peculiar culture in order to apprise an unrity of the men connected with the Matsuspecting and conceiveably uninterested tachine Society and your publication. If Majority that certain contributions to your organization can use the services of American culture (itself of dubious worth a person of no social or financial conseand sanity) have been made by members quence I would be willing to help you. of a fellowship of inverts rather than by individuals who, if it is of particular interest, happen to be of a certain erotic bent.

In "The Homosexual Culture" Mr. Freeman is guilty of the most transparent kind of wordmagic-and it all seems to amount to a sort of self-flattery. Mr. Freeman says that the homosexual culture is "the manner of speaking and thinking, the beliefs, traditions and attainments of the homosexual minority." He does not tell us what the distinctive beliefs and attainments of the homosexual culture are.

W. G., San Francisco.

You kidding? None of the editors are of social or financial consequence. Will be seing you soon. Incidentally, the "sanity and integrity" on which you kindly com ment, is of women, too.

Gentlemen:

I know

Your magazine is challenging. that persons with emotions that are natural to them often defy the ideas of provincial society and are made to feel guilty by the mores and ideas of the society which they must exist.

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As a Psychologist with over sixteen

To define the term "homosexual culture" is not to prove that such a culture exists. But by attributing to the term "homosexual culture" a substantive value equal years actual experience in the State with emotional conflict to "Mexican culture", "Jewish culture", only persons having emotional because of their own deep seated feelings etc., Mr. Freeman proceeds, a priori, to in opposition with the religious or social illustrate how individuals belonging to a particular culture might participate in the training they have been conditioned to, I have had many case histories where complete adjustment to society has been accomplished.

several cultures.

The term homosexual was devised and

is most useful as a differentiation from the term heterosexual, and it is within this frame of reference that meaningful use of the term is restricted. It is possible to demonstrate the differences or similarities between a Mexican homosexual and a Mexican heterosexual. It is an abuse of language and right reason to demonstrate the similarities or differences between a Mexican culture and a homosexual "culture".

I admire the supreme sanity and integ-

I believe that understanding is achieved largely through education.

I know that all homosexuals who will avail themselves of a thorough study in Emotional Re-Education can overcome compulsive behavior and adjust to society as an acceptable and productive citizen.

As soon as this is accomplished, much of the feeling and aversion of society to the attitudes and habits of expression that often make the homosexual the butt of

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