Donald Webster Cory
Pen name of Edward Sagarin (1913–1986), an American sociologist and author best known for The Homosexual in America (1951), an early sympathetic account advocating social reform for gay people; Sagarin later worked in sociology/sexology.
Books
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1. The Homosexual In America
A Subjective Approach
A pioneering 1950s work that challenges prevailing medical, legal, and social views of homosexuality, arguing that same-sex desire is not a pathology but a natural variation deserving of civil rights and social acceptance. Drawing on interviews, case studies, and criticism of psychiatric classifications and discriminatory laws, it exposes the harm of secrecy and stigma and calls for organized activism, legal reform, and honest public discussion to reduce suffering and integrate homosexual people into society as equal citizens.
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