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Please feel free to select the Articles and Publications. This collection is just a sampling of Joe Kort's professional views and personal opinions that make Joe a leader in his field.

BODY IMAGE:

Straights and queers both have 'body image' fears
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Spring's right around the corner. Time to bring out your summer wardrobes and start waxing or shaving your body. But what if...

COMING OUT:

Out of the closet and into the streets
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A while ago, a gay couple—I’ll call them Tony and Don—came to see me, because they were about to break up...

Cass Model of  Gay & Lesbian Identity Formation
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COMING OUT is a life - long process of exploring one's sexual orientation and Gay / Lesbian identity and sharing it with family, friends...

DEPRESSION:

Post Holiday Depression
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After the holiday season is over, many people suffer from depression. The fast pace to get presents, visit with family, send our cards and...

FAMILY ISSUES:

Of Families, Love Isolation and Acceptance
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Of all the relationships that we will encounter in our lifetime, our family ties are usually the most intense, tightly organized...

GAY AFFIRMATIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY:

Queer Eye for the Straight Therapist
The year 1978 wasn’t a good year for me. I was 15 years old and miserable. My grades were going downhill, I was avoiding my peers, and I was a sullen zombie at home. My mother noticed these developments and took me to a therapist. He was psychoanalytically oriented (as most were, then), and he shrewdly sized me up and asked whether I liked boys or girls. I can’t say I was entirely shocked by the question. I’d already discovered that I had to fake the hormone-enhanced enthusiasm for girls that came naturally to my male friends. In fact, I found several of the boys in my class much more alluring than any girl.

Gay and Lesbian Terms and Definitions:
HOMOPHOBIA
A. Fear, hatred, disgust of feelings of love for members of one’s own gender....

GAY, LESBIAN, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER & QUESTIONING TERMS:

Queer Eye for the Straight Community
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Over the years other minority groups have changed how they wish to be referred to in an attempt to change how they are treated. A good example of this is....

Gay and Lesbian Terms and Definitions:
HOMOPHOBIA
A. Fear, hatred, disgust of feelings of love for members of one’s own gender....

GAY AND LESBIAN RELATIONSHIPS:

“WANTED: MEANINGFUL OVERNIGHT RELATIONSHIP”
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When I saw this saying embroidered on a pillow, I bought it to display in the office where I do my relationship workshops, because it reminded me of....

MONOGAMOUS EVER AFTER?
I’ve wanted to write an article on this topic ever since I began working with a gay male couple who told me that they were monogamous. After several months, however, they informed me they had had a three-way. When I asked if they had changed from monogamy, they said, “No.”

Love is never wrong: Why Gay Marriage is right
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Recently editorial by Bishop Keith Butler, a pastor of Word of Faith International Christian Center Church from www.wordoffaith-icc.org titled an editorial in...

Turns Out The Happy Couple Is Gay
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Clinical psychologist John Gottman, a research scientist at the University of Washington who has studied heterosexual couples for...

I was just married
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I was just married. Some people would not validate that fact because as a man I married another man. If you asked most people if their...

Couples must learn About the Stages of Love
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Lesbians and Gays are a sexually abused culture. We are under sexual assault regularly from society. We are only seen for our sex acts...

Recognition Of Relationships Could Replace Criticism
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As human beings, we all long for contact and connection with one another. We yearn to be in lasting adult love relationships...

Couples Weekend Workshop overview
This weekend couples’ workshop is based on Imago Relationship Therapy, as developed by Harville Hendrix, Ph.D. and explained his...

Singles & Individuals Fall Workshops
This 6 week workshop is appropriate for singles not currently in a relationship, who are tired of making the same mistakes over and...

Therapist helps gays make love less elusive
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ROYAL OAK - Passion is rarely subject to reason. Deciding whether to let go of a seemingly troubled relationship is an emotion-laden...

HETEROSEXISM:

Viewpoint: Gay initiation classes provide vital message
For the past seven years, I’ve taught a course at Wayne State University for Master’s level social workers, on how to help their gay clients learn....

Don't make sweeping judgments based on ignorance
Heterosexual privilege. It is a true privilege to be heterosexual. As I read about the arguments against the proposed Human Rights Ordinance...

HETEROSEXUALLY MARRIED GAY MEN:

Gay spouse, straight spouse
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When a partner comes out of the closet, it can be just as traumatic for the one who gets the news...

HOMOPHOBIA:

Did Society's Violence Against Gays Kill Sheppard?
My mind is filled with thoughts of the thuggery and terrible murder of Matthew Shepard...

It’s Official: Toy Maker Says Tinky Winky is Straight.
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Jerry Falwell and others can rest now that the Itsy Bitsy Entertainment Co. has reassured them that the Teletubby doll they...

Whatever Form It Takes, Intolerance Hurts
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Anti-Semitism. Being Jewish, I knew of the concept growing up but never actually suffered from direct acts of it. I knew...

Dr. Laura on Gays
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If my mother were to call into Dr. Laura Schlessinger's radio show, she would say: "Hello, Dr. Laura, I am my gay kid's mom...

MENTORING:

Gay Shmay! Just Don't Be Alone: Throughout Our Culture We Need Strong Mentors
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Webster’s New World Dictionary defines culture as the “ideas, skills, arts of a people communicated or passed along to succeeding...

SEXISM:

A Man Among Men
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As Robert Bly pointed out in his best-selling book Iron John few heterosexual men have appropriate initiations into becoming a man. Most initiations into manhood as...

Boys Who Play with Dolls
One of my most vivid childhood memories is of riding in the backseat of our family car, on the way to the circus - and crying...

Gays Fighting for Accurate, Deeper Roles in Television
After years of being invisible or the subject of jokes, we are now seen as everyday people. Just as other minorities have had to fight...

SEXUAL ABUSE:

Covert Sexual Abuse of the Gay Male Culture, 
Leading to Sexual Addiction
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In treating and helping sexually addicted gay men, we must understand how homophobic acts constitute covert cultural sexual abuse. Lacking this understanding, we can't heal...

SEXUAL ADDICTION:

Sexual Addiction
Sexual addiction and compulsion are a problem-and comprise a touchy subject that isn't talked about. All men-gay, bi and straight alike-can...

SEXUALITY:

Are You What You Orgasm?
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In the talks I give around the country, audiences often ask me about what being gay or straight really is. Most people believe that if you engage in—or even think about—certain homosexual sex acts, then that reveals...

The Men In the Mirror:
Understanding Gay Men and Their Porn
In 1978, when I was 15 years old, there were no gay role models. I remember going to a local bookstore and seeing pornographic magazines...