The watershed event in the American gay rights movement was the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City. Following this event, gays and lesbians began to adopt the militant protest tactics used by anti-war and black power radicals to confront anti-gay ideology. Another major turning point was the 1973 decision by the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from the official list of mental disorders.Conger, J. J. (1975) "Proceedings of the American Psychological Association, Incorporated, for the year 1974: Minutes of the Annual meeting of the Council of Representatives." American Psychologist, 30, 620-651. Although gay radicals used pressure to force the decision, Kaiser notes that this had been an issue of some debate for many years in the psychiatric community, and that one of the chief obstacles to normalizing homosexuality was that therapists were profiting from offering dubious, unproven "cures".
The watershed event in the American gay rights movement was the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City. Following this event, gays and lesbi,ans began to adopt the militant protest tactics used by anti-war and black power radicals to confront anti-gay ideology. Another majo,r turning point was the 1973 decision by the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from the official list of mental disorders.Conger, J. J. (1975) "Proceedings of the American Psychological Association, Incorporated, for the year 1974: Minutes of the Annual meeting of the Council of Representatives." American Psychologist, 30, 620-651. Although gay radicals used pressure to force the decision, Kaiser notes that this had been an issue of some debate for many ye:ars in the psychiatric community, and that one of the chief obstacles to normalizing homosexuality was th.at therapists were profiting from offering dubious, unproven "cures".