Glad to Be Gay: The Long Lost, Pro-LGBT Film From 1961
The Rejected, a 1961 documentary, is an unexpectedly positive curio: a TV program that set out to understand homosexuality, rather than condemn it.
Margaret Mead looks deadpan into the camera.
The renowned sociologist is describing a world full of homosexualstribes in Siberia, isolated cultures in the South Seas, and even American Indian populations stateside.
Her point: homosexuality is found in people at every level of culture and its society that says that this is either good or bad behavior.
While this may be common knowledge today, it was a bold statement to announce to a nationwide audience in 1961 when Mead filmed the segment for The Rejected, the first gay-themed documentary to reach the masses.
The Rejected aired on San Franciscos KQED network on September 11, 1961, revealing an intriguing support of the LGBT community. But the footage had never been founduntil now.
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