| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

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Book Review

Departing from Deviance: A History of Homosexual Rights and Emancipatory Science in America. By Henry L. Minton. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. xii, 344 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-226-53043-4. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 0-226-53044-2.)

When the American Psychiatric Association voted in 1973 to remove homosexuality from its diagnostic inventory of mental illnesses, the gay physician Howard Brown observed wryly that the vote "'made millions of Americans who had been officially ill that morning officially well that afternoon'" (p. 261). Henry L. Minton's fine book provides a fresh context for this shift in psychiatric nomenclature, showing how gay and lesbian activist-researchers initiated and participated in medical-scientific studies to promote tolerance of homosexuality and gay rights long before the gay liberation movement began in the late 1960s.

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