FOR RESPECT OF THE INDIVIDUAL IN HIS PERSONAL AND SOCIAL RETHESE NEEDS AND DESIRES ARE SHARED BY HOMOSEX-

LATIONSHIPS.

UAL AND HETEROSEXUAL ALIKE.

ALICE LAVERE, SAN FRANCISCO CONSULTING PSYCHOLOGIST, STATED AT A DOB PUBLIC DISCUSSION MEETING THAT SOME HOMOSEXUALS ARE NEUROTIC, SOME HAVE SCHIZOPHRENIC TENDENCIES, MANY ARE PARAND ID, BUT MANY ARE STABLE, WELL-ADJUSTED AND USEFUL CITIZENS. AND, SHE ADDED, THE SAME STATEMENT COULD APPLY EQUALLY WELL TO THE HETEROSEXUAL.

"THE HOMOSEXUAL SUFFERS MORE FOM THE FEELING OF BEING UNWANTED AND SHUNNED THAN FROM ANY ILLNESS. HETEROSEXUALS SUFFER JUST AS MUCH FROM THESE FEELINGS. AS A GROUP, HOMOPHILES AND HETEROPHILES FACE THE SAME SOCIAL AND MENTAL PROBLEMS, HAVE THE SAME FEELINGS AND THE SAME FEARS."

IT MIGHT BE POINTED OUT TOO THAT BEHAVIOR WHICH MAY BE CONSIDERED OFFENSIVE OR OBJECTIONABLE TO THE HETROSEXUAL WOULD LIKEWISE BE CONSIDERED SO BY THE HOMOSEXUAL, A SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY, CONCERN FOR THE PUBLIC WELFARE AND JUST PLAIN "GOOD TASTE" IS NOT EXCLUSIVE WITH THE HETEROSEXUAL ANY MORE THAN THE OFFENGES TO THE PUBLIC MORES REST ENTIRELY UPON THE HOMOSEXUAL.

IN THE FINAL ANALYSIS THE MAIN OBJECT OF ALL PEOPLE, REGARDLESS OF THEIR SEXUAL PREFERENCE, IS TO BE ABLE TO LIVE AND GET ALONG WITH OTHERS. AS LONG AS THE OUTWARD FORMS OF PROPRIETY ARE OBSERVED, THE PERSONAL LIFE OF ANY INDIVIDUAL SHOULD BE HIS OWN. THE HOMOSEXUAL ASKS ONLY FOR THE SAME RIGHTS THAT THE HETEROSEXUAL TAKES FOR GRANTED.

"Sexual morality, freed from superstition, is a simple mattor. Fraud and deceit, assault, seduction of persons under age are proper mtters for the criminal law. law. Rolations between adults who are free agents are agents are a private matter, and should not be interfered with either by the law or by public opinion, because no outsider can know whether they are good or bad."

Bortrand Russell