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joeybee12

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Thu Jun 18, 2015, 01:28 PM Jun 2015

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 homosexuals—tribes 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 “it’s 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 Francisco’s KQED network on September 11, 1961, revealing an intriguing support of the LGBT community. But the footage had never been found—until now.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/18/glad-to-be-gay-the-long-lost-pro-lgbt-film-from-1961.html#

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Glad to Be Gay: The Long Lost, Pro-LGBT Film From 1961 (Original Post) joeybee12 Jun 2015 OP
Most fascinating to watch passnobuck Jun 2015 #1
 

passnobuck

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1. Most fascinating to watch
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 02:40 PM
Jun 2015

Interesting how the language 54 years ago talked about "homosexuality" as a "problem".

Glad our nation and others have advanced beyond that mindset.

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