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...year-old cross-dresser was being led into the paddy wagon and got a shove from a cop, she fought back. "[She] hit the cop and was so stoned, she didn't know what she was doing--or didn't care," one of her friends later told Martin Duberman, author of the history Stonewall...
...recommend Martin Duberman's Cures: A Gay Man's Odyssey to O'Donnell so that he may understand that homosexuality is not a choice (any more than heterosexuality) and that people like Duberman tried a number of unsuccessful "cures" due to the shame he felt about...
...other hand, many gays are wary of the genetic hypothesis. It could, they fear, help promote the notion that gayness is a "defect" in need of "fixing." "Any finding will be used and twisted for homophobic purposes," says Martin Duberman, head of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the City University of New York. "If it does turn out that for some people, there is a genetic or hormonal component, the cry will then arise to take care of that." Indeed, the cry is already rising. The Rev. Louis P. Sheldon, president of the Traditional Values Coalition...
...Rutgers class of 1919 had big plans for its valedictorian: by 1940 he would be Governor of New Jersey and "leader of the colored race in America." As Martin Bauml Duberman observes in his compassionate biography, extravagant predictions were still being made for Paul Robeson 21 years later. The son of an escaped slave had already risen to international celebrity as a singer, actor and public speaker, and no limits were set on his future. Hardly anyone foresaw that he was standing on the edge of an irreversible decline...
...Duberman, a professor of history at Lehman College in New York City, is a scrupulous biographer. But he seems an ingenuous historian. In his view, Robeson became the target of "Cold War hysteria," and the sad outcome of a brilliant career was, in essence, "America's tragedy." But in fact, the wound was self-inflicted. The champion of minorities and laborers turned out to be oddly forgiving about crimes against humanity -- provided that they were committed in the Workers' Paradise. To him, Stalin's infamous purges were a $ proper way to deal with "counter-revolutionary assassins." The pact between...