Contents:
- THE HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN
- A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021
THE HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN
The documentary chronicl the years-long mpaign which led the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn (APA) to remove homosexualy om s manual of mental disorrs. 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.
A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021
In the first edn of s manual of mental disorrs (DSM-I), published 1952, the APA clud homosexualy as a “socpathic personaly disturbance.