{"id"=>"aspace_3ff0f66ee8972d8e9d9b3e9200243564", "value"=>"<p>Edward Sagarin was a sociologist, who, using the pseudonym Donald Webster Cory, was a homophile activist and author of the influential book <span class=\"title\">The Homosexual In America</span> (1951), which presented gays as a legitimate minority group deserving of equal rights. However, Sagarin rejected these views in his 1963 work <span class=\"title\">The Homosexual and His Society</span>, depicting gays as deviants who could be cured, a view he maintained the rest of his life.</p>"}