Scared Straight: Why Its So Hard to Accept Gay People and Why Its So Hard to Be Human
by Robert Neil Minor
Category: Social Science

Argues that people of all sexual orientations are hurt by being "straight", torn from their full human potential, and squeezed into molds that support our dominant institutions. Human relationships with either sex are incomplete and unfulfilling. Chapters on "How to be straight" and "How to be gay" describe the roles heterosexual and non-heterosexual people are conditioned to live in order to maintain this status quo. [back cover].