[8] According to a 2018 source, currently used, updated editions of Hubbard's canonical book,[9]: 21 Dianetics, continue to use heteronormative and anti-gay language and list gay people as perverts who are physically ill and extremely dangerous to society.
[14] Journalist Roy Wallis said Scientologists sent messages to his friends stating he was a homosexual in retaliation for him publishing material critical of the organization in 1976.".
[15]: 12 In the 1960s Hubbard instituted intensive audits called security checks designed to seek out subversive tendencies in adherents which asked, in part, if they had "ever practiced homosexuality".
Sexual perversion, a category in which he included homosexuality,[21] was termed "covert hostility" and given a score of 1.1, "the level of the pervert, the hypocrite, the turncoat, [...] the subversive".
[3]: 88–90 He characterized "promiscuity, perversion, sadism, and irregular practices" as well as "free love, easy marriage and quick divorce" as being undesirable activities, "since it is non-survival not to have a well ordered system for the creation and upbringing of children, by families".
[3]: 114–115, 159 Hubbard's 1951 book Handbook for Preclears likewise classified homosexuality as "about 1.1 (covert hostility) on the tone scale", along with "general promiscuity".
Their relationships consist of: 1) brief, sordid and impersonal meetings or 2) longer arrangements punctuated by dramatic tirades, discords, jealousies and frequent infidelity.
It presents case histories and a number of X-ray plates to support statements that Dianetics had cured "aberrations" including bipolar disorder, asthma, arthritis, colitis, and "overt homosexuality", and that after Dianetic processing, test subjects experienced significantly increased scores on a standardized IQ test.
"[22] Hubbard urged society to tackle the issue of "sexual perversion" (including homosexuality), calling it "of vital importance, if one wishes to stop immorality, and the abuse of children".
In Science of Survival, he called for drastic action to be taken against sexual perverts, whom he rated as "1.1 individuals": Such people should be taken from the society as rapidly as possible and uniformly institutionalized; for here is the level of the contagion of immorality, and the destruction of ethics; here is the fodder which secret police organizations use for their filthy operations.
One of the most effective measures of security that a nation threatened by war could take would be rounding up and placing in a cantonment, away from society, any 1.1 individual who might be connected with government, the military, or essential industry; since here are people who, regardless of any record of their family's loyalty, are potential traitors, the very mode of operation of their insanity being betrayal.
In this level is the slime of society, the sex criminals, the political subversives, the people whose apparently rational activities are yet but the devious writhings of secret hate.
Keith Relkin, a gay activist and Scientologist, turned over a rainbow flag to the team captain who was running 250 miles through the metropolis.