Robert E Gould article on homosexualy; c recent cisn by Amer Psychiatric Assn to remove homosexualy om tegory of mental illns; revs Sigmund Frd's theory of homosexualy, based on 'verted Oedipal plex'; says Frd viewed homosexualy as sentially ed by nstutnal factors and also as a perversn; summariz theori of homosexualy by Edmund Bergler, Irvg Bieber, Charl Soris, Lawrence Hatterer, Lnel Ovey, Clara Thompson, Judd Marmor, June Hopks, Evelyn Hooker and the Wolfenn group GB; not many fdgs have not been nfirmed other labs and some s have been refuted; revs theori on female homosexualty by Frank Capr, Helen Dtsch, Cathere Ban and Clara Thompson; article qutns how psychiatrists, who see only small number of 'disturbed' homosexuals, n reach nclns about all homosexuals, when vast majory do not e for treatment and appear to be livg well-adjted liv; not that few studi parg nonpatient homosexuals and nonpatient heterosexuals have not borne out theory that homosexuals are sick or even different, except for their sexual preferenc; scrib 3 'typ' of homosexuals as those whose homosexualy reflects mental disturbance, those whose homosexualy is not related to psychiatric problem and those homosexuals who live happy, productive liv; ments on physil heterosexual matg as opposed to homosexual matg; ill of gay upl, Natl Gay Task Force dir Ron Gold, Dr Howard Brown and newly married gay uple
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- PEOPLE WHO ARE GAY, LBIAN OR BI HAVE MORE MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE E PROBLEMS, SURVEY FDS
- GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS
PEOPLE WHO ARE GAY, LBIAN OR BI HAVE MORE MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE E PROBLEMS, SURVEY FDS
Adults who intify as gay, lbian, or bisexual are more likely than adults who intify as straight to experience ser thoughts of suici, mental health ndns cludg major prsive episos and they are more likely to e substanc like alhol or dgs, acrdg to a new US ernment report. * being gay is a mental illness *
Dpe creasg acceptance of the LGBTQ+ muny, at least some circl, adults who intify as gay, lbian or bisexual are more likely than those who intify as straight to have ser thoughts of suici and mental health ndns cludg major prsive episos, and they are more likely to mise substanc like alhol or dgs, acrdg to a new US ernment report. However, gay, bi and straight men seemed to have siar substance e patterns: There was no difference smokg between straight and gay mal, for example, and the rate of bge and heavy drkg the month before they took the survey was the same among gay, bi and straight men. “LGBT dividuals experience addnal strs as a rult of discrimatn and stigma, stigma both at the societal level but also the way that livg a society that privileg heterosexualy that has homophobic laws and polici to sort of teach LGB people even to view themselv as ferr, ” Kidd said.
“For stance, you n image beg environments that might be validatg of people who have gay and lbian inti but might eher not regnize bisexual inty – so they are sort of visible that space – or might be really validatg of dividuals wh bisexual inty, even while the environment is affirmg or at least a ltle more ntral to folks who are gay or lbian, ” Kidd said.
For ee real time breakg news alerts sent straight to your box sign up to our breakg news emailsSign up to our ee breakg news emailsA urt Cha has agreed wh a textbook’s scriptn of homosexualy as a mental disorr, upholdg a lg by a lower cisn of the Suqian Intermediate People’s Court the eastern provce of Jiangsu was lled “random and basels” by Ou Jiayong, also known as Xixi, who had filed the 2016, Xixi had disvered a psychology textbook that scribed beg gay as a mental disorr durg her studi at the South Cha Agricultural Universy Guangzhou, Guangdong provce, reported the South Cha Morng 1990, the World Health Organisatn classified homosexualy as a mental disorr followg which Cha followed su and crimalised homosexualy 1997. They argue that the book is perpetuatg the belief that beg gay was wrong and then, 2017, filed a se agast the publisher askg to remove the, last year, the Suyu District People’s Court Suqian held that opposg views of Xixi and the publisher were due to differenc opn stead of beg a factual a rult, November 2020, Xixi, who is now a social worker Hong Kong, appealed agast the lg which has now aga not gone her se and subsequent appeal had generated ser support om Cha’s LGBT muny but the urt’s cisn last week has left them disappoted.
GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS
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Their methods varied, and clud everythg om talk therapy to “gay nversn” mps and nferenc, LGBTQ people were isolated om fay and iends, hypnotized, told to pray until their homosexualy subsid, stcted to beat effigi of their parents, mocked, ached on “proper” genr rol, and told their sexualy was unnatural and And Anne Plk, both 'formerly gay, ' pose wh their son, Timothy, a mpaign for Gay Conversn to the people who unrwent nversn therapy, shame and pa were an unniable part of the procs.