Sunday, October 1, 2017

That's SO Gay


Associated Press:
A psychiatrist considered a trailblazer in the gay rights movement for appearing in a mask before his colleagues at a 1972 convention to announce his homosexuality is being honored in Philadelphia.

Dr. John E. Fryer's actions are credited with paving the way for the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from its list of mental disorders a year after his speech.

On Tuesday, a historical marker about Fryer will be unveiled in the Gayborhood — Philadelphia's main social hub for LGBT residents — and across the street from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, which houses Fryer's archives.
"What John Fryer did was monumental," said Malcolm Lazin, executive director of Equality Forum, a Philadelphia-based gay rights group that applied for the marker. Before it was delisted as a mental illness, treatment for homosexuality included chemical castration, electric shock therapy, mental institutionalization and lobotomies.
"Who would want to come out if they were subject to chemical castration or being institutionalized? Who would come out if they could be fired from their job?" Lazin said. "The system was so stacked against gays and lesbians."
Appearing as Dr. H. Anonymous, Fryer wore a mask, big curly wig and used a voice-distorting microphone in his address at the association's meeting in Dallas.
"I am a homosexual. I am a psychiatrist," he said. He then told the group that he had suffered discrimination and had to remain anonymous because being gay would cost him his job. At the time, he was an untenured professor at Temple University.
The following year, after much debate and discussion, the American Psychiatric Association's board of trustees removed homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the profession's bible.

Uh-huh...can this deviant look any other way:
Okay, I'm joking here. But, there is a strange thing in homos I've noticed...they look like mental patients. And they have a TON of emotional issues. But, the point being, the actual love of a man who loves sweet sweaty hairy ass isn't the cause, it's the result.
 

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