ONE Symposium

THE HOMOSEXUAL IN THE 'ROUND'

That much has come to light in the past few years with respect to the homosexual and the fields of psychology and the law, but little is known as yet as regards history, sociology, anthropology, philosophy and religion was brought out forcefully during a concentrated week of lectures conducted by ONE Institute in San Francisco during November.

Since researchers apparently are not particularly interested in pursuing the subject of the homosexual in these other fields, members of the staff of ONE Institute have taken the job upon themselves in order that we may have a more composite picture of the homosexual. Only a small portion of the vast amount of material that has been gathered in the past two years was presented during the Symposium sponsored by the Daughters of Bilitis, and it is hoped that future lectures can be arranged.

While the material presented by W. Dorr Legg and Jim Kepner was very enlightening, it was found that the facts necessarily led to a great many questions which must be answered before a true picture of homosexuality can bo obtained: In the study of the various cultures, is there a homosexual constant? Why were homosexual institutions not as developed for the female as for the male? Is homosexuality an emergent factor? Does the homosexual servo a useful purpose in society? Does Nature require that all men procreate? What is natural? Is naturalness uniform? Are sex acts only for the purpose of re-

production?

There is the challenge and ONE Institute is coming up with some of the answers! It would be prohibitive here to attempt to review a solid week of lectures. Suffice it to say that those who attended the series went away more thoughtful of the homosexual's place in the scheme of things, more aware of "the homosexual in the round", more questioning of the so-called facts that have been handed down to us and accepted as gospel, more leery of

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