http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/05/1399397/--The-Rejected-a-just-rediscovered-documentary-on-homosexuality-from-1961?detail=email
A recently discovered documentary, called (appropriately) “The Rejected," on the “homosexual problem" shows some differing views on homosexuality from several different standpoints. It was done by KQED in San Francisco and National Educational Television in 1961.
Considering the year in which it was done, it’s amazing for it's frankness and focus on homosexuality as a problem for homosexuals and society in general. Some people speak out asking for more tolerance and understanding. Some sound even more progressive. A few others toe the conservative line.
There’s an anthropologist (Margaret Mead), religious leaders, attorneys, a psychiatrist, a public health physician, members of the Mattachine Society and others. They discuss information from the Kinsey Report, touch on Freud and present some other modern (for that period) information.
Interestingly, some of the same opinions that were held then are still held by people today. Things like: Sexual orientation can be altered through psychiatry, prayer or, early on, having a heterosexual sexual experience. Pedophilia is mentioned as something that gays do. Most gays are thought to be “swishy” or “queens.” It’s unbelievable how these ideas and stereotypes have persisted for decades.
not so much unbelievable we know that hate and bigotry are born of ignorance and fear those who held those views passed them down to their children each generation followed suit until someone in that family became enlightened. that is why i say that most today do not understand what it is they are suppose to be hating that alone leads to a more informed society but those hanger ons will they too are becoming extinct as the hate philosophy is rapidly becoming.
Some of the high points:
Dr. Margaret Mead discusses homosexuality as something found in almost all cultures as well as in many other animal species. She mentions that transvestites are esteemed in some Native American societies. She even mentions that one tribe sanctioned male-male marriages.
Dr. Carl Bowman, past president of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) discusses Kinsey. He talks about bisexuality, about how to ameliorate problems that homosexuals have, that homosexuality is a psychological illness ("sexual deviancy.") [Homosexuality was considered an illness by the APA for several more years.] Several other issues, like transvestitism, lesbianism are also briefly mentioned. At about 18 minutes into the video, Bowman quotes extensively from a letter Sigmund Freud wrote. It’s frank and very supportive of homosexuals. Something I’d never heard before.
closed eyes and minds neither see nor hear and what that continues because does so because there is never anything new introduced.
