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were described as having a mental illness.
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Why would they want to do so unless they were mentally ill?
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Up until 1973, to be a homosexual, to be gay, would count in the official records
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of how we classify illness as being mentally ill.
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And many people saw this, and we see this now,
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not so much as reflecting a sort of unbiased medical analysis
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but rather as reflecting biases that people have against gay people.
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And these are political and social and moral biases.
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They are not objective medical judgments.
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Even now I've been recording every president
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that has been the president of the United States in my memory
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including Bush and particularly clinton has been described by his opponents