Erasing Reason: Inside Aesthetic Realism - A Cult That Tried to Turn Queer People Straight

by Hal W. Lanse, Michael Bluejay (Introduction)

From the mid '60s through the late '80s Aesthetic Realism, a Greenwich Village cult did its best to capitalize on its questionable claim that it could transform homosexuals into happy heterosexuals. Erasing Reason gives readers a tour of a homophobic world that warped the lives of many queers. Take a walk inside a secret and unsavory world led by a charismatic and malicious philosopher of hate.

150 pages, Paperback

First published September 15, 2012

Reviews

[Scott]

It's important to tell survivor stories and bring to public attention the damage that cults and cult-like religious groups can have on their members. But this was really poorly-written, disjointed, and lacking in structure, citation, and focus. It added nothing to the discussions of cults, religion, or gay conversion myth, basically amounting to "this is an example of those things."