Effeminacy serves as an integrating, tension-releasing, often enjoyable part of many homosexual's lives. If effeminate homosexuals are considered an embarrassing burden to the homosexual movement, I think you have rejected a good many of your friends.

I can't really believe that you would purposely have done this. Perhaps it is your magnanimous Mom's unconscious attitude showing through the syrupy kindness overcompensating the hate she feels for her son's disgracing her. I wonder if he's at all effeminate. At any rate, let's not discriminate among different types of homosexuals. All homosexuals need understanding and accept-

ance.

Don Slater:

Mr. E. J. Chicago, Ill.

I was rather struck by the reprint in ONE of the article originally appearing in Der Kreis-struck by the author's total neglect of the important aspects of Genet's genius. Genet doesn't need me to defend him, but I wish someone would write about him from a different angle. Readers of ONEhomosexuals in general-discourage me time

and again by the narrowness of their views. I am probably wrong in expecting anything extraordinary.

The average educated person must realize that the categories of good and evil (the social score card) just don't make sense in real life. Life is beyond all that as the true genius makes us aware. We don't recognize our gods because they are "good" in an ordinary sense-but because they have power, "magic".

Genet has this magic. The ninny writing for Der Kreis obviously motivated by the same politicking which leads the American blacks to protest whenever one of their race is portrayed on stage or screen as anything but a stereotype of a tin Jesus. Or that leads the NAACP to agitate for entry into the prison of the white-collar middle-class world USA style.

Someone has written of Genet (Edwin Morgan in The Outsider): 'Homosexuality, in his hands, produces for the first time the direct, overall, overt, inspiration of a series of inescapable works of art.' In other words, Genet swings.

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