Letters: Nov. 7, 1969

Homosexuality and Society

Sir: I am a homosexual. I am also happy as a homosexual (though this society does not make that very easy) [Oct. 31], and I reject the implications that I have an "undesirable handicap"—for it is not my homosexuality, but rather society's insane reaction to it, that is the undesirable handicap.

More than a homosexual, I am a person: a person with most of the same goals in life and needs from life that heterosexuals have. The amount of love, and not the sexual object choice, determines the value of a...

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