to anyono, wo boi levo much I appraeioto tho bibliography you
l o w- crowned, The accompanying have been including in the R E V IE W . I hove
It oafo to oooumo that F B I and othor duly
wide - b r i m - hood episode and fewer still oudioriood Invootigativo agoncloo in our boon mooning to write to ook permloolon to
med, to be worn article was written who do not carry some of this 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. T hio wo do not pooltivoly know; for frIOndx, mentioning, o f 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.
up for formal for the Hollywood if we prize achievement, if we ' oo o "o o cu rlty rlok,” by o il branchoo of tho E D IT O R ’S M O T E: Permloolon for ouch dio-
are, concerned with our own ormod forcoo, and In tho gevornmont Itoolf. trlbutlon lo granted, providing the copieo
inspection.
pairiful struggle toward ma­ Thin 10 an o a m p lo of homoooouallty Itoolf ore iwt offered for oole. A booklet form of
But my par Citizen-News, in o oltnllor bibliography lo now available
(and not overt hemoooxuol deto) conotltutlng
ent s , through turity, we have to learn to through V illa ge Booko In New York ( I K
overcome Uiis childish con­ crimlnol ototuo.
some catastro­ a series of Lenten In C o llfe m lo , and probably In moot othor Oiriotophor Street). Publlcotlon of tho re­
phic oversight, cern. ototoo, thorn ora ototutoo oimod at getting m aining Inotollmonto of Iho bibliography lo
sent me off in­ messages foe 1959. The rewards of differentness knovm homoooxuolo out o f 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. *
of those Army matter what field you choose— con bo prooumod, io that ouch poroono ora
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 d IA r’t
—the demand is for individu­ child moloototlon lo moot gonorally tho ro-
right; when I put it on, I was oult o f variouo oox ropraoolono, and many
know whol to expect. But you folko put me
practically in total darkness. als, whose performance is oo-eallod hotorooomiolo ore Involved In
at eooe at once and I woo thrilled thotl hod
afatove average and therefore met you and I feel thot contoct with your
As for the crown, it seemed to theoo octo. oocloty w ill nuraly help my eon - and I )
rise half a mile straight in the different. At any dinner party, Throughout tho armed forcoo, profooolonol think If he w ill 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 D O toko iooun
boy, I became a freak. different. R E V IE W E D IT O R : I congratulate the Soc­
with tho over-all policy thot hameooxualx
I have no doubt that a man’s iety on the general otendord of the R E V IE W
Or so I thought. Looking earning power parallels almost
per oo ora oocurlty rloko.,; If tho eonoura,
and Ito Intoreoting ortleleo. One article In
back now, across more than ro|octlon, opprobrium and oieom ourroundlng
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 o f help to mo In dvercomlng the
lowo wore changed oo thot conoontlng octo
memory. But believe me, it
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
o rt lc lo w a * "S o lfA c e o p lo n e o V . R o joe tlon ," OF BEING DIFFERENT like, but try to be tolerant of
by Hatty B«n|amin, M. 0. But I Koto gooo
drove the money-changers out
of the temple. the people who differ from
0 lo o g w o y «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
(u ffering 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 in to f
ostod In quollty v a lu « . A . X««' like most fears, tends to di­ ATTITUDE OP When he was eight years
fully roolixo, artle lo i in iho R E V IE W 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. L ik e 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. was, too. And wljat we re­
A» pointed out'before, I wi»h to reiterate pation with self. i ;^ n ^ neariy so much as they
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-
»exual doe» not rood the R E V IE I^ . The»» childhood, might have cauSed periority that so often goes precisely his differentness.
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 of “whai people might say”
young, who have ¡u»t dl»eov«e<l that they
long. I was the me who kept Billy Mitchell’s concept of air
it alive by agonizing about it. power was prophetic—and cor­ hold you down or .hold you
are homoeoxuol, ore often »eriou». Their
letters to you teetify to that. Thi» group Lÿce shyness, this swt'of self- rect. Unfortunately, he could back. Then go ahead an^ do
is trying to think, trying to find «loir woy, consciousness is a form of in­ not conceal his conviction that a few of these unorthodox
ond In the future w ill bo «.e one» who w ill verted egotism. Once you face anyone who disagreed with things. 'The penalties will cer­
corry on tho search in the «oHou» »en»e. this fact, you are not so likely him was a fool. As a result, tainly be less—and the re­
Freedom for the homosexuolly-Incllned In­ to be victimized by it. his »hopes and dreams were wards may be much greater
dividual w ill hove to be found within, ond It also helps to remind your­ thwarted for years; he didn’t than you think.
that with »elf-lmpo»ed restriction» and
resp onsib illH e s. Unlimited freedom or li­
self occasimally that some of live to see their fulfillment.
cense would only result In chaos. - Mr.R.
the disapproval or hostility
M., Californio.
