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As a gay psych DOCTOR in 2021, I'm looking at a psychiatrist assessing someone who was gay and mentally ill in the 1960's. This was at a time when it was both illegal to be gay AND it was a mental illness. Gay people were left with a choice - prison, or be labelled with a psychiatric illness and have it "treated" with a type of conversion therapy. Everything from talking therapies to drugs that altered peoples libido.
Homosexuality. was in the DSM as a type of personality disorder until 1973 when it was removed in the 3rd edition after protests. Even then, the practice of conversion therapy and psychiatrists trying to correct and change sexual orientation continued.
Conversion therapy still happens today! Its one of those things that everyone thinks is illegal but it isn't. Interestingly, it only seemed to apply to men. Having sex with other women was not illegal nor was it really treated as a mental illness. Psychiatrists in general were much more supportive of gay women than gay men.
Credit goes to Pika Grape Snack's channel for the original video. Check out this channel because its an incredible resource and its clear how much work has gone into it.
