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מוקן

"HOW STUPID, RIDICULOUS and narrow-minded can you get? It's regrettable that so many so-called noraml people know so little about homosexuals and their problems. I've been around for quite some time. And I have yet to find anyone who has been 'taught' to be a homosexual. One may be enlightened on the activities of a homosexual, but unless one has a natural inclination it's doubtful he will become one. Either he will be repulsed by the whole idea or he will experiment with it and if he finds it's where he belongs, he'll stay with it. No one taught me to be a homosexual. When I approached the age of 17, I realized what I was, accepted the fact and have been content with it ever since. My parents know that I am a homosexual. They're completely understanding...

"FEW OF THE THOUSANDS of us in the city are mentally Most of us know what we are and are content to be so. All we ask is to be understood and left alone. I have two suggestions for you and others similarly concerned. Read the book, "The Homosexual in America,' by Donald Webster Corey or a magazine called, 'One,' published in Los Angeles. Before the citizens in this area lose their minds worrying about their children becoming homosexuals, let them read the above material and do a little serious thinking. I don't mean to imply that homosexuality is not a problem, but I do say the problem will not be solved by closing the places we frequent or by sending us off to mental institutions or a workhouse or a prison."

PUBLIC LIBRARY

"MAN TENDS TO IGNORE this problem in ignorance. The basic chemistry of the human mind and body are born in delicate balance, particularly in the formative years of youth. Disillusionment, emotional insecurity, domination or indiffer ence of a parent tend to upset this balance. There is no sure cure for homosexuality. The taboos of society tend to restrain the victims to secret. Thus is delayed much needed help and perhaps sealing forever the door to a happy life. May 1 give this advice to parents: Get to your children early in life with the facts and pitfalls of life. Enlighten yourselves-that you may look down in mercy. The homosexual will probably remain until long after our generation is forgotten. If found among your loved ones, give help, aid, treatment. Do not cast them out. Their sorrow is already greater than any you can inflict."

HAT do you suppose people will be saying in 7950 A.D.? If history does repeat itself, it will be something like this:

"The earth is degenerate, the world is coming to an end, youth is a despair, and everybody wants to write a book!"

That's what we're saying today. And that's what someone imprinted on an Egyptian tablet in 4000 B.C.