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Writer C.A. Trip Dies
by Doug Windsor
365Gay.com Newscenter
New York Bureau
Posted: May 22, 2003 6:53 p.m. ET
(New York City) C.A. Tripp the writer of the first scholarly book dispelling myths and misconceptions about homosexuality has died. Tripp was 83 and had battled cancer for more than a year.
His 1975 book ``The Homosexual Matrix,'' is considered a landmark in defining sexuality and sold nearly 500,000 copies.
Author and AIDS activist Larry Kramer said in an interview with The New York Times that the book was the first from a ``reputable source'' that ``dared to speak openly of homosexuality as a healthy occurrence.''
Born Clarence Arthur Tripp in Denton, Texas, he studied at the Rochester Institute of Technology and served in the Navy before immersing himself in the work of Freud during the 1940s.
Beginning in 1948, he worked with Alfred Kinsey at his Institute for Sex Research in Bloomington, Ind., until Kinsey's death in 1956.
Tripp then earned an undergraduate degree from the New School for Social Research and a doctorate in clinical psychology from New York University, eventually establishing a private psychology practice.
He recently finished co-authoring a biography of Lincoln that speculates that the former president was gay.
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