Here's a thumbnail account of how militant homosexual thugs forced the APA to "declassify" their behavior.
The Facts About "Just the Facts"
"The professional associations touted in "Just the Facts" as accepting homosexuality take their lead from the American Psychiatric Association — conspicuous by its absence from the list — which in 1973 "normalized" homosexual behavior. Dr. Irving Bieber, who played a key role in the APA debate, has written that the decision was "not simply arrived at after carefully considered judgment by a group of psychiatrists. It was the climax of a sociopolitical struggle involving what were deemed to be the rights of homosexuals."5
Ronald Bayer, whose treatment of the APA decision is sympathetic, nevertheless concurs, "The result was not a conclusion based on ... scientific truth as dictated by reason, but was instead an action demanded by the ideological temper of the times."6 In fact, only 37 percent of the APA’s membership actually voted on whether to normalize homosexuality, with 5,834 members backing the decision and 3,810 opposing it.7
In 1977, Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality published the results of 2,500 replies to a survey sent to psychiatrists in the United States. Fully 69 percent of those responding answered "yes" to the following question: "Is Homosexuality usually a pathological adaptation (as opposed to a normal variation)?" Only 18 percent said "no," with 13 percent uncertain.8
So much for the "unanimity" of mental health professionals. Yet radical homosexual organizations such as GLSEN continue to perpetrate the myth that professional disagreement with their agenda does not exist..."