"It was decades of organized defence by the LGBT community of our sexual practices and institutions that forced new thinking," writes Bob Gallagher. Both had seen school counsellors, who advised their problem was psychiatric. The smirk on the bully’s father taught the bully that violence in defence of the normal order was righteous. It was legions of diagnosed deviants who collectively fought back to redefine themselves and overturn those labels and institutions. Both had seen psychiatrists who kindly suggested this pathology could be controlled if they worked hard enough.

Source: thestar June 02, 2016 09:56 UTC