Jirgin Diews by Virginia

AN EDITORIAL

ON HOMOSEXUALITY

Homosexuality has been a subject of great concern to society for thousands of years. And because it has been a concern of society, it has also been the concern of FPs for the simple and obvious reason that in the ignorance of the difference between gender and sex, under which most of humanity labors, femmiphilia, as we know it, and homosexu- ality are one and the same thing. Consequently any social antagonism toward homosexuality was social antagonism toward the femmiphile. But not only do we have to deal with the antagonism of society, but in our development we have had to deal with the antagonism of ourselves, in the sense that being part of that society, being trained according to society's dictates and ignorances and predjudices, we have found our- selves in the peculiar position of not being interested sexually in other males but being aware nevertheless that society considered that we were, and in our ignorance, wondering ourselves if our own feelings were right or whether society's feelings were right. Thus the great conflict that exists at some stage in every FP's life, "Am I, or am I not, a homo- sexual?" It seems to me that a discussion of homosexuality is in order in our pages so that we can generate amongst ourselves a better per- ception of this phenomena.

I have some things to say on the subject which I don't expect every- one to agree with, in fact I am quite willing to predict that they won't. But at least they ought to be thought provoking, and whenever thought is provoked, it usually generates a little clearer insight than would have been the case without it.

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