What a great find! Did that come from archive.org? It was so important to be reminded that not so long ago homosexuality was framed as an illness "Not visible like smallpox" ... ! Can you imagine!

And of course today I got an email from about the nomination of Dr. James Holsinger to be Surgeon General. Holsinger in the early 90s produced a report, reputedly an analysis of medicaland academic studies to that point, finding that homosexuality was pathological and dangerous, likely to lead to illness or death.

How far have we come? Quite far by some measures. Some now say that "civil unions are the floor in the same-sex marriage debate," though while that's porgress it feels a bit hollow to me. And at the same time we're considering for AG a person whose research in the 90s -- 2 decades after the APA demedicalized homosexuality -- finds it to be a pathology that leads to illness or death.

...because public space really matters!

Elizabeth