Useful Links
A Reckoning with Psychiatry’s Past: The American Psychiatric Association Steps Forward- Discusses the documentary CURED
https://mattachinesocietywashingtondc.org/2021/06/17/a-reckoning-with-psychiatrys-past-the-american-psychiatric-association-steps-forward/
Cured: How mental illness was used as a tool against LGBT rights
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-56508488
How LGBTQ+ Activists Got “Homosexuality out of the DSM”
https://daily.jstor.org/how-lgbtq-activists-got-homosexuality-out-of-the-dsm/
https://mattachinesocietywashingtondc.org/2021/06/17/a-reckoning-with-psychiatrys-past-the-american-psychiatric-association-steps-forward/
Cured: How mental illness was used as a tool against LGBT rights
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-56508488
How LGBTQ+ Activists Got “Homosexuality out of the DSM”
https://daily.jstor.org/how-lgbtq-activists-got-homosexuality-out-of-the-dsm/
Primary Sources
Psychiatrists, in a Shift, Declare Homosexuality No Mental Illness (1973)
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/16/archives/psychiatrists-in-a-shift-declare-homosexuality-no-mental-illness.html
Boys Beware (1955)
This 1955 educational film warns against "the dangers of homosexuality," which is described as "a sickness of the mind." The ten minute video was produced by the Unified School District and the Police Department of Inglewood, California.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/stonewall-boys-beware/
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/16/archives/psychiatrists-in-a-shift-declare-homosexuality-no-mental-illness.html
Boys Beware (1955)
This 1955 educational film warns against "the dangers of homosexuality," which is described as "a sickness of the mind." The ten minute video was produced by the Unified School District and the Police Department of Inglewood, California.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/stonewall-boys-beware/