T.V. 'The Rejected'

TV viewers in the San Francisco area will have a rare opportunity to see a further breakthrough in public education and awareness of the homosexual. On Sept. 11 TV station KQED will present at 9:30 P. M. an hour-long documentary entitled "The Rejected." The program will deal with the legal, social, medical, and anthropological aspects of male homosexuality in the U. S. today.

Among the notables participating in this "famous first" TV program are these: Margaret Mead, anthropologist and author; Karl M. Bowman, M. D., author, psychiatrist, and long-time worker in the field of homosexuality; Attorney Morris Lowenthal; Bishop James Pike of Grace Episcopal Cathedral in San Francisco; Rabbi Alvin I. Fine, who is chairman of the American Civil Liberties Union in Northern California; Alvin Bendich, attorney, also of the ACLU; and Irwin Braff, M. D., director of the Bureau of Venereal Disease Control in San Francisco.

Among others are District Attorney Thomas Lynch of San Francisco and Attorney J. Albert Hutchinson, formerly of the Attorney General's office. James Day, manager of station KQED, will read a letter especially written for the program by the Attorney General of California, Honorable Stanley Mosk.

Rounding out the program and giving further points of view will be three members of the Mattachine Society in San Francisco: Harold Call, Donald Lucas, and Los Fisher. At a pre-broadcast audition of the program, the producers, participants, and technical personnel proclaimed it to be the most outstanding and comprehensive coverage of this subject ever to be made available to the public via mass media.

It is suggested that those in other areas of the country watch carefully for announcements of this program, for it is to be distributed throughout the U. S. for showing on educational channels.

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