ABSTRACT
Richard C. Pillard, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine and perhaps is best known for studying the incidence of homosexuality in families and twins, and reporting the evidence for genetic heritability. Dr. Pillard has authored about 100 book chapters, articles, reviews, posters, and editorials on psychopharmacology, sexual orientation, and the genetics of deafness. He was also the founder of one of the first gay-oriented health services in the country: The Homophile Community Health Service in Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to clinical work and research, Dr. Pillard spent eight years in administration, as Medical Director and Associate Superintendent for Clinical Services, Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller Mental Health Center in Boston. Recently he took a year to visit Paris and is now back in Boston seeing clinic patients part-time. As he describes in this interview, Dr. Pillard believes he is living the life that his father would have enjoyed.
