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Rare 1961 Expos\u00e9 On Homosexuality Unearthed<\/b><\/p>\n

\"James-Day-800x548\"<\/a>The Rejected<\/em> is believed to be the first-ever made American TV documentary about homosexuality. It was released by PBS to little fanfare in 1961 then went missing for more than five decades. Now a team of determined archivists have unearthed the long-lost film and made it available for viewing online.<\/p>\n

The footage was discovered by archivists Robert Chehoski and Alex Cherian after an exhaustive six year search.<\/p>\n

“It just became that unicorn that I was looking for,” Chehoski tells KQED<\/a>. “I get a little obsessive I guess.”<\/p>\n

Related: WATCH: An Untold History Of Gay Persecution, “The Lavender Scare”<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

“There was no treasure map,” Cherian says. “All I knew was in 1961, KQED had made this film. Where the hell was it?”<\/p>\n

First, they combed through KQED’s archives. When they couldn’t find anything, they tracked down the documentary’s original producer, Irving Saraf. He told them, “Oh yeah, I made that film in 1961 but I haven’t been able to find it. It’s probably lost.”<\/p>\n

Related: The History Of America’s First Gay Bar And The Iconic Artist You’d Have Found There<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Determined to find it, the men<\/a> did some more research. They learned that KQED didn’t actually own the documentary. It belonged to WNET, a TV station in New York that had provided the it’s original funding. From there, they were able to locate the one and only physical copy of The Rejected<\/em>, hiding in the one place so obvious nobody thought to look: The Library of Congress.<\/p>\n

“There’s that cliched phrase, did you look down the back of the sofa?” Cherian jokes.<\/p>\n

After convincing the library and WNET to let them clean up, digitize and upload the one-hour film to the internet, The Rejected<\/em> is now available to view online<\/a>, via San Francisco State University’s DIVA Film Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cherian tells SFist<\/a><\/em> that his next project is “working with the Library of Congress and the film’s copyright holder WNET to try and produce a better video<\/a> copy.”<\/p>\n

Related: The Modern History Of Cruising, Homophobia And AIDS In Less Than Four Minutes<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Graham Gremore<\/p>\n

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