This 1950s instructional vid on the creeping menace of homosexuality, sensationally titled BOYS BEWARE! has to be seen to be believed.
What's really amazing is, if you make the whole scenario a little less creepy, it can actually double for a gay wank fantasy! Young boy befriends a cool older guy that he becomes friends with and confides in...
Seeing something like this, I come to the conclusion that we're a heck of a lot smarter than our parents' and grandparents' generation was. All through this entire article there are a million points that set off a big flashing red light that makes us go WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! Yet alas, our narrator pays them no mind.
If your parents are boomers (mine came in at the late end of the baby boom), the one thing they've probably hysterically incalculated in you is that EVERYTHING CAN KILL YOU. It takes something like this to show us that the world is, actually, fundamentally safe. Most people that hitchhike actually survive, for instance.
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2 comments:
"mentally ill"... when did they change their mind about this?
Ha ha! Lucky for you I'm a psych student.
Short answer: it didn't happen overnight, but as a result of overwhelming evidence developing from the fifties to the late sixties. It's rather like the heliocentric model of the solar system: it took a while for homosexuality to be removed from treatable disorders as the weight of the evidence shifted.
The rejection of homosexuality as a type of pathology is actually pretty old: it goes back to Freud, who believed all humans were innately bisexual.
Alfred Kinsey's famous study revealed that heterosexual and homosexual weren't distinct categories, and while it got a lot of press, the study that was actually more effective was one done by Hooker, who showed that homosexual and heterosexuals generally scored consistently normally.
By 1974, homosexuality was removed from the DSM-IV.
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