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Would you care if the removal of homosexuality from the DSM list was based on politics instead of science?

June 22nd, 2010 | by admin |

In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) removed homosexuality as a mental disorder from the APA’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders (DSM-II).

This decision was a significant victory for homosexual activists, and they have continued to claim that the APA based their decision on new scientific discoveries that proved that homosexual behavior is normal and should be affirmed in our culture.

This is false and part of numerous homosexual urban legends that have infiltrated every aspect of our culture. The removal of homosexuality as a mental disorder has given homosexual activists credibility in the culture, and they have demanded that their sexual behavior be affirmed in society.

What Really Happened?
Numerous psychiatrists over the past decades have described what forces were really at work both inside and outside of the American Psychiatric Association-and what led to the removal of homosexuality as a mental disorder.

Dr. Ronald Bayer explains how homosexual activists captured the APA for political gain.
Dr. Ronald Bayer, a pro-homosexual psychiatrist has described what actually occurred in his book, Homosexuality and American Psychiatry: The Politics of Diagnosis. (1981)

In Chapter 4, "Diagnostic Politics: Homosexuality and the American Psychiatric Association," Dr. Bayer says that the first attack by homosexual activists against the APA began in 1970 when this organization held its convention in San Francisco. Homosexual activists decided to disrupt the conference by interrupting speakers and shouting down and ridiculing psychiatrists who viewed homosexuality as a mental disorder. In 1971, homosexual activist Frank Kameny worked with the Gay Liberation Front collective to demonstrate against the APA’s convention. At the 1971 conference, Kameny grabbed the microphone and yelled, "Psychiatry is the enemy incarnate. Psychiatry has waged a relentless war of extermination against us. You may take this as a declaration of war against you."

Homosexuals forged APA credentials and gained access to exhibit areas in the conference. They threatened anyone who claimed that homosexuals needed to be cured.

Kameny had found an ally inside of the APA named Kent Robinson who helped the homosexual activist present his demand that homosexuality be removed from the DSM. At the 1972 convention, homosexual activists were permitted to set up a display booth, entitled "Gay, Proud and Healthy."

Kameny was then permitted to be part of a panel of psychiatrists who were to discuss homosexuality. The effort to remove homosexuality as a mental disorder from the DSM was the result of power politics, threats, and intimidation, not scientific discoveries.

Prior to the APA’s 1973 convention, several psychiatrists attempted to organize opposition to the efforts of homosexuals to remove homosexual behavior from the DSM. Organizing this effort were Drs. Irving Bieber and Charles Socarides who formed the Ad Hoc Committee Against the Deletion of Homosexuality from DSM-II.

The DSM-II listed homosexuality as an abnormal behavior under section "302. Sexual Deviations." It was the first deviation listed.

After much political pressure, a committee of the APA met behind closed doors in 1973 and voted to remove homosexuality as a mental disorder from the DSM-II.
nickipet, it should concern you, because these politicians or gay activist, in effect put an end to therapy for gays, when science and medicine said it was needed. Imagine if the LGBT decided to take the attention off of AIDS, by saying that it was a normal gay condition, there would be an outrage.
nickipet, it should concern you, because these politicians or gay activist, in effect put an end to therapy for gays, when science and medicine said it was needed. Imagine if the LGBT decided to take the attention off of AIDS, by saying that it was a normal gay condition, there would be an outrage.
Gay dude, it must have been very difficult for you, walking in on your dad having sex with your mommy and forever ruining females for you.

No wonder, all serial killers have gay issues.
Gay dude, it must have been very difficult for you, walking in on your dad having sex with your mommy and forever ruining females for you.

No wonder, all serial killers have gay issues.
Gay dude, it must have been very difficult for you, walking in on your dad having sex with your mommy and forever ruining females for you.

No wonder, all serial killers have gay issues.
Gay dude, it must have been very difficult for you, walking in on your dad having sex with your mommy and forever ruining females for you.

No wonder, all serial killers have gay issues.
Gay dude, it must have been very difficult for you, walking in on your dad having sex with your mommy and forever ruining females for you.

No wonder, all serial killers have gay issues.

nope as i do not see as a mental disorder, so whatever got it removed should be praised…

edit – if the gay dude comment was directed at me, then hahahahahahahahahaha. i could care less what elementary insults you hurl across the internet. you only reiterate my statement that you are obsessed with LGBT and have no mature thoughts on the subject (although you try by copy + paste crap you found on the internet)