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Cured: How mental illness was used as a tool against LGBT rights – BBC News

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Cured: How mental illness was used as a tool against LGBT rights – BBC News

A police officer was filmed by station WTVJ in South Florida addressing school students in 1966 about the dangers of being near gay people. “They can be anywhere,” he tells them. “They can be policemen, they can be schoolteachers. And if we catch you with a homosexual, your parents are going to know about it first…”