Mattachine Society: Mission and Purpose Statement

A Student's Guide to Essential Primary Sources
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https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844353.book-part-061

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Abstract

While there are undoubtedly individual homosexuals who number many of their own people among their friends, Thousands of homosexuals live out their lives bewildered, unhappy, alone, — isolated from their own kind and unable to adjust to the dominant culture. Even those who have many homosexual friends are still cut off from the deep satisfactions man's gregarious nature can achieve only when he is consciously part of a large unified whole. A major purpose of the Mattachine Society is to provide a consensus of principle around which all of our people can rally and from which they can derive a feeling of “belonging”.

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