Kev Maxen, Jaguars assistant strength ach, out as gay

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

In the 1950s and 1960s, many therapists offered aversn therapy of the kd featured A Clockwork Orange to "cure" male homosexualy. 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.

WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?

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.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

Not until 1987 did homosexualy pletely fall out of the DSM. 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. The evolutn of the stat of homosexualy the classifitns of mental disorrs highlights that ncepts of mental disorr n be rapidly evolvg social nstcts that change as society chang.

And Europe is gay affirmative psychotherapy, which enurag gay people to accept their sexual orientatn.