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Contents:

• SYNONYMS FOR GAY LIBERATN
• GAY LIBERATN > SYNONYMS
• THS FOR GAY LIBERATN
• SYNONYM FOR GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT
• THE HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN

SYNONYMS FOR GAY LIBERATN

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1 other term for gay liberatn movement- words and phras wh siar meang. The documentary chronicl the years-long mpaign which led the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn (APA) to remove homosexualy om s manual of mental disorrs.

THS FOR GAY LIBERATN

In one scene, shot 1966, an assembly of children are warned, “If we tch you wh a homosexual… the rt of your life will be a livg hell. ” In another scene, a psychiatrist publicly op that homosexuals nnot “rema happy for long. Homosexualy had once been the purview of the Church, but people no longer believed so much s, and so me to be rebrand as somethg more credible for the tim.

In the first edn of s manual of mental disorrs (DSM-I), published 1952, the APA clud homosexualy as a “socpathic personaly disturbance. By the 1960s, a large majory of Amerins believed homosexualy to be a mental illns, and many looked upon gays wh varyg mixtur of disgt, disfort, and fear. People who were nounced as homosexual were unable to work as a teacher or judge or civil servant, or even to reta the ctody of their children.

Most gays had ltle choice but to rema closeted. The most mon “treatment” at the time was talk therapy, but many gay men and women were subjected to more aggrsive terventns such as aversn therapy and electronvulsive therapy—even, extremis, stratn or lobotomy. This gay liberatn movement began to snowball after the 1969 Stonewall Uprisg, rponse to an arbrary police raid Greenwich Village, New York.

SYNONYM FOR GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT

At the 1971 nventn, astronomer Frank Kameny mand that psychiatrists provi scientific evince for their claim that homosexualy is a mental disorr. He began: “I am a homosexual. In December 1973, the APA board voted unanimoly (wh two abstentns) to remove homosexualy om the DSM.

The APA then promised, removg homosexualy but replacg , effect, wh “sexual orientatn disturbance” for people “ nflict wh” their sexual orientatn. Not until 1987 did homosexualy pletely drop out of the DSM. Meanwhile, the World Health Organizatn Geneva only removed homosexualy om s Internatnal Classifitn of Diseas (ICD) wh the publitn of ICD-10 1992, although ICD-10 still rried the nstct of "ego-dystonic sexual orientatn.

THE HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN

As I discs The Meang of Madns, the evolutn of the stat of homosexualy the classifitns of mental disorrs highlights that ncepts of mental disorr n be rapidly evolvg social nstcts that change as society chang.

Today, the standard of psychotherapy the US and Europe is gay affirmative psychotherapy, which enurag gay people to accept their sexual orientatn—although some licensed profsnals still nduct so-lled "nversn therapy. The early succs of the gay liberatn movement are not ancient history but well wh livg memory.

Gay marriage has been legal for some years now, but the old notns of s and mental illns, of guilt and aquacy, live on the llective nscns, cludg the substance of gay people born long after the 1970s.