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Condition: Very Good Jacket: wear at edges, small nick on front, larger nick at bottom of spine, protective film coming off at same place; some discolouring, particularly along top. Boards (red): very slight dust and curling of corners. Top of spine slightly curling; bottom of spine slightly crushed. Page edges dusty on top. Previous bookseller's price penciled on front endpaper. Pages otherwise clean. Content: Introduction: Homosexuality as a Problem for Science and Society Chapter 1: A Friday Night and Its Past Chapter 2: What Is Homosexuality? Chapter 3: The Public Places of Gay Life Chapter 4: Ten Hours Chapter 5: Homosexuals and the Law Chapter 6: The Crime Against Nature Chapter 7: The Development of Sexual Identity Chapter 8: The Roots of Homosexuality Chapter 9: The Disease Concept of Homosexuality Chapter 10: Promiscuity and the Problem of Intimacy Chapter 11: Dread of Homosexuality Epilogue: What Is to Be Done? References Background / Biography: "Martin Hoffman is Research Psychiatrist at the Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center in San Francisco. He was formerly a member of the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley." (from the jacket) Reviews: Clicking on advertiser links on this site may allow these companies to gather and use information about your visit to this and other websites to provide you with advertisements about goods and services presumed to be of interest to you. |
Quote from this book "On a Friday evening in 1966, at about 11:15 PM, Tom entered one of San Francisco's approximately 40 gay bars. He had never been there before but had heard about it from some of his friends with whom he played poker regularly on Wednesday nights. One of them had gone into the bar by mistake a couple of weeks before and the subject was mentioned as a sort of joke around the poker table; no one suspected that Tom might have been interested in finding out about the bar. No one would have had any idea at all that Tom had any homosexual interests. He was 27, fairly good-looking, married, and the father of four children. He worked as a truck driver for a bakery in one of the suburbs of San Francisco. The bar was quite crowded by the time Tom got there, and among those present was David, a 21-year-old blond who was a regular patron of this particular bar. He had come there with friends, after having been to dinner in one of their apartments. David was quite attractive, one might almost say 'pretty', and it is possible that a number of people might have suspected that he was homosexual. There was, however, nothing flagrant or 'faggoty' about him, although he was rather soft-spoken, mild and had no particular interest in women. He worked as a clerk in a brokerage office and had a number of friends, a few of whom might be identifiable as obvious homosexuals. But this was by no means true of the majority of his associates. He was in many respects (and in this unlike Tom) a typical young urban homosexual male. He had come to the bar mainly for the purpose of being with his friends, although he had the thought in the backof his mind that perhaps he might meet somebody with whom he could spend the night. Tom came with the specific purpose of picking up someone." opening paragraphs, Chapter One Secondhand booksellers |
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