BOOTLEG FILES 034: “The Homosexuals” (1967 CBS News documentary on the pre-Stonewall gay subculture).
LAST SEEN: Recently excerpted in a Bravo special on the history of gays on U.S. television.
AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: No commercial home video release, although it is available for non-theatrical video and DVD presentations.
REASON FOR DISAPPEARANCE: We don’t know.
CHANCES OF SEEING A HOME VIDEO/DVD RELEASE: One would imagine it would be released by now; it’s absence is a mystery, considering the historical significance of the production.
BOOTLEG OPPORTUNITIES: Fabulous opportunities abound!
Get the bootleg in part two of THE BOOTLEG FILES: “THE HOMOSEXUALS”>>>
I think this program was seen by at least some of the members of Monty Python. I’m going by their later skit “The Mouse Problem.”