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WURRA AND WURRA!

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Edmund Bergler has asked whether homosexuality is "a Disease Way of Life." Havelock Ellis called homosexuality an inversion, Albert Ellis, a neurosis. The Freudians consider it a perversion. At ONE we have for years examined the theories and sifted the evidence and, along with the experience of our own lives, have concluded that homosexuality is more nearly a way of life than anything else. We have certainly never believed it to be a philosophy, nor would we know quite what that philosophy would consist of if we did. In some of our Institute classes and in articles in the Quarterly we have related homosexuality and philosophy, but we have never, nor has anyone else to our knowledge, been acquainted with homosexual philosophy.

Imagine our surprise then when the other morning a handsome, red-bearded, young gentleman walked into ONE's office to announce that he would like to talk to us about the "World Assn. for Education to End Homosexual Philosophy." Our first reaction was to wonder how it is possible to put an end to something that doesn't already exist however much we may wish it did? Our second was to want to hear more of what our visitor had to say.

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WAEEHP

He turned out to be Jack LaVelle, a dealer in Old Rare and Curious Books and writer, from Manhattan Beach. Although he wore the long chin hairs and came from the beach, he declared he was no beatnik but a man who simply found shaving too uncomfortable to endure. He had been approached some months before by a local saloon-owner, C. K. Andrews who asked him to write a prospectus or pamphlet which would encourage support for Andrews' California chartered Corporation, explaining that he was Director of WAEEHP and producing letterhead stationery and membership cards which read, "World Assn. for Education to End Homosexual Philosophy," C. K. Andrews, Direc-

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Mr. LaVelle, who actually had no more reason to want to suppress homosexual philosophy than Parkinson's Law, accepted the job merely as a paid paid writing assignment. Armed with Andrews' childishly uneducated outline of a "collection of homosexual injustices," Mr. LaVelle came immediately to ONE's offices to make notes on the philosophy he was supposed to help put an end to. The aims and of purposes WAEEHP as stated in the completed pamphlet, a smallish fold-over printed on high quality paper, are

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