Sydney J. Harris Quote

The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to wonder uneasily why he was selected to evaluate a book on the subject, and to assert defensively at the outset that he is happily married, the father of four children and the one-time adornment of his college boxing, track and tennis teams.


On Jess Stearn's The Sixth Man, Saturday Review (April 22, 1961)


The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound ...

The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound ...

The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound ...

The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound ...