RIP Dr. Richard Isay.

Timely passing:

Dr. Isay wrote several books including “Being Homosexual” (1989), “Becoming Gay” (1997) and “Commitment and Healing: Gay Men and the Need for Romantic Love” (2006).

Dr. Richard A. Friedman, director of the psychopharmacology clinic at Weill Cornell Medical College, said that Dr. Isay had “made the field see that their view was based on ideology, not evidence.”

He said Dr. Isay could sometimes seem doctrinaire and a bit shrill, irritating to some, but he added: “You have to have passion to do what he did. He pushed the field to do what it should have done, and he did not stop. We’re all richer for it.”

I wonder how many men, and women, out there, owe this man a simple "thank you" for having the courage to work the way he did.

Instead, we pay homage to "Will and Grace", Ellen DeGeneres and Anderson Cooper.  Nutty world...

Although (his son David) Isay knew that his father had treated gay people and had written about homosexuality, he did not know until he was 21 that Dr. Isay himself was gay.

But, Mr. Isay added:

“Before I knew he was gay, and after, he was basically the exact same person. He had a fierce sense of justice, hated phonies and always rooted for the underdog.”

Dare to dream, eh?