EDITORIAL

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The ever-present debate regarding society's responsibility toward the homosexual versus the homosexual's responsibility toward society continues undiminished. While ONE Magazine tries to print all viewpoints on the homosexual problem ranging from the most individualistic complaint against any conformity whatever to the one which pleads for outward conformity, at least, or even to the one which is hostile and damning, there is no time like the present to speak of the homosexual's responsibility to society. Responsibility is a two-way thing. We cannot expect those who act and think differently from us to respect our rights and to seek to understand us, unless we are willing to respect their rights and seek to understand them.

The matter of non-conformity in outward dress is, I feel, truly a very minor issue placed against the larger responsibilities of the homophile. Only a tiny group of people in the homophile minority indulge in the practice of defying society in such a blatant and unprofitable manner as dressing or acting in public like a member of the opposite sex. For

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