Homosexuality
Homosexuality – from the Greek homos, meaning “same” or “identical,” and the Latin sexus, meaning “sex” – same-sex sexual orientation, expressed in romantic relationships, erotic attraction, or sexual relations with people of one’s own sex/gender.
On December 15, 1973, the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its official list of mental disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
On January 24–26, 1975, the American Psychological Association adopted the following resolution: homosexuality per se implies no impairment in judgment, stability, reliability, or general social and vocational capabilities. The American Psychological Association also urged all mental health professionals to take the lead in removing the stigma of mental illness that had long been associated with homosexual orientation (Conger, 1975).
On May 17, 1990, the World Health Organization stopped classifying homosexuality as a mental disorder. In December 1991, Ukraine became the first of the former Soviet republics to abolish criminal punishment for consensual sexual relations between adult men, which had been provided for in Part 1 of Article 122 of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR.
References:
Conger, J. J. (1975). Proceedings of the American Psychological Association, Incorporated, for the year 1974: Minutes of the annual meeting of the Council of Representatives. American Psychologist, 30, 620–651.
Shevchenko, Z. V. (2016). Homoseksualnist [Homosexuality]. In Slovnyk gendernykh terminiv [Dictionary of gender terms] (pp. 42–43). Cherkasy: Chabanenko Yu. [in Ukrainian].
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