The American Psychiatric Association's 1973 decision to remove homosexuality from its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders marked the official passing of the illness model of homosexuality. The American Psychological Association followed suit with a resolution affirming this anti-illness perspective stating, in part: “the APA urges all mental health professionals to take the lead in removing the stigma of mental illness that has long been associated with homosexual orientations” (American Psychological Association, 1975). Homosexuality was replaced with the confusing “ego-dystonic homosexuality” diagnosis, which itself was dropped in 1988. Despite this now complete official depathologizing of homosexuality, efforts by both mental health professionals ...