WHO ARE WE?!?

All right, what does it smell like? The be to examine, to master and use them boy's hair, naturally. On page 7 it gives in that order. out with a headiness to somebody. It

like him to be distinct from him; his disgust with them projects merely his selfdisgust. And what is his self-disgust? An inability, as he sees himself, to accept himself.

Seeing himself-the group of which he

A homosexual who has no respect for gives a fine headache to somebody else his fellows can write about them only on page 5. To me, the confused odor to call names. He cannot respect them and two cheek-by-jowl entries in your till he respects himself; they are too July issue that in their contradiction seem to sum up your magazine, bring neither bliss nor a migraine but vertigo of a sort-the sort that comes of riding too long in a very fast very small merry-goround. No matter which horse you pick not one catches up with another and is one-he sees something of sickness. every one takes you back where you started. Then what good's the ride? Something is very wrong. ONE deals with a real problem. The answer so far has been a series of strident half answers that agree only in an insistence that each is the sole whole solution. The sum total is chaos; the truth, whatever it may be, hid in the confusion.

Why so? We can begin surely from this premise: that whatever is vigorously alive is healthy. Perfect? What living thing is? But the imperfections in our lives are to be altered, developed as we will; not crushed so that what remains may live invalided. So as homosexuals we can face two facts of our lives, condemn neither one and praise neither. but admit simply the healthy life, waiting for our development, of each one. Promiscuity, effeminacy: after all, essential-

Somebody will dig out this truth at some time; meanwhile, if we're honest, we'll admit that we can only guess at its form. It's more than a guess though ly what are they? that the tools used will be few, simple and complex; in themselves simple, complex in application. We can at least look at them, heft them around somewhat, figure out how they might be applied to their purpose.

Effeminacy as such maligns no one except females. They, the genuine article, take no umbrage; homosexuals who are still farther removed from the copy might show the same common sense. Insofar as effeminacy is just surface good manWell, there's no point in an attempt ners-in some homosexual circles it's that to be clever. The tools themselves aren't. exactly then we need look no further They're self-acceptance, self-respect, refor a living homosexual culture pattern spect for each other. The problem will of some sort. Its vitality is as plain as

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