the heterosexual. It is just as neurotic to be afraid of embracing another man as it is to fear embracing a woman. It is normal and natural for men to live with women and to raise families. For

some men it is equally normal and natural to be able to express sexually their affection toward other men. I am not saying we must develop a bi-sexual culture. I am saying that bi-sexuality is probably as normal as heterosexuality and would occur more often in a healthy culture.

The Firm Handshake Just now American society is in a pretty bad way. We snicker when we see the French general kiss the soldier on both cheeks as he pins the medal on his chest.

THOUGHTS

THE LAW

We don't like another man to embrace us, or put his arm around us-we are the society of the swift firm handshake. Why? What are we really afraid of? My hunch is that there would be much less

homosexuality in the United States if we were not so afraid of it. The important thing in relations between two people is not

their sex, but their spiritual

selves. There can be no perversion when sex is used as a form of communication between people, to express love, affection, or respect. Such an attitude toward sex would be a liberating influence in every sphere of our society, and would do fàr more to eliminate the homosexual underground than all the laws we can pass.

All genuine progress results from finding new facts. No law can be passed to make an acre yield three hundred bushels. God has already established the laws. It is for us to discover them, and to learn the facts by which we can obey them.

-WHEELER MCMILLEN

Laws have their proper place, but the responsibility of worthy citizenship is a personal one. We each have a separate and individual share in eradicating social evils and in refusing to perpetuate practices odious to a free nation.

-HERBERT Brownell, Jr.

mattachine REVIEW

"Hello."

"Hi!"

Greetings

BY C. V. HOWARD

"Bill! What's the matter? Where are you?"

"I'm at the office. Down in the booth in the lobby. Why? Did I scare you?" "No. Well, yes, you did, too. It's only ten o'clock and you always phone between twelve and one. Is something wrong, Honey?”

"Nope, nothing's wrong. In fact, everything is right. I just got a yen to hear your voice so I sneaked down to call you. Isn't that something! I left you let's see exactly one hour and thirty-seven minutes ago and I've got so little willpower when it comes to you that I couldn't resist the urge to call and tell you I'm nuts about you. I guess I've really got it bad. What were you doing?" "Bill, honey, you're the sweetest guy in the world. And I'm the luckiest and happiest person in the world. I mean it – honestly, I have to pinch myself a hundred times a day to be sure that all this isn't just a beautiful dream. Honey it's so perfect that every time the phone rings I'm afraid that something has happened. Like now, for example you're sure nothing's wrong?”

"Not a thing in the world. For the first time in my life everything is right an you're what I needed to make everything right. Honestly, I'm just so damned two months ago who would eve happy that it worries me. And how about that have believed that this inhibited guy would be talking like a young bridegroom Stick with me and in a few more months I may turn into a real human being." "What were you doing? Did I drag you away from the dishpan or something?' "No, I ironed a couple of your shirts and I was just puttering around. Bill, what about the drapes in the bedroom? Honey, don't you think they'd look bett if...."

"Now, cut it out! That's your department. I've told you a dozen times you can do anything you want to in that department. You could hang up some old potato sacks at the windows and I wouldn't even notice. The only thing I want to see in that apartment when I come home is you. So relax about what I think just fix it up so you'll be happy. That's the thing that's important to me. If you're happy, I'm happy. Period. No, exclamation point.”