In 1992, Mike Wallace was asked about the broadcast, and he responded "I should have known better."
But in 1995, he still maintained that homosexuality could be cured.
In 1996, he further explained, "That is — God help us — what our understanding was of the homosexual lifestyle a mere twenty-five years ago because nobody was out of the closet and because that's what we heard from doctors — that's what Socarides told us, it was a matter of shame."
At the time of the broadcast in 1965, nearly every educated left-of-center intellectual thought the same thing: They thought that all homosexuals were sick--even the nice ones.
That's why Stonewall was so important: the event and what it symbolized. Gay Americans were desperate for something that could change the paradigm.