the present discussion.

It is my feeling that many homosexuals devote themselves to the performing arts, and eventually become proficient in those arts largely because they are interested in achieving fame and approval rather than because they are truly creative. Moreover, homosexuals in our society usually have considerable experience at acting in their real-life roles, since to be thoroughly honest about their homosexuality might well be disastrous at times."

Dr. Ellis also notes that the creative fields in which homosexuals seem to excel are almost exclusively the artistio and esthetic rather than the scientific, professional, managerial and other fields.

HOMOSEXUALS TOO SELF-INTERESTED

"Becaused fixed and inverted homosexuals are so intrinsically self-hating and so thoroughly absorbed in a futile attempt to raise their estimations of themselves by inducing others to accept and approve them, they spend inordinate amounts of time and energy, as do most seriously disturbed parsons, in focussing on how they are doing at a problem instead of the problem itself. Consequently they are not too able to dovise new solutions to artistic and scientific problems," Dr. Ellis posed as one explanation.

He also stated that fixed homosexuals and inverts are torn between the desire to rebel against society, on the one hand, and to conform to it and to their homosexual subculture on the other hand.

HOMOSEXUALS MOST CONFORMING, CONVENTIONAL

In tackling the question why homosexuals are not as creative as they could be potentially, Dr. Ellis observed that homosexuals spend more time conf orming to or being highly imitative in their homosexual groups than they do in outward rebellion. He accused homosexuals of "being on the whole the most imitative, most conventional and most acceptance-demanding people in our ultra-conforming culture."

According to Dr. Ellis this basic conformity and lack of

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