text: Plus, like the Church today, the APA was incredibly over focused on gay men which made the APA appear to discriminate when it came to homosexuality.
  
    The APA finally bent to three facts.  The first and foremost being their treatment paradigms didn't have any effect on the mental illness they were stating they could cure.  The treatments had no credibility.  Second, many of their own came out of the closet and lo and behold they weren't neurotic. Third was the political pressure, but that was given more credence because of numbers one and two.