Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifty years ago, the nation's psychiatrists effectively put gay people's mental health — and their very place in society — to a ...

WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney pushed back against a report that he had bullied a closeted gay classmate in prep school by insisting that the student's sexuality wasn't a factor because Romney couldn't ...

The GAY COMMUNITY: 1960s was a time when gay people had no name for themselves. The word “homosexual,” originating in the 19th century, was foisted upon them. The term “Gay” was not yet commonly used ...

In the 1950s and 1960s, many therapists offered aversion therapy of the kind featured in A Clockwork Orange to "cure" male homosexuality. This typically involved showing patients pictures of naked men ...

A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. Over the years, Pew Research Center has asked Americans about the morality of ...