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[–]Q-Continuum-kin 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

When homosexuality was considered a mental illness, there was a dramatically different way which society treated the mentally ill. They had insane asylums where people would get basically locked up for life for the crime of not being normal enough. If a morally conservative group managed to convince the public that the deviant gays were "insane" then they could gain standing to just remove us completely from society.

Once you were inside, they could do all kinds of crazy stuff to you like performing a lobotomy.

[–]Kai_Decadence[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's another good point. The way society viewed mental illness pre 1980s was a different time where anyone who wasn't normal by mainstream societal standards were to be locked away and have crazy experiments done on them.