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"When you use less than honest means to get your point across, it seems to me that we ought to worry about what this piece is selling as well."

I agree, but as psychology/psychiatry is neither my profession nor my forte I would appreciate it if you would illuminate for me the dishonest portions of the article. Since you have not read the entire article I will summarize the actual assertions made regarding the APA and the DSM which can be found on pages 18-20. From my reading the assertions are as follows:

The APA leadership was co-opted and through political maneuvering a resolution was put forth. Of the 30,000 APA members only a third responded to the resolution and the DSM change was adopted. Concurrently, the author asserts that the NGTF (National Gay Task Force) paid for a mass mailing urging a "yes" vote on the subject to all members.
The author asserts that the APA’s Council on Research and Development did not “actually investigate the issue thoroughly before it gave formal approval for deletion of homosexuality from the DSM”.
The author further asserts that the Committee on Nomenclature “never formally approved the change”.
Finally, the author states that four years after the vote a survey by the journal Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality found that 69% of “psychiatrists disagreed with the vote and still considered homosexuality a pathological adaptation.

"The APA leadership was co-opted and through political maneuvering a resolution was put forth. Of the 30,000 APA members only a third responded to the resolution and the DSM change was adopted. Concurrently, the author asserts that the NGTF (National Gay Task Force) paid for a mass mailing urging a "yes" vote on the subject to all members."

TJ: You can also add that the reason why homosexuality was dropped from list of mental illnesses in 1973 was that the gay lobby disrupted their hearings for years to get it removed, and there were so many gay psychiatrists by that time that that was a goner anyway!

If people would just admit homosexuality is a mental illness, maybe curable, maybe not, there would be more compassion with them. To turn this into a "lifestyle" is a calculated effort to induce "acceptance" by the larger straight world.