This is a microscope’s view of a pinch of the stuff on every beach.

Potentilla

Excerpt from Beyond Homophobia—by Gregory Herek
Sept 21, 2015.

https://herek.net/blog/is-homophobia-a-mental-illness/

As I discussed in a previous post, the mental health establishment classified homosexuality as an illness until 1973. That year, the American Psychiatric Association removed it from their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). The American Psychological Association soon followed suit.

The classification had always reflected value judgments and assumptions about homosexuality. There never was an empirical basis for it.

Another important event roughly coincided with the DSM change. In 1972, against the backdrop of a growing national gay rights movement, a new book was published, Society and the Healthy Homosexual. Its author, psychologist George Weinberg, began his first chapter with a provocative statement:

“I would never consider a patient healthy unless he had overcome his prejudice against homosexuality…. Even if he is heterosexual, his repugnance at homosexuality is certain to be harmful to him.”

A few pages later, Weinberg introduced a term he had coined during the late 1960s: homophobia, which he defined as heterosexuals’ “dread of being in close quarters with homosexuals” and homosexuals’ “self-loathing.”

When you look left and it’s all uphill and a 14 degree climb…your partner says,
“Please, let’s camp here tonight?”

Michael Kenna

Simone Monte - Brazilian on the Beach

Sunset Cliffs Arizona.

Sedona Arizona

Tokyo, Japan 🇯🇵

Fucked up your life, by hurting others
🔥 baby 🔥

Blessed and highly favored

Loves to go to the park

Trois jeunes femmes à la terrasse d'un café.
Été 1929. Paris

📸 Piergiorgio Branzi

Senigallia, Italia (1957)

Only one airship ever docked at the Empire State Building and that feat was accomplished by the Goodyear blimp "Columbia", 1931.

The Heist…

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