A NEW BOOK OF PRIMARY INTEREST TO DORIAN READERS!

From Julian Press, New York

The Homosexual Revolution

R. E. L. Masters

Says the author:

The book has been written to, as well as about, those persons actively engaged in the homophile movement. It seemed to me that you might profit from learning how the movement appears to an outsider-one who wishes you well in some of your efforts, but who is not so uncritical as a person involved in the movement is likely to be.

I believe that my book, if it has any effect at all, will do you much more good than harm in the long run. It is always possible that there will be an initial tumult. But those who were your enemies before will not think any the worse of you; while those who are not your implacable enemies may be. moved to protest the many violations of your fundamental civil and human rights that I have cited in the book.

Astonishing details of the constructive and (sometimes) ridiculous efforts of the groups which comprise the "homophile movement" in America today. Says Donald Webster Cory of this book: "To say :hat no one can be well informed about homosexuality in the U. S. from this time on, without reading :his book, is to say the obvious.

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ADVICE TO OLDER HOMOSEXUALS to whom he feels, drawn and whom he sus pects to be gay, are out of bounds because REVIEW EDITOR: Mr. J. H. D. of Marythey are quite manly and if it turned out land is far luckier than he thinks. He at that they were not gay, he could not bear least has come to grips with his problem their contempt, while if they are gay (and and what is more he has discovered the thinking themselves successfully maskmeans to his solution, even though he being themselves from someone straight) it wails the expense. He knows how to find would be unbearable to him to disillusion gay bars and male prostitutes. But what them. Complicated, isn't it? of the man who comes to understand the full import of his latency (puns, always puns!) so late in life that he finds him self inextricably bound up with his heterosexual lifetime? What of the man who doesn't know how to go about being gay, even expensively?

I have been unable to help him, for. I do not know the answers either. I do not know whether he should try to find his way into the gay world even if he learned how to do it. I have advised him, therefore, to in crease his preoccupation with the many intellectual interests he now has, to I have been attempting to counsel à man broaden his intellectual companionship to of about my own age, which is to say in include persons of other ethnic groups his early fifties, whose wife is selfish with which he has had only occasional and infantile and has been considerably contact, though he has lived abroad, and less than a wife for a number of years in general to develop his activities among (either because she was dimly aware of men with whom he is in rapport, without his latency and reacted to it, or perhaps, concerning himself over the overtly sex because she was always frigid, though ual aspects. He is still vigorous and, if I desirous, and hence felt spitefully that take off my bifocals, he looks slim and he was not giving her her due; at any rate young; but he is fifty and more and he has shehas so worked on him that by his midonly to look at me with bis bifocals to forties he was virtually impotent with her), know that at our age we do not really look and so pushed his latency by disrupting any longer young, no matter how recently his heterosexuality until his homosexualwe did so. Inside we feel the same; alas, ity which he now believes himself always we do not look timeless. As you said, on; to have had, erupted into his conscious "The Rejected", men of that age, if they ness. After all, do not all the books say are gay, have usually made their adjust that accepting one's homosexuality is ment, found their companions. There are often the thing onefights the most strong less possible choices, of course, even if ly and refuses the most adamantly to face they were available otherwise, merely bes up to, until he must? cause we have reached that age. Not every In his case, by the time he faced it, it homosexual lives to be fifty (not every was too late. There were friends and above heterosexual does either-this is no real all relatives, including grown and married consolation to any of us who have done children, who would be badly hurt and so, and it does not console him). dismayed if he abandoned his increasingly As for J. H. D.'s plaint that younger shrewish wife. He is afraid to habituate men should be kinder. Perhaps, if it is gay bars, and in San Francisco all bars true that homosexuals are more sensitive are both gay and straight, one hears. He to others' feelings, as is often claimed. is afraid of being scomed as an "auntie" Perhaps they should be. But we are makif he pursues an acquaintanceship with a companion who is gay, and he is afraid of being arrested if he should attempt to strike up one with someone who is actual ly straight. Several young or younger men

ing that assumption on facts or on the basis of notable examples of homosexuals who were sensitive and the presumption that anyone who is sensitive is, in some measure, homosexual.