“Gay Is Good”: Digal llectns LGBTQ U.S. History
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
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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).
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).
“GAY IS GOOD”
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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. 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.
WHAT’S GOOD ABOUT BEG GAY?: PERSPECTIV OM YOUTH
If "gay" n mean both "homosexual" and "lame," do make homophobic to e for the latter? A discsn of a ntroversial word. * gay is good *
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.
WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
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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.
WHY GAY IS NOT OK
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