19th century

• Dr. Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing
  Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing
  -Bibliography :* Heinrich Ammerer: Am Anfang war die Perversion. Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Psychiater und Pionier der modernen Sexualkunde. Styria premium 2011 in der Verlagsgruppe Styria GmbH & Co KG, Wien-Graz-Klagenfurt, ISBN 978-3-222-13321-3....
  
  , a German psychiatrist, publishes a study of sexual perversity.

20th century

• Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, the first "Kinsey Report", is published by Dr. Alfred Kinsey

• The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality
  Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality
  The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality , formed in 1957, is a non-profit, professional membership organization that says it is "the oldest professional society dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about sexuality." It reports to have more than 1,000 members and has a quarterly...
  
   is founded to encourage the rigorous systematic study of sexuality.

• The American Psychiatric Association
  American Psychiatric Association
  The American Psychiatric Association is the main professional organization of psychiatrists and trainee psychiatrists in the United States, and the most influential worldwide. Its some 38,000 members are mainly American but some are international...
  
   votes to remove homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
  Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
  The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is published by the American Psychiatric Association and provides a common language and standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders...
  
   (DSM).

• The Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights is founded in San Francisco as a support group for gay and lesbian medical students, residents, and other health care providers. The group claims to be the first LGBT medical society in the US.

• The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association
  Gay and Lesbian Medical Association
  The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association works to ensure equality in health care for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals and health care professionals...
  
   is founded 1981 as the American Association of Physicians for Human Rights.
• The first cases of Gay related immunodeficiency, now known as AIDS
  AIDS
  Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...
  
  , were first reported 5 June 1981, when the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recorded a cluster of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in five homosexual men in Los Angeles.

• The diagnosis of Ego-dystonic sexual orientation
  Ego-dystonic sexual orientation
  Ego-dystonic sexual orientation is an ego-dystonic condition characterized by having a sexual orientation or an attraction that is at odds with one's idealized self-image, causing anxiety and a desire to change one's orientation or become more comfortable with one's sexual...
  
   is dropped from the DSM.

• The World health organization
  World Health Organization
  The World Health Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations that acts as a coordinating authority on international public health. Established on 7 April 1948, with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, the agency inherited the mandate and resources of its predecessor, the Health...
  
   replaces its categorization of homosexuality as a mental illness with the diagnosis of ego-dystonic homosexuality.

• Dr. Dean Hamer
  Dean Hamer
  Dr. Dean Hamer is an American geneticist, author, and filmmaker. He is known for his contributions to biotechnology and AIDS prevention, his research on the genetics of human behavior including sexual orientation and spirituality, and his popular books and documentaries on a wide range of...
  
   publishes a paper suggesting a genetic component to sexual orientation.

• Saquinavir
  Saquinavir
  Saquinavir is an antiretroviral drug used in HIV therapy. It falls in the protease inhibitor class. Two formulations have been marketed:*a hard-gel capsule formulation of the mesylate, with trade name Invirase, which requires combination with ritonavir to increase the saquinavir bioavailability;*a...
  
  , the first protease inhibitor
  Protease inhibitor
  Protease inhibitor can refer to:* Protease inhibitor : a class of medication that inhibits viral protease* Protease inhibitor : molecules that inhibit proteases...
  
   is approved for public use by the FDA
  Food and Drug Administration
  The Food and Drug Administration is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, one of the United States federal executive departments...
  
  . HAART radically changes the prognosis of HIV/AIDS.

• The US Department of Defense includes homosexuality in a list of "mental disorders," in a document known as "directive 1332.38: physical disability evaluation."

21st century

• The United States Department of Health and Human Services
  United States Department of Health and Human Services
  The United States Department of Health and Human Services is a Cabinet department of the United States government with the goal of protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services. Its motto is "Improving the health, safety, and well-being of America"...
  
   publishes Healthy People 2010
  Healthy People 2010
  Healthy People 2010 , started in January 2000 by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, is a nationwide health promotion and disease prevention plan to be achieved by the year 2010...
  
  , with the goals of increasing the quality and years of healthy life and eliminating health disparities in America. It identifies sexual orientation as one of 6 demographic factors contributing to health disparities.

