This attached article covers the general history of the removal homosexuality as a mental illness in the United States. It also provides context and explanations of the various theories being discussed by psychiatrists at that time as well. The role that LGBT activists had with the changing of the APA’s stance is also discussed as well within the article. Along with how even after its official removal as an illness by the APA, it was still under the umbrella of other mental illness as something abnormal.
