Sta,—Neither of the main political parties has the courage to
adopt the Wolfenden findings on homo- sexuality, moderate and limited though the proposed reform is. (So far as I know, the only critic of these findings worthy of unqualified respect has been Sir Patrick Devlin; it is consoling to reflect that the Conservatives, at least, can hardly appeal to his ver- dict without a blush.) Let us hope that the Liberals will keep this matter before the new House of Com- mons. All of us could--except that we obviously can't—name individual homosexuals whose quality would make it very hard indeed for the opponents of reform to maintain their position, whose only basis is the idea that homosexuals are inferior or corrupted men; if some are 'bad citizens.' that is largely because it takes a saint to make a good citizen of a country that persecutes him. Perhaps the first step towards casing the homosexual's present state of tension (which is far more likely to make him a neurotic than to convert him to heterosexuality) is to attack his attackers' two favourite words--'unnatural,' which is merely untrue, and 'perversion.' which might with more justice be applied to the tastes of those (for example) who enjoy watching animals being killed.— Yours,faithfully, 3 Heath Close. NW I I
DAPHNE SLEE
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