In 2008, Regina Kunzel learned of an extraordinary collection of case files that had been salvaged from Saint Elizabeths Hospital, a federal institution for the mentally ill in Washington, D.C. These ...
We had been jointly planning our tactics over the past month – I, along with my compatriots of the Gay Liberation Front and Gay May Day collective, friends from the Mattachine Society, and members of ...
It had to have been a surreal scene. A standing-room only audience packed the hall at the 1972 Dallas conference of the American Psychiatric Association, watching a man dressed in what many remember ...
Homosexuals in America were "cured" in 1973 when the American Psychiatric Association (APA) voted to remove homosexuality from their list of mental illnesses. Robert L. Spitzer played a key part in ...