CBS Television Airs "The Homosexuals"

CBS television airs The Homosexuals, the first network TV documentary in the U.S. on gay men. Narrated by Mike Wallace, a well-respected newscaster, it featured long segments with psychiatrists who considered homosexuals to be mentally ill, and an interview with a gay man whose face was blocked from view and who declared “I’m sick in a lot of ways.” An estimated 40 million Americans saw the show.

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