homosexual ("eunuch-like caricature of femininity"), the secret homosexual ("extremely skilled at camouflage"), the desperate homosexual ("likely to haunt public toilets"), the adjusted ("lead relatively conventional lives"), the bisexual (married and faking it), and the situational-experimental. An understanding of these types, the article stated, should correct past oversimplifications. As the publication of a first cover story suggests, there was a growing visibility of homosexuality at the end of the 1960's. In Time's words: "Though they seem fairly bizarre to most Americans, homosexuals have never been so visible, vocal or closely scrutinized by research." Some articles even included photographs that portrayed living, breathing homosexuals, as opposed to comic Hollywood portrayals or bawdy-house images. Of nine photos that were published in Time and Newsweek during the decade, six showed only the subjects' backs. The 70's: Reaction to the Gay and Lesbian Movement Words Used in the 1970'saberrant fairyabomination flaming fagadmitted homosexual fruitavowed homosexual homophilecommitted homosexual human garbageconfessed homosexual human rotdeviant mental aberrationdrag queen militant homosexualfag queer Coverage of homosexuals--or gays and lesbians, as they now wanted to be called--more than doubled during the 1970's, with 62 articles in both magazines. Both newsweeklies put homosexuality on their covers during the 1970's: Newsweek did it once, Time twice. This jump in coverage was sparked by two major events: the rise of the gay and lesbian movement, and the ensuing backlash against it, particularly among fundamentalist Christians. A third event was the American Psychiatric Association's decision to declass...
