feels obliged to react against the society which oppresses him on every possible level with equal passion. Is it not this same disgust, this same passion, which provoked his initial revolt against the law of the sexes, even to the point where motives are abandoned?

I would not reject the explanations of psycho-analysis. Undoubtedly childhood complexes and early education are determining factors; it is impossible to remove complexes and education from their social context. Psycho-analysis is helpless before an intelligent subject who makes his own free choice, assuming his condition with all the consequences involved, and which in their turn become determining factors. A specialist whom I know would reply to consulting patients, "Your illness is nothing more than a belief. Once you understand that you have no malady, that you are not sick, you will be cured." There is no other logic. Homosexuality is not a sickness unless one accepts the prejudice of society, if one considers the pretended normality of others as the unique morality, even at the expense of one's own. How precarious is this "normality" which believes itself constantly menaced and to brandish uncessantly a standard! The bourgeois payed the piedpiper of Hameln to charm the mice into the sea with his flute, but they too followed him (which the legend does not say). Ironic is the enchantment of order; fateful the mania to dance...... The guilty, a sage might say, will judge one another.

My "ferveur" is ardent for M. André Gide. For the poet. With the author of "Corydon" I dispute......

I shall leave to one side his strange biological speculations. M. Gide, after artificially classifying homosexuals as pederasts, sodomists and inverts, proposes for them a counter-morality just as rigorous as any other a new morality which could only succeed in the consolidation of a majority group. Genêt adopts a similar line of thought with an apology of sexual terrorism at the risk of rebuffing even the most lucid. I should like to find somewhere freer calmer assertions — an affirmation for the homosexual as there is one for the heterosexual. When Kinsey establishes that 33 % of the American males have practiced homosexuality, the problem takes on a new significance not found in the pages of Proust. The number conditions the situation. But is it possible to label as homosexuality the prep school or army accident, which results from sheer physiological necessity? And should one not qualify its nature as a physical expression of the libido...

Personally, I should estimate 3 % males exclusively homosexual, who compose an incontestable minority. A minority can have no other morality than that of its own existence, no pretention if not aristocratic and revolutionary insofar as it remains oppressed.

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