such ridiculous fellows as worthy of anything other than contempt and derision?

With this thought in mind, may suggest that the swishing, giggling "Nellie" is just as much a figure for ridicule? Who can take them seriously? After all, these 'faggots' are all homosexuals, so why bother to consider any so-called problems that any homosexual may have, much less grant him even a tiny niche in the structure of modern life? It is a reality of our contemporary society that part of any Public Relations program is the formulation of a suitable group image to be presented to the public, prior to the campaign to win approval.

Speaking quite subjectively, I shall state that 'faggots' were my first contact with homosexual life. I found them repugnant and silly, as I still do. They aroused in me a strong anti-homophile feeling. It was many years before I began to realize and appreciate the breadth of personality included under the single word "homosexual." I can only humbly suggest that perhaps my own experience is not unique.

The other great goal is sexual enlightenment. It is painfully obvious. that most of us do not understand ourselves in relation to this great drive. Divorce courts prove it. Marriage counsellors and psychiatrists deal with problem after problem. Books are sold by the gross, explaining "How to," with diagrams. Family magazines devote page after page to saccharine sermonettes. Churches thunder about adultery and chastity. How many instances can you recall, personally, of teen-agers making tragic experiments, trying to learn by themselves that which could not be taught them or even be discussed with them? Ask a call-girl about the habits of her business contacts-she can tell you endless anecdotes of

fumbling, confusion, fear, guilt, deflated egos seeking reassurance. But why go on with a list of indictments that could become endless?

All I am trying to point out here is that we heterosexuals have a pretty tough time coping with something we have been told is "right and natural." How then can we ever begin to tolerate something which we have been taught is just the opposite?

This is why sexual enlightenment is so necessary for us all. Sex must become familiar and friendly, not secretive, furtive, dirty. When it is no longer an enigma, and each of us understands it in relation to himself, then will we be able to understand the facets of sex which we cannot accept at present. The loudest damner of homosexuality is the one who is least sure of where he stands.

Whatever a homosexual can do to stimulate dissemination of sexual knowledge will, of course, benefit him and his own life, but he will actually be benefited doubly. He will be helping the heterosexual to understand his own drives, and thus to become free of the tensions and guilt that block his capacities for understanding. When that day comes, the heterosexual will be able to see the homophile's way of life with an unclouded. eye and a hitherto impossible understanding.

As an afterthought, one more point comes to mind. If a homosexual way of life holds sufficient value for enough people, it is to their own benefit to unite and undertake a mutual effort to combat prejudice. But, if the majority of homophiles prefer to remain irresponsible individuals, each seeking a night's pleasure whereever it may be, and whimpering into his Martini about a cold, cruel world, there appears to be little or no hope of his status changing in any way, except for the worse.

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