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their own without having to fight the homosexual's battles too. Therefore, to fight on our our own terms we must segregate ourselves in all possible ways from any other type of behaviour. This is the only way we will ever achieve even a little dignity and resp- ectability.

Other words already associated with homosexuality and which I do not believe FPs should use either publicly or privately when discussing our activities are, "gay", "camp", "trade" and "Mary" (as a descriptive term, not a name.) Doubtless there are others which do not come to mind at the moment but which should be avoided One cannot simply invent and impose a lot of terms on others, but I'll venture to make some suggestions and we'll see what cat- ches on and what others may come up with. Let's try to create our own descriptive terms which will not only serve between us, but when used to others will have implications and connotations that are true and descriptive of the FP way of life instead of that of "gayville's" denizens. For example, the most common term is to be "dressed" which serves, but which is rather confusing since it implies the opposite the rest of the time, namely,naked. Some of us have humorously referred to being in "mufti" as against being in "uniform". The former refers to what a soldier wears for his own pleasure and by choice as distinct from what he has to wear when on duty. Thus male clothes are a "uniform" since we have to wear them, while when wearing our attire of choice we are in "mufti". Or, when one wished to explain that he' had been to a party where everyone "dressed" he might say, "we were all 'on display' last night" or we had a "display" party at the Resort last weekend. Another and somewhat more feminine word would be, "we were 'feminating' last night". There are a lot of possibilities and in TVia #13 I will offer a glossary of new words to deal with various aspects of our "femilives" (as distinct from our "malives"). In the meantime why dont those of you who have some ideas along these lines send them in so that they can be included. I have some real long range plans which will in- volve having a bit of "new language" ready to use, so lets "get with it" and see what can be devised.