the Hollywood Citizen-News disruption) tell about how homosexuals commit sex acts in public places without regard for onlookers. The serious listener should not have to endure the opinions of still other policemen, who cannot keep their personal desires out of their observations, describe ALL conduct in gay bars as so flagrant as to be lewd. It is not reasonable to add to this that police statistics show that of some 3,069 vice arrests last year all were made in public places when we at ONE know for a fact of a not unusual case, which will probably be thrown out of court before this magazine goes to press, where 6 men who had secured the privacy of a Silverlake District home were arrested and charged with sodomy. It is too much for a radio program to submit open-minded, knowledgeable persons to the old notion that homosexuals are chronic child molesters, or to the untrustworthy "tip-off" that hustlers can be invariably spotted by their clothes, and that they are not themselves homosexual, or to the ridiculous idea that vice officers do not play with themselves in public restrooms to effect arrests, or to tell the audience that homosexuality is a threat to the family, and that the homosexual male is the result of an over-protective mother and a distant father.

Yet, just this month, KNX pushed this kind of nonsense along with much more, and did a whole show (on the 15th) about the homosexual being a frequent carrier of veneral disease. We know there is absolutely no statistical data that shows the homosexual to be contributing more than his share to the general increase in venereal disease. So why talk about it anymore?

The pity of it is that this type of ill-prepared or prejudiciallyprepared presentation is all we seem to get from the majority of commercially sponsored radio broadcasters about homosexuality. Apparently Puritanism dies hard in their medium. But the flow of information must soon pose a serious problem for American radio.

Don Slater, Editor

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