■ that you shrink from encount­

R E V IE W E D IT O R : A recent mogoxlne
ering is probably imaginary.
IN GOOD COMPANY Problem of the Youth
arffcle brought to my attention the exis­
Another way to minimize
the fear of being different is to
tence of your orgonixatlon. An existence
I w ish I hod known of much seaner. From
what I won ab le to gother from the very
remind yourself, if you really
do run into resentment or
Whose Sex Is Mixed Up
short but highly enlightning article, y ~ r ridicule, that you are in pretty
slOluhirdft and aim * ora to b oh l prolsod# good company. Very few have cared to go out with a
I was vary ploosod to dlscovor thot somo- of the great pioneers of By Dr. Walter C. Alvarez girl.
one eorod enough about other members of
thought or action escaped be­ Emertttti Consultant in Perhaps, when he came to
the so-called s o c ia lly unacceptoble group
ing laughed at, criticized or Uedidtie, Mayo Clinic be twenty or so, he became
to try ond lift the curtoln of Indoeondy
even martyred. Uany mothers write me terribly upset and almost out
that has too long onvelopod us.
Most of the-great religious pathetic letters ezpresslE«' of his mind when at last he
I sh all opprocloto ony ond o il Informo- saw clearly that he was not
Hon about «le Society you would be able leaders of history, have been their puzzlement and sorrow
over a son who is not very as other men are; that his
to provide. on-conformiste. Christ w a s love interests were directed
If I may be just o IlM ie molediamotic the most striking and drama­ maseuline. He may be good*
for o moment, I would like to bi|ect o looking, and perhaps “almost toward other men, and hence
tic example; He was, in fact, too good-looking for a boy." he might never have the
Loffn phiose which I hovo odmirod ond
which I think de scribes the i»o|<»fl«y
a revolutionist. He defied au­ Perhaps his Interests have happiness of having a wife
popu lotion. Dormant quod non fntoHfgont thority, as when He healed sick always been decidedly artis­ and a home and children.
. . . They condemn that which they do not people on the Sabbath. He up­ tic. and the chances are he An Accident of Genetics
comprehend... Ml»» D. E . - C ollfom lo set convention, as when He sat has never had any interest
down to dinner with publicans in athletics. He may never I don’t know how any one
25
 could not feel sympathy for in this constant psycholc^c
every unhappy lad who has in­ battle, and he asks me where
herited from some ancestors a he can find it. He already
tendency to feminine Interests has tried several psychiatrists
and feminine wayf of life. Cer| but has not gotten help from w
tainly, he is not culpable *in them. Some of the wisest of
any way; he is not responsible these men told lilm frankly
for what happened to him be­ and honestly that they doubt­
fore he was bom. Let us all ed if they or any one else \) 0 0
remember that, but for the could change bis psychic
grace of God, this disaster make-up, any more than
could have happened to any they could change the psy­
one of us. It was Just an acci­ chic make-up of a normally
dent of genetics or of glandular '-heterosexual man who adores
development. his wife. This is my strong
As I was writing this, I impression about the subject, BY DICK TY N ER
stopped to talk for nearly two " 0 ^
and I have studied it for
hours with a fine young college years among both books and
man who is terribly distressed patients.
because he has found that he is I fear he will have to
to some extent mixed-up in his I have been re-reading some of the c la s s ic s of homophile literature.
keep making the fight largely
sex. He can go with g^ls; he by himself. I would urge him For the most part they were better reading this time. It is true I found
can enjoy their company; and to avoid doing anything that
he hopes some day to marry; myself skipping the more purple effusions, philosophical maunderings,
would cause him to be black­
but be knows this is dangerous mailed or throwr. into JalL I and precocious sjjeculations; but I do- that while reading the more
for him because he feels such would urge him never to standard c la s s ic s . (I became quite impatient reading Green Mansions
great attraction for an occa- marry, simply to get a home
.siimal man whom be meets. or a better “front.” It is a for the fourth or fifth time.)
