The price of achievement
Subtitle: coming out in Reagan days
By: W. Scott Thompson.
Series: The Cassell lesbian and gay studies list; Cassell lesbian and gay studies
Publisher: Cassell
Published: 1995
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Thompson, W. Scott -- 1942-; Gay politicians -- United States -- Biography.; Coming out (Sexual orientation) -- United States.; Homosexuality -- United States.; Closeted gays -- United States.
Description: John F. Kennedy predicted that Scotty Thompson would be President some day. Before he was 30 he had won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, published several books, begun a promising academic and public career, and married the handsome and wealthy daughter of an elder statesman. At 40, from a tenured university professorship he got his first sub-cabinet job in Washington. Between the cup and the lip of fulfillment his world of power and riches fell apart: he could no longer hold back his gay secret. So he came out, joining what is still the most despised minority. Against the most formidable odds - powerful people opposing him to protect their own deeply guarded similar secret, defeating him for position on grounds of his homosexuality - he put his life back together: with his children, with his lovers, and finally as the first openly gay presidential appointee.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.