Contents:
- OLIVER SACKS FILM REVEALS A GREAT GAY DOCTOR'S PASSN FOR THE MD
- AN ‘AWAKENGS’ OPERA THAT SHOWS OLIVER SACKS AS HIS IENDS KNEW HIM — A GAY MAN
- OLIVER SACKS, FAMED GAY NROLOGIST AND AUTHOR, DI AT 82
- NEW DOCUMENTARY FOC ON LATE GAY NROLOGIST OLIVER SACKS
- I THOUGHT I WAS OVER MY CATHOLIC GUILT ABOUT BEG GAY. MAYBE I WAS WRONG?
- 'AWAKENGS' OPERA SHOWS OLIVER SACKS AS HE WAS — A GAY MAN
OLIVER SACKS FILM REVEALS A GREAT GAY DOCTOR'S PASSN FOR THE MD
Homosexual acts were not crimalized England until the 1960s; his mother, he wrote, “had an Orthodox upbrgg.
It seemed like Sacks was gay.
AN ‘AWAKENGS’ OPERA THAT SHOWS OLIVER SACKS AS HIS IENDS KNEW HIM — A GAY MAN
“It seems impossible to ignore the obv implitn nveyed by the scriptn of his history (Thom Gunn, motorcycl, leather, San Francis sexual awakeng) that he is gay, if celibate later years.
But few knew of the difficulti the kdly, ede doctor and scientist faced his own stggl clud Homophobia, which was easy for him to ternalize given that his mother lled him an "abomatn" when she found out he was gay.
OLIVER SACKS, FAMED GAY NROLOGIST AND AUTHOR, DI AT 82
Another source of shame, for Oliver, was beg gay.
When she rumed speakg to him, she never mentned the subject aga, and later she advised him on his wrgs, but the damage was, a straight man, says he didn't know Sacks was gay until he received the phone ll om Edgar. "Beg gay England the 1950s was dangero; engagg gay sex uld get a person arrted or even, the se of the great puter scientist Alan Turg, chemilly strated. There was still plenty of homophobia elsewhere, though, as Sacks found when he me to the U.
In fact, Sacks was gay.
NEW DOCUMENTARY FOC ON LATE GAY NROLOGIST OLIVER SACKS
But he had grown up at a time when homosexualy was illegal Bra — and a tradnal Jewish muny where homosexuals were regard as abomatns agast God and nature.
I THOUGHT I WAS OVER MY CATHOLIC GUILT ABOUT BEG GAY. MAYBE I WAS WRONG?
” For the first time, an adaptatn of Sacks’ wrg will portray him, accurately, as a gay man. ‘It explas so much about him’The missg piece was Sack’s cisn to e out publicly as a gay man, which he did his 2015 memoir.
'AWAKENGS' OPERA SHOWS OLIVER SACKS AS HE WAS — A GAY MAN
When he was a teenager, his mother disvered that he was gay and beme enraged.