The faded fairies of the Parisian bars continually invoke Socrates, Michel Angelo, Shakespeare... and André Gide. I should invoke them with contrary intent. Michel Angelo counseled the practice of homosexuality to his pupils in order to sharpen their sensitivity; he saw therein a struggle of the artist towards his own image, a form of introspection, the complement and equivalence of beauty and the endeavor of research which develop in the homosexual an ultimate refinement. A ware and receptive being. Madame Simone de Beauvoir, in a chapter of "Le Deuxième Sexe" devoted to lesbianism, points out the possessive ardour of the homosexual, who experiences twofold physical and spiritual emotion his own through the passion of his mate. In short, he is molded on suffering by unstable loves, but however worn by this suffering, remains in constant search for youth, for re-creation.

If this be true, that the homosexual is poet, sensitive like woman, but with the power of creative expression that she lacks, he is all the more so an "enfant terrible" of humanity. It is on the brink of imminent catastrophe that "enfants terribles" appear...... should we then be astonished that our era favours their assertion? Let us rather wonder at our astonishment!

Quoted with permission of the author from "Id-Janus" 1953

Reprinted from the NEWSLETTER

of the International Committee for Sex Equality

January-February 1954

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