Homosexuality was labeled an illness in the 50s. Now psychoanalysts are apologizing. I think they were right in the 50s and are wrong now! The notion that homosexuality could be treated was popularized among psychoanalysts in the 1950s upon release of Edmund Burgler's text Homosexual: Disease or Way of Life? in 1957.  https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/06/21/american-psychoanalytic-association-sorry-homosexuality-illness/1521876001/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=usatodaycomnation-topstories