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   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, a pro-homosexual psychiatrist has described   
   what actually occured in his book, Homosexuality and American   
   Psychiatry: The Politics of Diagnoses. (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, Kamney 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 decleration 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.   
      
   Kamney had found an ally inside of the APA named Kent Robinson   
   who helped the homosexual activist present his demand that   
   homosexualiy be removed from the DSM. At the 1972 convntion,   
   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   
   the 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. Opponents were given 15 minutes   
   to protest this change, according to Dr. Jeffery Satinover, in   
   Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth. Satinover writes that   
   after this vote was taken, the decision was to be voted on by   
   the entire APA membership. The National Gay Task Force purchased   
   the APA's mailing list and sent out a letter to the APA members   
   urging them to vote to remove homosexuality as a disorder. No   
   APA member was informed that the mailing had been funded by this   
   homosexual activist group.   
      
   According to Satinover, "How much the 1973 APA decision was   
   motivated by politics is only becoming clear even now. While   
   attending a conference in England in 1994, I met a man who told   
   me an account that he had told no one else. He had been in the   
   gay life for for years but had left the lifestyle. He recounted   
   how that after the 1973 APA decisiion, he and his lover, along   
   with a certain very highly placed officer of the APA Board of   
   Trustees and his lover, all sat around the officer's apartment   
   celebrating their victory. For among the gay activists placed   
   high in the APA who maneuvered to ensure a victory was this man--   
   suborning from the top what was presented to both the membership   
   and the public as a disinterested search for truth."   
      
   Dr. Socarides Speaks Out   
      
   Dr. Charles Socarides has set the record straight on how   
   homosexuals inside and outside of the APA forced this   
   organization to remove homosexuality as a mental disorder. This   
   was done without any valid scientific evidence to prove that   
   homosexuiality is not a disordered behavior.   
      
   Dr. Socarides, writing in Sexual Politics and Scientific Logic :   
   The Issue of Homosexuality writes: "To declare a condition a   
   'non-condition,' a group of practitioners had removed it from   
   our list of serious psychosexual disorders. The action was all   
   the more remarkable when one considers that it involved an out-   
   of-hand and peremptory disregard and dismissal not only of   
   hundreds of psychiatric and psychoanalytic research papers and   
   reports, but also a number of other serious studies by groups of   
   psychiatrists, psychologists, and educators over the past   
   seventy years..."   
      
   Socarides continued: "For the next 18 years, the APA decision   
   served as a Trojan horse, opening the gates to widespread   
   psychological and social change in sexual customs and mores. The   
   decision was to be used on numerous occasions for numerous   
   purposes with the goal of normalizing homosexuality and   
   elevating it to an esteemed status."   
      
   "To some American psychiatrists, this action remains a chilling   
   reminder that if scientific principles are not fought for, they   
   can be lost--a disillusioning warning that unless we make no   
   exceptions to science, we are subject to the snares of political   
   factionalism and the propogation of untruths to an unsuspecting   
   and uninformed public, to the rest of the medical profession,   
   and to the behavioral sciences." Dr. Socarides' report is   
   available from the National Association for Research and Therapy   
   of Homosexuality: www.narth.com.   
      
   The Importance of The DSM.   
      
   The DSM(Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)   
   is the most widely used disgnostic reference book utilized by   
   mental health professionals in the United States.   
      
   It's a manual by which all diagnostic codes are derived for   
   diagnosis and treatment - every single physician (an estimated   
   850,000*) in the United States refers to this book in order to   
   code for a diagnoses. In plain English, what does this mean? It   
   means that for over 30 years physicians have been prevented from   
   properly diagnosing homosexuality as an aberrant behavior and   
      
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