1973 - The Year Homosexuality Stopped Being Classified as a Disease
Check out This American Life’s hour-long podcast episode about the fight within the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, which determines what is considered a mental disease. It took many years and a group called the “GayPA” to get it done.
(PS - Did you know that you were not allowed to be an openly homosexual psychiatrist?)
Posted by Greg Palmer on March 10th, 2010 at 11:29pm
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