Activists Who Removed Homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

The DSM once labeled homosexuality a mental disorder. In the 1960s, LGBTQ+ activists Barbara Gittings and Frank Kameny pushed to change that, helping spur its removal from the DSM in 1973.

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