Joe Kort, Ph.D., talks about his new book, "Is My Hband Gay, Straight, or Bi?"
Contents:
- IS YOUR MAN GAY, STRAIGHT, OR BISEXUAL?
- AFTER CRAIGSLIST AND MANHUNT, HERE IS WHERE GAYS WILL GET THEIR CLICKS
- HOW TO DISCREETLY FD OUT IF SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS GAY
- REPUBLINS’ IRS ‘WHISTLEBLOWER X’ IS A GAY DEMOCRAT CRIMAL DIVISN WH 13 YEARS AT THE AGENCY
- SEND HUNTER BIN IRS WHISTLEBLOWER INTIFIED AS GAY DEMOCRAT
- ANONYMO IRS WHISTLEBLOWER PRENTS NUNDM FOR MEDIA – HE’S A ‘GAY DEMOCRAT MARRIED TO A MAN’
IS YOUR MAN GAY, STRAIGHT, OR BISEXUAL?
* anonymous is gay *
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.
AFTER CRAIGSLIST AND MANHUNT, HERE IS WHERE GAYS WILL GET THEIR CLICKS
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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.
HOW TO DISCREETLY FD OUT IF SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS GAY
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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.
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?
REPUBLINS’ IRS ‘WHISTLEBLOWER X’ IS A GAY DEMOCRAT CRIMAL DIVISN WH 13 YEARS AT THE AGENCY
The crease the number of visible gay and trans people is sometim treated as a cursy or a e for ncern by crics, but ’s not a surprise. It’s normal. * anonymous is gay *
”“They put on two psychiatrists, and they put on two gay people, ” Lahen said.
SEND HUNTER BIN IRS WHISTLEBLOWER INTIFIED AS GAY DEMOCRAT
A prevly anonymo IRS whistleblower ttifyg about an vtigatn to Hunter Bin me forward Wednday, intifyg as a gay Democrat. * anonymous is gay *
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.
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.
ANONYMO IRS WHISTLEBLOWER PRENTS NUNDM FOR MEDIA – HE’S A ‘GAY DEMOCRAT MARRIED TO A MAN’
” “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.