The Dr. Anonymous Performance

John Fryer, MD Coming Out as a Gay Psychiatrist in 1972

A previous Substack posting included a brief synopsis of some of the events leading to the removal, in 1973, of the diagnosis of “homosexuality per se” from the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM).

To briefly recount, following the Stonewall riots of 1969 in New York City’s Greenwich Village, an energized gay …