Perspective on Homosexuality
The Historical and scientific perspective on Homosexuality have shaped the way gay individuals perceive themselves, from a medical perspective for many years up until the year 1973, homosexuality was considered to be a disease, Science printed literature that established homosexuality in diagnosis help literature, as an illness that would be considered as a disease model. The medical establishments over the years have been looked upon as an independent organization (at least with respect to social issues) This clear separation from the medical community to other areas of specialty has had a very negative impact upon the way that gays were treated, Threw the past century, gays perception of their life style was one deemed of shame, (Stewart, 2008) many people dealing with the homosexual life style remained hidden from view, ashamed of how they felt, not wanting to expose themselves. Sadly many that suffered with homosexuality, became distressed over personal thoughts, consistently trying to reason within them, that they were “wrong “about the way they felt. Society had a view of homosexuality as being a sickness; gays have been treated almost as if they were lepers.
For many years now, the psychiatric community has continually repudiated the notion that the American Psychiatric association believes that homosexuality is a disease. Even with the medical associations 1973 (Teresa., 2001) change of view, the theory lives on threw the years, though science now recognizes that human sexuality is subject to great variability, (i.e. variability is the norm.) Just like the views of many Americans historically carried, of homosexual acts being evil, intolerable, and a mental health disease, The American psychiatric association still 35 years later, science must defend its modern view on a consistent basis. In short, when science saw homosexuality as a derangement, it had very negative consequences on gays who felt...