An interview with Harold Kooden, PhD

Abstract

Harold Kooden, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, a graduate of the University of Chicago and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA). He is a founder and Board Member of the National Gay and Lesbian Health Education Foundation, a Board Member of the New York State Martin Luther King Jr. Institute for Nonviolence, founding member and community activist of Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE) and the NYC AIDS Network. He is the North American Representative for International Lesbian and Gay Association. Besides having authored many articles on gay psychology, in 2000 he published Golden Men: The Power of Gay Midlife. He continues his activism with SAGE and, with his husband, founded an on-going Salon focused on racism and white privilege. In this installment of the JGLMH Oral History series, Emeritus Editor Dr Jack Drescher interviews Dr. Kooden.

Notes

1 Editor’s Note: See Sbordone, A. J. (2003). An interview with Charles Silverstein, PhD. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy, 7(4), 49–61. Reprinted in: American Psychiatry and Homosexuality: An Oral History, eds. J. Drescher & J. P. Merlino. New York: Routledge, 2007, pp. 29–43.

2 Editor’s Note: Division 44 is now known as the Society for the Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity.

3 Editor’s Note: Early in the epidemic, some referred to what we now know as HIV-related illness as “Gay Related Immunodeficiency” or GRID.