Mike Wallace report on “The Homosexuals,” CBS news clip 1967
An amazing CBS news clip here, a 1967 Mike Wallace report on “The Homosexuals”.
I found this very interesting clip on Towleroad. For many of us who are older, it helps put into perspective what our parents were listening to in those days. Even if we were not yet really aware of it on a consious level, this expression of sexuality was penetrating into the unconscious levels of our brains.
Mike Wallace, CBS 1967
“This much is certain. Male homosexuals in America number in the millions. And their number is growing. They are attracted mostly to the anonymity that a big city gives them. New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco. The permissiveness and the variety of the city draw them. The average homosexual if there be such, is promiscuous. He is not interested in or capable of a lasting relationship like that of a heterosexual marriage. His sex life, his love life, consists of a series of chance encounters at the clubs and bars he inhabits, and even on the streets of the city. The one-night stand is a characteristic of the homosexual relationship….”
Mike Wallace report on “The Homosexuals,” CBS news clip 1967
The report discusses the Mattachine Society, Mattachine Society, one of the earliest American gay movement (or homophile) organizations, that began in Los Angeles in the winter of 1950. It was formed by Harry Hay, a leading gay activist and former Communist Party member, along with seven other gay men.
The name refers to the Société Mattachine, a French medieval masque group that allegedly traveled from village to village, using ballads and dramas to point out social injustice. The name was meant to symbolize the fact that “gays were a masked people, unknown and anonymous.”
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