seriously about the problems of homosexuality from an objective point of view, and why is it that no one (it seems to me) bothers to even get the facts? (In the case of the Royal Commission, the evidence given by the Chief Constable of Metropolitan Toronto on page 27 of the Report is far from being based upon fact, and is no more than the personal unfounded assumptions of the man himself, when he speaks of "homosexuals" as a whole. His prejudice is beyond compare. Yet his remarks were accepted without any attempt to hear from the other side.) In the Commission's Report, besides the remarks of the Chief of Police, I have read remarks by psychiatrists and others which are simply untrue. We as a group are condemned on the basis of "evidence" submitted by the prosecution (so to speak), without the defendant even being given a chance to open his mouth. As far as homosexuals are concerned, they seem still to be facing the Court of Star Chamber. We are all judged on the basis of the contemptuous actions of a very small minority of homosexuals who may make themselves a public nuisance or danger. These same undesirables are to be found just as much in evidence among the heterosexual (normal) group, but no one would think of saying that the majority of heterosexuals are similarly undesirable, merely on the basis of this minority. Why does not the law judge individuals under such circumstances on the basis of their being a public nuisance or danger, without distinguishing whether they are homosexual or heterosexual?

I have discovered myself to be a homosexual. I did not ask to be so. I could not possibly be otherwise, regardless of how long I might be imprisoned, or even if my life was at stake. It is entirely beyond my control and beyond the control of any psychiatrist or law of man, regardless of what the psychiatrist may say. A psychiatrist may not really know unless he is able to see from the homosexual point of view.

I cannot explain it and I have asked myself a thousand times why it should be so, but I simply am not attracted to women, while on the other hand I have within me the capacity to be attracted to another boy (of about my own age). I could no more change this and be attracted to women than you could change and be attracted to men. It is exactly the same situation. It is most important for you to realize this.

I am not in the least dangerous or offensive to anyone. I have deep devotion for my country, my flag, and my Queen. Yet, if by the mercy of God I might one day meet a friend like myself, and, with the passage of time we might fall in love with one another (for God gave me the capacity to fall in love), and if we should express this love for each other in private in a way which would be natural to us, and if we should be discovered and reported to the police, as I understand it we would be criminals in the eyes of the Law of Canada, and could be given an indeterminate sentence which could amount to life imprisonment. Mr. Fulton, how can it be possible for such a thing to happen in Canada?

I believe that a large part of the answer to the great intoleration, and persecution of the homosexual lies in the ignorance of most individuals as to the true nature of homosexuality. They fail to realize that homosexuals are exactly the same as everyone else except for one thing and one thing alone that they have the capacity to be attracted to members of their own sex and not members of the opposite sex. That is all! Such things as effeminacy, perversity, dishonesty, immorality, and all the rest, have no more to do with the homo-

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