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Contents:
- “GAY IS GOOD”: HISTORY OF HOMOSEXUALY THE DSM AND MORN PSYCHIATRY
- “GAY IS GOOD”
- WHAT’S GOOD ABOUT BEG GAY?: PERSPECTIV OM YOUTH
- WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
- WHY GAY IS NOT OK
“GAY IS GOOD”: HISTORY OF HOMOSEXUALY THE DSM AND MORN PSYCHIATRY
“Gay Is Good”: Digal llectns LGBTQ U.S. History * gay is good *
This article exam the progrsn of classifitn of homosexualy var edns of the DSM, factors fluencg this progrsn, and implitns for sexual and other mory 1952, the Amerin Psychiatry Associatn (APA) Commtee on Nomenclature and Statistics veloped the first versn of the DSM, which served as the first manual of mental health foced on clil diagnos and re and provid a glossary and scriptn of psychiatric illns (3). Given the current societal acceptance of homosexualy many untri—and while may be difficult to image today that homosexualy tly fs to “pathologic behavr”— is important to unrstand that cln of homosexualy the DSM served to move same-sex sexual behavr om beg regard as a moral s and to the secular world of medice by regnizg not as a s but stead as a disorr (4).
“GAY IS GOOD”
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Placed wh the ntext of mental health, this formed the foundatn for future study of homosexualy by clicians and for a morn-day unrstandg of health dispari faced by persons om sexual mory publitn of the DSM-II 1968 saw the cln of homosexualy aga, but this edn, the headg read simply “personaly disorrs” (5). The protts gaed the attentn of the APA, and at the 1971 meetg, a panel discsn entled “Gay Is Good” ved gay rights activists to speak on the topic of the stigma and discrimatn that they had enuntered bee of their diagnosis. Other fluential members of this panel, such as APA Vice Print Judd Marmor, would argue that “psychiatry is prejudiced” agast homosexual people and that “moral valu” of society ntributed to the cln of homosexualy as a psychiatric ndn.
WHAT’S GOOD ABOUT BEG GAY?: PERSPECTIV OM YOUTH
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Followg this meetg, and likely many more undocumented hours of bate among members of the APA Commtee on Nomenclature and Statistics, the sixth prtg of the DSM-II, 1973, saw a change language om “homosexualy” to “sexual orientatn disturbance” (4). Sexual orientatn disturbance was fed not jt as same-sex attractn but as a nflict ed by this attractn or a sire to change shift foc om homosexualy self beg pathologized to the ternal nflict or sire to change one’s sexualy would set the theme for the followg three edns of the DSM.
Profsnal anizatns, such as the Associatn of Gay and Lbian Psychiatrists and the APA’s uc of Gay and Lbian Psychiatrists, exist to help support psychiatrists om sexual mory groups and re for patients om sexual mory groups. The searchable materials clu photos of notable members of the arts muny, archiv om the AIDS activist art llective Gran Fury, dvisual materials om the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, and a selectn of activist photography, datg om the early Gay Rights march om the 1960s, as well as fdg aids. “GLBTRT History Timele, ” ALA, accsed, May 16, 2019, Barbara Gtgs, “Gays Libraryland: The Gay and Lbian Task Force of the Amerin Library Associatn: The First Sixteen Years, ” Darg to Fd Our Nam: The Search for Lbigay Library History, ed.
"—The Gay and Lbian Review"Thanks to Long’s fe exposn the troductn to Gay is Good and his subtly crafted assemblage of Kameny’s letters, more dividuals, both young and old, n dive and see not only a brother arms but also the very fn of an dividual who me om humble begngs to rise up, experience jtice the world, and fight his entire life to change . Begng 1958, he enuraged gay people to embrace homosexualy as moral and healthy, publicly nounced the feral ernment for excludg homosexuals om feral employment, openly fought the ary’s ban agast gay men and women, bated psychiatrists who picted homosexualy as a mental disorr, intified tt s to advance civil liberti through the feral urts, acted as unsel to untls homosexuals sufferg state-sanctned discrimatn, and anized march for gay rights at the Whe Hoe and other public stutns. Addnal primary them and sub-them were intified wh each tegory that further illtrate how gay/bisexual youth were able to velop posive nceptualizatns of their sexual orientatn spe experiencg negative societal msag about beg gay/bisexual.
WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
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When the fluenc are negative, psychologil distrs among adolcents may rult, pecially for those youth who intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual (Almeida, Johnson, Corliss, Molnar & Azrael, 2009; Hershberger & D’Augelli, 1995; Ueno, 2005). One study that addrsed this topic prented riliency strategi among lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) young people North Wt England and South Wal wh the ntext of hetero-normative environments (Surfield, Roen & McDermott, 2008).
This was one of the few studi found to prent riliency strategi veloped by gay/bisexual adolcents to bat negative social and cultural ntug rearch is need on the velopmental challeng faced by LGB adolcents, pecially those who are also members of other opprsed groups such as youth of lor, a parallel le of scientific quiry is also need to explore the strengths and rilienci monstrated by LGB youth. Such limatns do not allow for a more nuanced unrstandg of the current lived experienc of LGB youth’s inty exploratn procs, as has been seen more recent qualative studi of sexual orientatn inty (Ja, Harper, Fernanz, & the ATN, 2009)The purpose of the current study is to provi sights to the posive nceptualizatns that gay/bisexual male adolcents posss regardg their sexual orientatn inty utilizg qualative phenomenologil and nstctivist ameworks. Although we did quire about the full range of perceptns and experienc related to sexual orientatn inty the larger study om which the data were extracted, we chose to foc solely on the posive aspects of posssg a gay/bisexual sexual orientatn inty for the current vtigatn given the lack of empiril data foced specifilly on riliency-related factors among gay/bisexual male adolcents.
WHY GAY IS NOT OK
Sce prr rearch also has monstrated that sexual orientatn inty velopment for female adolcents and adults is different than that of male adolcents and adults (Diamond, 2005; Diamond & Sav-Williams, 2000; Schneir, 2001), we also foc this vtigatn exclively on gay/bisexual male adolcents.