with the human animal requiring vastly more of the latter than the former. Denied the right to binding personal relationships and to any show of spontaneous affection, it is a tribute to the homosexual that he is not wholly licentious and viciously anti-social. On the contrary, he is much less so than the heterosexual who claims normality to be his alone.

The exclusively homosexual are hounded by law, haunted by prejudice and isolated more than any other single minority. If by this search-of-an-ethic he means that he wants, not sovereign rights as a separate state, but full admission into this, his own society, no reform can be too great for his deserving. He can be as valuable a citizen as anyone, as productive and perhaps a bit more sacrificing than most, because his family is the whole human family. In return for this he asks only the human rights due all people and the simple recognition that he is a person: just plain people like anyone else. If this is his earnest knock on the door, it must be flung wide and grateful welcome accorded him. No waste is more criminal than that of human beings. The question of recognition of homosexuality might be looked upon as a choice between social growth or primitive retrogression.

Jeff Winters

And shall our loves have no memorial

Shall they perish as though they had never been Shall they be as books kept locked through the ages Shall they be as songs held mute by the world?

And cannot we leave our messages in laws Or conquer back our birthright to be free Or force respect for love that's honest loving And leave our mark, also, upon eternity!

Geraldine Jackson

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