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Growing up gay in the 60's - What it was like.....

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<p style="text-align: center;">"<strong>The Homosexuals" </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Mike Wallace's controversial 1967 CBS documentary</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://i.minus.com/ibaCxjuTUgZEpG.jpg" alt="" width="334" height="194" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>ABRIDGED VERSION (9 minutes)- http://youtu.be/-AXAOT_swIE</strong><br /><br /><strong>FULL VERSION (44 minutes)- http://youtu.be/n2UNcDHa5ao</strong></p>

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darkknightreturns
darkknightreturns
9 years ago

The past has been a struggle for gays, and the future still will be for some. Stonewall, police raids and beatings, executions, persecution from religions. That is why the present young people should continue to fight, as we had to do, for freedoms, rights, equalities, pensions, right to marry, employment equity, housing, civil rights, human rights, the ability to be ourselves. It's a sad day when a 14 year old in Iran is beheaded for being gay or a 14 year old here decided to commit suicide due to gay bullying. If you have never been to a gay pride parade, go to a big city and see one. It is an eye opener the groups that support us, and the ones who seek to be allowed the freedoms we have in North America. hugz Ron xoxo

Davey1965
Davey1965
9 years ago

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1i6qhp_undercover-doctor-cure-me-i-m-gay_shortfilms

Davey1965
Davey1965
9 years ago

http://www.thegayuk.com/magazine/4574334751/INTERVIEW-Dr-Christian---Cure-Me-I'm-Gay/7756103

9 years ago

Thank you for widening the debate, Andrew, a broader historical perspective is much needed here - as you rightly say, so-called healing can be a way of thrusting injustices and cruelty aside instead of having the courage to come to terms with the fact that the wounds they cause will probably never heal. As I said earlier, wounds have the right to remain open ... and there are gaping wounds everywhere in the world, persecuted individuals and groups who don't have well-funded organisations like the LGBT lobby to fight their cause. Yes, growing up gay in the 1960's was no joke - but try growing up as a gay, crippled Jewish boy in Germany in the 1930s, or in the Soviet Union under Stalin.

9 years ago

I agree with Thomas, there are some wounds that are so deep, so far-reaching that they should be allowed to stay open, to never properly heal, for healing can imply/further forgetting, and the cruelty of the 20th century, not just to LGBT people, but to Armenians, Rwandans,Jews, the victims of Eugenics, Communists and non-Communists, just to scratch the surface, must always be remembered. We owe it to all those people who went before us. Sometimes forgetting is easier than dealing with an open wound.

9 years ago

@swiftjohn - I totally agree with your post - well said fella.

Davey1965
Davey1965
9 years ago

Hopefully Guys will watch the video which is what this blog is all about and if yr new here, sorry about the tug of war for Naming rights haha

9 years ago

@swiftjohn it has been reposted...http://www.gayboystube.com/video/322411/the-homosexuals-mike-wallaces-1967-cbs-documentary Seemingly it was terribly important to Phallussy that it have his name attached. So be it. Makes no never mind to me. Seems others have their egos attached to what people do here. It is unfortunate, but is human nature I would guess.

swiftjohn
swiftjohn
9 years ago

Don't take it down. This is too important a video. Please remember that this site is also educational. Young gays coming up need to know what those who came before had to endue if for no other reason than to realize how fortunate they are to be born gay in this day and age. In order to know where we are going, we cannot forget where we've been. Sadly, the attitudes of those times still exist, particularly among religionists, which means the struggle is not yet over and there is work still to be done.

9 years ago

What happened to the friendship that people are so fond of talking about here?

9 years ago

Take it down Nick...god forbid Dennis should be so alarmed. It is just a video. Get a grip

9 years ago

I do not appreciate the video that goes with my blog being uploaded by you, commandeered by you in such a disrespectful fashion Thomas. You even keyworded it tolead! This is not the behavior of a leader Thomas.

9 years ago

Now available on GBT: http://www.gayboystube.com/video/322399/mike-wallace-the-homosexuals-1967-recap-version

9 years ago

Now girls ...

9 years ago

Don't see how it makes any difference who uploads it...just sayin' Dennis...sheesh

9 years ago

ummm...with all due respect Thomas I think Nick was talking to me. It is my blog....just sayin'

9 years ago

@Nick18, the abridged version has been uploaded and is awaiting approval.

9 years ago

As I was11 years old in 1969, those momentous events didn't really register with me - and in any case, attitudes towards gays in the USA were ( and perhaps still are) more intolerant than in Europe - in France, for instance, respect for a person's sexuality was enshrined in the Code Civile by Napoleon Bonaparte in the 19th century. I entered adolescence in what might be called the post-Stonewall era, when things began to get easier for gays (relatively speaking at least). Personally I've never felt any stigma about my sexuality (which I was aware of from about 6 years old), although obviously I have always been acutely aware of society's attitudes, and as a result tend to regard heterosexuality as in many ways inferior, somewhat of a genetic aberration - but that stems partly from my classical education at a private, all-boys' school where homoeroticism was part of everyday life, and where we learnt about Plato from an early age. Nor have I ever felt the need to take part in Gay Pride - not because I don't support it, it is a wonderful expression of solidarity - but because I have always seen homosexuality as being the norm; if anything, it is the heterosexual community that has an identity crisis, not us gays. So when I hear heterosexual bigots pontificating, I always remember what the French writer Michel Tournier once said: 'heterosexuality is the perversion of the majority'.

9 years ago

I see these old films and frankly, they are difficult to watch at times but as others have said, they are part of who our society is. I also feel a great deal of sorrow for those that grew up in this era of misunderstanding and just plane bias. Its amazing to me just 2 minutes in and Wallace is interviewing a gay man and his 1st question is "what do you think caused your homosexuality"

9 years ago

I am going to respectfully disagree with both Mike and Dennis...there are some wounds that cannot and will not heal...and need to be remembered for what the were...and what they are...we all are on a path...and some wounds will not heal but will guide us....

9 years ago

I agree with you Marshmont. Emotional pain needs to be addressed.....needs to be healed. And to heal it, it needs to be acknowledged, consciously and unconsciously. I would respectfully refer anyone interested in looking further into this to this link: http://www.wellbeingalignment.com/emotional-pain.html