Half Straight
My Secret Bisexual Life
Tom Smith
Tom Smith is the pseudonym of a 65-year-old bisexual corporate executive who, for the past forty years, has led a double life-a life that has torn him between his wife, children, and grandchildren, and a secret, often promiscuous, homosexuality.
This respected and successful "All American" family man lives with punishing guilt and the relentless fear that his two-sided sexual personality will be exposed, leading to disgrace and family rejection. No family member or friend knows of his bisexuality or of this autobiography, which Smith wrote in motel rooms, in airports, and on planes during business trips.
Why, under such difficult circumstances did Tom Smith undertake the risks of writing this emotionally charged, graphically descriptive book? "I wanted to let the world know what bisexuality has done to me and by so doing, help people to have a compassionate understanding of what it is all about." Half Straight demonstrates that, despite the sexual revolution and gay liberation, the forces of sexual repression are still strong in society.
167 pages ISBN 0-87975-734-5