EDITORIAL

A three-part radio broadcast on homosexuality April 13, 14, and 15 calls our attention once again to the mess that can be made when a popular radio show decides to "inform" the public on this "controversial" subject. It has happened before, as we have sadly pointed out, and, whether by artful design or utter ignorance, these efforts at enlightenment usually end up by adding to the long list of superstitions, traditional prejudices and generally uncritical considerations which invariably accompany anything radio or similar mediums have to do with sex.

The show in question had no excuse. The station (KNX) is located here in Los Angeles where the social environment is less anti-sexual than most places, we imagine, and where, we know, for the last 15 years there has been an immense educational influence from the open sexual interests and inquiries of homosexual organizations and individual researchers working in a strictly scientific spirit. The broadcaster for "Kaleidoscope," Fred Anderson, announces each evening that the show has won at least two awards for its public service, so we assume the programs cannot always have been so lacking in talent or particularly nonsensical as was the homosexual series. Mr. Anderson chose his cast right out of the yellowing pages of the Hollywood Citizen-News' campaign of two years ago, with a few exceptions including a lobbyist for the Mattachine Society who did the best he could considering his various and numerous handicaps. The Mattachine has many perfectly good members, so why should a lobbyist have been chosen to represent the viewpoints of the group? Lobbyists are forever scheming and influencing; they are not known for their forthright presentation of the truth. Yet, for the most part, the lobbyist made the few significant observations.

This is 1964. With present knowledge at hand, we should have passed beyond having to listen to some police sergeant, like L.A.'s James Fisk (long ago discredited because of his participation in

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