How beg gay went om a mental disorr to a human-rights movement.
Contents:
- IT IS NOW 50 YEARS SCE GAY PEOPLE WERE “CURED"
- THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
- CAN PEOPLE STOP BEG GAY?
- GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH ISSU
- AMIC CLAIMS TO HAVG DISVERED A CURE FOR HOMOSEXUALYBRIAN LOO SOON HUA·FOLLOWPUBLISHED ILLUMINATION·4 M READ·SEP 2, 2021--1SHAREAND WA TILL YOU HEAR HER MD-BENDG THEORY REGARDG WHAT PEOPLE TO BE GAY.PHOTO BY DEON BLACK ON UNSPLASHA UPLE OF YEARS AGO WHEN I FIRST STARTED LEARNG ARABIC SOMEONE SENT ME ONE OF THE STRANGT VIO CLIPS I HAD EVER SEEN. THE SETTG: A POPULAR KUWAI TALK SHOW. THE GUT DU JOUR: AN “AMIC” WHO CLAIMS TO HAVE A “DISVERED” A “CURE” FOR HOMOSEXUALY (I KNOW, I KNOW, TOO MANY QUOTATN MARKS, BUT TST ME, THE WHOLE THG MAK A TURN FOR THE BIZARRE THE MUTE THE GUT OPENS HER MOUTH).WRONG ON SO MANY LEVELS
- IN CHIGO, A NEW APPROACH TO GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN WH PROSTATE CANCER
IT IS NOW 50 YEARS SCE GAY PEOPLE WERE “CURED"
* is there a cure for being gay *
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn’s removal of homosexualy om s Diagnostic Manual 1973. Psychiatric diagnosg of homosexualy as a mental disorr began the 19th century, most promently the work of Richard von Krafft-Ebg, who thought was due to “generatn” of the nervo system—generacy beg a now-disproven medil theory of that era.
Sigmund Frd directly disagreed wh Krafft-Ebg’s ncept of homosexualy as an illns and stead saw as a “velopmental arrt, ” a kd of psychologil immatury.
THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
Homosexualy is not a choice the sense of beg easily reversed. However, rearch on sexual fluidy suggts some gay people n adjt to heterosexual liftyl. * is there a cure for being gay *
However, by the middle of the 20th century, the belief that homosexualy was a mental disorr was the prevailg view among psychiatrists and most of Frd’s psychoanalytic followers. Th, 1952, when the APA published the first edn of s Diagnostic and Statistil Manual (DSM-I), classified “homosexualy” as a “socpathic personaly disturbance. The psychiatric perspectiv on homosexualy were drawn om a skewed sample of patients seekg treatment for homosexualy or other difficulti and studi of prison populatns.
They found homosexualy to be more mon the general populatn than was generally believed—a fdg at odds wh psychiatric claims of the time that homosexualy was extremely rare the general populatn.
CAN PEOPLE STOP BEG GAY?
Rearch has shown that the followg are some of the most mon health ncerns faced by gay and bisexual men. * is there a cure for being gay *
All this changed the wake of the 1969 Stonewall rts New York Cy, an event that energized gay and lbian activists who believed psychiatric diagnosis to be a major ntributor to anti-homosexual social stigma. A 1971 panel, entled “Gay is Good” featured Kameny, Barbara Gtgs, and Ron Gold, who explaed to psychiatrists, many of whom were hearg for the first time, the stigma ed by the “homosexualy” diagnosis.
GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH ISSU
Unrstand health ncerns for gay men and other men who have sex wh men, and learn how to promote good health. * is there a cure for being gay *
H Anonymo, a “homosexual psychiatrist" who, given the realistic fear of adverse profsnal nsequenc for g out at that time, disguised his te inty om the dience and spoke of the discrimatn gay psychiatrists faced their own profsn. The APA also engaged a slow, ternal liberative procs to nsir the qutn of whether homosexualy should rema a psychiatric diagnosis. After notg some humoro aspects of historil diagnos, he nclud, “To ntue to classify homosexualy as a disorr is as valid today as was the diagnosis of masturbatn the 1942 edn.
Havg arrived at a novel fn of mental disorr—one that would change future DSM edns until the prent—the mtee agreed that homosexualy per se was not one.
AMIC CLAIMS TO HAVG DISVERED A CURE FOR HOMOSEXUALYBRIAN LOO SOON HUA·FOLLOWPUBLISHED ILLUMINATION·4 M READ·SEP 2, 2021--1SHAREAND WA TILL YOU HEAR HER MD-BENDG THEORY REGARDG WHAT PEOPLE TO BE GAY.PHOTO BY DEON BLACK ON UNSPLASHA UPLE OF YEARS AGO WHEN I FIRST STARTED LEARNG ARABIC SOMEONE SENT ME ONE OF THE STRANGT VIO CLIPS I HAD EVER SEEN. THE SETTG: A POPULAR KUWAI TALK SHOW. THE GUT DU JOUR: AN “AMIC” WHO CLAIMS TO HAVE A “DISVERED” A “CURE” FOR HOMOSEXUALY (I KNOW, I KNOW, TOO MANY QUOTATN MARKS, BUT TST ME, THE WHOLE THG MAK A TURN FOR THE BIZARRE THE MUTE THE GUT OPENS HER MOUTH).WRONG ON SO MANY LEVELS
Highlights of the specific mental health needs among gay and bisexual men. * is there a cure for being gay *
It should be noted that psychiatrists did not vote, as is often reported the popular prs, on whether homosexualy should rema a diagnosis.
IN CHIGO, A NEW APPROACH TO GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN WH PROSTATE CANCER
APA’s diagnostic revisn was the begng of the end of anized medice’s official participatn the social stigmatizatn of homosexualy.
For example, 1990, the World Health Organizatn removed homosexualy per se om the Internatnal Classifitn of Diseas (ICD-10). Whout a medil or scientific ratnalizatn for discrimatn, bat about homosexualy gradually shifted away om medice and psychiatry and to the moral and polil realms of relign, ernment, the ary, the media, and tnal stutns. The reasong behd acceptance went like this: If homosexualy is no longer nsired an illns, if one do not lerally accept biblil prohibns agast , and if gay people are able and prepared to functn as productive cizens, then what is wrong wh beg gay?