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...free exchange of ideas in the university community become potentially subversive in the eyes of the FBI. The agent who questioned me seemed genuinely disappointed that I had no friends in Denver whom he could check on. My refusal to discuss my political philosophy with him evoked only a queer chuckled response that I must be "anti-Establishment." There came a point when the bomb scare seemed less threatening than the FBI and I was genuinely relieved to get airborne again. On the return trip I left Chairman Mao behind...

Author: By Jerry T. Nepom, | Title: America Going Home | 2/6/1970 | See Source »

...remembrances of Latin Poetry and New Haven and Since his Home burned down in town he lived flippantly in a Flop House down the street with his Yale education and his small senilities while the people in the Utah Cafe had Daughters with piano teachers and though he was queer cause he didn't shave and smoked the last acts of his cigarettes in a black holder...

Author: By Richard D. Rosen, | Title: Found Poems A Short Cultural History of Salt Lake City | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

...discomfort about physical expression of affection for another man. The urge is for affectional interchange that goes beyond the anesthetized handshake or the slap on the back. But there is fear that if affectional urges are freed, one may be seen by others and/or by himself as "queer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 14, 1969 | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

Most experts agree that a child will not become a homosexual unless he undergoes many emotionally disturbing experiences during the course of several years. A boy who likes dolls or engages in occasional homosexual experiments is not necessarily "queer": such activities are often a normal part of growing up. On the other hand, a child who becomes preoccupied with such interests or is constantly ill at ease with the opposite sex obviously needs some form of psychiatric counseling. While only about one-third of confirmed adult inverts can be helped to change, therapists agree that a much larger number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Homosexual: Newly Visible, Newly Understood | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...work and undemonstrated brilliance, Redl rises to high military and social rank and becomes deputy chief of the army's espionage service. Sexually, he undergoes a kind of moral regress. A disinclination to make love to women awakens him to his own homosexuality. As an ever more active queer, he is blackmailed by Russian intelligence into turning traitor. At play's end, he is exposed, presented with a pistol, and shoots himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: Viennese Drag | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

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