ABSTRACT
The homosexual, male and female, whether overt, latent, or a dweller on infinitely undulating, vaguely delineated borderlands, is surely a paradigm of universal human ambivalence. H. Alexander states perversions are “partial psychoses” and Bychowski that homosexuality is close to psychosis because of the use of primitive defense mechanisms. Thus the topic of homosexuality, like the homosexual himself, appears as a palimpsest; whatever is faintly legible thereon is overlaid and underlaid with older and newer writings, shades and shadows. Most writers treat guardedly the subjects of prognosis and treatment in homosexuality. As our society is evolving, homosexuality, as well as “free” heterosexuality and other forms of sexual expression, are seemingly being skinned of their coatings of guilt and shame. Twice weekly an FM radio station quite popular with young people broadcasts a program called “Gay Pride,” which has a program more militant than that of the Mattachine Society.
