“CBS Special Reports: The Homosexuals,” hosted by Mike Wallace, March 7, 1967. @cbsnews.
“CBS Special Reports: The Homosexuals,” hosted by Mike Wallace, March 7, 1967. @cbsnews. “The Homosexuals,” a CBS News documentary that aired forty-nine years ago today, was among the first national television programs to attempt to portray “the plight of the homosexual” in a neutral manner; the piece is nonetheless described as “the single most destructive hour of anti-gay propaganda in our nation’s history.” Although pioneers like Frank Kameny, Jack Nichols, Lars Larson, and Gore Vidal appeared, Mike Wallace, and “experts” like Dr. Richard Socarides, presented prevailing bigotry as objective fact: “The average homosexual, if there be such, is promiscuous. He is not interested or capable of a lasting relationship like that of a heterosexual marriage….The pick-up, the one night stand, these are characteristics of the homosexual relationship.” #lgbthistory #lgbtherstory #gay #bi #lesbian #trans #pride #thehomosexuals #mikewallace #cbsnews (at CBS New York) -- source link
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