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: Practices like lobotomies and psychoanalysis were common until 1973, when homosexuality was finally removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Institutional Erasure

For decades, the stories of gay people were systematically wiped from public record or suppressed by governments: shocking free gay

The "shock" of being gay often begins internally due to social pressure. The Epidemic of Gay Loneliness - The Huffington Post : Practices like lobotomies and psychoanalysis were common