EDITORIAL

We are surrounded by heterosexual propaganda. Who is the homophile that can escape it? We get it from newspapers, movies, the pulpit, bus ads, TV. Conform! Think like everybody else! Marry! Breed like rabbits and overpopulate this earth! Even pure sixes on the Kinsey Scale must listen to this shrill apologia for heterosexuality.

The cause of heterosexuality is unknown.

It has always been with us.

It is found in all walks of life.

True, during the really great epochs in history, Egypt, Greece, the Renaissance, those fabulous periods when civilization really flowered and took its rare mighty leaps forward, heterosexuality was kept in its place and at its minimum. But the cult of the masses and of conformity always rises again.

Heterosexuality is part of our mammalian heritage. And, considering the propaganda barrage, the wonder is that homophiles can survive and live as homophiles in these times. True, some fall by the wayside. Latent heterosexuality is a potential in each of us. We have all seen cases, pitiful attempts at conformity. Those are the ones who cannot withstand the propaganda, who lose their individuality. And when that happens, that tiny core of genius-potential that is unique in each of us dies. Warp the sexuality of the individual, then you maim that genius-potential at birth. The very word "individual" means "non-divisible, -a person who remains whole. It is not for nothing that it is a fact (and a fact which has always puzzled heterosexual scientists, philosophers, and moralists) that homophiles never willingly seek to change their sexuality. And it is not for nothing that it is a fact (and oh! how they try to obscure it) that the great periods in history have been the most homosexual.

ONE is a ten-year-old bulwark against all this propaganda for conformity. Don't look for Mass Appeal in ONE. History is made by individuals, and ONE is for the individual.

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Alison Hunter Women's Editor

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