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Time Capsule: Mike Wallace tells truth about homosexuality in 1967 documentary

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In 1967, the veteran CBS journalist Mike Wallace did what today would seem revolutionary: he hosted a 43-minute documentary that exposed the stark truth about homosexuality, speaking openly of well-established facts that have since been consigned to the memory hole of political correctness. Wallace’s documentary,  The Homosexuals , is a frank examination of the self-destructive behavior of sexually-active homosexuals, the underlying psychological causes of their impulses, and their troubling influence on American culture . It also discusses curative therapy for homosexual orientation, which had a success rate in the 1960s of about one third, a result similar to that yielded by modern therapeutic methods. “The average homosexual, if there be such, is promiscuous,” Wallace states matter-of-factly. “He is not interested in nor capable of a lasting relationship like that of a heterosexual marriage. His sex life, his love life, consists of a series of chance encounters at the clubs a

The Mother of the Homosexual Movement - Evelyn Hooker PhD

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Image via Wikipedia Although few have heard of her outside the movement she helped to shape, the psychologist Evelyn Hooker ’s contributions to the advance of the homosexual political movement puts her in an historical class with Margaret Sanger , the foundress of Planned Parenthood and institutionalized abortion, and Alfred Kinsey the "father" of the sexual revolution. Hooker, a professor of psychology at the University of California at Los Angeles for 30 years, is credited in the medical and psychological community, and most especially amongst homosexual political activists, with establishing that there is no measurable psychological difference between heterosexual and homosexual men.  Her work introduced and developed the idea that homosexuality, far from being a mental disorder, is merely a normal minority variant on human sexuality. Hooker’s influential study on the issue, first published in 1957 in the Journal of Projective Techniques, was and still is presented a