Psychologists approve
WASHINGTONThe 37,000-member American Psychological Association has declared that homosexuality involves "no impairment in judgment, stability, reliability or general social or vocational capabilities."
In taking the nation's gay people off their sick list, the association's Council of Representatives also called on their members "to take the lead in removing the stigma of mental illness that has long been associated with homosexual orientation."
The Jan. 24 decision was a victory for the Association of Gay Psychologists, which was prominent at the group's 1974 convention in New Orleans and which now plans to press for textbook and other reforms.
VD event raises cash
CHICAGO-Over 1,000 people attended a benefit Feb. 23, raising a profit of $3,000 to $3,500 to help run Chicago's gay Wednesday night VD clinic at Beckman House.
Sponsored by the Lincoin Park Lagooners, a gay athletic group, the program included volleyball, dancing, games, booths and free beer. Booths and support were shown by 42 of the 50 gay bars that were invited. The event grossed $5,000.
Sponsors of the free VD clinic are Gay Horizons, which also operates Beckman House community center, the Gay Switchboard and a Friday night coffeehouse; and Gay Medical Professionals. Plans call for free VD testing to start at Man's Country Baths in April.
Scientists oppose bias
NEW YORK The American Association for the Advancement of Science, headed by Dr. Margaret Mead, came out Jan. 31 against "any form of discrimination on the basis of sexual behavior between consenting adults in private." The board vote was 31 to 5.
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