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Contents:
- VIETNAM SAYS HOMOSEXUALY ‘NOT A DISEASE’ W FOR GAY RIGHTS
- BEG GAY IS NOT A DISEASE, VIETNAM TELLS S MEDIL WORKERS BID TO END ANTI-LGBTQ DISCRIMATN
VIETNAM SAYS HOMOSEXUALY ‘NOT A DISEASE’ W FOR GAY RIGHTS
* gay is not a disease *
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. 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.
BEG GAY IS NOT A DISEASE, VIETNAM TELLS S MEDIL WORKERS BID TO END ANTI-LGBTQ DISCRIMATN
Although the WHO has taken homosexualy off s list of diseas, other forms of discrimatn still rema, says San Cochran, a psychologist and epimlogist at the Universy of California Los Angel (UCLA): “Although beg gay or lbian is no longer classified as a disorr, s place emerged new tegori of ‘gay-related’ diseas. Forty-four years ago today, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn (APA) -- the largt psychiatric anizatn the world -- ma history by issug a rolutn statg that homosexualy was not a mental illns or sickns.