Instead, in her daydreams, she imagined herself as “Clark Gable or Errol Flynn sweeping some beauty off her feet.I’d heard of homosexuality. She dated boys, but, oddly, had no fantasies about them. Louis in 1928, Berzon came of age in a world where she had no idea what to make of her feelings. Few people know this better than Los Angeles-based psychotherapist, author and gay activist Betty Berzon, who tells the story of her own experience in her dramatic, action-packed autobiography, “Surviving Madness.”īorn in St. Yet homophobia is an attitude so tenaciously entrenched, for a long time it has afflicted homosexuals as well. In a world filled with dangers of all kinds, from terrorism, global warming and overpopulation to economic injustice, pension-fund raiders, serial killers and drunk drivers, it is hard to understand why so many people feel threatened by the mere existence of men and women who happen to be sexually attracted to members of their own gender. SURVIVING MADNESS: A THERAPIST’S OWN STORY
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