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group is not rare, and has its counterpart in the communal life of other minorities. In the outcast world that is the homosexual society, where people are followed by a fear of exposure that approaches paranoid heights (except that it is not imaginary), association with the obvious would jeopardize the success of those who conceal with such ease. How much of the hostility of the homosexual toward the effeminate male may be a defensive justification of this fear of exposure; how much may reflect his anti-feminist, anti-woman orientation, in which he is turning not only against all women, but against men who are like women, is something that can hardly be measured. No doubt the homosexual reflects the cultural attitude which looks contemptuously upon effeminacy in a man as being weak and sickly. But, on the conscious level, the gay person justifies his attitude toward the recognizable homosexual by saying that the latter is the cause of much of the world's hostility. The "fairy," it is contended, brings down the wrath of the society, is the butt of sarcastic and repulsive remarks, and therefore the more masculine man reasons that there would be no hostility if those who call it into being did not exist. Actually, such reasoning is both superficial and specious, but I am at this moment concerned with recording what the homosexual thinks, and not with an analysis of what I find right or wrong in his thinking.

But what of the remaining homosexuals? What of the vast majority who are not effeminate? Can they be recognized? Many of them would be suspect by an astute observer, but such an observer would undoubtedly miss some in the group, and would suspect many who are not at all homosexually inclined. In recent months, I have had occasion to meet many homosexuals, people from various walks of life, men coming from all circles and not familiar with each other, and I can quite confidently state that I have not met one who could not function in a hostile society, pretending successfully to be like employer or fellow-employee, if this be necessary.

It is interesting to note that, to these people, there is no compliment quite so strong as to be told that they cannot be recognized. No insult is quite as great as to tell the homosexual, "You can be spotted in a minute." I have seen men who readily admit their predilections rise up in outrageous indignation when told that their homosexuality is apparent. And a broad smile of self-satisfaction is an almost invariable result of a statement to the contrary.

But the question still remains-can the homosexuals recognize each other? I am convinced that most homosexuals, perhaps the majority, no matter how masculine their demeanor, their mannerisms, their appearance and dress, are quite recognizable to most others. This involves a matter that has nothing to do with effeminacy, although it has been confused with such. For people think that homosexuals are recognizable only if they are effeminate; that is, if they

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