Shortly after the Kinsey Report’s publication, Life magazine reported that “new worlds of suspicion . . . were opened to doubting wives by Kinsey’s revelations on men.”8 In the old way of thinking, the “invert” was immediately identifiable by his effeminate affect; but this new, hidden homosexual could be lurking anywhere, in any male. And he was a direct threat to heterosexuality. It was in this context that the homophile groups were founded.
