Meet the Man Who "Normalized" Homosexuality

Charles Silverstein (1935-2023)

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

NY Times: Charles Silverstein, 87, Dies; Helped Destigmatize Homosexuality

He was at the forefront in persuading the American Psychiatric Association to reassess its classification of homosexuality as a mental disorder.

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Heads up, Satan. Incoming!

Imagine the jaw-dropping surprise here at "The Editorial Board" of The Anti-New York Times upon discovering, from this post-mortem puff-piece, that a key individual "at the forefront" of medically "normalizing" the abnormality of homosexuality was a Brooklyn-born sodomite named "Silverstein" (cough cough). No way!

From the article:

"In February 1973, when it was his turn to speak before an American Psychiatric Association panel on why it should stop classifying homosexuality as a mental disorder, Charles Silverstein chose an unexpected tool for his response: humor.

“What I did,” he recalled decades later ,“was write a parody, a satire, of all the absurd things that the American Psychiatric Association had diagnosed” — illnesses like “syphilophobia” (irrational fear of syphilis).

“I threw back at them their diagnoses over the decades and how funny it all sounds now, and pointed out that their fun had hurt a lot of people. I ended by saying to them, ‘Don’t do it anymore.’”