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Lynne Lamberg
JAMA contributor

JAMA. 1998;280:497-499.

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IT'S BEEN 25 years since the American Psychiatric Association (APA) voted to delete homosexuality from its official list of mental disorders and issued a strong statement of support for gay rights. A forum marking this anniversary drew a standing-room-only crowd at the APA's annual meeting in Toronto, Ontario, in June.

Speakers discussed the controversy that surrounded efforts to depathologize homosexuality, traced the evolution of psychiatric and psychoanalytic attitudes toward homosexuality and explored the significance of these changes for the mental health of gay, lesbian, and bisexual persons today.

Melvin Sabshin, MD, who recently retired after 23 years as medical director of the APA, recalled "tumultuous" demonstrations by gay activists objecting to the classification of homosexuality as an illness and by Vietnam War protesters at the APA's annual meeting in San Francisco, Calif, in 1970, a year when he served as program director. "It was guerrilla theater," he said, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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