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Psychiatry and Homosexuality in the USA

Witness: Archive 2013 by BBC

Dec 4, 20139:00Society & Culture

From the 1950s until the 1970s, homosexuality was classed as a mental illness in the USA. Hear from Charles Silverstein, a campaigner who persuaded the American Psychiatric Association that just because he was gay, it di...

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Psychiatry and Homosexuality in the USA is an episode from Witness: Archive 2013 by BBC. From the 1950s until the 1970s, homosexuality was classed as a mental illness in the USA. Hear from Charles Silverstein, a campaigner who persuaded the...

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Published Dec 4, 2013, 9:00 long, audio available.

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From the 1950s until the 1970s, homosexuality was classed as a mental illness in the USA. Hear from Charles Silverstein, a campaigner who persuaded the American Psychiatric Association that just because he was gay, it didn't mean he was ill.

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Published Dec 4, 2013 and 9:00 long