Dr. Isay, *TITANIC* LGBT rights figure, died yesterday.

[Smarmie Doofus]

In NYC. Age 77.

Talk about "making a difference".

Talk about "perfecting the world".

Jeeeeeeezzuuus.

Today's NY Times Obit:


>>>“He changed the way the psychoanalytic world viewed the subject of homosexuality,” said Dr. Jack Drescher, a training and supervising analyst at the William Alanson White Institute in New York and the author of “Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man.” “He was a pioneer, a very brave man. He was attacked by psychoanalysts. He took a lot of flak.”

During the era in which Dr. Isay trained, homosexuality was viewed as a “lower level of psychological development,” Dr. Drescher said. It was something to be cured in therapy, and openly gay professionals were barred from training as analysts at institutions accredited by the American Psychoanalytic Association, the oldest professional group for analysts in the United States and one of the most influential, with many training institutes and affiliated societies.>>>>

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/30/health/richard-isay-fought-illness-tag-for-gays-dies-at-77.html?ref=obituaries

[cbayer]

1. He was a good and brave man. Thanks, Dr. Isay, for all that you did.