This ground-breakg text explor the ntemporary history of how psychologil rearch, practice, and theory has engaged wh gay and lbian movements th
Contents:
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
- MENTAL HEALTH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) YOUTH
- A RECENT HISTORY OF LBIAN AND GAY PSYCHOLOGY
A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Peter Hegarty, PhD, discs his own rearch on dory gaydar and ntug discrimatn agast LGBTQ people. * lgbt psychology history *
Kim Mills: June is LGBTQ Pri Month, marked by march and memoratns to celebrate LGBTQ culture and advote for the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people the US and around the world.
In addn to his work the history of psychology, he nducts experimental rearch areas cludg dory gaydar and how beliefs about the blogil basis of sexual orientatn fluence prejudice and discrimatn.
Some of our listeners might not really be aware of how psychiatry was pelled to remove homosexualy om the Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs, which is pretty much the arber of what nstut a mental illns or a mental disorr among all behavral health practners. If you were gay and you wanted a psychiatrist to try and cure you, what you might now ll nversn therapy or sexual orientatn change efforts, that was still legimate psychiatry.
MENTAL HEALTH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) YOUTH
This ground-breakg text explor the ntemporary history of how psychologil rearch, practice, and theory has engaged wh gay and lbian movements * lgbt psychology history *
He thought, "If I go outsi of the ci, and I go outsi of the ltle ty ltle secret gay enclav, then I'm gog to fd the people who are very different om each other, and 's gog to challenge this stereotype about what the signs of homosexualy are, " which were thgs like genr versn, or artistic terts for men, or thgs like that. The Rorschach tt was the target of a ntrolled experiment that Hooker did, as well, where she took gay and straight men, gave them all Rorschach tts, and found that there was no difference.
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A RECENT HISTORY OF LBIAN AND GAY PSYCHOLOGY
But I thk, once that happened, and once HIV/AIDS beme a way for psychologists and for psychology the Uned Stat, to have a more productive relatnship wh thgs like the NIMH, fundg streams, and so on, I thk took some ias that gay and lbian people were jt people, that were kd of a ltle b margal, they were que margal the 1970s.
Mills: But you do talk about fundable rearch and what I remember om those days is that there wasn't a lot of fundg, bee the ernment did not want to fund studi of gay people.