Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...December ruling, which the National Gay Task Force called an "instant cure," came after intense lobbying by homosexual groups and endorsement of the change by all the A.P.A.'s 68 district branches. In a statement accompanying the announcement of their vote (13 for change; two abstentions and four absent), the trustees declared that many homosexuals show no signs of psychopathology, are satisfied with their sexual preferences, and can function effectively in society. It therefore seemed inappropriate to call them "sick." Those who are troubled by their homosexuality, the board said, would henceforth be described as suffering from a "sexual...
...rehabilitation - or at least to use writing as a means of passing prison time constructively. As a participant in a weekly workshop at the federal prison on Terminal Island in Los Angeles Harbor, Liddy is not even unique in his fame. Mobster Scion Bill Bonanno, central character in Gay Talese's Honor Thy Father, was also a workshop student until his parole last week, after serving three years for a stolen credit card scheme. Measured by the professional accomplishments of its members, the class is the most successful program of its kind in U.S. penology...
...bills would extend the protection of the civil rights laws to gay women...
John Grays, a professor of philosophy at MIT who has revealed his homosexuality to students and colleagues, said for him an important effect of gay liberation was personal self-acceptance, with pride replacing shame or fear of oppression...
Satya, a worker on the Gay Community News, a Boston newspaper, said that the gay movement, like the women's movement and the New Left, has been strongest among urban, middle-class students and ex-students. He urged the conference to broaden the movement to include under-represented working-class and rural gays...