Sunday 17 May 2009

On This Day....

... in 1990 the World Health Organisation passed a resolution to remove Homosexuality from it's list of mental illnesses.

The World Health Organization's ICD-9 (1977) listed homosexuality as a mental illness, and in 1990, a resolution was adopted to remove it in the ICD-10 (1993).

The ICD-10 then carried the note-
Sexual orientation by itself is not to be regarded as a disorder.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

WOW! I never knew that. Thanks for the info.

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