Cur: A Gay Man's Odyssey by Mart Duberman

Contents:

• CUR (TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDN): A GAY MAN'S ODYSSEY
• CUR : A GAY MAN'S ODYSSEY
• CUR : A GAY MAN'S ODYSSEY
• CUR: A GAY MAN'S ODYSSEY
• CUR: A GAY MAN'S ODYSSEY

CUR (TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDN): A GAY MAN'S ODYSSEY

Reviewed the Uned Stat on September 8, 2015Mart Duberman's book is very good if you wish to fd out what was like back when beg gay was a crime that uld land you jail and worst. Like I said the headle, 's tensely movg to read about how a gay man saw his orientatn (and inty! I would fely remend this book to anyone who wants to know about what beg gay was like the 1940s-1970s (when the memoir tak place).

Reviewed the Uned Stat on Febary 4, 2006Mart Duberman has earned his strip at the foreont of gay scholarship and civil rights. After the mid-1970s, he beme both a gay rights advote and a chronicler of gays and lbians recent Amerin he wasn't always an outspoken pneer of sexual liberatn.

At bt, he was ntrely open about his homosexualy to selected iends and lleagu, but, like many other men and women, he had nvced himself that his inty was not only wrong but uld somehow be ntrolled or even cured. This memoir reunts not only his stggle to accept himself but also the societal and "profsnal" attus that rerced the view of homosexualy as a pathologil of the book tails his excciatg and even il adventur (a bizarrely appropriate word here) psychotherapy, particularly wh one psychologist whose own nros and lack of profsnal tegry, eventually be clear, should have barred him om dispensg advice to patients, sick or healthy.

CUR : A GAY MAN'S ODYSSEY

For some rears today, 's hard to image the prsur and impossibili of beg gay half a century ago. Reviewed the Uned Stat on November 14, 2011Mart Duberman's CURES is another gay journey book, albe one more le wh Edmund Whe generatn, the gay Ameri of the closeted 1950s through Stonewall and to the 1970s. Te to the tle, this memoir is about the cur that Duberman tri to ny his homosexualy, wh lengthy tails and explanatns of his var psychotherapi, cludg over five years a BOB NEWHART-type group therapy, as well as a variety of more new agey methods.

CUR : A GAY MAN'S ODYSSEY

Reviewed the Uned Stat on Febary 3, 2015A pellg report of the thor's experience as a gay amician at Prceton Universy the long days before Stonewall. He munit his journey through the landspe of attempts to "cure" his homosexual sir an easy, poignent manner.

CUR: A GAY MAN'S ODYSSEY

As a gay history text, this book is valuable. As an experience of one man's journey through s of self-loathg bee he was gay to a wellsprg of pri and polil actn, this book is a mt have. Cur: A Gay Man's Odyssey The distguishg feature of Cur: A Gay Man’s Odyssey by historian Mart Duberman (Pl Robon, About Time: Explorg the Gay Past) is the memoir’s tone of thoughtful sobriety.

CUR: A GAY MAN'S ODYSSEY

Where other firsthand acunts of the homosexual unrground postwar Ameri — John Rechy’s The Sexual Outlaw, for example-have been edgy and angry, Duberman’s is earnt, reflective, and tached, no mean feat when the subject is sex. Born 1930, Duberman me of age at a time when a great many people Ameri — and certaly most psychiatrists — viewed homosexualy as a disease.

After a great al of anguished liberatn, Duberman joed the nascent gay liberatn movement 1972.

B+ Cur: A Gay Man's Odyssey. 95 (336pp) ISBN 978-0-525-24955-9Historian, playwright, gay activist, Duberman was treated for some 20 years by a succsn of psychotherapists who attempted to ``cure'' him of his homosexualy.