are no homosexuals, transvestites, chemical addicts, suicidogenics, delinquents, criminals, or other such entities, in the sense of people having such identities." Sagarin's position was roundly condemned by academics in the gay community. Sagarin had written some gay novels under the pseudonym of Donald Webster Cory. According to reports, he later abandoned his gay identity and began promoting an interactionist view of homosexuality. A number of authors adopted a modified, non-deviant, labeling theory. They rejected the stigmatic function of the gay role, but found it useful in describing the process of coming out and reconciling one's homosexual experiences with the social role. Their works includes: Homosexuals and the Military (1971); "Coming Out in the Gay World" (1971); "Homosexual Identity: Commitment, Adjustment, and Significant Others" (1973); Male Homosexuals: Their Problems and Adaptations (1974); Identity and Community in the Gay World (1974); "Components of Sexual Identity" (1977); Homosexualities: A Study of Diversity Among Men and Women (1978); "On 'Doing' and 'Being' Gay: Sexual Behavior and Homosexual Male Self-Identity" (1978); "Homosexual Identity Formation: A Theoretical Model" (1979, Cass identity model); "Becoming Homosexual: A model of Gay Identity Acquisition" (1979); Sexual Preference: Its Development in Men and Women (1981); and "Developmental Stages of the Coming Out Process" (1982). Barry Adam (1976) took those authors to task for ignoring the force of the oppression in creating identities and their inferiorizing effects. Drawing upon the works of Albert Memmi, Adam showed how gay-identified persons, like Jews and blacks, internalize the hatred to justify their limitations of life choices. He saw the gravitation towards ghettos was evidence of the self-limitations:A certain romantic liberalism runs through the literature, evident from attempts to paper over or discount the very real problems of inferiorization. Some researchers seem bent on 'rescuing' their subjects from 'defamation' by ignoring the problems of defeatism and complicit self-destruction. Avoidance of dispiriting reflection upon the day-to-day practice of dominated people appears to spring from a desire to 'enhance' the reputation of the dominated and magically relieve their plight. Careful observation has been sacrificed to the 'power of positive thinking.'Strong defense of labeling theory also arose within the gay community. Dan Slater of the Los Angeles Homosexual Information Center said, "There is no such thing as a homosexual lifestyle. There is no such thing as gay pride or anything like that. Homosexuality is simply based on the sex act. Gay consciousness and all the rest are separatist and