Such a man is very compan­ miserable trick to play on C lassic is sometimes used to denote the opposite of romantic.
ionable to him because he can some poor girl to marry her
understand my patient’s prob­ In this sen se, I have used it inappropriately: most homophile fiction is
lems and unhappinesses, and wltoout the ability to love
her properly. T have talked certainly romantic; that is , it is characterized by "liberalism in form
his feelings of great loneliness
in the world. But, realizing to many women who got and subject matter, em phasis on feeling and originality, the use of
that such close friendships with caught in such an unhappy imaginative suggestion, and sympathetic interest in primitive nature,
men are extremely dangerous marriage, and hence I know
whereof I speak. medievalism, and the m ystical.” Too often romantic applies in a derog­
for him, my patient is fighting
hard to keep away from them. atory se n se , "w ith im plications of unrestrained sensuousness, vague
Where Can He Get Help? imagery, lack of logical precision, escape from the realities of life .”
(BtlMjtS br tl» Raslftor u d Mliuw
As ha says, he needs help STDtflate. 1M*> (These quotations are from the New Twentieth Century Dictionary.)
The books I have been reading, however, arc the BEST of their kind.
C flt e j o n e s (Ftom ihe London Daily Telegraph)
They are c la s s ic s because they are freer of the less flja s a n t aspects
he “ problem of homosexu­ be homosexuals, on one ground or of the romantic. They are not the only good books in the field but they
T ality." Incessantly discussed
in the Press, on radio and
television, and soon In Parliament,
another, adequate or inadequate,
must have Increased enormously
during the past year or so. Perhaps
should be remembered for comparison with anything else we read.
I wonder what the reactionw as of homophile readers to The Picture
that was the whole Idea anyhow.
is becoming as big a bore as the It Is all part of a wider process of Dorian Gray at the time it was published. Literary London pretended
problems of smoke abatement and by which people are no longer
senile delinquency. allowed to be people, but have to be to be scandalized. Some biograi*ers surmise that Wilde had not yet be­
Whatever else It has achieved, this forced into some abstract category come aware of his homosexual tendencies. This seems unlikely though
relentless nagging must have had or other, as homosexuals, teenagers,
one Important effect. Until recently neurotics, housewives, consumers and '‘■.¡certainly we read more into the story now than could Wilde s contem-
there were large parts of this so on.
country where homosexuality was It Is all extremely sinister. Once ' iporaries. At any rate, the painter. Hallward, is unmistakably homosex­
hardly known, for thd simple reason people are sorted into qategorles and
that most people had never even told exactly who and what they are. ual and Lord Henry may be Wilde him self as he was later reputed to be;
heard of It. it becomes much easier to sell them today Doriän would be called "trade“ (an equivocal term, to say the
This is so no longer. Suggestion is things, to mould their opinions and
a powerful thing. The number of anally to run theis lives for them least.)
men who now believe themselves to altogether.
26 matttmeáitie
1
 From readiqg the fiction on die subject, one should think that most
It is amazing how fresh are the conversations; how penetrating and homophile men are not searching for a lover but for a brother or a
tim eless are the epigrams. I do not remember when 1 read the book la st. father. In the Vidal book, Jim ’s desire is for the long-lost "brother” ;
It was before I was aware of Wilde’s nature . . . a n d my own. We studied but Matthew, in Finistère by F ritz P e te rs, needs a father. His search
his plays and poems in school; but I don’t remember what we were told is not wholly conscious; it is more an unhappy yearning. His naivete
about his life. . . . ■ j • when he finds his substitute father is made believeable though one sus­
J u s t how much of personal experience and conviction is contained in pects the author is tfot always sym pathetic. Matthew’s suicide is inev-
the books containing homophile m aterial? Some is obvious, of course. itible too. In fact, one can see no other alternative: it was not the know­
Some writers are certainly s.ympathetic if not experienced; perhaps the ledge of his being "perverted” that drove him to it, nor his being dis­
re s t work as did Gertrude Atherton: when a friend of mine told her where covered by those close to him. He could no longer endure to live sur­
his home was, she said sh e’d like to v is it that part of the country; rounded by these people whose esse n tia l dishonesty had been revealed:
sh e ’d written so many sto ries about it! It is said too that Edna Ferber the father who cared m<we for the comforts of a second wife; the mother
was never on a showboat, nor ever v isite d T exas or A laska. who was interested only in hfer divorce and her new husband; the step­
But William MaxweU could not have w ritten The Folded L e a f from father who married his mother’s purse; the old friend of the family who
hearsay. T his is a c la s s ic in any field. All of Maxwell’s work shows was mote concerned about what the world would think of him than for
wonderful understanding of young people’s emotional life. (His one ;
a little boy’s love and need for him; and not le a st, the lover whose
book FOR children would not be much understood by them. The recent failing was to have loved him too much.
