Tom Brokaw just can’t shake his straight-laced past! The newsman came under gay fire last year after neglecting to include gay folk in his temporal exploration, Boom! Voices of the Sixties, which examines America circa 1963-1974.
Following up on the story, The Advocate recently opened their pages to Brokaw, who says he feels “bad” about the exclusion:
: Obviously I feel bad. It was not that it wasn’t on my mind, but it was not the defining history of the ‘60s. I was trying to do the five big pillars, which in my judgment were race, war, politics, women, and culture. There were a number of important movements that also grew out of the ‘60s and certainly gay liberation was important among them…I think it was a mistake not to make reference to Stonewall. And we’re going to do that in subsequent editions.
Tacked on the end, perhaps?
Meanwhile, writer Charles Kaiser penned a scathing letter to Brokaw, which Portfolio‘s Jeff Bercovici published in full.
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In other Advocate news, the magazine also just published their interview with queer senatorial candidate, Jim Neal, with whom we also recently had a chat. Keep your peepers peeled – we’ll be posting it later in the week.
Mark Walsh
Strangely, the movement s which grew out of the 60’s were certainly NOT war and politics.
War has been around a long time-maybe “massive American imperialist wars”, but not wars, or imperialism. Politics started dying in the 60’s, since As the republicans took control in partnership with Corporations, real politics died, facism began. Maybe bribery started on a major scale.
As far as Culture goes, America never had much of any native culture, and that is about dead now. Any American Art was shortlived
That eliminates 3 of the “important movements in America.” which he notes.
Racial equality and Feminism seem to be no more important to everyone’s lives than Gay Liberation which affects everyone. Since we are everywhere and touch everyone. It is a major issue of political divide these days.
Jack Jett
No rational excuse can be made for Brokaw leaving out Stonewall. He made a choice and is trying to down play it. Remember this guy works with Tucker Carlson, Chris Matthews and the ultimate homophobe himself, Tim Russert.
todd
I will dance on the grave of the last baby boomer who croaks! They gave us Reagan and Bush and Bush and love only themselves and their pocket books.
Peter
Any chance he could drop dead soon? He’s such an embarrassment to life and culture!