From ARCADIE, January, 1960; translated by Dr. T. M. Merritt

Readers of Arcadie will doubtless recall the two pages devoted in our number 59 (November, 1958) to a new American publication entitled ONE Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies, of which the first number bore the date Spring, 1958. Homophile Studies is published by One Institute, affiliated with ONE Magazine, which is well known by all the Arcadians who read English.

In the final paragraph of this account, I extended my good wishes to the courageous group who were attempting to give to the study of homosexuality in America a scientific approach which it had lacked. I am happy to affirm a year later that these intentions have been followed effectively: I have just received No. 5, Spring, 1959, Homophile Studies. The sum total of the work which this

publication So far represents is worthy of both sympathy and admiration.

Before going farther I must render homage to a quality which our AngloSaxon friends possess to the highest degree: they are good sports. It will be remembered that my account of last year was quite severe at certain. points. Despite this, ONE Magazine (February, 1959) published the complete translation, including the least complimentary passages. I must therefore, express directly to those who direct ONE the esteem with which their frankness has inspired me and since then I have had the most cordial relations with them. Such broadmindedness and calm in the face of criticism are rare enough for one to appreciate them at their true value.

What balance can one strike with reference to the first five numbers of Homophile Studies? A brief statistical summary will give us an idea of

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the directions toward which One Institute looks; of one hundred and sixty-two pages of text published in five numbers of Homophile Studies, there are (besides ten pages of editorials and eleven pages given to letters from readers, or 12.9% of the whole), thirty-seven pages of history, ethnology, and historic sociology (or 22.8%), twenty-six pages of literary history (or 16%), twenty-five pages of biology, medicine, and psychology (or 15.4%), seventeen pages of law (or 10.4%), eleven pages of book reviews (or 6.7%), seven pages of methodology (or 4.3%), seven pages sociology (or 4.3%), five pages given to the text of the report of the Consultative Catholic Committee on Prostitution and Homosexual Crimes and actual English law (the Griffin Report) (or 3%), five pages equally of reviews of works of history and literary history (or 3%), finally two pages of miscellaneous (that is, 1.2%).

In striking contrast with Arcadie "moral" questions-or those in the domain of interior conflict of the homosexual-are all but ignored by Homophile Studies; on the other hand, sociology, both under its historic and its actual aspect, occupies in the American publication a place which (perhaps wrongly) we reserve in Arcadie to the more traditional disciplines of history. Finally and especially abstract philosophy is absent from the pages of Homophile Studies: doubtless it is necessary to see at that point simply a reflection of the differences in perspective between education on the higher level on this side of the Atlantic and that on the other.*

*"Philosophy for the Homophile" by Dr. T. M. Merritt occupied seven pages in the Quarterly, Summer, 1959.

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