‘Odd Man In’ Trailer: Director Matt Nadel Tells Story Of Gay Rights Pioneer Who Turned His Back On The Movement

EXCLUSIVE: In 1951, a man named Donald Webster Cory published The Homosexual in America , “one of the first nonfiction accounts of gay life in the United States,” and a surprise bestseller. But who was the author really and why, after writing a book of such profound importance to gay people, did he turn his back on the movement for equality he helped trigger?

Those fascinating questions are explored in Odd Man In , a short documentary directed by Matt Nadel and executive produced by Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Oscar winner Caroline Waterlow . Ferguson calls Nadel’s cinematic portrait of the…