Removal of homosexuality from the DSM was a key moment in the gay rights movement.
#LAST SUMMER AT BLUEFISH COVE MANUAL#
This entertaining and informative docudrama tells the story of the struggle to get the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to remove homosexuality as a mental illness from its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Written and directed by Dahn Hiuni, Sick had its world premiere on June 9 at the Broadwater Theater Mainstage as part of the 2023 Hollywood Fringe Festival. Curiously, both are set in the earliest flush of the gay and lesbian liberation movement of the early 1970s: The evolution into the more expansive LGBTQI+ would come later. These questions, consciously articulated or not, are elegantly, eloquently expressed in the two plays we saw on Sunday, June 18-the historical one as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival, the other a historic summer offering at the Fountain Theatre. Just maybe, the answer lies in all of the above, at different times and places, and often simultaneously with an inside/outside approach. So what do you do when you are part of an “outcast” group-whether we are talking about living in the America of the 1970s or 2023?ĭo you create an enclave to live within, or a place to retreat to, where you can safely be yourself and commune with like-minded people? Or do you work for acceptance within the larger society and push for social change? And if you decide on the latter, do you agitate from within the system or from outside of those institutions? What is the most effective strategy to achieve fundamental, lasting change? And what keeps you sane? We are talking high stakes here, sometimes life and death. There are fundamental, existential consequences for a person to own the right to express their authenticity, to be themselves. This respect takes form in concrete ways, such as certain rights: to walk the streets without fear, to an equal wage, and to participate fully in community.
LOS ANGELES-Underlying all identity politics is the right to live life authentically, unharmed and respected in the broader society. The cast of ