remains a critical text because it acknowledges that you can live in a world with marriage equality and still feel unworthy of love. It teaches you that the enemy is not your sexuality; the enemy is the ghost of the homophobe who raised you.
To trust the workbook, you must trust the author. Richard Isay was a gay American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who dared to challenge the establishment. In the 1970s and 80s, the American Psychiatric Association still treated homosexuality as a mental illness. The Internalized Homophobia Workbook By Richard Isay