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role of a normal individual in their business and
family life by day; being themselves, practicing
homosexuals, by night. Or at least on the nights
when they find themselves free to move, without
artifice, among fellow homosexuals, either socially
or in physical contact.

Little of the literature to which we have been ex-
posed has grasped the fact that homosexual life is an
“endless and unsatistying quest to find permanent
relationships; that, being deceptive, it is, therefore,
furtive and sordid. That despair of ever discovering
the real meaning of love, or even sexual gratifica-
tion, is the ultimate fate of those who dwell within it.

More pertinent is the failure of these studies to
realize that homosexuals are no longer stereotypes.
The effeminate fop of the Mauve Decade of Oscar
Wilde is gone. Green carnations no longer identify
the deviate. Nor does the lisps, the swinging hip,
effeminate gesture.

Today’s homosexual is everywhere. He may be
found in every strata of society. He can be a banker
or a truck driver. He may be found flexing steel-
like muscles on beaches. Some have reached high
political office. It is a known fact that government
employment attracts homosexuals, thus accounting
for the frequent exposes of immorality that thunder