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The watershed event in the American gay rights movement was the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City.

Following this event, gays and lesbians began adopting the militant protest tactics used by anti-war and black power radicals to confront anti-gay ideology.

Another major turning point was the 1973 decision by the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from the official list of mental disorders.

Although gay radicals used pressure to force the decision, Kaiser notes that this had been an issue of some debate for many years in the psychiatric community, and that one of the chief obstacles to normalizing homosexuality was that therapists were profiting from offering dubious, unproven " cures ".