Being gay was a disease 60 years ago

Thus in50 years ago, the APA’s Board of Trustees removed the diagnosis of homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the “bible” of psychiatry that, sincelists all mental diseases and is regularly updated. First published inDSM-II listed homosexuality as a mental disorder. Inmembers of the American Psychiatric Association voted to remove homosexuality from the DSM.

Not until did. Inthe American Psychiatric Association (APA) removed the diagnosis of “homosexuality” from the second edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). This resulted after comparing competing theories, those that pathologized homosexuality and those that viewed it as normal.

In the early s, homosexuality was widely stigmatized and criminalized across much of the world. In many countries, same-sex relationships were deemed immoral, illegal, and a threat to societal norms. Demonstrators gathered in Albany, New York, in to demand gay rights. Until the American Psychiatric Association defined being gay as having a mental illness.

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