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Word: sir (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sir: I am a homosexual. I am also happy as a homosexual (though this society does not make that very easy) [Oct. 31], and I reject the implications that I have an "undesirable handicap"-for it is not my homosexuality, but rather society's insane reaction to it, that is the undesirable handicap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 7, 1969 | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

...Sir: Being gay can be normal and satisfying, and has been for centuries. You will never raise the Lavender Curtain with psychiatric investigation. Faggots are not taking over the world, but they are indeed becoming more and more a part of the mainstream; and the sooner European attitudes become more prevalent, the sooner tolerance will ease any hang-up tensions that create those poor, sick, swishy things that a "welladjusted" homo can tolerate even less than the hetero world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 7, 1969 | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

...Sir: I now learn that a distinguished group of Washington eggheads in the mental-health ward says that I must not feel "hostile" if my child is "queered" by one of our nation's 12 million homos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 7, 1969 | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

...Sir: As a well-practiced heterosexual and father of four grown offspring, I should like to hazard the guess that a major contributing factor to homosexuality (male and female) in Anglo-American society is the still dominant Pauline ("better to marry than to burn") ethic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 7, 1969 | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

...Sir: How applicable is this quotation of Alexander Pope from his Essay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 7, 1969 | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

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