Homosexuals and Handwriting

by Jan Fraser

"This man is homosexual. He is afraid to talk. Ho is near suicide. He needs help."

Holen King explained all this to the man who presented her with Anthony's handwriting sample.

The man looked startled. Anthony had killed himself only a short time before!

Mortally ill, virtually friendless and without hope, a young homosexual girl, deserted by her parents and told by them, "It would have been better if you had never been born," attempted to throw herself from a window. She was saved from self-destruction only because of a friend's strange desire to hurry home before the regu➡ lar time.

These two incidents were recounted by Miss King in her lecture, "Homosexuality in Handwriting and Doodling," sponsored by the New York chapters of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Mattachine Society last month. A noted graphologist and author of "Your Doodles and What They Mean," the speaker added that her desire to learn more about the homophile was stimulated by a request from a broadcasting company to appear on the Fannie Hurst TV panel show on homosexuality.

"I was informed," she said, "15 minutes before I was to go on the air, that this subject was consored and they were going to talk about doodles."

However, Miss King did bring up the forbidden subject on the program and, she told the audience at the lecture, the results have beon far-reaching. Since the TV show sho has received letters from influential people who want literature on homosexuality; she has been interviewed by newspapers on the subject and she has lectur od concerning this topic to many different groups of people. She mentioned the fact that "most people are happy to

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