• PBS’s new film “Cured” tells the story of how LGBTQ people stopped being sick
    LGBTQ History

    PBS’s new film “Cured” tells the story of how LGBTQ people stopped being sick

    A small group of thoughtful, committed citizens force psychiatrists to reexamine their homophobia and transphobia. This is how it happened.

  • Remembering Mike Wallace, and … ‘The Homosexuals’
    Commentary

    Remembering Mike Wallace, and … ‘The Homosexuals’

    I am a fan of the late Mike Wallace and am very sad that he has passed away. I have always enjoyed his reports and consider him a first-rate journalist. However, there was one noticeable career snafu that caused an enormous amount of damage to the LGBT community. In 1967, the news magazine CBS Reports aired an hour-long segment, “The Homosexuals,” that gave America its first glimpse of gay and lesbian Americans. Thanks to the efforts of anti-gay psychiatrists, gays were vilified in front of 40 million people, solidifying despicable stereotypes that would last for more than a generation.