What was the process of homosexuality moving from categorization as a mental illness to its normalization?

by Kugelfang52

What led to its removal by the American Psychiatric Association from the DSM as a mental illness in 1987?

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There’s definitely more to be said, especially on the social history of why LGBT advocates came to protest the DSM, but I (somewhat briefly) discuss the removal of homosexuality from the DSM in context of an answer on the rise to prominence of the DSM and backlashes against it here.