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Timeline of events related to sexual orientation and medicine

19th century

1886

• Dr. Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, a German psychiatrist, publishes a study of sexual perversity.

20th century

1948

• Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, the first "Kinsey Report", is published by Dr. Alfred Kinsey

1953

• Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, the second "Kinsey Report", is published by Dr. Alfred Kinsey

1957

• The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality is founded to encourage the rigorous systematic study of sexuality.

1973

• The American Psychiatric Association votes to remove homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).

1977

• The Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights is founded in San Francisco as a support group for gay and lesbian medical students, residents, and other health care providers. The group claims to be the first LGBT medical society in the US.^[1]

1981

• The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association is founded 1981 as the American Association of Physicians for Human Rights.
• The first cases of Gay related immunodeficiency, now known as AIDS, were first reported 5 June 1981, when the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recorded a cluster of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in five homosexual men in Los Angeles.

1987

• The diagnosis of Ego-dystonic sexual orientation is dropped from the DSM.

1992

• The World health organization replaces its categorization of homosexuality as a mental illness with the diagnosis of ego-dystonic homosexuality.

1993

• Dr. Dean Hamer publishes a paper suggesting a genetic component to sexual orientation.^[2]

1995

• Saquinavir, the first protease inhibitor is approved for public use by the FDA. HAART radically changes the prognosis of HIV/AIDS.

1996

• The US Department of Defense includes homosexuality in a list of "mental disorders," in a document known as "directive 1332.38: physical disability evaluation."

21st century

2002

• The United States Department of Health and Human Services publishes Healthy People 2010, with the goals of increasing the quality and years of healthy life and eliminating health disparities in America. It identifies sexual orientation as one of 6 demographic factors contributing to health disparities.

2004

• [6]

• The American Academy of Pediatrics publishes "Sexual orientation and adolescents", a report on the state of health of LGBT youth in the United States.

2005

• American Medical Association president Edward Hill, MD becomes the first AMA president to address the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association in a speech entitled "Understanding, Advocacy, Leadership: The AMA Perspective on LGBT Health."

2006

• [10]

2007

• The American Medical Student Association membership votes to create an action committee on LGBT health issues and elects Brian Hurley to the office of national vice-president, the first LGBT person to hold the office.
• The US Food and Drug Administration re-affirms its policy prohibiting men who have sex with men (MSM) from donating blood despite recommendations from the American Red Cross, and the American Association of Blood Banks.
• ex-gay movement, his nomination drew sharp criticism from groups like the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association and the Human Rights Campaign.^[11][12]

2013

• National Library of Medicine created the medical subject heading "Homophobia". The new medical topic is meant to catalog scientific reporting on "Differential treatment or unequal access to opportunities or services based on perceived homosexual preference or orientation."^[13]

See also

• List of LGBT medical organizations
• Homosexuality and psychology

References

1. ^ BAPHR
2. ^ Hamer, Hu, Magnuson, Hu and Pattatucci (1993) A linkage between DNA markers on the X chromosome and male sexual orientation. Science 261(5119): pp. 321-7.
3. ^ Healthy People 2010, 2nd ed. "A Systematic Approach to Health Improvement" http://www.healthypeople.gov/Document/tableofcontents.htm#parta
4. ^ http://www.amsa.org/lgbt/nymc.cfm
5. ^ Gay group is bad medicine? - Washington Blade
6. ^ Gay News From 365Gay.com
7. ^ Eddings, Keith. The Journal News. 12 February 2005 http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/021205/a01p12gaymed.html
8. ^ PEDIATRICS Vol. 113 No. 6 June 2004, pp. 1827-1832 http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/pediatrics;113/6/1827
9. ^ AMA (GLBT) News release from the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association
10. ^ http://www.amsa.org/lgbt/touro.cfm
11. ^ Gay News From 365Gay.com
12. ^ http://www.kentucky.com/news/state/story/85442.html
13. ^ National Institutes of Health. National Library of Medicine. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/cgi/mesh/2014/MB_cgi?mode=&index=26844&view=concept Retrieved 29 December 2013.

External links

• "The Lesbian and Gay Health Care Community and the AMA"

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