Jaguars assistant Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's pro sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer.
Contents:
- JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
- WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
* is gay a disorder *
In the 1950s and 1960s, many therapists offered aversn therapy of the kd featured A Clockwork Orange to "cure" male homosexualy.
WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
First published 1968, DSM-II (the send edn of the Amerin classifitn of mental disorrs, and a forenner of DSM-5) still listed homosexualy as a mental disorr.
In this, the DSM followed a long tradn medice and psychiatry, which the neteenth century appropriated homosexualy om the Church and, what mt have seemed like an élan of enlightenment, promoted om s to mental disorr. In 1973, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn (APA) asked all members attendg s nventn to vote on whether they believed homosexualy to be a mental disorr. 5, 854 psychiatrists voted to remove homosexualy om the DSM, and 3, 810 to reta .
The APA then promised, removg homosexualy om the DSM but replacg , effect, wh "sexual orientatn disturbance" for people " nflict wh" their sexual orientatn. Not until 1987 did homosexualy pletely fall out of the DSM.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
Meanwhile, the World Health Organizatn (WHO) Geneva only removed homosexualy om s Internatnal Classifitn of Diseas (ICD) wh the publitn of ICD-10 1992, although ICD-10 still rried the nstct of "ego-dystonic sexual orientatn.