Oliver sacks gay
Oliver Sacks, openly gay genius, Tom of Finland lookalike, dies
I didn&#;t know that renowned writer and neuroscientist Oliver Sacks was same-sex attracted until I read his obituary today.
I read that he came out in his recent () autobiography where he talks about having sex in YMCAs in San Francisco as a younger man on his motorcycle (see photo) and how he has been with his partner for 8 years.
I suggest you Google him because there are an awful lot of good obituaries for him.
You might also test out his autobiography: &#;On The Move. A Life&#;
The more I read about him, the more I see that he was an extraordinary man who led an amazing life. I don&#;t think he was very expose about being gay until recently.
By the way, the above photo shows how gorgeous he was in his California, motorcycle-riding days. I&#;m sure he was very popular wherever he went: he was beautiful both inside and out.
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Oliver Sacks remembered in his partner Bill Hayes' intimate memoir
Oliver Sacks was an honorary member of that exclusive club I like to think of as the Wise English Prophets.
His generation included the medico and theatre director Jonathan Miller, the art historian Sir Kenneth Clark, the mathematician Jacob Bronowski and the naturalist David Attenborough.
Later members are the historians Simon Schama and Bettany Hughes, and the physicist Brian Cox.
LoadingOne after another, they hold addressed us on TV with their takes on civilisation and the triumph of reason.
Whatever their discipline, they are all players in the equal epic drama — they speak of the human animal facing the wonder of the galaxy.
All believe that this cosmos is knowable — that our silent awe is expanded by the even greater miracle of human understanding.
The cosmos that fed the childlike wonder of Sacks was the human brain.
He was a neurologist who treated people whose brains malfunctioned in usual and sometimes distressing ways.
Sacks stepped into the spotlight in with a book called Awakenings,
My life with Oliver Sacks: ‘He was the most unusual person I had ever known’
He wrote me a letter. That’s how we met. He had read my book, The Anatomist, in proof, and enjoyed it. (“I meant to provide a blurb,” but “got distracted and forgot.”) This was when I was still in San Francisco – promptly This was when people still wrote letters regularly and when one got a letter, sat down and wrote a letter back.
“Dear Mr Hayes – ”
“ – Dear Dr Sacks…”
Thus, a correspondence between O and me began.
A month later, I happened to be in New York and, at Oliver’s invitation, paid a visit. We had lunch at a cafe across the street from his office: mussels, fries, and several rounds of dark Belgian beer. We lingered at the table, talking, well into the afternoon. We found we had something other than writing in common: he, too, was a lifelong insomniac – indeed, from a family of insomniacs. (“It was understood at an early age that one could not slumber without sedation,” he told me wryly.)
I had not known – had never considered – whether he was hetero- or lgbtq+, single or in a relationsh
An ‘Awakenings’ opera that shows Oliver Sacks as his friends knew him — a gay male
Dr. Oliver Sacks received worldwide acclaim for writing about his experiences with people who had extraordinary neurological conditions. His perform spawned several adaptations for the stage and screen.
A film adaptation of his book “Awakenings” featured Robin Williams as a medic based on Sacks and Robert Deniro as one of his patients. It garnered three Academy Award nominations, including one for best picture.
Months before Sacks’ death in at 82, he disclosed something he hadn’t previously felt comfortable talking about publicly: He was gay.
Now two of Sacks’ longtime friends have written an opera based on “Awakenings.” For the first time, an adaptation of Sacks’ writing will portray him, accurately, as a gay man.
“Awakenings” makes its world premiere at Opera Theatre St. Louis this weekend.
Brian Munoz
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St. Louis Public Radio
“I knew the private Dr. Sacks. The fact that he came out meant that we could really record about him, as we knew him personally,” said composer Tobias Picker.