![]() ![]() The New York Native cover story was among the opening displays of the Newseum in Arlington, Va., now in Washington, DC. ![]() "Disease Rumors Largely Unfounded" was the headline of Mass's article. In May 1981, Mass authored the first press report appearing in the New York Native, followed in July 1981 by the first feature article, "Cancer in the Gay Community," on the then-new HIV/AIDS epidemic. A selection of these interviews is republished in his two Dialogues of the Sexual Revolution collections.Īs a physician writing for the gay press, Mass also was one of the first to address the 1970s spread of a number of sexually transmitted diseases, including syphilis, gonorrhea, hepatitis B and amebiasis. ![]() He conducted and published many interviews with such leading figures in the discourse as Judd Marmor, Richard Pillard, Thomas Szasz, John Money, Charles Silverstein, Masters and Johnson, Richard Green, Mary Calderone, John Boswell, John D'Emilio and Estelle Freedman, and Martin Duberman. Mass chronicled the shift in academic and scientific thinking about homosexuality and sexuality. His writing for the gay press examined the leading roles of sociology and sex research in shaping contemporary thinking about sexuality and homosexuality. Under Mass, the newsletter ran politically charged headlines such as its first, "Psychoanalytic Statute Prevents Legal Entry of Gay Aliens," calling attention to the fact that discredited psychoanalytic theories of "the homosexual" as a form of "psychopathic personality" were still sources of discriminatory public policies. Besides writing for the gay press, Mass became newsletter editor for the Gay Caucus of Members of the American Psychiatric Association, the fledgling organization of gay psychiatrists that began organizing in the aftermath of the declassification. Mass focused initially on the field of psychiatry, which retained many of its past homophobic practitioners, practices and positions even after the American Psychiatric Association in 1973 declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder. This treatment became the catalyst for his activism that he pursued via journalism, making him the first openly gay physician to write on a regular basis for the gay press. from the University of Illinois's Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine in 1973.Ĭompleting his residency in anesthesiology at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital (in association with Harvard Medical School), Mass encountered homophobia during his interviews in Chicago for a residency in psychiatry when he disclosed that he was gay. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1969, and his M.D. Mass was born in Macon, Georgia, in 1946, received his B.A. An archival collection of his papers are at the New York Public Library. Having written for the New York Native since the 1970s, he currently writes a column for The Huffington Post. Since 1979, he has lived and worked as a physician in New York City, where he resided with his life partner, writer and activist Arnie Kantrowitz. ![]() In 2009 he was in the first group of physicians to be designated as diplomates of the American Board of Addiction Medicine. He is also the author/editor of four books/collections. He is the author of numerous publications on HIV, hepatitis C, STDs, gay health, psychiatry and sex research, and on music, opera, and culture. A co-founder of Gay Men's Health Crisis, he wrote the first press reports in the United States on an illness later became known as AIDS. (born June 11, 1946) is an American physician and writer. We Must Love One Another Or Die: The Life and Legacies of Larry Kramer, Confessions of a Jewish Wagnerite: Being Gay and Jewish in America, Homosexuality and Sexuality: Dialogues of The Sexual Revolution, Volume 1 HIV, hepatitis C, STDs, gay health, psychiatry, sex research, music, opera, and culture Co-founder of Gay Men's Health Crisis, wrote the first press reports on AIDS ![]()
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