Lawrence D. Mass
| Lawrence D. Mass | |
|---|---|
| Born |
June 11, 1946 Macon, Georgia |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of California at Berkeley |
| Occupation | Physician and writer |
| Known for | Co-founder of Gay Men's Health Crisis, wrote the first press reports on AIDS |
| Medical career | |
| Field | Psychiatry |
| Institutions | Massachusetts General Hospital |
| Specialism | HIV, hepatitis C, STDs, gay health, psychiatry, sex research, music, opera, and culture |
| Notable works | We Must Love One Another Or Die: The Life and Legacies of Larry Kramer, Confessions of a Jewish Wagnerite: Being Gay and Jewish in America, Homosexuality and Sexuality: Dialogues of The Sexual Revolution, Volume 1 |
Lawrence D. Mass, M.D. (born June 11, 1946) is an American physician and writer. A co-founder of Gay Men's Health Crisis, he wrote the first press reports on the epidemic that later became known as AIDS. He is the author of numerous publications on HIV,hepatitis C, STDs, gay health, psychiatry and sex research, and on music, opera, and culture. He is also the author/editor of four books/collections. In 2009 he was in the first group of physicians to be designated as diplomates of the American Board of Addiction Medicine. Since 1979, he has lived and worked as a physician in New York City, where he resides with his life partner, writer and activist Arnie Kantrowitz. Having written for the New York Native since the 1970s, he currently writes a column for The Huffington Post. An archival collection of his papers are at the New York Public Library.
Mass was born in Macon, Georgia, in 1946, received his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1969, and his M.D. from the University of Illinois's Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine in 1973.
Completing his residency in anesthesiology at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital (in association with Harvard Medical School), Mass encountered homophobia during his interviews in Chicago for a residency in psychiatry when he disclosed that he was gay. This treatment became the catalyst for his activism that he pursued via journalism, making him the first openly gay physician to write on a regular basis for the gay press.
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