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Fixing past wrongs: NC mental health advocates reflect on LGBTQ discrimination in medicine

Homosexuality was removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the Bible for mental health diagnoses, in 1973. Some of the harms of anti-LGBTQ discrimination remain. Recently, advocates reflected on how to better treat and represent the LGBTQ community.