homosexuals that other people can't recognize. But I just feel so much wiser than straight people. I honestly feel that I can do the things that I do better because I am homosexual.

Perhaps what I feel is a personal superiority complex, but I prefer to think that it is because I am homosexual. And if this is true, then I ar glad I am homosexual and wouldn't be straight for anything in the world.

Mr. J. E. K. of Chicago writes: The article "I am Glad I am Homosexual," though stating many truths, also contains demagoguery to a degree that demands rebuttal.

First, it seems pertinent to point out that, unthinking as it well is, a group (minority, religious, or racial) is too often judged by the behavior of only a handful of its members. To be specific, homosexuals, as a group, are usually judged by the behavior of the most obvious-the queen. The average non-homosexual knows so little about homosexuality that it is not usually recognized in the less flamboyant individual. Therefore, what other standard may the heterosexual observer use in determining his own feelings for (or against) the homosexual? True, he should investigate with more depth than a casual observation, but in the present state of development of human personality and mentality this might be bothersome, distasteful, and it might even be considered prying. So, right or wrong, judgment is passed by literally millions of otherwise good people who (1) don't have the facts, (2) probably don't want the facts, and (3) have no moral, legal, or ethical right to judge their fellow man! Does not this predicament suggest caution?

I think it does, and, furthermore, so does ONE! (See the last three lines of the statement of purpose printed in each issue.) The "cause" which, after all, is understanding if not acceptance of all homophiles, cannot be aided by emotional outbursts, antisocial behavior, or demands for acceptance.

Like it or not, we all exist in a society. And society is no great and beneficent club of inherited privilege into which all men are born with free membership and entire equality. Social association is a form of survival insurance which human beings have learned is profitable; therefore are most individuals willing to pay those premiums of self-sacrifice and personal liberty curtailment which society exacts from its members in return for this enhanced group protection. In short, the present-day social mechanism is a trial-and-error insurance plan designed to afford some degree of assurance and protection against a return to the terrible and antisocial conditions which characterized the early experiences of the human race.

The prime mission of society is the definition of the right, the just and fair regulation of class differences, and the enforcement of equality of opportunity under the law. Every right is associated with a social duty. Liberty, subject to group regulation, is the goal of social evolution. Liberty without restrictions is the vain and fanciful dream of unstable and flighty minds.

A self-centered homosexual may be glad to have been spared the trials and tribulations of marital existence. If he becomes convinced that his own personal existence is complete unto itself, then, to him, there is no need for the family or the home. But if we believe, as I most certainly

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