Jection with which none of us would wish to quarrel. Indeed, a "Bill of Particulara", giving voice and cognizanco to the diverse methodological motivations and colorations characterising the provenance of necessary morality within our minority, collated and prepared for extensive discussion and solectivo public dissemination, might prove to be of significant value to our paront community at this time. Especially so as that community's more sober and serious press currently editorializes on the need to seek a roconstitution of its own all-embracing system of othic from which to derive a more contemporary manual of moral discipline.

As regards setting brakes on our actions, purportedly in the interests of maintaining fraternal rapport with "friends" in our communities, national or regional, the homophile minority by now should have accrued sufficient political maturity to have dispelled any such illusions. As the brief but messy essay into politics enjoyed by the Mattachine SocietyII so ably demonstrated, and ac the negro people have so painfully learned, national and /or social minorities have no friendsother than the infrequent materializations (remorsefully-flashed or conscience-stabbed into temporary or fitful existence) of their fellow-travellers. They do have, from time to time, temporary allies, each motivated by its own (and usually adverse) self-interests.

It is true that there are numerous foroes and combinations within our society, some not without considerable influence, who have voiced, and may continue to do so, an interest in our being heard. But we should arr disastrously wore we to initial them as "friends". When a new political party desires to be put on the ballot it must secure petitions containing a minimum of 50,000 signatures. Thoso signators, by and large, are neither "friends" nor even well-wishers. They are simply carnest or decent people who believo in the domocratic principle of fair play; who believe that every sincerely-motivated contender has the right to be heard.

As the progress of the Wolfonden Report from Committee to the floor of Commons in the British Parliament demonstrated, there were many who warmly supported its right

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