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>Jewish homosexual gay rights activists worked to remove homosexuality from the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) list of mental disorders
>Two prominent Jewish men, psychiatrist Alfred Freedman and activist Charles Silverstein, played key roles in this process.
>Dr. Alfred Freedman took over as president of the APA in 1973
>Dr. Robert Spitzer, declared that homosexuality, by itself, did not meet the criteria for being a psychiatric disorder.
>Freedman's backing of this resolution was crucial for its adoption by the APA Board of Trustees in December 1973