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''The Rejected'' (1961) is a made-for-television documentary film about homosexuality, produced for KQED in San Francisco by John W. Reavis.〔Kaiser, p. 161〕 ''The Rejected'' was the first documentary program on homosexuality broadcast on American television.〔Alwood, p. 41〕 It initially ran on KQED on September 11, 1961, and was later syndicated to National Educational Television (NET) stations across the country. ''The Rejected'' received positive critical reviews upon airing. ==Production== Reavis, an independent producer who was apparently unconnected to the homophile movement, wrote up his idea for ''The Rejected'' in 1960.〔Capsuto, p. 39〕 Reavis originally titled the documentary ''The Gay Ones''. He explained his goals for the program in his proposal: Thus, Reavis approached the topic from the standpoint of homosexuality being a social problem akin to alcoholism or prostitution.〔 This echoed how many earlier programs, often produced as episodes of local talk shows, addressed homosexuality with shows bearing such titles as "Homosexuals and the Problems They Present" and "Homosexuality: A Psychological Approach". ''The Rejected'' focused exclusively on gay men, with no representation of lesbians.〔Castañeda and Campbell, p. 259〕 Reavis expressed his reluctance to include lesbians in his proposal: Commercial stations turned down the program, as did sponsors. KQED bought the project in early 1961 under the new title.〔 The documentary was shot entirely in the KQED studio except for one segment on location at the Black Cat Bar, a San Francisco gay bar that had been fighting state and police harassment since 1948. Reavis and co-producer Irving Saraf filmed ''The Rejected'' on a budget of less than $100.〔 Reavis and director Richard Christian utilized the talk show format, breaking down the subject matter into a series of smaller topics. Each segment included one or more subject matter experts discussing homosexuality from a different perspective. Within each segment, Reavis presented a stereotype about homosexuality and then challenged the validity of that stereotype through the expert interviews. His goal, as he noted in his original proposal, was to give the viewer "a feeling he is confused and that society as a whole is confused about homosexuality".〔Alwood, p. 42〕 Experts interviewed for the program included: * Margaret Mead speaking from an anthropological standpoint. Mead spoke of the positive roles that homosexuality had played in the cultures of Ancient Greece and the South Sea Islands and in Inuit and Native American societies. Mead noted that it is society and not the individual that determines how homosexuality and homosexual behaviour are viewed.〔 * Psychiatrist Karl Bowman of the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute,〔Sears, p. 501〕 who explained the Kinsey scale of human sexuality and who spoke against a punitive approach to treating homosexual patients.〔 Medical doctor Erwin Braff also addressed medical issues. * Episcopal Bishop of San Francisco James Pike and rabbi Alvin Fine addressed religious topics. Each man espoused his belief that sodomy laws should be repealed because in his opinion homosexuality was a mental illness.〔Capsuto, pp. 39–40〕 Pike specifically compared homosexuality to chronic alcoholism, but called for homosexuals to be treated with "love and concern and interest" and for not condemning them as "evil".〔 * The city's district attorney, Thomas C. Lynch, covered legal issues along with lawyers J. Albert Hutchinson, Al Bendich,〔 and Morris Lowenthal (who had previously defended the Black Cat Bar during its 15-year legal battle against police and government harassment).〔Cain, p. 79〕 * Openly gay Mattachine Society president Hal Call, Mattachine executive secretary Donald Lucas and Mattachine treasurer Les Fisher spoke for gay men.〔 ''The Rejected'' was unusual for its time in that it included actual gay people as opposed to only presenting ostensibly heterosexual experts.〔Witt, et al., p. 113〕 KQED station manager James Day opened the documentary by reading a statement from California's then-Attorney General Stanley Mosk: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Rejected」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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