the best of my knowledge he is," I answered. "Oh, but I don't want a gay doctor-it's not that sort of thing."

All of us need a doctor, most of us sooner or later need an attorney, or an accountant, and the services of many others. Why should we not give our business and money to those who understand us, who share our tastes and who suffer the same injustices? Why should we not help other homosexuals so that their prosperity and well-being might not only improve our public image but strengthen our group as a social and economic force? The tragic fact is that we seem to go out of our way to avoid doing business with other homosexuals. Is it that we have such a low opinion of our own personal morality that we instinctively distrust our own kind in every matter of importance except sex? Have we so little respect for ourselves that we cannot respect the intelligence, acumen or judgment of another homosexual? Every time we go to bed with another we entrust to him our most intimate self, and to a certain extent we entrust to him our safety and our future, yet we do not seem to want to do business with him. How can we expect society to respect and trust us if we do not respect each other, and why should we expect society to help us either individually or collectively when we will go to almost any length to avoid helping each other socially or economically? How can homosexuals live with each other for ten or twenty or thirty years and yet leave their money and property to members of their families who either despised them or would have done so had they known of their sexual aberrations? But they do! Why does it occur to so few homosexuals to leave their money to a homosexual organization or to a cause where it might be used to help secure for the future homosexual what we clamor for so loudly for ourselves? And yet few do. No wonder we are called "queer."

Marcel Martin

Associate Editor

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