Edward Sagarin

Edward Sagarin was an American professor of sociology and criminology at the City University of New York who also wrote under the pen name Donald Webster Cory. His 1951 book The Homosexual in America: A Subjective Approach was considered one of the most influential works in the history of the gay rights movement, and Sagarin was described by some as the father of the homophile movement for arguing that gay men and lesbians deserved civil rights as an unrecognized minority, a characterization others have disputed. He held his professorship in criminology and sociology at CUNY across a career that also included writing several other books. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/