Toby Johnson

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Edwin Clark “Toby” Johnson (born August 4, 1945 in San Antonio , Texas ) is an American author .

Life

Johnson attended a Catholic school in Texas when he was a child. After his school days he entered the order of the Marianists and then switched to the order of the Servites . He began studying theology at the Catholic Theological Union . In 1969 Johnson worked at the Metropolitan State Psychiatric Hospital in Los Angeles , where he came out as a homosexual man that year . At that time he began to be active as a writer and wrote his first book The Myth of the Great Secret .

In 1970 Johnson left the theological seminary and moved to San Francisco , where he lived for the years that followed. There he began studying at the California Institute of Asian Studies (later renamed the California Institute of Integral Studies ), where he graduated in comparative religion and received a doctorate in consultative psychology. Johnson met the author Joseph Campbell . He also began to work as a psychotherapist in San Francisco. Together with Toby Marotta he wrote the books The Politics of Homosexuality and Sons of Harvard. Gay Men in the Class of '67 .

In 1981 Johnson returned to the city of his birth, San Antonio, where he worked as a psychotherapist and worked for the San Antonio Gay Alliance . He and his partner, Kip Dollar, organized gay pride festivals in San Antonio, and from 1988 to 1994 they ran the bookstore Liberty Books in Austin , Texas. In the years that followed, Johnson wrote more books on LGBT topics and spirituality .

Awards

  • 1991: Lambda Literary Award for Secret Matter
  • 2001: Lambda Literary Award for Gay Spirituality: The Role of Gay Identity in the Transformation of Human Consciousness

bibliography

  • The Myth of the Great Secret. A Search for Spiritual Meaning in the Face of Emptiness (1981, 2nd ed. As The Myth of the Great Secret: An Appreciation of Joseph Campbell , 1991)
  • In Search of God in the Sexual Underworld (1983)
  • The Myth of the Great Secret: A Search for Spiritual Meaning in the Face of Emptiness (1981)
  • Two Spirits: A Story of Life With the Navajo (2006)
  • Plague: A Novel about Healing (1987)
  • Secret Matter (1990, science fiction )
  • Getting Life in Perspective (1991)
  • Gay Spirituality: The Role of Gay Identity in the Transformation of Human Consciousness (2000)
  • Gay Perspective: Things Our Homosexuality Tells Us about the Nature of God and the Universe (2003)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Secret Matter, a neat, sexy & adventuresome science fiction novel . Toby Johnson's Web site, accessed May 29, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Johnson, Toby
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johnson, Edwin Clark (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author
DATE OF BIRTH August 4, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH San Antonio , Texas