the sexuality of the natives of Trindad and the Caribbean area. According to my penfriend, sex in general is a rather quite open. public sort of thing in the everyday life there. This is reflected quite lustily (and lustfully) in the popular music of the area, even the popular records. My friend sent me quite a few popular 45s and among them was "Mr. Vaseline." I played that record over and over and it seems to me to have a homosexual theme in the lyric, as near as I could make out the way the native singer spoke English. Did you also come to that conclusion? It seems to me that my friend in Trinidad mentioned that both heterosexual and homosexual themes in the lyrics of songs are quite common. Homosexuality in the the Caribbean area is evidently regarded generally in a sort of light, even sometimes jocular manner. This is true among the natives (non-whites), but not probably among the white residents.

To emphasize the general attitude towards homosexuality there, my pen-friend sent me a lengthy clipping from a Port of Spain newspaper, a detailed account of an all-male wedding which had taken place near Georgetown, British Guiana. It seems that there had been quite a large number of persons in attendance at the wedding. (There had been an admission charge of, I think, 50 cents.) So many people came to the wedding that it caused quite a traffic jam and police had to come take charge of the traffic. In the account of the wedding, all the participants had quite fanciful names. e.g. the pants had quite fanciful names.

The whole article was most amusing, I thought, but to the natives of that area it was probably regarded simply as an account of another social event. According to my pen-friend, such open homosexuality is even more common and and open in British Guiana than in Trinidad. There have been perhaps a very few all-male weddings in Trinidad, but they were of a much quieter nature, a local happening of that sort not being played up big as it would be if it happened outside of the West Indies Federation. Even so, there is no police intervention if such a wedding takes place, so long as there is no disturbance of the peace.

From other clippings that my pen-friend sent me, I would judge that the authorities take more note of homosexuality if a white resident is caught in a sexual act with a native man. In prosecution for such an act, I have the feeling, however, that the authorities are censuring the white man more for being so indiscriminate in his choice of a sexual partner, i.e., a man of a different color, than for the homosexual act itself.

Mr. R. D. L. Indiana

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