This National Coming Out Day, revisit the inspiring story of Kay Lahusen and Barbara Gittings, whose unrelenting activism got homosexuality removed from the American Psychiatric Association's manual of disorders.
, and Kameny may've been bigger activist figures, but according to Baim,"there is no way Barbara Gittings would have accomplished the work or her work would have been as remembered without the support and and documentation of Kay." The couple met in 1961 and stayed together until Gittings died in 2007 at age 74 of breast cancer.recalling,"Kay was both humble and proud at the same time.
"There was nothing more important to at the end of her life than to document their work in a book," Baim said."She knew how important it was to talk to multiple generations of gay people to pass on what she learned and the story."'20,000,000 gay people cured!' "I have a vivid memory of that discussion because of the joke, 'Oh, OK, now the shrinks say we're not perverts,'" Pinkela, a spokesperson for SAGE, an organization for LGBT elders, told TODAY."It was just, 'Are you serious? We needed to have some group of psychologists telling us that we're not perverts?' I have an actual memory of them laughing and joking ... kind of like a little celebration.
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