experiences of his teenage years occurred when he applied for a driver's license two years later than the age limit. Brother tried for three years to teach him to drive. Things seemed hopeless but Charles couldn't take the no-license stigma much longer. The day for his test came and Father, backing down at the last minute, refused to take him to the test station. Mother took over as usual and escorted son. He passed but the memory of Father's humiliation has been with him ever since. Charles could not wait to get away from home and South Carolina. After college ("the family school, of

course

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great football team and

that's it type"), he set his sights on New York and emancipation.

Today he is one of "Eugene's" boys. He has lost most of his effeminacy. Voice lessons, butch clothes,, the YMCA, a tennis coach and a bevy of male friends have renovated Charles. Refusing to admit his homosexual tendencies even to himself while still in school, he has "come out" completely in Gotham's gay society through the aid of business associates. Charles was always aware of homosexuals before but due to the "crime against nature" aura the South places on the subject he "dared not even think about it." "I didn't want to end up in the nut house." It did not take long for a couple of fellow workers at the advertising agency to get through to him, and today he is one of the most popular "tricks" in town.

Another habitue of "Eugene's" is twenty-year-old Orrin, one of three sons of a prominent New Jersey business tycoon. Both brothers are married and Orrin is living at home. Finishing one year of college, he now works for his mother's brother doing odd jobs in his factory. Mother explains: "Orrin just wasn't interested in college and I thought

it best for him to work for my brother rather than his father since they don't get along too well." "Not getting along too well" actually means they haven't had a civil word. for each other since Father discovered son's "tendencies" (via Mother). Today Orrin is having a blast. Tall, shamefully good-looking and with money to afford handsome clothes and a smart car, he enjoys every feature of New York's gay living: an endless round of parties, week-end trips to the gay beaches, cruising at "Eugene's" (where he has the "pick" of the house) and many favors from admiring and aging compatriots. Orrin lives for week-ends, since working for uncle is "a job and nothing more." "It's something to do until I decide what I really want out of life," he further explains. He doesn't read, has no hobbies, and though athletic in appearance he doesn't enjoy sports enough to work at them. His only raison d'etre for the present is to be found Friday, Saturday, and Sunday cruising and being cruised, playing at the little intricacies of gay life, and in his own words: "looking and looking and looking."

Looking is an important part of the life of another "Eugene's" client. "I am constantly looking for scmeone or something. That seems to be the sum total of my homosexual experience," says Harvard-educated Tom. Like Charles, Tom was not bothered by his tendencies in college. "I was just too damm busy to think about it." High school was another matter. His sexual interests today seem to be firmly rooted in his earlier experiences. He prefers orgies to private affairs and is strongly repelled by certain features of gay life attempts at "marriage" between two lovers, assuming feminine roles in society by some homosexuals. "This type of stuff makes the

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