Homosexuality was classified as a mental disorder in the
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) beginning with the first edition, published in 1952 by the
American Psychiatric Association (APA). This classification was
challenged by
gay rights activists in the years following the 1969
Stonewall riots, and in December 1973, the APA board of trustees voted to declassify homosexuality as a mental disorder. In 1974 the DSM was updated and homosexuality was replaced with a new diagnostic code for individuals
distressed by their homosexuality. Distress over one's homosexual orientation remained in the manual, under different names, until the
DSM-5 in 2013.
The APA reclassified homosexuality for political reasons, it had nothing to do with science. Homosexuals were threatening to kill psychiatrists if they continued diagnosing homosexuality as a paraphilia or sexual disorder, so the APA coward to their demands and threats, giving them what they wanted. In the early days, homosexuals seemed to be content with society being tolerant of them, not discriminating against them in the area of employment, housing..etc. All seemed fair and good, but the problem with many homosexuals (not all of them, but many), is that tolerance is not enough. They want to become the fully accepted, mainstream "healthy alternative" to heterosexuality. From that stems the demand for gay marriage, child adoption..etc. All of our goodwill and tolerance towards homosexuality has unfortunately led to all of the transgender confusion we see today. Literally, hundreds of thousands of children are being subjected to dangerous hormone treatments and being deprived of going through puberty. Some children even have their breasts and genitals mutilated by doctors in an attempt to "transition" them to the opposite sex.
The consequences of opening the closet and letting all of these homosexuals out results in this:
Homosexuals are many times more susceptible to STDs, like HIV, syphilis, herpes, and other diseases. They have problems with depression and suicide at much higher rates than heterosexuals and that's the case everywhere, regardless of whether the environment is egalitarian, "progressive" or the Bible belt (i.e. the American South). The rates of homosexual depression and suicide are the same in Norway and Sweden as they are in Alabama and Tennessee. Same shit. Children raised by homosexuals are 8 times more likely to "dabble" with homosexuality, developing a homosexual orientation. Placing them at greater risk of all of the aforementioned health problems, not to speak of the fact that these children are being deprived of developing a healthy, normal heterosexual orientation. Getting married with a member of the opposite sex and siring their own offspring, starting a family in a traditional, natural, normal sense. These children are being deprived of that, and it's nothing less than a heinous crime.
If society has a choice of offending homosexuals by keeping their activities in the closet as it was in previous generations, or in any way hurting children, undermining their wellbeing, health, their future, civil society must always opt for keeping homosexuals in their closets, where they belong. Sexuality is a private matter, it's in the closet for everyone in many ways, including heterosexuals. How many heterosexual pride parades have you seen lately? Sex is something that is private, but these homosexuals want their sexuality in the open, in everyone's face. They were never satisfied with tolerance, they always wanted full-blown societal submission to their depravities. Being tolerant of them at the expense of our children is simply unacceptable and if society is willing and able, it should stop this LGBTQ invasion of society immediately. Force them back into their nightclubs and closets. They can engage in their degenerate activities among themselves in their private bathhouses and bedrooms.
Gay marriage, gay adoption, all of this should be made illegal immediately here in America. Russia was smart enough not to fall into the LGBTQ trap. That's why American liberals hate Russia so much. In Russia, there's no same-sex marriage, no gay adoption, and no gay pride parades without being broken up almost immediately by the police. None of that filth has taken over Russia as it has here in America.
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