Homosexuality was thought to be mental disorder now its celebrated?

Future historians will likely be flummoxed by the moment we’re living in. In what amounts to less than a blink of an eye in the history of Western civilization, homosexuality has gone from a diagnosed mental disorder, criminal offence to something to be celebrated — or else.

Indeed, the rush to mandatory celebration is so intense, refusal is now considered tantamount to a crime. And, in some rare instances, an actual crime if the right constable or bureaucrat concludes that you have uttered ‘hate speech.’

HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS HAVE FORCED INSTITUTIONS TO CHANGE THEIR MINDS.

The Bible condemns homosexuality as a sin. The enlightenment wanted freedom from religion so it invented the concept - private sphere and public sphere where the state took no interest in what happens behind closed doors. This philosophy has since been devastating. Domestic violence and pedophilia now happen behind closed doors and was permitted until the law was slectivle changed.

Many groups had accepted the medical view of homosexuality as a mental disorder. Their view had been that accepting homosexuality as disease meant treating it as a disability. Psychologists rejected religion outright - therefore they didn't see homosexuality as a moral or religious sin but as a mental health problem.

Then the 1960's sexual revolution happens where sexual prohibition and laws were challenged. A new generation of homosexual rights activists viewed medical and psychiatric portrayals of homosexuality to be just as problematic as the religious views. They rejected both and demanded both be changed.

The designation of homosexuality as a mental disorder was said to stir anti-homosexual societal views on the sin of homosexuality, leaving gay men and women vulnerable in terms of their physical safety, economic security, and overall well being. But most people simply saw homosexuality as wrong regardless of religion. 

Homosexual activists began to confront the APA about its position on homosexuality. They forced a series of dramatic and intimidating encounters between activists and psychiatrists at the annual meetings of the APA between 1970 and 1972. While the opposition to the activists was vehement by some in the APA, there were increasing numbers of psychiatrists (homosexuals themselves)  who supported the homosexuals activists' view.

These were members who knew homosexuality was common across a range of cultures. Religious leaders agreed homosexuals have always been present in all cultures because it is evidence of the fall of humanity into sin, and rebellion against God. But the APA would not stomach a religious explanation - instead they said it existed therefore what is it? 

A group of homosexual activists presented some unknown evidence to the APA members and convinced the Task Force to study the issue further. The subsequent research review led the Committee of the APA to propose that homosexuality be eliminated from the DSM. 

This proposal was approved by the APA's Council on Research and Development, its Reference Committee, and by the Assembly of District Branches before being accepted by the APA's Board of Trustees in December 1973. Other major mental health professional organizations, including the American Psychological Association and the National Association of Social Workers, soon endorsed the APA action. The decision to declassify homosexuality was accompanied by the passage of an APA Position Statement, which supported the protection of the civil rights of homosexual persons.

So the question is where are these documents? 

THEN THEY VOTED ON SCIENCE? 

What sort of science involves voting? Answer: Homosexuality is no longer a mental health - Vote Yes or No!

Some APA members, primarily psychoanalysts who continued to espouse pathologizing views of homosexuality, challenged the leadership of the APA by calling for a referendum of the entire APA membership. The decision to remove homosexuality was upheld by a 51% majority of voting APA members.

When the diagnosis of homosexuality was deleted in 1973, the APA did not initially embrace a normal variant model of homosexuality (Drescher 1998, Bayer 1987, Krajeski 1996). In recognition of the opposition, it made a compromise. The DSM-II diagnosis of Sexual Orientation Disturbance (SOD) replaced Homosexuality.

WERE HOMOSEXUALS HAPPY NOW? NO!

During the revision process of DSM-III in the mid 1980's EDH also engendered enormous controversy. In these debates openly gay and lesbian members of the APA played a decisive role in bringing about change (Krajeski 1996). 

Those on the APA Advisory Committee working on the revision who wanted to retain the EDH category argued that they believed the diagnosis was clinically useful and that it was necessary for research and statistical purposes. 

Homosexual members noted that making a patient's subjective experience of their own homosexuality the determining factor of their illness was not consistent with the new evidence-based approach that psychiatry had espoused. Blind bias ruled. 

Homosexual members argued their data do not support the diagnosis and that it is inappropriate to label culturally induced homophobia as a mental disorder. The APA Committee agreed with the homosexual members and the diagnosis of ego-dystonic homosexuality was removed from DSM-III-R (1987).

Removing homosexuality was a crucial step for gay zealots in a paradigm shift that would help psychiatry focus on more relevant models and concepts in understanding gay men and lesbians. The change nevertheless remains very controversial, and a large group of psychologists and analysts (the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality [NARTH]) continues to argue that homosexuality is a dysfunction and can be corrected.

The American Psychological Association and other mental health groups ignored the solid statements from NARTH and publically tried to depathologize homosexuality as well as make further progressive statements on gays and lesbians. The American Psychiatric Association (APA) then moved into ideology and made statement about homosexual discrimination in employment etc

At the same time, at an APA 1978 annual meeting a group of homosexuals formed a structure - Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Caucus of the American Psychiatric Association, which is now named the Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists (AGLP). In 1978, an official APA Task Force on Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Issues was established which was given formal status as a standing committee in 1981. The following year, the Assembly (APA's legislative branch) approved adding elected representatives from a group initially designated as the Caucus of Homosexually Identified Psychiatrists, and later renamed the Caucus of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual psychiatrists. The Caucus is still active in the APA Assembly. The APA was forced to change its views by voting,  and now it has within its own structure a homosexual dysfunctional group promoting its ideology.