About a week ago, I did a diary on "The Rejected." It was a long-lost report on homosexuality filmed in the early 1960s. https://www.youtube.com/... It discussed some of the history of homosexuality up to that date. It went into a number of aspects of homosexual lives: discrimination, bigotry, classed as mentally ill, isolated, legal ramifications, religious thought on the matter, etc. There were debates between lawyers, a rabbi and a minister discussed their views, members of the Mattachine Society spoke about what it was like being a homosexual at that time. It was an interesting and revealing documentary.
By accident, I stumbled across "The Homosexuals." This is another documentary produced a few years after "The Rejected." It was produced by CBS several years later. But it's tone is decidedly different, much darker. For example, one man interviewed, whose face is blocked out by a potted plant (remember, it wasn't healthy to be out in those days) is introduced by saying that he had been arrested three times for "homosexual acts" (no additional details are given.) The narrator says that if he is arrested for the same thing again, he can be sentenced to life in prison.
"The Rejected" is a gentler report that shows a more human side of homosexuals and a more human side of heterosexuals. Even the straights who are opposed to homosexuality are not table pounding spittle sprayers. That changes in "The Homosexuals" to some degree.
Come below the orange puff of historical hate for more.
