 Due to its close ties with "Drum" and president Clark Polak's various sex businesses, the Janus Society faced increasing scrutiny and harassment from local, state, and federal authorities, eventually ceasing operations in 1969 weeks before the Stonewall Riots after Polak was arrested on federal obscenity charges.Records of the Janus Society are held by the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, under collection number 2008-027.Drum (usually written "DRUM") was an American gay men’s culture and news magazine based out of Philadelphia.