From: gklein@uoft02.utoledo.edu (Gary Klein, bear at heart)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Prometheus Books
Date: 13 Nov 92 01:31:11 GMT
Organization: Univ of Toledo

In article <1992Nov9.035151.12426@midway.uchicago.edu>, h431@quads.uchicago.edu
   (heather e blair) writes:
> I just read that hideous book "Half Straight: My Secret Bisexual Life"
> by Tom Smith (pseud).  It's part of a series "New Concepts in Human
> Sexuality" that Prometheus Books is putting out.
> 
> Does anyone here know anything about Prometheus Books, this particular
> series, or the series editor, Vern L. Bullough, PhD?  I'd like to know 
> what the goals for this series are, and whether the books in it are 
> supposed to support a particular point of view.  I have a hunch, but I'd
> better get some facts.

     Vern Bullough is a professor of Biology at the State Univeristy of New
York College at Buffalo (Buffalo State College), and his wife, Bonnie Bullough
is employed across town as a professor or Nursing at the State University of 
New York at Buffalo (University of Buffalo).

     Both Vern & Bonnie have been writing, publishing, editing & refereeing
VALID & WELL RESPECTED research on the entire spectrum of sexuality for well
over a dozen years.  They are "straight, but not narrow" and although I did not
meet them while living in Buffalo, I have spoken on the phone with them, and
can guarantee you that ANY LesBiGay organization would want to have either of
them as members of their organization!  Both Bulloughs have had a number of
their works published by the JOURNAL OF HOMOSEXUALITY, and have spoken at
conferences around the country.

     You can readily locate work by the Bulloughs in BOOKS IN PRINT, thru the 
SOCIAL SCIENCE CITATION INDEX, Wilson's SOCIAL SCIENCE INDEX, and in the book
catalogs of most academic libraries in North America!

     I do not know if they still are, but at one time Vern was chair of the
Biology Dept at Buff State, while Bonnie was chair of the Nursing Dept at Univ
of Buffalo.  One of the Biology professors at Buff State was scheduled to
receive an award for teaching excellence, when someone from the President's
Office called to ask Vern if there was some mistake when the RSVP to the
invitation only awards dinner came back wtih TWO men's names on it!  Verne
verified that one of them was the Award Winning Bio professor.  When questioned
further about it, Vern suggested that the President's aide contact the
professor directly for more information, WHILE ALSO WARNING HIM that there was
nothing illegal or improper about the RSVP under New York State Law.  The aide
continued muttering about "there must be some sort of mistake here", when Vern
pointed out that the Aide was the one making the monumental mistake!

     For some reason, the aide dropped the issue, and shrunk back without
making any more phonecalls!

     (I cannot remember the Biology professor's name, although I met him a
number of times-- I think it is Jim & Jim--the professor being from Louisianna)
but he & his hubby assured me that they did not let that faux pas ruin their 
fun time at the President's Party!

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     PROMETHEUS BOOKS is a Buffalo NY publisher which takes on a number of
controversial topics as themes for its book series.  Some of the 190+ books
that the UT Library owns are on topics such as homosexuality, AIDS, sexual
freedom, transvestism, pornography, euthanasia, hospice care, atheism, humanism
feminism, child abuse, suicide, ethics, free will...

     They may be an independent press, but they certainly are not a one title
per year publisher!
-- 
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