sto ries in Ifhe New Yorker, I don’t understand.) N either of the protagon­ Another characteristic of the homophiles in fiction is that they all
is ts in The Folded L e a f is a w a r e ^ f any homosexuality; but nowhere profess to admire only the masculine types. Ju st nobody wants a
have I read a more beautiful evocation of the joys of youthful com­ "q u eer” . This, is the "m e ssa g e " in Blair N iles’ Strange Brother.
panionship. The devotion of Lymie to h is ath letic > ie n d is love; and It has been reported that Mrs. N iles wrote this as a memorial to her
if it ----------
„ .V is often ------
unrequited it is not unrewarding. Spu^-S_jieed of Lymie is
------------- own brother. It is an amazing report, dated and without literary style,
for more than help in the gymnasium and the carrying; of m essages to but based on thorough and sympathetic research. If it is not so absorb­
his girl friend. How their lives became entwined is ^ m ark ab ly well ing as her novel about D evil’s Island, it is because it is a bigger pro­
traced. Whether Spud marries S ally, whether Lymie marries Hope or ject; there are more kinds of misery to consider.
discovers his homosexual inclination, the reader knows neither will T his is not a cla ssic because it is among the best but because it is
forget the other. among the first. Some of us w ill always be grateful to Mrs. Niles in
I found that 1 had remembered only the ending of The C ity and The spite of her short-comings. Her book was our first encounter with our­
P illar by Gore Vidal. I had thought it weak and unfocused, but it is a selves in fiction; and it was about die only one for nearly fifteen
• good book. I think the story would have been more satisfying if we had years. The N ellies and Ricos showed up in the novels of the depression
been spared the picture of Jim ’s drunken remorse at the beginning and and war years but not so importantly as in mote recent writings about
h is murder of Bob at the end. His memory of the boyhood idyll could those years.
have been destroyed as effectively without such melodramatic device. Two war novels I liked are The Cross of Iron by Heinrich and The
Friend by Volff, though neither is notable for its homophile content.
CALLING SHOTS My Favorite however, is Look Down In Mercy by Walter Baxter. Nothing
(Continued from page 2t) their sexuality.” Besides there are
other impulses as harmful as the else I’ve read about the camaraderie of soldiers, their need and love
someone picked up a magazine and
sexual, he said. He cited extreme and trust for each other, is so convincingly portrayed. The story is
read i t . ”
feelings of aggression and violence se t in die ignominious retreat of the B ritish in Burma during the Japan
"T h is literature is an irrelevant
which he noted in the comic strip, e se invasion. The events are not important or even very interesting in
issu e,” he said, suggesting that, in­
"L ittle Orphan Annie.” them selves; but we are absorbed in their effects on Captain Tony Kent
stead of suppressing magazines and
" I t scares me sometimes,” he said. and his batsman, Anson. Tony is more appalled by his growing need,
books, it would be better to devote
"In March, Orphan Annie was inciting desire and love for Anson, than he is at evidences of his cow ardice^
energies to helping younger people
develop comfortable attitides toward people not to pay income taxes.”
28 m dUlt iMe/Uete
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lames Barr was almost a secret. Even when it was first out, it was Fifth year of publication-founded January 1955. Mattachine Foundation established in
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difficult to obtain. 1 think I finally sent to the publisher. There were March 1954 under corporate laws of State of California as a non-profit, non-partisan ed­
ucational, research and social service organization, founded in the public interest for
several (how large?) printings before it was withdrawn, under pres­ the purpose of providing adults with true and accurate information leading toward solu­
sure it is reported. Why was Ouatrejoil given such treatment ? The tion of problems of human sea behavior, particularly those of the homosexual adult. The
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"though he might be capable of destroying himself, he knew that
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