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The American Psychiatric Association decreed that homosexuality was not a mental illness in 1974.

Kennedy's Community Mental Health Act of 1963 began deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill, requiring that the non-mentally ill lock themselves into cages for protection. How crazy is the latest? Not any crazier than the first.

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The reason the APA changed their diagnosis that homosexuality was a mental illness was not because of any scientific advance, but because the homofascists conducted a campaign of terror against them.

Exposed: The Myth That Psychiatry Has Proven That Homosexual Behavior Is Normal

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The American Psychiatric Association decreed that homosexuality was not a mental illness in 1974.

My father was a practicing psychologist during this era. The reason this was declare NOT a mental illness was gay activists. He recalled them haranguing and coercing the APA. It was hardly an unbiased, scientific decision.