queer revolution
Aug. 5th, 2007 05:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miriam_eOne of my favorite radio programs, All in the Mind, usually compered by the very hot Natasha Mitchell aired the first of two parts of a piece from Chicago Public Radio's This American Life. It discusses how psychiatry changed the definition of being homosexual from a disease to simply something different. It is well worth listening to, and the audio will be online for the next 4 weeks.
81 Words: the inside story of psychiatry and homosexuality [Part 1 of 2]
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/default.htm
The transcript is up there and will remain there permanently.
For those of us in Australia the radio program is broadcast on ABC Radio National Australia, Saturday 1pm, and repeated Monday 1pm. Next week, the second part.
I like how one of the central characters was a lesbian librarian who convinced a gay, male, closetted psychiatrist to make the big step of speaking up at a conference while wearing an elaborate disguise. If you wrote this kind of stuff in a fiction piece nobody would believe it. Real life is pretty damn insane. I still don't get how some people can think that love can be wrong.
81 Words: the inside story of psychiatry and homosexuality [Part 1 of 2]
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/default.htm
The transcript is up there and will remain there permanently.
For those of us in Australia the radio program is broadcast on ABC Radio National Australia, Saturday 1pm, and repeated Monday 1pm. Next week, the second part.
I like how one of the central characters was a lesbian librarian who convinced a gay, male, closetted psychiatrist to make the big step of speaking up at a conference while wearing an elaborate disguise. If you wrote this kind of stuff in a fiction piece nobody would believe it. Real life is pretty damn insane. I still don't get how some people can think that love can be wrong.