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Paul Goodman (September 9, 1911 – August 2, 1972) was an American novelist,
playwright, poet, literary critic, and psychotherapist, although now best
known as a social critic and anarchist philosopher. Though often thought of as
a sociologist, he vehemently denied being one in a presentation in the
Experimental College at San Francisco State in 1964, and in fact said he could
not read sociology because it was too often lifeless. The author of dozens of
books including Growing Up Absurd and The Community of Scholars,
Goodman was an activist on the pacifist Left in the 1960s and a frequently
cited inspiration to the student movement of that decade. A lay therapist for
a number of years, he was a co-founder of Gestalt therapy in the 1940s and
1950s.
The freedom with which he revealed, in print and in public, his romantic
and sexual relations with men (notably in a late essay, "Being Queer"[15]),
proved to be one of the many important cultural springboards for the emerging
gay liberation movement of the early 1970s. He viewed sexual relationships
between males as natural, normal, and healthy. In discussing his own sexual
relationships, he acknowledged that public opinion would condemn him, but
countered that "what is really obscene is the way our society makes us feel
shameful and like criminals for doing human things that we really need."
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