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Watch The Homosexuals (1967)

on February 12th, 2010 by B.Graff

A piece of gay history was recently made available online.
CBS aired The Homosexuals on March 7, 1967. Hosted by Mike Wallace, it was the first major television special dedicated to homosexuality.
Considered a pioneering broadcast at the time (homosexuality was still classified as a mental illness in 1967), viewing it today is a bittersweet [...]

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The Fallacy of “Making Everyone Gay”

on December 28th, 2009 by B.Graff

A new article on gay writer and activist Larry Kramer
mentions his latest project, The American People.
This is not your average history book. A 4000 page behemoth that has yet to be published, the book has already earned attention for Kramer’s claim that it will prove that George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and Abraham [...]

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