History of the United States II / Unit 15 USH2 2111 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The APA and Kathy Kozachenko
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The idea
By nineteen seventy-four the American Psychiatric Association had stopped classifying homosexuality as a mental illness, a classification that had cost people jobs and custody of their children.
In practice
Kathy Kozachenko elected in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in nineteen seventy-four, the first openly lesbian woman voted into office.
Where people slip
The anchor notes the association still treated it as a sexual orientation disturbance.
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