ABSTRACT
Nothing about John Fryer is subtle: a large man, six feet four inches tall with a weight that hovers around the 300 mark; with bulldog jowls and an impish smile that seems to suggest that he has just heard a most titillating secret about you; a man who can be witty and charming or petulant and biting; a man with a quick, intuitive sense of what others are feeling and, at other times, self-absorbed and entitled; a man as comfortable behind the ranks of the organ as he is as an orator about those matters for which he has passion; a man as much maligned for his display of sexual orientation as he is praised for his multiple talents; a man who stands a little too close and still harbors the wounds of disdain from those who never accepted him as he is and push him away. John was a child prodigy–an ingénue–whose iconoclasm came early and easily; whose willingness to test boundaries was both his genius and frequently his undoing. Yet, this colorful and perpetually controversial man had the right talent at the right time to become a pivotal figure in the battle for gay liberation. For years he has been known only as Dr. H. Anonymous. This is his story. The Journal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy is pleased to provide him a place to tell it.
