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out of the capito‘ls of the world with alarming
regularity.

Homosexuality, once con31dered the exclusive
province of big cities, has spread its tenacles like an
octopus into smaller communities. In these, it is even
a more serious problem than in the metropolitan
areas because authorities have little experience in
coping with it. Many officials in these medium-sized
towns choose to ignore it. Others incubate scandals
- that mushroom to such proportions that the very
lives of their communities are endangered.

A generation ago, men who practiced homosexu-
ality, learned also to practice discretion. Although
many were effeminate, they did not flaunt them-
selves. They lived in a closely-knot society from
which they seldom strayed.

Today, the picture is vastly different. The homo-
sexual underground is global. With money in their
pockets and, being no different in their capacities fox
enjoyment of the better things in life than normal
men, they travel the world. And with them travels
~ the inevitable stigma that identifies the homosexual—
the quest for new thrills, new physical contacts, new
modes of sensuous excitement

The consequence of this is the most disturbing
facet of the homosexual underground today—male