This1950s film warns boys to be wary of homosexuals

FLASHBACK features this public service announcement warning boys about homosexuals. This is 1950s America, after the war against the Nazis had been won. Still, in the USA – Land of the Free – homophobia was State sanctioned. We’ve come a long way, baby:

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