Almost. It was declassified as a disease by the American Psychiatric Association in 1973 [1] (and by the American Psychological Association in 1975 [2]), and th

Almost. It was declassified as a disease by the American Psychiatric Association in 1973 [1] (and by the American Psychological Association in 1975 [2]), and the DSM-III has been the first edition to not include homosexuality. It still contained ego-dystonic homosexuality (TL;DR: "I don't want to be gay") - which was opposed by the APA in 1987 [3] - until 1988, with the publication of the DSM-III-R. [1]: https://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/16/archives/psychiatrists-in-a-shift-declare-homosexuality-no-mental-illness.html https://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/16/archives/psychiatrists-in... [2]: https://www.apa.org/about/policy/discrimination https://www.apa.org/about/policy/discrimination [3]: https://www.apa.org/about/policy/diagnoses-homosexuality-archived https://www.apa.org/about/policy/diagnoses-homosexuality-arc...