It Would Appear That Love Is Dead.

Mystical State, Madness, How It Frightens People. How Utterly Crazy They Become, Remote, Rude, Peculiar, Cruel, Taunting, Farouche As Wild Beasts Who Have Smelled Danger, The Unthinkable.

Perhaps Nothing Is So Depressing An Index Of The Inhumanity Of The Male-supremacist Mentality As The Fact That The More Genial Human Traits Are Assigned To The Underclass: Affection, Response To Sympathy, Kindness, Cheerfulness.

Homosexuality Was Invented By A Straight World Dealing With Its Own Bisexuality. But Finding This Difficult, And Preferring Not Toadmit It, It Invented A Pariah State, A Leper Colony For The Incorrigible Whose Very Existence, When Tolerated Openly, Was Admonition To All. We Queers Keep Everyone Straight As Whores Keep Matrons Virtuous.

The Enormous Social Change Involved In A Sexual Revolution Is Basically A Matter Of Altered Consciousness, The Exposure And Elimination Of Social And Psychological Realities Underlying Political And Cultural Structures. We Are Speaking, Then, Of A Cultural Revolution, Which, While It Must Necessarily Involve The Political And Economic Reorganization Traditionally Implied By The Term Revolution, Must Go Far Beyond This As Well.

Given The Conditions Under Which You're A Young Person In This Society, Many Things Would Be At Least As Important To You As Your Sexuality.