In the 1950s, and for some time after in the U.S., a \"latent homosexual\" was someone who was concealing or was unaware of his gaiety. Just as Commies were said to be behind every tree (and as witches were at one time, and Wild Indians, and Eastern European Anarchists), homos were lurking around waiting to corrupt youth, and had to be rooted out of the gymnasium and barracks.
They devised a clever test consisting of questions meant to elicit answers that only a homosexual would give. The questions involved interior decorating, poetry, and art as choices over huntin, fishin, and doin them things what come natural to a man, sech as drinking, smokin, gambling & whorin.
They used this test, called a \"multiphrastic,\" as a screening test for the FBI and for some police departments, in order to make sure that you weren't someone who liked to bully people and use your gun too much.
I won't tell you the results of the tests I took like this, or how many times I could dry-fire a .38 held out at arm's length in a minute-- another test they give you.[/b]
