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The next matter of terminology that is important is that of avoiding words which give the wrong connotation. The phenomena of guilt by association is, unfortunately, all too common in present day America. by the old expression, "A man is known by the com- pany he keeps". It therefore behooves FPs who are interested in establishing a separate identity, psychiatrically speaking, and a reasonable and understandable explanation for their feelings and behaviour for presentation to the world and to specific relatives and friends, to stay as far away as possible from words, express- ions and actions that are already associated in the public mind with other behaviour patterns. I have reference, of course, to homosexuality. As all of us know, this pattern has been known for millenia and while heterosexual cross dressers have doubtless been around equally long, their existance as a separate identity wes not recognized until the work of Hirschfeld, Havelock Ellis and others around the turn of the century. Unfortunately, inspite of the work of these knowing men many other psychiatrists and the public at large make no distinction between heterosexual and homo- sexual cross-dressers, classing them all as the latter with the humiliating sub-division of "latent" homosexuality applied to those who show no manifestation of it. With this type of classification we can't win, and this is why it is necessary to establish a new terminology, new definitions, even a new slang if necessary, while at the same time avoiding the words already identified with homo- sexual behavior.

I have particular reference here to the use of the word "drag", such as "being in drag", going somewhere "in drag". This term re- fers to and is understood by everybody who knows the word as refer- ring to homosexual queens who wear women's attire as part of their sexual appeal to other men. I refuse to use the word in this mag- azine except where it refers to obviously homosexual activities at gatherings like the Artists and Models ball which could be called a "drag ball".

Again, let me emphasize that I have nothing against homosex- uale, male or female. I believe in the slogans of "Live and Let Live", and "To Each His Own", but FPs have a big enough battle of