Someone You May Know: A Heterosexual Looks at Homosexuality
By ALAN SCHERSTUHL
Each week, your Crap Archivst will bring you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from area basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power.
Someone You May Know:
A Heterosexual Looks at Homosexuality
Author: William Konraad
Date: 1965
Discovered at: Family Thrift in Mission
The Cover Promises: “This book makes no judgments. This book does not deal with perversions leading to a world of fantasy. This book brings you a complete view of a major situation today.”
Representative Quote: Page 184: “Q: Jim, the other day I was reading a magazine published by and for homosexuals and in it there was an article urging homosexuals to get behind a certain socialist candidate and the socialist movement in general. How do you feel about that?”
With a tone of empathetic condescension, author Konraad presents the results of what the back cover insists was “three years of interviews with psychiatrists, M.D.’s, lawyers, religious leaders, District Attorney’s, Police officers and hundreds of homosexuals.” That he considers homosexuals an entirely separate category from “psychiatrists, M.D.s,” and the like indicates he never thought this through entirely.
