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LGBTQ Battles & Milestones - Dr Perry Halkitis

Mental Illness Happy Hour

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Is It Normal to Be a Gay Man?

In the 1950s and 1960s, people suppressed their identity. Do I think that some people thought it was an illness? Of course they did, and they didn't act upon it. But for a lot of young people who are raised in communities where homosexuality is considered anathema still,. there is an internalization and a self-loathing that develops because society is giving you the message something is wrong with you.

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