Describe the events that led to removal of homosexuality as a diagnosis by American Psychiatric Association (APA)
What will be an ideal response?
?In 1970 and 1971, gay activists disrupted the conventions of the American Psychiatric Association (APA). The following year a gay psychiatrist was asked by the APA to speak, eventually leading to the establishment of a Nomenclature Task Force to review the diagnostic label of homosexuality. Ronald Gold, speaking at the 1973 APA meetings stated: "Your profession of psychiatry dedicated to making sick people well, is the cornerstone of a system of oppression that makes people sick." In December 1973, the APA removed homosexuality as a diagnosis. The change in diagnostic categorization occurred in a strongly contested vote by the American Psychiatric Association. Subsequently, gay people, formerly viewed as a deviant minority and in need of treatment, were transformed into a minority who needed assistance in coping with "the effects of the majority on an oppressed minority."
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