And how about the collection of huge phalli on open display in the Louvre for everyone's delight? Phooey on your critics. I especially enjoy your "tangent" and the letters from subscribers.

Now, have I praised enough?

Dear friend S. M.:

Mr. B. C. Saginaw, Mich.

This is to tell you that I liked your story of Guy Burgess, but not the conclusions you derive from it, (see "tangent" Nov. 1963).

First thing: what are your sources? Where does the story of Burgess' death come from? You do not name the papers (Russian or English.) Is it a story by an unknown correspondent? As far as I know, no German paper reported Burgess' death.

I have translated your comments for distribution in several German homophile publications, and I would rewrite the story for a press service if I had a few more facts to go on.

Secondly, it was no merit for Burgess to stand by his homosexuality rather than not. He is homosexual not by his own decision. in the matter but by his unconscious instincts. The proportion of free will is small.

We are not allowed to betray our country although some homosexuals and hetero. sexuals do so. Such behavior has nothing to do with one's sexual orientation, and the fight to integrate homosexuals into society generally should not get mixed up with a defensive reaction against possible traitors. The thing we must fight against is the socalled defensive instinct in heteroexual men. Jack Argo

Hamburg, Germany

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EDITOR'S NOTE:

The facts surrounding Burgess' death in Moscow were amply reported in most U. S. newspapers. S. M. relied on The Washington D.C. Evening Star, Sept. 12, 1963, and The Miami Herald, Sept. 3, 1963.

Dear Editor:

The question is often asked: "What makes a homo"?

My answer would be: "The experience" -by comparing the thrills that the homo and the heterosexual relations are able to provide. One is unable to tell in a very young child his future qualities. The painter, the writer, the sculptor or musician will reveal these things in himself later on when he comes into contact with the respective

arts.

Likewise a homo can only decide, when through direct experience both homo and hetero, he knows what it is all about. He has to have gone through the failure of fulfillment in heterosexual relations and that of fulfillment through the success homosexual relations give. So when you analyse in this fashion what homo sex satisfaction is composed of you have the answer why a boy or or a girl becomes a fervent homo. It is surely a satisfaction they don't get through hetero sex technic. No long courtship is needed, the fulfillment is right at hand. The reason for the stigma attached to homo behavior results from the anal contact of this group. Many persons cannot understand how the homo can have fun at a place where others only soil themselves. The stigma is entirely lacking with the lesbian.

Fellation and cunnilingus are very common in the ordinary sex life of men and women. And as the disciples of Sappho do practically the same thing, the silence of cahoots is accorded to the lesbians by heterosexual people. If the male homo would only stick to fellatio, he would benefit by the same silence.

A point of credit for the homos of both sexes, is that they never, but never-ever force a soul into an unwanted physical body -to create an unwanted child-a horrible thing that is done everyday by the thousands who are so proud of their "normal" sex relations.

Dr. D. M.

Los Angeles, California

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