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representing the very best in their profession, have
been found soliciting openly at just such places.

Not many years ago a mid-western city was
rocked to its foundations when following a police
raid on a city park some of its most important
citizens were involved in homosexual incidents.

“There are no answers to the problem,” a vice
squad officer told me wearily. “*Not until thé whole
attitude toward homosexuality is revamped. Not
only must normal people revise their concepts.
Homosexuals have to take a straight, clear look at
themselves. /

“I’ve heard superior queens unmercifully condemn
some poor miserable, effeminate fag for getting into
trouble in a rest room. The next day I've found the
high and mighty eritic there himself.

“I find homosexuals are too willing to find faults
with others, heterosexuals as well as their own kind,
without seeing the defects in their own characters.

“The effeminate queen may offend me personally,
but as long as he doesn’t break the law I have more
respect for him than better-than-thou college pro-
fessors and business men who actually limit their
“ sexual activity to making contacts and accomplish-
ing sex in public places.”

The homosexual wears many faces, but none is