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This book is a collection of life stories of gay men from the years before the gay liberation movement. It provides insights into contemporary issues of gay and lesbian identity, as well as a history of how psychiatry and psychology portrayed homosexuality as a mental disorder.
This book tells the stories of 11 American gay men who tried to make sense of their identities in the years before the gay liberation movement. It reveals how sexuality is socially constructed, provides remarkable insights into contemporary issues of gay and lesbian identity, and presents a history of how psychiatry and psychology portrayed homosexuality as a mental disorder, along with a history of what gay people experienced in their social and political everyday lives.
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