TV Critics Praise 'Rejected'

San Francisco radio and TV columnists waxed enthusiastic about the hour-long presentation of "The Rejected", TV's first symposium on homosexuality produced for nationwide showing by KQED, S.F.'s educational station.

Said Torrence O'Flaherty of the "San Francisco Chronicle", "KQED was courageous to tackle what is perhaps the most taboo subject of all homosexuality, the permanent underground. A letter from Stanley Mosk, the Attorney General of California, opened the show and set the tone for the discussion:

"It cannot be dismissed by simply ignoring its presence. We might just as well refuse to discuss alcoholism or narcotics addiction, as to rofuse to discuss this subject. It cannot be swept under the rug. It will not go away by itself. There is noed to cast light into an area in which the shadows have long been deep."

Dwight Newton of the "San Francisco Examiner" noted that the program "was handled soberly, calmly and in great depth" from the points of view of Dr. Margaret Meade, anthropologist; Dr. Karl Bowman, psychiatrist; Morris Lowenthal, and Albert Bendich, attorneys; Thomas Lynch, San Francisco district attorney; Dr. Erwin Braff, U.S. Public Health Service; Rabbi Alvin Fine, The Rt. Rev. James A. Pike, Episcopal Bishop of California; and members of the Mattachine Society. "Most agreed that adult homosexuality should not be a crime."

Mr. Newton offered "congratulations to KQED and to the program's writer, John W. Reavis, Jr., for adding another cubit to TV's maturity."

Some of the documented comments must have suprised most viewers: "Thirty-seven por cont of all American males have had at least one homosexual experience after adoleaconce." "Laws aimed at controlling homosexual conduct are frequently self-contradictory, totally irrational and

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