Coronet

CORONET pointed out that its self-admittedly sensational article on homosexuality was the result of six months of intensive work by "qualified editors and researchers." The result of all this earnest labor was something called "New Menace to Our Youth" by the editors, and several other things by its homosexual readers. It is possible that CORONET lost more subscribers over this learned research than any other article in years. Among the cluster of plums were the original McCarthy statement about deviates being security risks, a statement by some sub-official in California that "these degenerates are ever seeking younger victims," that dope and deviation are inseparable, and the implication that crime and homosexuality are linked to such an extent that most parents should lock their young sons in the nearest closet and try to forget they happened. The FBI is slantingly accused of lumping all perverted sex acts together so that poor old CORONET will never know how many crimes per year are committed by homosexuals alone! Next we hear that "a dominant cause is the fast-paced, 20th Century economic struggle." CORONET didn't really stress sufficiently how powerful a cause that is, for this insidiously fast pace of the 20th Century has been potent enough to reach back many centuries and pervert Greeks, Romans, Druids and an appreciable following of the late Genghis Khan. Plato's complaints about inflation and reckless taxidrivers have not come down to us so we will have to trust to CORONET'S authorities. The scientific little magazine concludes with a call-to-arms: parents must fight off the impending disaster of a pervert in every home! It demands that the public educate itself without specifying exactly how; earlier in the article it even admitted that the AMA Journal stated, "surprisingly little quantitative lab work has been reported on the subject of homosexuality." In the absence of such, CORONET has kindly dreamed up some of its own.

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