DOC 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Matthew Shepard, Bowers V. Hardwick, American Psychiatric Association
27 Feb 2017
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Turning point where sexual expression is acceptable beyond the confines of marriage. Sexual liberalism as an overlapping set of beliefs that detached sexual activity from the instrumental goal of procreation, affirmed hetersosexual pleasure as a value in itself . Birth control issues became less about the freedom for women and more about a method of regulating the poor. Because of the economic boom brought by the war. American psychiatric association categorized homosexuality as a psychiatric disorder. Harvey milk first openly gay man elected to office in a major u. s. city (san francisco) Amidst other transgender uprisings in la and san francisco. First gay pride parades, held on the anniversary of stonewall. New york, san francisco, la, and chicago. American psychiatric association removed homosexuality from list disorders. Twenty years after it was listed as a disorder. Neoliberalism era which also contains the same contradiction.
