maybe psychiatrists about the applicants for insurance. This is of course a violation of the patientdoctor relationship, but even worse the insurance companies are obviously discriminating against certain men and women because of their private sex life. If one man, who happens to be homosexual is a bad risk, this is no more reason for branding all homosexuals bad risks than it would be if the same man were heterosexual. One New York company in this respect is the worst offender. Along the same line, Negroes have either had to fight for honest rates, or form their own insurance companies.

Too many homosexuals are too eagerly conforming. They wouldn't think of going to Lesbos for a look. at the island where the poet Sappho was supposed to have thrown herself into the sea. They would be afraid that people might think. them queer for being interested. But of course Jackie Kennedy is only normal, so didn't think twice. about satisfying her normal curiosity. Too many lesbians run away from the honest curiosity and the search and hide in pseudo-religious groups.

Paul Coates, in an article in the LA Times discussed a problem which affects the homosexual minority as it has all others, and in the same paper Dear Abby had a most interesting letter and answer. Coates was writing about the attempt of minorities to boycott any individual or organization which tended to give the minority a "bad press." The motion picture industry got so afraid of portraying Negroes as servants till the warmth and humor of Louise Beavers was denied the world. All Negroes are not Ralph Bunches. There are dirty Negroes and clean ones, etc. No minority is any better or worse than

the rest of the population. So for the homosexual to feel that he is hurt by the portrayal of a swish, is nothing more than self-rejection. and a desire to hide one side of his nature which he may feel is that of the swish. A homosexual who is not swish and who does not fear his own nature does not feel endangered by the swish, nor does he feel that he must compensate to prove that he isn't. And, in Dear Abby we have a clue to why the homosexuals get bad press. Just Wondering writes: "Our family is small, and we have many single friends (bachelors, divorcees and widows) whom we frequently invite to share a meal or an outing. Our children have often asked why the single men and women we invite so often never invite us for anything. At first we told them it was neither necessary nor expected. But the more we thought about it, the more we began to wonder -why don't they? They wouldn't have to include the children. I wonder why 'singles' think nothing of repeatedly accepting invitations from their married friends, but rarely reciprocate." Abby answers: "Many do. Only those 'singles' who feel they have been invited out of charity do not consider themselves obligated and therefore make no effort to reciprocate."

This is a good answer, and most homosexuals are very good about repaying kindnesses. But there is the minority in our minority that thinks nothing of accepting things without a thanks. In our own case ONE has often had calls from non-member homosexuals who are in jail and have no one to aid them. We have given them attorneys and bail bond, and then most have run away without making good their word.

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