Lipton’s Journal/December 31, 1954/156

The homo-erotic corollary. This is for Bob Lindner. And with his insights he always goes smack like a wonderful comic figure (comic in the great sense) into the center of the problem, and then moves out again, or will until his Good Luck fails him, and Bob wants his Good Luck to fail him, and the Devil to take over. Kid, it’s [Paul] Verlaine and [Arthur] Rimbaud all over again.
 I start with the premise that all men and women are bi-sexual. I believe this is natural. It is true for animals, and it makes sense, for love is best when it’s unified (at last I find some agreement with the analyst although what a difference) and when we love someone we make love with them, if society did not prevent it or make it so painful. Given my premise, the pure heterosexual is a cripple—society has completely submerged one half of nature. 
And this is usually any originality of mind. So, too, is the pure homosexual—and I suspect that pure homosexuals are invariably very unfleshly. People like [André] Gide, Ivan Von Auw, etc. They are mind, they have denied their bodies, and sex is invariably painful to them, although in recompense their minds have saintly qualities. ( Gertrude Stein).
But the bi-sexuals who have a very strong sense of sex in their souls, of the creatively sexual content or quality of their souls, which we describe crudely by saying this person is sexy or vital, usually leads a life which is nominally heterosexual. Thus, I who am profoundly bi-sexual, have not had a homosexual contact since I was fourteen; so, too, Jonesie [James Jones]; so, Adele; so, Bob; so, Johnnie (I think); so, Adeline; so, Bea; so, Gandy; so, Miles and Barbara Forst; so, Mickey Knox. He fled the consequences of bi-sexuality. 
 there are many bi-sexuals . Toby, Mike, camps, queens, and athletes. Invariably, they are handsome men, who in their adolescence began to sense with inner terror what it meant of have sexual soul in a sexless society. It meant that their instincts to screw many women and, too, many men, (and the ease with which they could do it, given their beauty) would bring them into outrageous conflict with society because finally the tendency of the bi-sexual person is to look for the orgy which at its best could be the physical expression of the communion of souls. 
But in the world, one need only mention the orgy to see and feel the dangers. So, a bi-sexual who choses homosexuality because it is safer, despite its obvious disadvantages, than the open bi-sexual life, or even the wild heterosexual life, yet, and this is the core , the monogamous life was too for them. As homosexuals, as camps, they could have all the orgies, all the promiscuity their souls truly needed, And, this, I believe accounts for the great dichotomy in homosexuals which Bob put his finger on so exactly. There are monogamous unfleshly mindish “pure” homosexuals, and there is a larger world of frightened bi-sexuals who masquerade psychically as homosexuals because in homosexuality they can express their essential and unrootable desire for combinations, experiments, creativity, bright clothing, the ornamentation of love, and . 
The homo-erotics are the true “gay” people, just as the “pure” homosexual is the “queen.” He is an egg-head, an intellectual.
Category:December 31, 1954