Jet Magazine and the Gays, circa 1950

Since I like to get my news when it happens and not three weeks later, I don't read Jet Magazine. However, it seems that our favorite pseudo news magazine regularly reported on gays and lesbians during ths 1950's.

The following excerpt was written in August 1952. Unfortunately, it could have been written yesterday:

"Whether they walk with simpering hinged-hipped gait or hide their effeminate characteristics with baggy tweeds and smelly pipes, there are in the US today, 8 million males who prefer intimates with other males. Collectively, they present America with the biggest pychosexual problem of modern times because: 1. They cause dislocations in family life: 2. breed maladjusted inmates in jails. 3. like persons afflicted with a dread disease, bloat their number each year with by the planned seduction of innocents."

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