From This American Life
To listen: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1341
The story of how the American Psychiatric Association decided in 1973
that homosexuality was no longer a mental illness.
Prologue.
Host Ira Glass explains that the show this week consists of one long
story, the story of something very small that was part of something very
large in the history of our country. (2 minutes)
Act One.
In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) declared that
homose
