The Gay Gene Discovery - Softcover

Linda Sones Feinberg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1934203092 ISBN 13: 9781934203095

Publisher: GLB Publishers, 2008

Synopsis

Futuristic novel of the resulting social changes following the discovery by NIH scientists of the gay gene and the development of a test for the gay gene in amniotic fluid. When the gay gene is discovered before birth, there are increased numbers of abortions, the Vatican approves gays for the Catholic church, but some gays are still being born even with negative fetal test results.

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About the Author

Linda Sones Feinberg is in early retirement from serving as a clinical psychiatric social worker. Author of Im Grieving As Fast As I Can: How Young Widows and Widowers Can Cope and Heal , New Horizon Press, 1994, she was the volunteer founder of state-wide support groups in Massachusetts for young widowed people. Linda also served as a volunteer support group leader for the AIDS Action Committee in Boston. For five years she ran the City of Boston s foster home program for children. Linda has her M.S.W. from Boston College Graduate School of Social Work. While an undergraduate at Boston University, she studied theatre arts and government. Linda has appeared on Peter Jennings World News Tonight and the Maury Povitch Talk Show and enjoys giving speeches. Also an artist, she paints antique piano sheet music covers on canvas, portraits of Tiger Woods, as well as painting designs on furniture and wall murals. Linda s passions are movies, books, traveling, and antique hunting. Married for thirty years to Alec Feinberg, Ph.D., a reliability engineer, author, guitar player, and artist, the couple has two daughters. Jennifer Joy Feinberg, 19, is a published poet and a sophomore at Emory University where she runs track. Marissa Melody Feinberg, 28, a Syracuse University graduate, works in public relations in Manhattan and has appeared as an actress on TV, independent films and off-Broadway productions. The Feinbergs recently moved to Colorado.

Review

When Dr. Gregory Hudson and his team begin looking for the gay gene, they believe they are doing so for the best possible motives: to remove the stigma associated with homosexuality by proving the genetic cause thus eliminating the idea that homosexuals choose their sexuality. But the uses to which his research are put turn out to be very different from what he imagined and he is forced to confront the human costs of his scientific breakthrough. Far from helping the gay community, Dr. Hudson s research has inadvertently placed a weapon in the hands of their enemies. His good intentions have indeed paved the road to hell for queer men and women, and may even lead to their eradication from the planet. In The Gay Gene Discovery, Linda Sones Feinberg shows the disastrous consequences that arise when we rely on science and government to deal with social ills. In these days of racial profiling, government files on the everyday lives of citizens, and with intolerance of many kinds flourishing, the future presented in The Gay Gene Discovery seems not only possible, but likely. Sones Feinberg s strength as a writer is her ability to put a human face on those directly affected by social changes, and shows the price we all pay when we forget that society is not an abstract concept but is instead comprised of flesh and blood individuals who are more than the sum of their biological parts. The Gay Gene Discovery is a chilling tale of what might be, but also one told with humour, insight and wit, and containing a central core of hope. --Ralph Higgins, Wayves

Smiles, frowns, and shudders are all to be expected while reading the futuristic The Gay Gene Discovery, where, although with the best of intentions, science deals a nasty joker in the guise of advancing knowledge. Even the Vatican s closet is invaded. And what s more, it could happen. --Bill Lee, Author

About this edition

• Publisher: GLB Publishers
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1934203092
• ISBN 13: 9781934203095
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240