nary men?" "God or nature obviously intended men and women to make it with each other," and the routine homosexuality is an illness argument, etc. Mr. Krim's homosexual put up pretty good answers: that the swishes are untypical, that heterosexuals suffer from a false and exaggerated concept of the "natural" distinctions between the sexes, that all the hysterical talk about homosexuality being a threat to the propagation of the race and its moral standards is "Editorialpage gas. The human race can certainly withstand

a comparative

handful of homosexuals if it's going to survive. Nuclear weapons are obviously a much closer threat. As for the family's falling apart, homosexuality is only one tiny cause among hundreds for the tension people have in living with each other today."

"Why," he argued, "is it any worse for a man to perform oral intercourse with another man instead of with a woman? Or for two women to do so? Do you think our organs themselves are prejudiced and draw a line?" "Those who come after us will laugh at the pressures now put upon men to keep up a front of endless courage, indifference to delicacy, superiority over women. If I prefer gentleness to harshness, I'm not being a woman. I'm being human-something you might be ashamed of, with your straightjacketed notion of masculinity."

"Like it or not, we will force our way out into open society and you will have to acknowledge us."

The following week, a sharp reply from a writer named in the headline simply as McReynolds, commended the publication, but argued that homosexuals as group are simply too lazy, irresponsible, selfish, or unconcerned to lead any revolt, to insist on their rights. He said there was an increase of homosexuality today due to the lack of "initiation rites" in American culture, by which a boy could once and for all prove his masculinity, and not have to keep proving it endlessly in social outlets which have in themselves a tendency to lead to homosexuality. (Contrary to Mr. McReynolds, the evidence seems to be against the notion that there is any increase today in the amount of homosexuality in the general population, and anthropologists report plenty of homosexuality in societies that do have initiation rites.)

"I do not see any capacity to revolt in 'gay society'. It is a destructive sub-culture, producing corps of clean-shaven, fresh-scented zombies who eat, sleep, walk, talk and are dead. It is a sub-culture in which sex is substituted for real personal relations." Agreeing that sexual relations between adults are no concern of the state, McReynolds said that it isn't enough that homosexuals should be tolerated by those who consider themselves "normal" but rather all of society must recognize the normality of bisexuality.

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