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Rejected (The)

Country: USA, Language: English, 60 mins

  • Director: Dick Christian
  • Writer: John Reavis Jr
  • Producer: John Reavis Jr

CGiii Comment

If it wasn't so terrifying...it would be hysterical!

People, professional people...medics, actually believed in the tripe they spoke!

Here, homosexuality is seen [exclusively] as a problem...but, they never actually say what the 'problem' is!

Fascinating to see and hear Margaret Mead dither on [and on] about her anthropological perspective of homosexuality...she was a far better writer than an orator. She and all the others who took part could [without much effort] win gold medals in monotony.

How times/attitudes/knowledge have changed...from the days when homosexuality was tolerated only if they didn't frighten the horses!


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The(ir) Blurb...

Introduced by KQED's General Manager James Day, The Rejected was the first ever U.S. televised documentary about homosexuality, broadcast on September 11th 1961. It includes discussions about sexual orientation from: Margaret Mead (anthropologist); Dr. Karl Bowman (former President of the American Psychiatric Association); Harold Call, Donald Lucas and Les Fisher of the Mattachine Society; San Francisco District Attorney Thomas Lynch; Dr. Erwin Braff (Director of San Francisco's Bureau for Disease Control; Al Bendich; Mr J. Albert Hutchinson and Mr. Morris Lowenthal (who engage in debate); Bishop James Pike and Rabbi Alvin Fine.