herself leaving a note saying she was scarred at attempts to change her sexuality, and the american psychiatric association said: by law... >> you have the a.p.a. who changed their minds about it. and it was not an objective position. look at the child who is more vulnerable than two sexually transmitted disease, deadly diseases like aids as a result of participating in a lifestyle of homosexuality. >> that is a different issue. >> no it's not. it's sexuality. >> why should parental rights trump the psychological associations standards about protecting children. >> why should parents rights be trumped. what about children not taugh to... >> but isn't it child abuse. >> child abuse is in the classroom when they are told lies about the american psychiatric association, and the conclusion that it drew when it was skewed. children are taught and led into believing that this is a natural and normal and healthy lifestyle. when the fact is no nation on earth has ever said we are going to put homosexuality on the same level as heterosexual marriage. now america is considering this. it's the wrong drerks. what we h

. >> the american psychiatric association deems homosexuality to be a mental disorder. >> this involveswith a strong electric current over a short period of time. hopefully, he will be unable to get sexually aroused. >> it's very hard to achieve civil rights for a group where the medical world is describing this group as mentally ill. so one of the goals of the gay rights movement was to eliminate that kind of thinking represents prejudice, it doesn't represent science. >> the dilemma of the homosexual. told by the medical profession he is sick, by the law that he is a criminal. shunned by employers, rejected by heterosexual society. at the center of his life, he remains an outsider. >> i think gay men got sort of sick and tired of seeing the quote, unquote, revolution going on all around them while they were being vilified and kept completely to the margins. something is always going to light the spark, and it was about to happen somewhere. >> in june of 1969, the police staged a raid, just a routine raid on a gay bar, the stonewall inn in greenwich village in new york. and unlike a ro

it took until 1973 for the american psychiatric association to drop homosexuality from the list of mental illnesses. thanks to willie brown in 1976, california no longer considered it a felony for adults of the same gender to have consensual sex. so that is from where we are coming. and when we took the law that gavin newsom decided he would break because it was clearly unconstitutional, but he knew that back then, to the state legislature, there were a lot of democrats who were afraid of it. somehow it was considered politically dangerous. but when we put it in schwarzenegger's desk in 2005, yes, to face a veto and put it on his desk again in 2007, we had dispelled the myth that there's anything politically dangerous for standing up for the respect and dignity and validation of all human life because we had twice as many coauthors on the bill and we had many more votes for it when we put it on the desk of governor schwarzenegger. clearly not a man of vision. [ laughter ] i suspect he will be long remembered in history as the george wallace for the struggle blocking the door of the hall o

. >> reporter: in 1973 the american psychiatric association announced being gay was not a mental disorder81 a disease was killing gay men. >> this disease has been turned into a propaganda ploy in our opinion by homosexual sympathizers. >> reporter: some religious leaders cast blame early on. inaction led gays and lesbians to try to care for each other. groups like gay men's health crisis and act up were formed to help the sick and push for better treatments. >> i started to look around in desperation for ways that i could find treatments. to help save my life. um -- and there was nothing coming out of our government's efforts. i quickly realized. >> reporter: more than of 50,000 americans have died of aids so far. new med since, which became available in the mid '90s, have turned hiv into a manageable condition. in 1994 hopes that a new president would usher in rights for gay and leezsbians were dashed. don't ask don't tell was passed. in 2003 in the case of lawrence v. texas that laws criminalizing sex between gay people was deemed unconstitutional. legalizing same-sex marriage seemed p

. >> reporter: some stigma wayned in 1973 the american psychiatric association announced being gay wasother battle was just beginning. in 1981 a mysterious disease began killing otherwise healthy gay men. >> sweeping out of control through the enclaves of america has been turned into a propaganda ploy by homosexual sympathizers. >> reporter: some religious leaders cast blame in an action by public officials led gays and lesbians to try to care for each other. groups like gay men's health crisis and act up were formed to push for better treatments. >> i started to look around in desperation for ways that i could find treatments to help save our life. there was nothing coming out of government's efforts, i quickly realized. >> 650,000 americans died of aids so far. new medicines that became available in the mid-90s, turned hiv into a manageable condition. in 1994 hopes that a democratic president would welcome rights for gays and lesbians when president clinton signed don't ask, don't tell preventing gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military. in 2003 walls criminalizing sex b

>> while some stigma slowly waned, in 1973 the american psychiatric association announced being gay wasl disorder. another battle was just beginning. in 1981 a mysterious disease began killing otherwise healthy gay men. >> this lethal epidemic sweeping out of control through the homosexual enclaves of america has been turned into a propaganda ploy in our opinion by homosexual sympathizers. >> early in the aids crisis they cast blame and led gays and lesbians to care for each other. gays like gay men's health crisis and act up were firmed to help the sick and push for better treatments. >> i started to look around and in desperation for ways that i could find treatments to help save our lives and there was nothing coming out of our government's efforts. >> more than 650,000 americans have died of aid so far. new medicines which became availablen the mid 90s have turned hiv into a manageable condition. in 1994 hopes that democratic president might usher in a new wave of equal rights for gay and lesbian americans were dashed when president clinton signed don't ask don't tell into law preve

this resolution highlights the importance of the american psychiatric association removing homo sexuality from its list of meant will illnesses in december of 1973. there is a recognition in the medical community that we should not have and that we must undo what has been done by labeling people as mentally ill because they were being the persons that god created them to be. we have a saying in my community that god didn't create any junk. and people who are homo sexual are not junk and not persons with a mental illness but people who deserve the dignity and respect of all human beings and the dignity and accord. and i stand here as a friend of the community to make it known that there are people who are willing to stand alone and fight for the rights of others notwithstanding any consequences that may be put upon them. this resolution recognizes elaine noble as the first lgbt candidate elected to a state legislature in 1974. and barney frank as the first representative to come out as an openly gay member of congress in 1987. i have the privilege of knowing the honorable barney frank. i s

the caller who called in and said all psychologist know that this is abnormal. he doesn't know what he is talking about. every major psychiatric -- the american medical association every major american and worldwide medical association, for the last 20 years said that homosexuality is not abnormal. people are born this way, homosexual attraction is normal. i happen to be heterosexual, and i have known that since i was a very young man. you cannot make me be homosexual. three. people quoting the bible. does anyone realize the irony of the confederate five clags coming down? says holocaust of slavery in the south was supported by the pulpits because they supported this passage -- "slaves of bigger mastobey your masters." the fourth thing i want to say is a 1971, loving versus virginia, which was the first major decision to repeal -- it was to make it legal and not a felony for a black man to marry a white woman or a white woman to marry a black man. host: and about 20 minutes, we will be joined by the supreme court reporter for "the wall street journal," just brave and you can ask him about what happened there. "the washington post" not only talks about the decisi