EDITORIAL

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At Christmas time it is customary to give and receive gifts and to count one's blessings generally. Ruminating on some aspects of homosexuality in relation to ourselves, other people, and the institutions of society the other day in the office, the editors found themselves wondering what, figuratively, the homosexual might like to find in his stocking-hung with such care-on Christmas morning. Not wanting to appear too selfindulgent, we immediately ruled out the typical uncomplicated, nonvirgin undergraduate as a choice, and passed on to more serious considerations. What then, we asked, might the homosexual expect or hope for in this changing world? The homosexual like everyone else is concerned with the tax rate, the policies of armies, the practices of churches, and so forth. Like everyone else, the homosexual works and fights, plows the fields and harvests the grain--but as a homosexual. He plays and swims and skis and climbs mountains, dances and sings and drives cars as a homosexual. His homosexuality can be seen to effect his whole life. And this he must understand if he is to be gay, sure-footed-a happy lover who is able to succeed in his individual aspirations and his sex experiences.

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