Born in
Highbridge, Bronx in 1959, Douglas Sadownick attended
Columbia College for his B.A.,
New York University for his graduate work in English, and the graduate program in clinical psychology at
Antioch University for a Master's of Arts in Clinical Psychology. which is the first Institute in the world dedicated to deepening homosexual self-realization, a form of
LGBT psychology. He was also a principal co-founder of Highways Performance Art Space in 1989. His work
Sacred Lips of the Bronx (St. Martin's Press, 1994) was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. His second book,
Sex Between Men: An Intimate History of the Sex Lives of Gay Men, Postwar to Present, was published by
HarperOne in 1996 and 1997. His articles have appeared in the
Advocate, the
Los Angeles Times,
Genre,
High Performance, the
New York Native, and the
L.A. Weekly. He received a
GLAAD award for excellence in reporting in 1991. His paper, "Reading Literature Gay-Affirmatively: A Homosexual Individuation Story," was published in Spring 2006 in the journal Arts and Humanities. ==Life==