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发帖数: 4174 | 1 Posted on Advocate.com April 09, 2012 09:08:54 PM ET
Mike Wallace and The Homosexuals
While some are remembering Mike Wallace for his probing 60 Minutes
interviews, others are recalling his participation in the sensationalistic
1967 documentary The Homosexuals.
By Trudy Ring
Veteran journalist Mike Wallace, who died Saturday at age 93, had many
claims to fame and one credit that might be considered a claim to infamy —
his participation in the sensationalistic 1960s documentary The Homosexuals.
Wallace would later express regret about the tone of the documentary, which
aired only once, March 7, 1967, on CBS. Hosted and narrated by Wallace, it
characterized gay men as promiscuous and lonely, given to fleeting,
anonymous sexual encounters. It acknowledged the discrimination they faced,
but with “no sense of righteous indignation” about that, the journal Film
Threat once noted. The program largely ignored lesbians. Still, it marked a
breakthrough in gay visibility on television.
“Years after the broadcast, Mike Wallace would admit regret that The
Homosexuals was not more balanced and sympathetic in its focus,” according
to the Film Threat article. “In 1995, Wallace made a surprise appearance at
New York’s Lighthouse Cinema, which was showing The Homosexuals as part of
a Gay Pride line-up. The audience treated Wallace with deep respect and the
veteran newsman hosted an impromptu Q&A session after the film was screened
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