• New York Medical College
  New York Medical College
  New York Medical College, aka New York Med or NYMC, is a private graduate health sciences university based in Westchester County, New York, a suburb of New York City and a part of the New York Metropolitan Area...
  
   revokes the charter of its LGBT medical student group after the applies to change its name from Student Help Organization to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender People in Medicine. School officials claimed “the organization and its leader would advocate and promote activities inconsistent with the values of NYMC.” In an interview with the Westchester Journal News, then AMA president Dr. John Nelson
  John Nelson (doctor)
  John Nelson is a physician who served as president of the American Medical Association.-Tenure as president:While president of the American Medical Association in 2005, he was quoted supporting New York Medical College's decision to ban a gay student group. The college is affiliated with New York's...
  
   says that as a private institution the college has the right to set and enforce its own policies. The AMA organization did not support the ban, and the organization released a statement claiming the president's views were not representative of AMA policy.

• The American Academy of Pediatrics
  American Academy of Pediatrics
  The American Academy of Pediatrics is the major professional association of pediatricians in the United States. The AAP was founded in 1930 by 35 pediatricians to address pediatric healthcare standards. It currently has 60,000 members in primary care and sub-specialist areas...
  
   publishes "Sexual orientation and adolescents", a report on the state of health of LGBT youth in the United States.

• American Medical Association
  American Medical Association
  The American Medical Association , founded in 1847 and incorporated in 1897, is the largest association of medical doctors and medical students in the United States.-Scope and operations:...
  
   president Edward Hill, MD becomes the first AMA president to address the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association in a speech entitled "Understanding, Advocacy, Leadership: The AMA Perspective on LGBT Health."

• Touro University
  Touro University
  Touro University is a division of Touro College. It may refer to:*Touro University California, a medical, pharmacy and physician assistant's school in Vallejo, California, USA....
  
  , a medical school in California, revokes the charter of its LGBT student organization
  Touro University Gay-Straight Alliance
  Touro University Gay-Straight Alliance is a group of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender medical students, staff, faculty and allies at Touro University, a Jewish-sponsored university in California founded by Bernard Lander...
  
  http://www.tugsa.net. After an outcry of protest from various groups, the school restores the group and school officials apologize.

• The American Medical Student Association membership votes to create an action committee on LGBT health issues and elects Brian Hurley
  Brian Hurley
  Brian Hurley, M.D., M.B.A. was elected in 2008 at the 58th AMSA Annual Convention, as National President of the American Medical Student Association . Dr. Hurley is a recent graduate of the Keck School of Medicine and Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California...
  
   to the office of national vice-president, the first LGBT person to hold the office.
• The US Food and Drug Administration
  Food and Drug Administration
  The Food and Drug Administration is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, one of the United States federal executive departments...
  
   re-affirms its policy prohibiting men who have sex with men
  Men who have sex with men
  Men who have sex with men are male persons who engage in sexual activity with members of the same sex, regardless of how they identify themselves; many men choose not to accept sexual identities of homosexual or bisexual...
  
   (MSM) from donating blood despite recommendations from the American Red Cross
  American Red Cross
  The American Red Cross , also known as the American National Red Cross, is a volunteer-led, humanitarian organization that provides emergency assistance, disaster relief and education inside the United States. It is the designated U.S...
  
  , and the American Association of Blood Banks.
• James Holsinger
  James W. Holsinger
  James Wilson Holsinger, Jr., is an American physician. A former major general in the U.S. Army Reserve , he has worked primarily in public health for over thirty years. He served as the Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health from 1990 to 1993, during the administrations of George H. W....
  
   is nominated by President George W. Bush
  George W. Bush
  George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
  
   to be US surgeon general. Because of Holsinger's alleged support of the ex-gay movement
  Ex-gay
  The ex-gay movement consists of people and organizations that seek to get people to refrain from entering or pursuing same-sex relationships, to eliminate homosexual desires, to develop heterosexual desires, or to enter into a heterosexual relationship...
  
  , his nomination drew sharp criticism from groups like the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association
  Gay and Lesbian Medical Association
  The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association works to ensure equality in health care for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals and health care professionals...
  
   and the Human Rights Campaign
  Human Rights Campaign
  The Human Rights Campaign is the United States' largest LGBT advocacy group and lobbying organization; according to the HRC, it has more than one million members and supporters...
  
  .

See also

• List of LGBT medical organizations
• Homosexuality and psychology
  Homosexuality and psychology
  Psychology was one of the first disciplines to study homosexuality as a discrete phenomenon. Prior to and throughout most of the 20th century, common standard psychology viewed homosexuality in terms of pathological models as a mental illness...
  
  

External links

• "The Lesbian and Gay Health Care Community and the AMA"