The heterosexual minority

by

Andrew Bradbury

The idea that the majority of human beings are homosexual will strike many as amusing. How could it be possible that a vast majority of homosexuals are intimidated and kept in line by a minority of heterosexuals? Those whose main goal in life is to be precise in verbal definition will be irritated by the impressionistic thrust of my efforts to define by painting pictures, a means of definition more emotionally adequate than mere verbal symbols. Because it is obviously crucial how one defines the word "homosexual" in order to determine who is the minority, many are irritated if not angered when one does not stick to the dictionaries and psychological studies written by the heterosexual minority's establishment.

Kinsey was one of the first to challenge the establishment, by conclusively showing that a majority of men have "homosexual experience' at one time or another. The assumption of the establishment, of course, is that most of this "experience' is childish play, like adolescent masturbation, and that in time-when physical maturation is completed-this adolescent play

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is outgrown. This essay, of course, would not question the fact that a vast majority of the population does indeed enter into satisfactory heterosexual relationships in marriage. An interesting footnote at this point is the question, as yet inadequately studied, of how many homosexuals are married in this way.

Now let us paint a couple of pictures. Who is a Negro? In Brazil anyone who has a fraction of white blood is white, so a person with 90% Negro blood is considered white. In the United States a person with a fraction. of Negro blood is Negro, even though he be 90% white. Now the question is how shall we apply this problem to "homosexuals?" Nearly everyone has some homosexual impulses and experience. What percentage of homosexual impulses and experience makes him homosexual? 2%, 10%, 30%, 60%, 90%? Nearly everyone has some heterosexual impulses and experience. What percent makes one heterosexual? 10%, 30%, 60%, 90%, 100%?

The heterosexual establishment, which the present generation of young