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“GAY IS GOOD”: HISTORY OF HOMOSEXUALY THE DSM AND MORN PSYCHIATRY
In an effort to expla how that cisn me about, this paper reviews some historil scientific theori and arguments that first led to the placement of homosexualy DSM-I and DSM-II as well as alternative theori that eventually led to s removal om DSM III and subsequent edns of the manual. The paper nclus wh a discsn of the soccultural aftermath of that 1973 cisn.Keywords: Amerin Psychiatric Associatn (APA), diagnosis, Diagnostic and Statistil Manual (DSM), genr beliefs, genr bari, homosexualy, psychiatry1. In an effort to expla how that cisn me about, this paper reviews some historil scientific theori and arguments that first led to the placement of homosexualy DSM-I [7] and DSM-II [8], as well as alternative theori, that eventually led to s removal om DSM III [9] and subsequent edns of the manual [10,11,12,13].
Theori of HomosexualyIt is possible to formulate a scriptive typology of etlogil theori of homosexualy throughout morn history which they generally fall to three broad tegori: pathology, immatury, and normal variatn [14,15,16].2.1.
The theori hold that some ternal fect or external pathogenic agent homosexualy and that such events n occur pre- or postnatally (i.e., trtere hormonal exposure, excsive motherg, aquate or hostile fatherg, sexual abe, etc.). Siarly, blogil rearchers have prumed gay men have bras that more closely remble those of women [29] or are recipients of extra agments of their mothers’ X (female) chromosom [30].Genr beliefs ually only allow for the existence of two sex. Early Theorists of HomosexualyFor much of Wtern history, official pronouncements on the meangs of same-sex behavrs were primarily the provce of religns, many of which emed homosexualy to be morally “bad” [36].