AmosL
05-19-2008, 11:15 PM
Clark, Don. “Someone Gay: Memoirs”, Lethe Press, 2008.
One Who Leads
Amos Lassen
I suspect that the name Don Clark is familiar to many in the GLBT culture. If you are not, then you should get a copy of his book “Loving Someone Gay” which for many years has been our “How To” book. Don Clark is a writer, a teacher, and a consultant as well as a clinical psychologist whose specialty is group and one-on-one work with gay people since 1868. He is well published and well known and has done a great deal for our community.
In “Someone Gay: Memoirs”, Clark lets us into his personal life and takes us his own life journey from guilt and shame to pride, confidence and understanding. He shows us how he underwent his own transformation and became the first openly gay psychologist in the United States and regarded as the “father of gay-oriented psychotherapy”. He also gives pointers as to how it is possible to claim an identity and a feeling of pride. He takes us inside the human condition as gives us a sense of past that we cam be proud of.
Clark’s own story is sensitive, emotional and moving. Clark rose from a life of poverty to become who he is. He shows not only to have a gay identity but how to establish one. He looks at the issue of social change in the GLBT community and our fight for equality. We all have one reality living inside of another reality and that greatly influences the way we evolve and go through change. Clark’s story is one of hope and it provides just that for those who are busy working out the coming out process and embracing a healthy and honest gay identity.
One Who Leads
Amos Lassen
I suspect that the name Don Clark is familiar to many in the GLBT culture. If you are not, then you should get a copy of his book “Loving Someone Gay” which for many years has been our “How To” book. Don Clark is a writer, a teacher, and a consultant as well as a clinical psychologist whose specialty is group and one-on-one work with gay people since 1868. He is well published and well known and has done a great deal for our community.
In “Someone Gay: Memoirs”, Clark lets us into his personal life and takes us his own life journey from guilt and shame to pride, confidence and understanding. He shows us how he underwent his own transformation and became the first openly gay psychologist in the United States and regarded as the “father of gay-oriented psychotherapy”. He also gives pointers as to how it is possible to claim an identity and a feeling of pride. He takes us inside the human condition as gives us a sense of past that we cam be proud of.
Clark’s own story is sensitive, emotional and moving. Clark rose from a life of poverty to become who he is. He shows not only to have a gay identity but how to establish one. He looks at the issue of social change in the GLBT community and our fight for equality. We all have one reality living inside of another reality and that greatly influences the way we evolve and go through change. Clark’s story is one of hope and it provides just that for those who are busy working out the coming out process and embracing a healthy and honest gay identity.