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- 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
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CUR (TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDN): A GAY MAN'S ODYSSEY
* cures 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!
CUR : A GAY MAN'S ODYSSEY
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).
CUR : A GAY MAN'S ODYSSEY
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.
CUR: A GAY MAN'S ODYSSEY
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. For some rears today, 's hard to image the prsur and impossibili of beg gay half a century ago.
CUR: A GAY MAN'S ODYSSEY
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. 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. 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.