The Homosexuals - CBS Reports
CBS News (3/7/1967)
TV Series  /  Documentary, Queer Themes/Interest, TV Documentary
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(1/16/2017 YouTube)
IMDB   5.0
59 mins USA / English
TV Episode  Region 1
Mike Wallace Himself - Correspondent
Mike Wallace Self - Correspondent
William Baer Self - Fordham University
Irving Bieber Self
James Braxton Craven Self
James Fisk Self - LAPD
Albert Goldman Self
Franklin Kameny Self
Wayne Kidwell Self - Ada County Prosecutor
Hal Kohl Self - Mattachine Society Head
Jack Nichols Self
Robert Bruce Pierce Self
Dean Rusk Self
Charles Socarides Self
Gore Vidal Self
Producer Peter Davis
Harry Morgan
Writer/Composer Harry Morgan
William Peters
Mike Wallace

On March 7, 1967, 40 million Americans tuned in to watch CBS Reports: The Homosexuals, network television’s first documentary on homosexuality. Near the top of the program, host and interviewer Mike Wallace calls homosexuals “the most despised minority in the United States.” The hour that follows is filled with salacious location footage, sermonizing therapists, and shadowed interviews with distraught homosexuals.
But The Homosexuals is not without virtue. Wallace interviews Warren Adkins, an untroubled 28-year-old homosexual who capably breaks the 1960s gay stereotype with an attitude of positive self-reflection. Adkins talks about his “warm and understanding family” and addresses Wallace’s implicit nature-versus-nurture question by saying, “I never would imagine that if I had blond hair that I would worry what genes or chromosomes caused my blond hair… My homosexuality to me is very much in the same category.” Advocate
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Series CBS Reports
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One of the earliest films purporting to "reveal" the truth about homosexuality, this 1967 TV documentary is sure to produce hostility among most modern viewers -- It is, however, and important gay heritage film, reminding us of public attitudes prior to the emergence of the gay liberation movement -- It is a "must see" film from that perspective