My friend Joe Openshaw has just published an exciting new book, “Those Others: Navigating the Riddle of Homosexuality in 1965.”
Learn more or purchase a copy about it on his website:
http://thoseothersthebook.blogspot.com/
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Wayne Besen is the Founding Executive Director of Truth Wins Out and author of “Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth” (Haworth, 2003). In 2010, Besen was awarded the “Visionary Award” at the Out Music Awards for organizing the American Prayer Hour, an event which shined a spotlight on the role American evangelicals played in the introduction of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill.
Wayne, thanks. I also just released a video about the book. View it on Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaRTPv1gvfI
I wonder if Joe Openshaw’s “Riddle of Homosexuality” subtitle was inspired by Karl Ulrichs? Nearly a century ago, the German medical doctor Magnus Hirschfeld wrote about “Die gleichgeschlechtliche Liebe” (Same-sex love) and “Das Rätsel der Homosexualität” (The Riddle of Homosexuality) and used the riddle metaphor as had a book that also used the motto “I break the chain” by Karl Heinrich Ulrichs a.k.a. Numa Numantius (pseud.), “Forschungen über das Räthsel der Mannmännlichen liebe Volume 1 (Research on the Riddle of Man-Manly Love),” 1864, Original from Harvard University Law Library scanned by Google Books.
Thomas, the Title “Those Others” and the phrase “Riddle of Homosexuality” were both taken from the Washington Post articles that are included in the book. Possibly the author of the articles got the phrase from there, I don’t know.