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Feb 04, 1947 Los Angeles, California, United States 77 years old
writer about the clinical psychology of the AIDS Crisis
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About Walt Odets
- Walt Odets (born February 4, 1947) is a clinical psychologist and author who has written about the early development, psychological and social experiences of gay men and their communities.
- His earlier writing focused on the lives of men living in and surviving the early AIDS epidemic.
- The spring 1996 issue of Positive Impact Journal called Odets "an important voice in the AIDS education and prevention arena." Odets's 1995 study, In the Shadow of the Epidemic: Being HIV-Negative in the Age of AIDS, was listed by The New York Times as among the "Notable Books of the Year 1995." Additionally, In the Shadow of the Epidemic was the No.
- 1 bestselling book purchased by gay men in the late fall of 1995, according to The Advocate, and was confirmed as a "Gay Bestseller of 1995" by the Feminist Bookstore News.Odets’s later work has focused on the psychological aftermath of the epidemic, the early-life experience of stigmatization and adolescent trauma among young gay men, and the conventional idea of “the homosexual” and its influences on gay identities, self-compromise and relationships between men.
- To be released in 2019, Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men’s Lives, has been described as “A moving exploration of how gay men construct their identities, fight to be themselves, and live authentically .
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- a necessary, impassioned argument for how and why we must all take hold of our futures.”
