DS-115 G.I. Jock
G.I. Jock
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(same as GB-126)
DS-115
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$3.95
G.I. Jock
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(same as GB-126)
DS-115
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$3.95
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FOREWORD
“While there are many people who accept the romantic propaganda about male homosexual existence, the life of tricks and trades is in fact agonizing for most of its practitioners,” states George F. Gilder in SEXUAL SUICIDE. “Lasting relationships are few and sour. The usual circuit of gay bars, returning servicemen, forlorn personal advertisements, and street cruises affords gratifications… brief and squalid…”
Obviously, though, there are those more than ready to disagree with Mr. Gilder’s resounding statement, among them Arthur Bell who, with Martin S. Weinberg, recently wrote HOMOSEXUALITIES. Said Bell in a recent “People Weekly”: “Don’t leap to the conclusion that the kinds and numbers of partners homosexuals have indicated an unhappy state. Among the cruisers we found no psychological misfits.”
There is no doubting, however, that even with the growing acceptance of homosexuality as a valid lifestyle, there are some gays who adapt less easily than do others. After all, it is often exceedingly difficult to shake off old taboos and prejudices which have been built up by years of repression by church and state without first undergoing a certain amount of soul-searching and wonderings if life wouldn’t, in fact, be somehow better if one could adjust—somehow—to the more acceptable sexual norm.
The following story is about Tad Gilbert, a young man who has come to question the validity of his homosexual life-style, and who attempts to temporarily submerge it by entering into the supposedly butch, he-man existence of Army life. It is the story of how this young man is quick to discover that no man’s specific sexual drives are made to disappear by merely putting on a uniform or donning Army fatigues. It is the story of how Tad Gilbert learns it is indeed possible to successfully maintain a heterosexual masquerade, but how that charade is possibly even less valid than the life from which he has so desperately attempted to flee.
“A newer approach to homosexuality,” says Eda J. LeShan in SEX AND YOUR TEENAGER, “would interest itself not in the fact of homosexuality alone, but in its place in the life of a particular human being—and the range is just as wide as it would be with heterosexuals—from frightened, destructive, miserable people who have never found themselves, to people who live creatively, constructively, and in mature and responsible relationships.”
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