any single pattern of behavior to be found. Indeed, it is rather difficult to say just who is and who isn't, a homosexual. Many men are "gay" at one time in their life or another, perhaps for a short period, or over a period of years. Another fact is, one homosexual act, or even a series, does not make a person homosexual by temperament. To

confuse the picture even more, many apparently homosexual men wouldn't perform a homosexual act. Some have a difficult time, some have it easy, adjusting. In Pat's case, it is quite easy for him to live the life he chooses, because the public generally thinks of a homosexual as swishy. Which need not be the case at all.

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THE SPECTATOR (LONDON), APRIL 4, 1958 By RICHARD WOLLHEIM

The problem of homosexuality is one which impinges upon two of the most important regulative elements in society: the principles of law and the principles of morality. It is therefore natural to suppose that any serious discussion of the subject should take in both these elements. But this at the moment is most evidently not the case. For of recent years most of those who support reform of the existing legislation have made it their policy to concentrate upon and emphasise the legal aspect of the matter and to try and play down the moral aspect-on the assumption, presumably, that though people in general might be prevailed upon to modify their views on what should and what should not be punished, on matters of what is right and wrong they are inflexible. This policy has by now become some

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kind of liberal orthodoxy, and it is certainly not without its victories. One such victory was the appointment of the Wolfenden Committee, with its interest limited to the law and offences against it; and another such was the widespread diffusion of an argument nicely attuned to the Committee's findings, that one should not identify sin and crime.

On grounds of expediency there is probably much to be said for this policy: as long, that is to say, as legislative reform seems imminent. But at the moment this is clearly not so. In consequence, the debate once more is on: and if it is, then it seems to me only right that it should now be conducted on the broadest possible front, with the maximum deployment of argument and fact.

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