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''Main article: [[Zapping the Shrinks]]''

''Main article: [[Zapping the Shrinks]]''

1979 president of the [[APA|American Psychological Association]] Nicholas Cummings claimed that the [[Gay activism|homosexual "rights" movement]] "sort of captured the APA". The same development has occurred in the American Psychiatric Association and this capture can be regarded as the fulfillment of long-term strategy of so called ''gay liberation movement'' whose representative, activist [[Frank Kameny]], as early as in 1960's declared that their presence at APA conferences ''"was only the beginning of an increasingly intensive campaign by [[homosexual]]s to change the approach of [[psychiatry]] toward homosexuality or, failing that, to discredit psychiatry."'' This process can be considered as completed by appointing Saul Levin, "the first openly gay person to lead a major medical specialty society", as the CEO of American Psychiatric Association in October 2013.<ref>{{cite web |title=APA CEO and Medical Director Saul Levin Honored During LGBT History Month |publisher=American Psychiatric Association |date=19 Oct 2018 |url=https://www.psychiatry.org/newsroom/news-releases/apa-ceo-and-medical-director-saul-levin-honored-during-lgbt-history-month |accessdate=4 Nov 2018}}</ref> LGBT+ pressure group now considers Levin to be a "LGBT" icon.<ref>{{cite web |title=2018 Icons: Saul Levin |publisher= Eqality forum |url=https://lgbthistorymonth.com/saul-levin |accessdate=4 Nov 2018}}</ref>   

1979 president of the [[APA|American Psychological Association]] Nicholas Cummings claimed that the [[Gay activism|homosexual "rights" movement]] "sort of captured the APA". The same development has occurred in the American Psychiatric Association and this capture can be regarded as the fulfillment of long-term strategy of so-called ''gay liberation movement'' whose representative, activist [[Frank Kameny]], as early as in 1960's declared that their presence at APA conferences ''"was only the beginning of an increasingly intensive campaign by [[homosexual]]s to change the approach of [[psychiatry]] toward homosexuality or, failing that, to discredit psychiatry."'' This process can be considered as completed by appointing Saul Levin, "the first openly gay person to lead a major medical specialty society", as the CEO of American Psychiatric Association in October 2013.<ref>{{cite web |title=APA CEO and Medical Director Saul Levin Honored During LGBT History Month |publisher=American Psychiatric Association |date=19 Oct 2018 |url=https://www.psychiatry.org/newsroom/news-releases/apa-ceo-and-medical-director-saul-levin-honored-during-lgbt-history-month |accessdate=4 Nov 2018}}</ref> LGBT+ pressure group now considers Levin to be a "LGBT" icon.<ref>{{cite web |title=2018 Icons: Saul Levin |publisher= Eqality forum |url=https://lgbthistorymonth.com/saul-levin |accessdate=4 Nov 2018}}</ref>   

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