"The American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its diagnostic list of mental disorders in 1973, despite substantial protest. The A.P.A. was strongly motivated by the desire to reduce the effects of social oppression. However, one effect of the A.P.A.'s action was to add psychiatric authority to gay activists' insistence that homosexuals as a group are as healthy as heterosexuals. This has discouraged publication of research that suggests there may, in fact, be psychiatric problems associated with homosexuality." -- N.E. Whitehead, Ph.D (Link)
