Being Gay isn't a mental illness, the history of the APA and Homosexuality in the DSM

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BEING GAY ISN'T A CHOICE ALAN!

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Today we meet Alan Shlemon from Stand to Reason. Alan tries to weave a tall story in lieu of answering the direct question, "Is Heterosexuality a choice?"

Will Alan ever answer the question? Does he say anything accurate at all? Join me as we dissect what is wrong with almost literally everything Alan has to say :)


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Original Video

When Did You Choose Your Heterosexuality? - Challenge Response:    • When Did You Choose Your Heterosexuality? ...  

Relevant links:

Relevant BIO’s

Alan Shlemon Biography: https://www.str.org/training/speakers... (physiotherapist)

Camille Paglia Biography http://www.biographybase.com/biograph... (Studied Literature, Cultural Critic)

Dr. Martin Duberman Biography: http://archives.nypl.org/mss/848 (Historian)

1972 New York Times Article by Dr. Duberman https://www.nytimes.com/1972/12/10/ar...


History of homosexuality in the DSM removal from the DSM II
Actual written proposal for removal from the 1973 conference: https://pages.uoregon.edu/eherman/tea...

Out of DSM: Depathologizing Homosexuality: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

When Homosexuality Stopped Being a Mental Disorder Not until 1987 did homosexuality completely fall out of the DSM https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/bl...

https://www.americanbar.org/content/d... The Brief of Amici Curiae (APA Summary of research regarding sexual orientation and “Choice”

https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

Some research predating the 1973 decision:

Evelyn Hooker studies: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1...

Kinsey Information https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1...

Contemporary research and article summaries:

http://chandlerburr.yetanothermess.co... Biology and Homosexuality

https://link.springer.com/article/10.... Familial aspects of Homosexuality in male brothers

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/... The science of choice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICD-10_... ICD-10


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Resources:

Recovering from Religion: https://www.recoveringfromreligion.or...
The Clergy Project: http://clergyproject.org/
Secular Therapy: https://www.seculartherapy.org/


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