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Letter to the Committee on Nomenclature of the American Psychiatric Association from the Ad Hoc Committee of Mental Health Practitioners in NYC

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Correspondence 

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2279p x 3000p

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Ingested into the TFI Digital Archive through a partnership between The Feminist Institute and Addresses Project, 2022.

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Courtesy of Lee Zevy.

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In Copyright

This ephemera is from the Addresses Project which investigates lesbian and queer space and memory in New York City from the early 1900s to the present day through map-making, oral history interviews, ephemera and portraiture.  All ephemera were digitized and collected by Gwen Shockey. 

This is the second page of a letter sent to the Committee on Nomenclature of the American Psychiatric Association from the Ad Hoc Committee of Mental Health Practitioners in NYC, conceded by Gay Activist Alliance of New York. The intention of this letter was to have homosexuality removed from the list of Mental Disorders.

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