There are many homosexuals, who neither desire nor are suited for homophile marriage, that ridicule

what they call the "heterosexual" institution of marriage. This is only a clever twisting. Marriage is no more a strictly heterosexual social custom than are the social customs of birthday celebrations, funerals, house-warmings, or, for that matter, sleeping, eating, and the like. I participate in those, not because they are heterosexual or homosexual things, but because I am a human being. Being homosexual does not put one out of the human race. I am a human being, male and married to another male: not because I am aping heterosexuals, but because I have discovered that that is by far the most enjoyable way of life to me. And I think that's also the reason heterosexual men and woman marry, though some people twist things around to make it appear they are merely following convention.

After all, there must be something to marriage, else what is the reason for its great popularity? Marriage is not anybody's "convention". It is a way of living and is equally good for homosexuals and heterosexuals.

I think it is high time the modern homophile movement started paying more attention to homophile marriage. We are not living in the days of ancient Greece, our movement does not stem from those days, and it is not based on the homosexual ethics of those days.

Homophile marriage is not only a strictly modern idea that proves our movement today is something new in history, it is the most stable, sensible, and ethical way to live for homophiles. Our homophile movement is going to have to face, sooner or later, the problem of adopting a standard of ethics. We have got to start laying the groundwork. I can't think of a better way to begin than by pushing homophile marriage.

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Editorial on the scholarly and research importance of ONE's Library, by Leslie Colfax, Librarian. "Biological Factors in Sexual Behavior," by Dr. Ray Evans, clinical psychologist, an important paper in this or any other journal. Dr. Evans says, "The very fact that throughout the mammalian scale a great many more males than females engage in homosexual behavior is in itself suggestive of a a constitutional factor."

Part II, the concluding section of "A Study of Homosexuality in France during the Reigns of Louis XIII & Louis XIV," by Marc Daniel, translated here from the French for the first time.

The Indexes for Volumes I, II & III; Letters; Abstracts.

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