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RIP Nice Dr. Green

Dr. Richard Green, one of the earliest and most vocal critics of psychiatry’s classification of homosexuality as a mental disorder, died on April 6 at his home in London. He was 82.

The cause was esophageal cancer, his son, Adam Hines-Green, said.

Dr. Green, who was also a forceful advocate for gay and transgender rights in a series of landmark discrimination trials, became aware of the marginalization of people because of their sexual and gender identities while training to be a doctor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, a leader in the study of sexuality.

In 1972, shortly after completing his specialty in psychiatry, he defied the advice of colleagues and wrote a paper in The International Journal of Psychiatry questioning “the premise that homosexuality is a disease or a homosexual is inferior.”

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by Anonymousreply 6April 24, 2019 12:10 AM

I didn't know anything about him and thank you OP for posting. Much respect and gratitude.

by Anonymousreply 1April 22, 2019 9:55 PM

Takes balls to make a stand like that.

How come we didn't hear about him sooner?

by Anonymousreply 2April 22, 2019 10:11 PM

We knew that the APA stopped calling us mental, but I guess it stopped there, and we didn't learn who stood up for us.

by Anonymousreply 3April 22, 2019 11:16 PM

The obituary is very well written. I can imagine his story to be made into film.

by Anonymousreply 4April 23, 2019 9:18 AM

A life spent defending the oppressed against the oppressors, trying to bring rationality to unenlightened thinking. What a noble use of his intellect.

Courageous and selfless. What an example of a life well-lived.

by Anonymousreply 5April 23, 2019 10:25 AM

Bump

by Anonymousreply 6April 24, 2019 12:10 AM
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