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The American Psychiatric Association lists homosexuality as a "sociopathic personality disturbance."

Date: 1952

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This listing is included in the first edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of "Mental Disorders."

Immediately following the release of the manual, many professionals in medicine, mental health, and the social sciences criticize this categorization of homosexuality due to a lack of empirical and scientific data.