[Kozak]

Who said gay was a behavioral disorder?

Psychiatrists did, in the DSM 2 manual.

[SoCalPol]

DSM 2 manual.


Now is the DSM IVR check it out and see if you are correct

[misterrob]

Sure. And go look up some of the other diagnosis es and treatments that they came up with over the years. Oh, and when the AMA and other organizations say that we should ban smoking due to the dangers of second hand smoke look at the positions that people take on that calling the studies junk science.

[Bonaparte]

"Psychiatrists did [say homosexuality was a behavioral disorder] in the DSM 2 manual."

The DSM has not been a reliable source for information on mental illness for the past 35 years and, IMO, it should not be cited as an objective authority on that subject.

Removal from DSM-II (and subject editions) of homosexuality as a mental disorder was purely the result of threats, intimidation, political pressure and infiltration of the APA by homosexual activists. You can read about it here.

Whatever intellectual integrity American psychiatry may have had was lost forever in the early 1970s. Any activist group can force amendment of anything in the DSM by the simple process of infiltrating the APA and subverting APA deliberations.