is not in financial straits and does not desire employment for a while, but he believes he will have difficulty when he does again seek it. His difficulties developed largely out of a very vicious blackmail and extortion situation. He had become very friendly with some one who was always in debt and in danger of losing his job as a result of garnishment of his wages. So under threats of exposure to my friend's employer (the Government), this fellow wrings about a thousand dollars from my friend to pay creditors, and has repaid none of it to my friend. The last time he asked for more money, it was refused, whereupon he exposed my friend so that he lost his job. All of which goes to show the possibilities inherent in blackmail it can happen in Jealousy cases where there have been strong ties and mutual understandings.

"I know of another person who was thrown out of the Government following an arrest for soliciting a plainolothe sman. Since then he has been out of work most of

the time for three or four years, despite a Masters degree. He dug ditches along with other manual laborers for a while.

"I think the average employer, whether government or private business, prefers not to hire or retain homosexuals on account of the prevailing mores and the stigma which attaches to the employer because of the presence of homosexuals, who usually become known as such whether

"WIND WOMAN

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