The homosexual in America

D. Cory, E. Sagarin

Socio- en psychologische studie, gebaseerd op schrijvers eigen ervaringen als homosexueel in Amerika. - In its original (1951) edition, The Homosexual In America was the first widely-read book in the U.S. to demonstrate the legal, social and economic discrimination leveled against an "amazingly large" segment of the American population and to put forward a strong defense of homosexual rights and a view of homosexuals as "the unrecognized minority." Writing pseudonymously but "as a homosexual," the author describes aspects of the Gay subculture, examines reasons for social hostility, and surveys anti-homosexual provisions in the penal code and their adverse social