NR-149 Boy Loves

INTRODUCTION

“To be or not to be,” Shakespeare had Hamlet say in the famous soliloquy. But to many a modern-day homosexual, there is no question of whether he will live or die because of his sexual preference. He will live and be happy with his choice.

But, what happens to the homosexual who deludes himself into believing that he can give up homosexuality at any time and cross back over the line into heterosexuality?

The original novel, “Boy Loves,” written by the profound young novelist, George L. Chase, offers an answer to this much discussed question.

In an interview with Mr. Chase, himself a confirmed homosexual and happy with his lot, he said, “The homosexual knows he prefers men (or women) very early in life. That’s not the problem. The problem is to recognize that he must abide by his decision and never deceive himself into believing that he can go ‘straight’ any time he feels it expedient to do so. Especially, when he’s practiced homosexuality the majority of his life. The basic problem with a man with such ambivalence is that he has never considered himself a homosexual in the first place; completely ignoring the fact that he allowed himself to indulge in sodomy and fellatio with members of his own sex, even when the opposite sex was available to him. What happens when he tries to go straight is chaos, pure and simple, until he is man enough to admit that he is homosexual.”

The publishers present “Boy Loves” to its adult readers to provide better understanding of the problems of homosexuality and to offer a solution to whether it is indeed “better to be blatant than latent.”

Myron Hopper, M.A.

New York City