invertabomination le vice anglaisbutch lesbiancrime against nature moral maladycrime of deviation pederastdandified sissy pervertdetestable psychic masochistdeviant psychopathdeviate queeneffeminate queeremotionally immature sodomitefag swishgay third sexhair fairies transvestitehomme-femme tweedy lesbian'homophile unnatural In the 1960's Time and Newsweek published another 25 stories on the subject of homosexuality. Homosexuality was still treated as a social problem, but now there was a growing debate among government officials and psychiatrists over whether laws that called for a prison term for convicted homosexuals might constitute cruel and unusual punishment, since homosexuals were, after all, classified as mentally ill. Summing up the debate, a 1960 Newsweek headline (July 11) asked: "Homosexuals: To Punish or to Pity?" Time took a somewhat more direct approach to answering this question in its first lengthy article on the subject (Jan. 21, 1966), which reported that homosexuals were "catty," "megalomaniacal," "supercilious," "wimpy," "psychic masochists," "irrationally jealous," "beset by inner depression and guilt," "subservient around strangers," "merciless around those weaker than them," "antagonistic toward heterosexuals," "mocking of heterosexuals," "inferior to heterosexuals" and simply "not like everybody else." "Homosexuality," the article concluded, "is a pathetic little second-rate substitute for reality." In a cover story dated Oct. 31, 1969--the first published by either newsweekly--Time reported that homosexuals came in six types: the blatant ...
