person of exclusively heterosexual response who lives a life of sexual abstinence not be heterosexual? Even chastity does not neutralize or change the direction of one's sexual attraction. I have heard some bi-sexuals who practice the homosexual side of their nature deny that they are homosexual when by definition they are both heterosexual and homosexual. And some transvestites, including certain famous ones who could afford the trip to Denmark (to become transsexual), have had too much pride. to admit being homosexual, though

they openly write and speak of their sexual attraction for persons of their own previous' sex, thereby denying the very definition of the term. However, this is not to say that all transvestites are homosexual.

No matter how much we homosexuals and psychologists may disagree on some things about us, we should at least be careful to be correct in our usage of terminology.

Mr. E. B. Berkeley, Calif.

There can be no constructive homosexual contribution to society as a whole until homosexuals themselves become fully aware of a certain vague, but extremely vital noman's-land that already exists between themselves and heterosexual society in general. Naturally all homosexuals tend to see their own problems out of proportion to other people's problems; a homosexual is so intimately and peculiarly concerned with his unique situation that he tends to forget a heterosexual person has problems just as great, if not greater, than his.

We are concerned, then, with the solution to human problems, and we are all involved in the task of discovering how human beings can live together peacefully and fruitfully-whether men, women, homosexual or heterosexual. In searching for solutions to his own discomfort, a homosexual should always keep in mind that the means whereby he attains a more enjoyable level of living may point the way to means that may help others.

Every homosexual is duty bound to be more tolerant than any heterosexual. Besides the obvious means in which he can practice this broadmindedness and tolerance, the homosexual is obliged to acquire a perspicacity that, possibly, the heterosexual does not need. This obligation entails becoming acquainted with the cultural no-man's-land already mentioned. It is not easily defined.

In the stories and novels of Thomas Mann, the work of André Gide and Hermann Hesse, the poems of Rilke, the philosophy of Christian existentialists such as Gabriel Marcel, the research of certain men of science-in thinking such as this we find the path toward a future integration of the homosexual being in a heterosexual world.

It is first of all necessary that a homosexual understand that, already, some brilliant heterosexuals and homosexuals have discovered subtle solutions to crass problems.

Our world is one of values. Both homosexuals and heterosexuals have to work with values in order to find their salvation. Let us try to make not a "homosexual" world, with ridiculous talk of legalized marriage, etc., and not a "heterosexual" world, which with its prejudices and ignorance but a human world.

Is this possible?

Mexico City.