OPEN LETTER:

THE HONORABLE DAVIE FULTON

OTTAWA, ONTARIO

CANADA

DEAR MR. FULTON:

I will try to be brief and not waste too much of your time, but I feel deep within me that I must write to you.

I am enclosing the article in the last (October, 1959) issue of ONE Magazine, published in Los Angeles, regarding the recent Royal Commission on "The Criminal Law Relating to Criminal Sexual Psychopaths." (I have in my possession a copy of the Commission Report.)

I am at present a student at McGill University. As I was growing up in High School, around the age of 13 or 14 I began to realize that I am what people call a homosexual. I discovered that I was not being attracted to girls as most of the other fellows were, but found that at various stages I would have a great admiration for another boy. This I could not understand, but this is the way I was ever since I can remember.

I have never been in a bar in all my life. I do not drink, I do not smoke, I do not take the name of the Lord in vain. I do not interfere with the actions of anyone else. Indeed there are very few people who know I am a homosexual. In my family only my mother knows, because I told her. She did not know before that. There is nothing anyone can observe about me to make them even suspect my state.

I understand there are about 8000 students at McGill. According to the law of averages there should therefore be about 400 homosexuals attending the University. Of this number from 200 to 300 are most likely men (since the student body is made up of far more men than women). It is a fact that I do not know one other homosexual here, and again it is most likely that I shall go through my entire course and never meet one.

I firmly believe in the reality of the Almighty God, and I know that His Son Jesus Christ is my Redeemer and Lord. I am a member of His Church and try as much as possible to live the Christian life. Were it not for my faith in the supreme justice and love of God my life would be almost unbearable. I am sustained by the words of Jesus when He challenged His disciples to take up their cross daily and follow Him.

I cannot understand why homosexuals as a group are so persecuted and discriminated against in Canada, a nation which prides itself in its traditions of freedom, democracy, and justice ("the true North strong and free"). I realize that responsibility and self-discipline must accompany individual freedom, and are a part of that freedom. But to me "JUSTICE" is a sour word because all around me I see the principle of Justice being violated in the most flagrant ways, by the police and by the Courts-while all the time our society as a whole and the law-maintaining agencies as a whole are so blinded they cannot see the wrong they are doing!

Why is it that no one in important or influential circles dares to even speak

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