5/19/2023 0 Comments Maurice em![]() This painful episode preceded, by only a few months, the momentous announcement from the American Psychiatric Association that removed homosexuality from its roster of psychiatric disorders-December 15, 1973. (The psychiatrist gave up on me after one visit and no, I did not change my name.) ![]() They loved me, and love eventually prevailed. My parents, who, trust me, were excellent people, died many years ago, having long since repented their bigotry. After a late-night scene of tears, insults, reproaches, and rage worse than anything I had imagined, they implored, then insisted, that I see a psychiatrist to be “cured.” My father, a gentle, mild-mannered man, very proud of me, suggested that I change my name to spare him a family scandal. Rather, they confronted me with the “evidence” of a phone bill. My parents’ learning that I’m gay triggered a family trauma. ![]()
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