Contents:
- GAY HISTORY MONTH – OCTOBER 8: MARC WELBY M.D. WAS A HOMOPHOBE, MAHOGANY, ELLEN DEGENER, AND MISTER MARC
- MAKINGGAYHISTORY—THE PODCAST
GAY HISTORY MONTH – OCTOBER 8: MARC WELBY M.D. WAS A HOMOPHOBE, MAHOGANY, ELLEN DEGENER, AND MISTER MARC
Welby duced that Lorg was stgglg wh “homosexual tennci, ” and tidily wrapped up another week’s show by assurg his patient that he uld w his battle agast such aberrant urg and someday be “normal. ”For a program that prid self on s up-to-the-mute medil rmatn (the Amerin Amy of Fay Physicians vetted every script for medil verisiu), the Lorg episo seemed strangely unaware of the tense natnal bate gog on jt then over homosexualy.
That awarens was raised a hurry: The Gay Activist Alliance staged a s- at ABC’s New York offic, and on the day of the broadst, activists picketed the Los Angel County Medil Associatn and lled Marc Welby a “quack. Still, the ti was movg rapidly; that same year the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn formally voted to amend the Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs to remove any mentn of homosexualy as a “disease.
MAKINGGAYHISTORY—THE PODCAST
This sparked an angry rponse om gay advot objectg to the suggtn that all pedophil were gay. Margaret Lorg is divorcg her hband after disverg his homosexual tennci. At a meetg of the Scientific Humanarian Commtee, one of the earlit anizatns to take an active role the gay rights movement, Ruhlg attempted to lk the women’s movement wh rights for lbians, cricizg her lleagu for not takg an active role fightg opprsn agast same-sex attracted women.
Ted ref to talk about what happened, fearg that beg raped meant that he was gay. ” ABC fend the episo by sayg was about pedophilia, not homosexualy. But the storyle played much too closely to the old stereotype of gay men forcibly preyg on children.