can, and almost always does in varying degree, succeed in living and functioning as an integrated part of society. He is not unlike the white "Negro" who tries to cross the color line; both can pass if they are willing to pay the price. To the extent that the homosexual can either suppress a basic instinct, or, indulging it, keep his activities hidden, to the extent that he can forego association with friends and those of similar tastes and interests, to the extent that he can pretend and dissimulate and still live with himself, to the extent that he can live with the apprehension that the merest chance, the slightest slip. may destroy him, the homosexual can pass as a citizen. How unnecessary this should be!

Perhaps it is really unfortunate that the homosexual does not have some immediately recognizable feature. If he had, his ghetto would probably long since have been constructed for him. Unpleasant as such a thought may be, it might well have focused attention on the magnitude and true nature of our problem long ago, and perhaps, just perhaps, society would already have recognized the futility and injustice of trying to suppress a basic human instinct by prejudice and discrimination.

Like you, Arcadie, we have no interest in creating a world of and for homosexuals. Like you, we would like to see the homosexual become simply another component of what is already a tremendously varied society. A first step toward this goal then is our own realization of our true position in present-day society. The second step is to make society equally aware of it.

There always have been injustices, and no doubt there always will be, yet from time to time society does correct some of them. At the moment the world at large is critically aware of the efforts of minority groups everywhere to achieve equality, and in

general society is sympathetic to that struggle. Why should we not take advantage of this predisposition toward justice, and endeavor to remove homosexuality from the realm of crime or sin or morals and place it where it truly belongs: in the realm of social and legal discrimination?

MINDS ARE LIKE PARACHUTES THEY FUNCTION ONLY WHEN OPEN

A bit trite, perhaps, but true nonetheless. When did you last whet your mind on a controversial, new idea? Why don't you see if you're still "up to snuff" and can either assimilate OR challenge a unique concept in a die-stamped 20th Century? . . . Or are you afraid to let your mind step out of line once in a while?

READ...

Dean Merritt's provoking article on Social Evolution-an orderly, thoughtful projection of mankind's next evolutionary step.

D. B. Vest's Is the Isophy the Next Step? An elaboration of Dean Merritt's work-summarily: Is mankind tending toward an ultimate, independently selfreproducing being?

Homophile Music-Music, the Hermaphroditic Art.

Buy your copy of ONE Institute's Quarterly #20 today and grapple with a new IDEA.

$1.50 per copy.

$5.00 per year. (4 Issues)

Send to:

ONE Institute Quarterly

2256 Venice Blvd. Los Angeles 6, Calif.

NAME

STREET

CITY

.ZONE.....STATE...