Looks like a new point in journalism has finally been reached, at which it is possible to face the problem of homosexuality and perversion with the same honesty it took us so long to win in the case of venereal disease. Our peering into the well of loneliness is as much overdue as our realization that syphilis and gonorrhea were something more than “social” diseases, to be hushed behind the hand. This belated appraisal of a human aberration is due to the fact that our state department, on record, has been filled with a type of humanity which is not “normal” as we construe normalcy in the broad sense, and that the list of perverted sex-crimes seems to be mounting furiously. There is considerably more to abnormality in the sexes than A simple negation of boy There is a great difference between homosexuality and perversion.

The homosexual in a simpler sense is less dangerous than he is irresponsible. The pervert is always potentially, dangerous to the world around him, because his odd sexual leanings creep easily into vicious criminality with innocents as victims. Divergents from the sexual norm are pitiable, and in general live a life of mental and spiritual torture, full of frustration and persecution. Their residence in a minority group makes them subject censure by the majority, thia leads them to a life in i shadow. This creates a constant nervousthat pays off in panic.

Most “queers” eventually acquire a tendency to hysteria, which means they blow their tops in time of stress. Since they also must hide from the world that outweighs them–since they must aways mask their activities with stealth and secrecy–they are forever open to apprehension. A pervert fondles a child. The child cries. creep blows his roof.

He is panic and hysterically afraid of being caught. He throttles the child. A homosexual–possibly even a “happily” married one–is suddenly confronted with public awareness of his abnormal outcroppings. His position, his job, his very life is at stake. He his top.

He has three choices. can kill himself, blows, kill his discoverer, or submit to blackmail. In the loneliness that cloaks homosexual, that places him basically apart from his fellows, his scarred soul calls out for company. So his inclination is to surround himself with his like. Homosexuals travel in packs, as do most divergents from an accepted status.

It is all well to say that a man must live his own life and in the manner which best suits him, but in government which is operated for the greatest good of the greatest number a dissenter from accepted behavior is a great liability. The drunkard, the boss who chases every stenographer, the sexual degenerate or homosexual all have a gaping chink in their behavioristic armour. This leads almost invariably to erratic action, neglect job, and ever to blackmail. Always to of, blackmail. When a man or woman is susceptible to easy blackmail, he is a tremendous risk in a position of trust.

I know the story of the highly placed state department executive who crowded the lists with so many homosexuals that 91 resignations or firings have recently resulted. His appointees surrounded themselves with their appointees, and on down the line. What you have finally is a corroded organization which can be bribed, bullied or blackmailed in the easiest possible fashion. Homosexuality has figured, off stage, in one of our traitorous operations. Homosexuality and similar irresponsibility has weakened us all over the world through the state department’s calm acceptance of abnormality.

A great deal of the trouble we are in, internationally, can be laid to the tolerance of that kind of weakness in a service which should be above reproach. You, can say that the queer ones are pathetic and deserve a right to pursue happiness in most businesses but you don’t need them in positions of heavy trust. I have some case histories tomorrow.