in looking at frank camany's papers this weekend, i came across this rather amazing image. look closely at what this picture is here. it's frank camany, who is standing at the lectern there who is at the american psychiatric association. he is making the case that they should stop saying homosexuality is a mental disorder. but look at the guy sitting next to him. crazy, right? he is wearing a mask with an attached wig. that man was himself a psychiatrist, a member of the american psychiatric association. and he too took the lectern to advise the association to stop listing being gay as a mental ills illness. but he had to disguise himself in order to do to keep his job. so he wore a mask and a wig and a big baggy tuxedo jacket. and he described himself as dr. anonymous. that was 1972. the distance between then in our country and now in our country seems like a million years. and like we have come a million miles. but we are still fighting over many of the same things. only this time the political inertia, the weight of who is on each side of the v, who is on side of the arg