After Craigslist and Manhunt, Here is Where Gays Will Get Their Clicks

Contents:

• AFTER CRAIGSLIST AND MANHUNT, HERE IS WHERE GAYS WILL GET THEIR CLICKS
• ANONYMO IRS WHISTLEBLOWER PRENTS NUNDM FOR MEDIA – HE’S A ‘GAY DEMOCRAT MARRIED TO A MAN’
• SEND HUNTER BIN IRS WHISTLEBLOWER INTIFIED AS GAY DEMOCRAT

AFTER CRAIGSLIST AND MANHUNT, HERE IS WHERE GAYS WILL GET THEIR CLICKS

It was 1972, and he masked himself orr to say the followg words: “I am a homosexual. ” His claratn changed the has been 50 years sce Fryer’s speech, a moment that was central to removg homosexualy om the list of mental disorrs, the impact of which ntributed to the progrsn of LGBTQ rights through the next several s. Removg the classifitn of homosexualy as a mental illns had been a missn of gay activists sce at least the mid-1960s.

Homosexualy was first classified as a disorr 1952, when the first edn of the Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs (monly known as the DSM, the bible of the psychiatric field and the book om which all diagnos are regnized) was published. Homosexual sire was nsired an afflictn, and acceptable “cur” clud treatments like chemil stratn, electronvulsive therapy and lobotomy.

FryerAssociatn of Gay and Lbian Psychiatrists via AP“As a class, we were mentally ill — no exceptns. And their science was poor, ” said Kay Tob Lahen, an early gay rights activist who helped to anize Fryer’s speech wh her partner, Barbara Gtgs, a pneerg lbian who would e to be known as the mother of lbian and gay liberatn. “I had been thrown out of a rincy bee I was gay; I had lost a job bee I was gay.

ANONYMO IRS WHISTLEBLOWER PRENTS NUNDM FOR MEDIA – HE’S A ‘GAY DEMOCRAT MARRIED TO A MAN’

That perspective need to be heard om a gay psychiatrist by an dience that perhaps might be more cled to listen to a psychiatrist. The associatn ved the activists to s annual meetg 1972 as a ncsn to gay protters who had stormed the nference  San Francis 1970 and Washgton, D. The 1972 panel, at the nference Dallas, was lled “Psychiatry: Friend or Foe to Homosexuals?

”“They put on two psychiatrists, and they put on two gay people, ” Lahen said.

The two gay people were Gtgs and activist Frank Kameny. “But then I said to Barbara, ‘Well, don’t seem right that we have two of the one, two of the the other, but we don’t have a psychiatrist who’s also gay. ’” There was an unrground group at the time lled the Gay-P-A, which was ma up of mostly gay psychiatrists who met secret, at the same time as the associatn’s annual nference.

SEND HUNTER BIN IRS WHISTLEBLOWER INTIFIED AS GAY DEMOCRAT

Gtgs and Lahen wrote letters to everyone the Gay-P-A they uld reach and asked if they would speak. “I thought about and realized was somethg that had to be done, ” Fryer relled s later, acrdg to an article published a 2002 issue of the “Journal of Gay & Lbian Psychotherapy.

” “I had been thrown out of a rincy bee I was gay; I had lost a job bee I was gay. Anonymo, Fryer’s speech at the APA nference sought to scribe to the heterosexuals the room the plight of their homosexual lleagu, who would have their “dooms sealed” should their “secret be known. ” He also urged fellow gay psychiatrists to take a risk and “attempt to change the attus of both homosexuals and heterosexuals toward homosexualy.

” By remag closeted, he told his fellow gay psychiatrists, “we are takg an even bigger risk … not livg fully our humany, wh all of the lsons has to teach all the other humans around .

A year later, that same admistrator would fire Fryer for beg gay, obliv to the fact he’d appld him as Dr.

The man told Fryer, “If you were gay and not flamboyant we would keep you. If you were flamboyant and not gay we would keep you.