element of the homosexual minority. It is inevitable that the homosexual male should be concentrated in the arts, for here is all the romance, the glamor, the Dream which society has denied him. Here is the Greater Reality which can be expressed only through the medium of art. Here is the Healer, the Curer, the man of understanding in a world of chaos and hatred.

Thus in all walks of life we see the American homosexual leading, directing, following, planning,

hoping exactly as are all other

men.

Who knows that it will not be the homosexual who leads the world into an era of international understanding and world peace? Is it not fitting that what the world calls "the least of these" should point the way to salvation for the world? Who has known more of its sorrow, more of its anguish, its sordidness, its beauty, than the homosexual?

THE

TEMPORARY

TIGER

Somehow

A housecat

Has become a tiger.

One day I looked

Into th

glass

All meekness and propriety And when next

I chanced to mirror-front,

I saw confidence,

Napoleonate,

Enthroned upon the pane.

Today

Heads will fall,

And weeks of long consideration,

Ravished of their fruit,

Lie still.

Today I am an army

By myself,

٤٤

ME WIL

My face and body

Dressed in braid

And aspect of command,

Words

Pour through my pen,

Sing rich harmonies

Into my ears.

Today, crowned with confidence,

I rein invincible,

Tomorrow

I may sleep till noon.

john

myron

patrick

one

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