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Psychological Perspectives on Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Experiences (2nd ed.). Edited by Linda D. Garnets and Douglas C. Kimmel. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003, 562 pages. Cloth, $62.50; paper, $36.00.
For those seeking an historical reference to the first inroads of empirical psychological research on lesbian, gay, and bisexual issues, no book does a better job than Garnets and Kimmel's Psychological Perspectives on Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Experiences. In addition to providing the reader with a solid understanding of the topics and concerns of many of the first researchers, the volume also provides an historical record of those who were key in the early studies and efforts to declassify homosexuality (or any sexuality other than heterosexuality) as a mental illness.
A key figure in this process was Evelyn Hooker, a heterosexual woman. As an adjunct member of the psychology department at the University of California at Los Angeles, Dr. Hooker conducted the first empirical studies discounting mental illness differences between homosexual and heterosexual men in the 1950s. In the 1968 edition of the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Hooker wrote, "The only obvious difference between homosexuals and...
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