The answer at the core of it is not just the rejection of being invisible but the demand to be seen as a whole. The question of pride for many LGBTQIS people of color is a complicated question. Involuntary procedures ranging from aversion therapies, castration, electro-shock treatments, and even lobotomies. They varied from incarceration, compulsory commitment to mental institutions. Little understood at the time the treatments were painful and cruel by our standards today. Many disagreed and thought that it was a mental disorder. Freud’s wasn’t the only opinion of the subject. But he was firm on that he didn’t believe it could be cured and that all people are born bisexual. However, because society did not see it that way at the time he amended his view to say that having these sexual impulses did create other divergent concerns in the mental landscape.
A founding father of psychology, Sigmund Freud thought it was a natural variation in human sexuality and did not see a need for the condition to be treated in itself. However, it was one of the first scientific disciplines to study homosexuality as a distinct phenomenon. Psychology was still being established as a science in late the 1800s and as such still in it’s infancy.
