John Lauritsen

John Lauritsen (born 1939) is a retired market research analyst, author, activist, and the founder of Pagan Press. With Warren Johansson and Wayne R. Dynes, Lauritsen criticized historian John Boswell's Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality (1980), arguing that Boswell had attempted to whitewash the historic crimes of the Christian Church against gay men.

Lauritsen wrote for the New York Native, where he argued against the connection between HIV and AIDS and questioned the safety of AZT. Lauritsen co-authored a book with Hank Wilson entitled Death Rush: Poppers and AIDS (New York: Pagan Press, 1986), in which they conjectured a connection between poppers and AIDS, especially Kaposi's sarcoma, an AIDS-related cancer. Lauritsen argues that poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, not his wife Mary Shelley, was the real author of Frankenstein (1818). He expounded this theory in his work The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein (2007), which received both favorable and negative reviews.

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