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tions prior to Zeus and his siblings. In Plato's Symposium, Pausanias advanced the proposition that there were really two goddesses of love

the rocks called Aphrodite (Venus), the older

and superior one, the daughter of

Uranus (the Uranian Aphrodite) be-

NOEL I. GARDE ing identified with homosexual love and the younger, more vulgar one, the daughter of Zeus, being identified with heterosexual love.

May I use this section of the magazine for a "good deed" message to whom it may concern. I have noted an increasing number of homosexual organizations drawing upon classical terms to find a name, i.e. Janus, Dionysus, Demophil, all of them rather thoroughly inappropripriate.

Meanwhile, the best of all possible words, completely appropriate, mellifluous and of unimpeachable credentials, goes a-begging. The word is Uranian, from the Greek word for heavenly, identified with the sky-god Uranus, first ruler of the universe and two genera-

From this, scholarly German homosexuals, during the great days of the German homosexual renaissance, derived the word uranian to refer to themselves (In colloquial German it came out urning). For many decades this word was used in the works of the great sexologists. In recent decades it has passed into oblivion.

It's about time Uranian was revived, certainly for organizational use and quite possibly, in addition, as a charming, stigma-free, confusion-free term for homosexual.