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morals offense in a public rest room. Others have
lost jobs when the nature of their trouble became
known. I could recite an endless list of tragedies,
none of which make the police feel any better.

“Homosexuals should bear in mind that the police
are not responsible for an individual’s conduct. We
have not advertised that such and such a rest room
on blank street is full of action when the stores let
out their gay clerks. |

“The word has been spread by the homosexual
underground. When a deviate discovers a place he
can’t wait to tell his friends. And so on down the
line. In a matter of a few days a spot can become
notorious.

“The police are forced to play the game their way.
We use the homosexual underground in reverse.
We know that raiding the more obvious cesspools
frequently the word is going to spread. For some
weeks, even months thereafter, that particular lava-
tory will stay clean.

“Then the whole game of musical chairs starts all
over again. The police haven’t the answer to it.
Except to frighten them off as much as we can.

“Today you see on the streets sights that wouldn’t
have been believed a quarter of a century ago.

Swishy queens in puffed up hair-dos, havily made-