Douglas Sadownick is an American writer, activist, professor and psychotherapist.[1]
Biography
Born in Highbridge, Bronx in 1959, Douglas Sadownick attended Columbia College for his B.A., New York University for his graduate work in English, and the graduate program in clinical psychology at Antioch University for a Master's of Arts in Clinical Psychology.[2] He received his PhD from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Clinical Psychology in 2006. His dissertation was entitled, Homosexual Enlightenment: A Gay Science Perspective on 19th Century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
His work Sacred Lips of the Bronx (St. Martin's Press, 1994) was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award.[2] His second book, Sex Between Men: An Intimate History of the Sex Lives of Gay Men, Postwar to Present, was published by HarperOne in 1996 and 1997.[citation needed] His articles have appeared in the Advocate, the Los Angeles Times, Genre, High Performance, the New York Native, and the L.A. Weekly. He received a GLAAD award for excellence in reporting in 1991.[4]
His paper, "Reading Literature Gay-Affirmatively: A Homosexual Individuation Story," was published in Spring 2006 in the journal Arts and Humanities.
Life
In Love Doesn't Need a Reason the author, Jones, wrote that Michael Callen who was dying of AIDS requested that Douglas Sadownick and Tim should be granted power of attorney over him.[5]
Works
Sacred Lips of the Bronx
Sex Between Men: An Intimate History of the Sex Lives of Gay Men Postwar to Present