This classification was challenged by gay rights activists during the gay liberation movement especially following the 1969 stonewall riots, and rendered problematic by research. In 1973, the american psychiatric association (apa) removed the diagnosis of homosexuality from the second edition of its diagnostic and statistical manual (dsm) This resulted after comparing competing theories, those that pathologized. The first dsm, created in 1952, established a hierarchy of sexual deviancies, vaulting heterosexual behavior to an idealized place in american culture. In the first edition of the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm), published in 1952, homosexuality was classified under sociopathic personality disturbance (1) The last 70 years have brought psychiatry a long way, but it is only in the most recent version of the dsm that the last pieces of evidence of pathologizing homosexuality were removed (2)
The classification and understanding of homosexuality within the field of psychology have undergone profound changes over the past century The diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm), published by the american psychiatric association (apa), has played a pivotal role in shaping societal and medical perspectives on homosexuality This resulted after comparing competing theories, those that pathologized homosexuality and those that viewed it as normal In an effort to explain how that decision came about, this paper reviews some historical scientific. Abstract this article provides a critical overview of both the historical and current diagnostic categories from the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm) that perpetuate heteronormativity By drawing on critical scholars from queer theory, transfeminism and marxist fields, i analyse two diagnostic categories (gender identity disorder of childhood and transvestic disorder.
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