Business
is
booming
for
gay
psychic
Dougall
Fraser.
Handsome,
witty
and
media
savvy,
Fraser,
27,
is
on
the
cusp
of
notoriety
in
the
realm
of
public
fascination
with
the
paranormal.
His
new
memoir
“But
You
Knew
That
Already”
is
getting
solid
reviews
and
selling
briskly.
But
maybe
the
way
Fraser
views
the
role
of
psychics
a
little
differently
than
others
is
what
sets
him
apart.
For
starters,
he
doesn’t
talk
to
dead
people.
“It’s
boring,”
Fraser
says.
“They
always
say
the
same
thing:
‘We’re
fine.
It
didn’t
hurt.
I’m
with
grandma.’
I
do
it
[for
clients],
but
I’m
more
interested
in
human
dynamics.
Why
are
we
here
on
this
planet?”
Unlike
his
peers,
Fraser
believes
that
people
who
seek
advice
from
psychics
may
rely
too
heavily
on
what
they
say.
“People
want
the
mysteries
of
the
universe
unlocked
instantly,”
he
says.
“That’s
not
what
I
do.
My
job
is
to
point
out
where
you
are
missing
out
in
life.
Because
truth
be
told,
if
everything
were
great,
why
would
you
be
coming
to
see
me?”
Instead,
he
stresses
self-reliance
and
introspection.
“People
are
looking
to
me
for
something
that
I
can’t
give
them,”
he
says.
“They
need
to
understand
that
the
power
is
inside
them.”
Fraser
is
also
not
afraid
to
be
open
about
his
sexual
orientation.
“To
me,
being
out
is
imperative
because
I
have
worked
hard
to
be
proud
of
who
I
am,”
he
says.
“I
absolutely
refuse
to
be
put
back
in
the
closet.”
Ironically,
Fraser’s
sexual
orientation
may
be
one
of
the
very
things
that
makes
him
such
a
marketable
commodity.
It
has
been
a
huge
selling
point
in
presenting
his
book.
In
fact,
Rodale
Press
actually
asked
if
they
could
put
“gay”
in
the
title.
“For
a
while,
they
wanted
the
book
to
be
called
‘Queer
Guy
with
a
Third
Eye,’”
he
remembers.
“I
told
them
I
just
couldn’t
do
that.”
And
in
increasingly
frequent
talk-show
appearances,
some
producers
actually
ask
him
to
be
“more
gay,”
he
claims.
“Knew
That
Already”
is
not
exclusively
about
gay
issues,
but
a
large
part
of
it
deals
with
his
coming
out
process
and
his
life
as
a
gay
man.
“I
wanted
to
show
what
it’s
like
for
a
gay
man
trying
to
blend
being
spiritual
and
being
human
at
the
same
time,”
he
says.
From
growing
up
on
Long
Island,
N.Y.,
to
testing
the
limits
of
his
burgeoning
sexuality,
Fraser
gives
readers
a
no-holds-barred
look
at
his
life
so
far.
But
the
book
is
also
uplifting
in
its
insights
into
the
basic
life
questions
that
so
many
people
want
answered.
The
work
also
reflects
the
author’s
quirky
sense
of
humor
and
an
appreciation
of
writers
like
David
Sedaris.
“There
are
some
parts
of
the
psychic
community
that
are
just
hysterical,
like
the
900
numbers,
and
I
wanted
people
to
see
that,”
Fraser
says.
As
an
insider,
he
provides
a
gimlet-eyed
look
into
an
industry
that
receives
surprisingly
little
scrutiny.
But
the
book’s
primary
message,
he
says,
is
that
people
need
to
learn
to
trust
their
own
hearts.
He
sees
gay
people
as
often
able
to
achieve
that
more
easily
than
straight
peers.
But
gay
or
straight,
the
message
is
the
same:
People
should
worry
less
about
trying
to
look
into
the
future
and
focus
more
on
applying
intuition
to
get
the
most
out
of
today.