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A July 3, 1981, New York Times article foreshadowed years of loss to come.Whether in the back of a sleeper cab or in a motel room, a movie is a great way to wind down after a long haul of driving. Unfortunately, it would be just a few months before the progress of the 1970s turned into the tragedy of the 1980s. The National Gay Task Force announced that this was the first time two acknowledged homosexuals had attended a high school prom together in America. Twenty-two states had ended all restrictions on sexual relations between consenting adults, and on the tenth anniversary of Stonewall, seventeen-year-old Randy Rohl took twenty-year-old Grady Quinn to the senior prom in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. (Mostly because of fierce opposition from the Catholic Church-whose lobbyist was Roy Cohn-New York City remained pointedly absent from this list at the beginning of the decade.) As Kaiser told me over email, "Any discussion of anything gay on television was still pretty rare then."īy 1980, in response to the growing clamor for equality, 120 of the largest corporations, including AT& T and IBM, had adopted personnel policies prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, and 40 towns and cities had passed similar laws or issued executive orders.
It may not have been right on the cutting edge of gay and lesbian activism, but it wasn't trailing too far behind either. Though some of the language may induce cringing on the part of viewers today (e.g., "has a homosexual experience"), in the context of the 1970s, this special represented a remarkably frank and sympathetic conversation.
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A small clip has been provided to The Atlantic as part of our series on the history of public media. Perhaps inspired by these changes, in 1976 New York's public-television station, WNET (today known as Channel 13) featured a live, three-hour special called "OUTREACH: LESBIANS AND GAY MEN" (capitalization theirs). Perhaps most significantly: In December of 1973, the board of the American Psychiatric Association* voted 13-0 "to remove homosexuality from its list of psychiatric disorders." During those years, there was the first gay television movie a sexy on-screen kiss between two men in Sunday, Blood Sunday and the release of Cabaret, which has been hailed as the first movie that "really celebrated homosexuality." There were gains in politics too: Edward Koch, then serving in Congress, "became one of the first elected officials to publicly lobby on behalf of the homosexuals of Greenwich Village," Kaiser writes.
At its core, that transformation was about visibility. Those years that followed, the decade of the 1970s, represent a remarkable period of transformation for gays and lesbians, particularly those living in America's coastal cities. The thick bottle that had contained an entire culture was uncorked in 1969 within a few years it would be shattered into a thousand pieces." But while many gay people remained ignorant of Stonewall and others reacted to it with discomfort, this 1960s version of the Boston Tea Party would do more than any other event to transform gay life in America.
The 1960s came to a close with what is still perhaps the most consequential event in recent American gay history: the Stonewall riots of June 28, 1969.Īs Charles Kaiser put it in his history of gay New York, "No other civil rights movement in America ever had such an improbable unveiling: an urban riot sparked by drag queens. For more about the project, see our introduction to the series, where you'll also find a handy list of all the series' pieces so far.
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This article is the 11th in a series featuring clips from the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, which is working to digitize television and radio pieces so that they may be preserved for years to come.