title: MIDLIFE QUEER: Autobiography of a Decade 1971-1981
author: Martin Duberman
description: For historian, gay activist and playwright Duberman, the 1970s was not the complacent Me decade. In this searching, refreshingly optimistic memoir, he revisits his participation in gay rights struggles as well as in internal disputes with a movement he saw as too insular in its relative disregard of nonwhites, the poor and lesbians. He analyzes his relationship with his intrusive yet loving mother, whose protracted death from a malignant melanoma in 1977 had a deep, lingering impact. Duberman tried experimental LSD therapy, which proved disorienting, yielding only scattered insights. Another alternative psychotherapy, bioenergetics, unleashed floods of rage, tears and tenderness. His career as a dramatist was stalemated during the 1970s, which he blames partly on a cowardly producers' fraternity and partly on timid, anesthetized American audiences. After a major heart attack in 1979, at 49, Duberman spent a year recovering, moving beyond despair and self-recrimination to re-immersion in the gay rights movement. His relentless self-scrutiny reflects a continual search for ways to link the personal with the political. <br />Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  MEMOIR5 OF A G A Y JEW 
  IN NAZI BERLIN 
  GAD BECK 
  
  BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY 
  Copley Square 
  Boston. MA 02116 
  
  An Underground Life 
  
  LIVING OUT 
  Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies 
  Joan Larkin and David Bergman 
  GENERAL EDITORS 
  The Other Mother: A Lesbian’s Fight for Her Daughter 
  Nancy Abrams 
  An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin 
  Gad Beck 
  Development and Two Selves 
  Bryher 
  The Hurry-Up Song: A Memoir of Losing My Brother 
  Clifford Chase 
  4 
  In My Father’s Arms: A True Story of Incest 
  Walter A. de Milly III 
  Midlife Queer: Autobiography of a Decade, 1971-1981 
  Martin Duberman 
  Widescreen Dreams: Growing Up Gay at the Movies 
  Patrick E. Horrigan 
  Eminent Maricones: Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and Me 
  Jaime Manrique 
  Taboo 
  Boyer Rickel 
  
  An Underground Life 
  THE MEMOIRS OFA GAY JEW 
  IN NAZI BERLIN 
  Gad Beck 
  written with Frank Heibert 
  translated from the German by Allison Brown 
  The University of Wisconsin Press 
  
  DS136 
  B333 
  1999 
  The University of Wisconsin 