{"id":955,"date":"1992-09-07T22:25:49","date_gmt":"1992-09-08T03:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/?p=955"},"modified":"2012-07-07T22:28:59","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T03:28:59","slug":"society-and-the-healthy-homosexual-how-to-get-the-most-out-of-being-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/society-and-the-healthy-homosexual-how-to-get-the-most-out-of-being-gay\/","title":{"rendered":"Society and the Healthy Homosexual: How to Get the Most Out of Being Gay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The GLBTRT has been reviewing books and movies in its newsletter since the early 1990s. Trace the evolution of queer publishing through these historic reviews. This review was originally\u00a0published in\u00a0<a title=\"Read this issue online. \" href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/glbtrt\/sites\/ala.org.glbtrt\/files\/content\/newsletter\/newsletters\/1992fall.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Vol. 4, No. 3, Fall 1992<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-956\" style=\"border: 0pt none; float: left; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px;\" title=\"society\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/society-201x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Cover of Society and the Healthy Homosexual\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/society-201x300.jpeg 201w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/society.jpeg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><a title=\"Find this in a library near you!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/286908\">Society and the Healthy Homosexual: How to Get the Most Out of Being Gay. By George Weinberg, with foreward by Gerry E. Studds. AIyson. Copyrighted 1972 by George Weinberg, with Foreword copyrighted in 1991 by Alyson Publications. $7.95. (ISBN 1-55583-193-1)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Authored by the psychotherapist who is credited<br \/>\nwith coining the word &#8220;homophobia&#8221;, George Weinberg&#8217;s<br \/>\nbook has not been updated since it was first published in<br \/>\n1972.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the outdated statistics, the references to<br \/>\norganizations which have disappeared over the years, and<br \/>\nthe fact that most of the research cited in this book was<br \/>\nwritten in the &#8220;Pre-Stonewall Era&#8221; &#8211; the fact is that this is<br \/>\nan easy to read &#8220;classic&#8221; which should be on the shelves of<br \/>\nevery public and academic library in the world!<\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by <strong>Gary M. Klein<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity of Toledo<br \/>\nToledo, OH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GLBTRT has been reviewing books and movies in its newsletter since the early 1990s. Trace the evolution of queer publishing through these historic reviews. This review was originally\u00a0published in\u00a0Vol. 4, No. 3, Fall 1992. Society and the Healthy Homosexual: How to Get the Most Out of Being Gay. By George Weinberg, with foreward by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,46,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}