Word: personally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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 relationship. The "problem of homosexuality" is misnamed. More accurate is the "problem of a society that refuses to accept (embrace?) minority behavior." The Indian experienced that problem; it killed him. The black man experienced that problem; it enslaved and ghettoized him. The homosexual experienced that problem; it castrated...
...situation in which violence is used, almost always innocent people are hurt. Even assuming that a guilty person is occasionally given his just deserts, is it worth the cost to innocent people? The same principle should apply here as in law. Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence has always assumed a man is innocent until proven guilty. This assumption exists to protect the innocent. If an occasional guilty person goes free hereby, it is better than having innocent people adjudged guilty...
Those are the bare facts, but as I followed Francis around the coffee circuit which is the backbone of local politics, it became clear that what looked good on paper was better in person. I suppose the word is smooth, or polished, but he really isn't. What he is is good with a wide range of people. From the eighty year old ladies on Brattle Street to the young blacks in the city he has a feeling for what people respond to and he gives it to them...
Socarides: It is a very bitter definition. Freud's test was a person's ability to have a healthy sexual relationship with a person of the opposite sex and to enjoy his work...
...married" individuals are concerned, they are engaged in what to them is a meaningful and satisfying relationship. What I would define as a sick person in sexual terms would be someone who could not go through the full sequence of sexual activity, from seeing and admiring to following, speaking, touching, and genital contact. A rapist, a person who makes obscene telephone calls?these seem to me sick people, and I don't think it matters a damn whether the other person is of the same...