and a happy collaboration with him on one article, that brought forth in the minds of us the idea that the time had come for a new look at the homosexual and his society: a new view from within.

What are the major changes, as I see them, in the dozen years from the First to the Second Cory Report? I would enumerate the following:

1. The emergence of the homophile movement, as a legal and, in all probability, a somewhat permanent part of the American scene.

2. The simultaneous acceptance of the concept of the homosexual as a minority group (a concept widespread both among homosexuals and others in the population) and the growing consciousness of minority-majority group problems in this country. In a statement that is still little understood, but which I would like to see emblazoned at the masthead of every piece of homophile literature, Henrik Ibsen said, in An Enemy of the People: "The minority is always in the right."

3. The growing feeling of pride in oneself, in group identification, in realization that one is a worthwhile being, among homosexuals.

4. The intensification of interest in and sympathy for all emotional disturbances among American people, including (although to a lesser extent) those whose emotional difficulties are in the realm of the sexual.

5. The breakthrough in mass media, the decline of the wall of silence, so that homosexuality, once little discussed, becomes the subject of articles, radio and television programs, and numerous books.

6. The increase of open, overt and unhidden homosexual behavior, possibly (although not surely) representing an increase in total homosexual behavior. There are more gay bars, more places on beaches and streets where people meet and congregate, and a decline in the suppressive spirit,

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in favor of a "live and let live" attitude.

7. As a result and perhaps also as a cause of the increased overt behavior, the open and widespread homosexual hustling. It has been suggested by authorities that there are more men in the United States engaged in prostitution than women, although the men are mainly part-timers, indulging in these acts on occasion, and there are far more acts of heterosexual than of homosexual prostitution engaged in in this country.

8. The recognition of the problem of veneral disease among homosexuals, and in all likelihood the increase in the incidence of such disease, for reasons that have not been adequately analyzed.

9. The emergence among homosexuals of a stereotype hitherto little known: the muscle man, the compulsively masculine he-man, requiring a completely new evaluation of the masculine-feminine components in the homosexual life.

10. The challenge to anti-homosexual laws, anti-homosexual regulations regarding government employment and army service; the feeling that society and not the homosexual is the culprit.

With these and other changes in the social scene, it was time to reap. praise. In collaboration with a man who could see this society from the viewpoint of one swept up in the changes, whereas I saw it as one who watched and (to a limited extent) helped to initiate some of the changes, a new look at the homosexual and his society was called for. Some will find (as some did in my previous work) that I have emphasized the sick, the neurotic, the disorganized, the negative; others that I have glorified. Actually, LeRoy and I have tried to paint the truth as we see it and as we experience it.

More than that cannot be asked.

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