(TIME Warp) 45 Years after Mike Wallace's 'The Homosexuals' Broke Ground!

Mike Wallace, late of CBS's 60 Minutes, died last night at age 93. He perished in an assisted care facility near New Canaan, CT. 

Over 45 Years ago, Wallace Hosted Television's First glimpse of Homosexuality,  Given the era in which it was produced, it's admirably open-minded: gay folk, at least male ones, are allowed to speak their pieces freely and at length. (I was especially interested in the weird hand-wringing about the possibility of a "gay mafia" ruling pop art and fashion, which seems rather incidental to the segment's central question: Is it desirable to legislate against private sexual behavior? On this question, at least, it seems Wallace wished to alight gently on the side of history.)Within 2 Years, Gay Liberation Happened.



As a journalist, I respected him because No question was off Limits, it was like he was a male Barbara Walters.

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