The long process of rolling back those practices could begin.
When referred to psychiatrists, gay people would no longer be sent to be “cured” - injected with hormones, subjected to aversion therapy or pored over by analysts - but instead told that, from the point of view of science, there was nothing intrinsically wrong with them.ĭr. Fryer, who died in 2003 at the age of 65, stood out for his size (he was 6-foot-4 and 300 pounds), for his flashing intelligence, and for the fact that he was obviously gay.īetty Lollis, a friend from Winchester, Ky., recalled him as the round-faced boy who was led into her second-grade class, dressed by his mother in a sailor suit. He was a prodigy, she said, and also “just a boy the boys laughed at or teased.”ĭecades later, Ms.
