Time's article The Homosexual in America was inaccurate, judgmental, and down right offensive to LGBT people, the author was clearly bias and homophobic. For example, the article states, "Edmund Bergler found certain traits present in all homosexuals, including inner depression and guilt, irrational jealously and a megalomaniac conviction the homosexual trends are universal" (357). In addition the article talks about how homosexuality is caused by the fear of the opposite sex. Finally the article ends with saying how homosexuality is a "pernicious sickness." I mean really? Who published this article? Where did the author get their information from? Fortunately, there was a response to Time's The Homosexual in America.
Kay Tobin writes the Rebuke for Time's Pernicious Prejudice. Tobin says the answer to Time's article was given by Isadore Rubin who said (about the authors of Time's article) "but if this is so, then I am forced to conclude that if they are not ignorant, the editors of this essay are intellectually dishonest, motivated by prejudice, and guilty of deliberate omission and distortion" (360). He along with others were furious with Time's article. Tobin says, "While TIME called for "fairness, compassion, understanding" for homosexuality, Dr. Rubin said he could not find in the essay any example of fairness, compassion or understanding" (360). In addition, Time completely disregards the Kinsey research done on sex but calling his methods "naive" and incorrect. While the Kinsey research has done some of the best research on sex in America. Thank goodness for this response to Time's prejudice article.
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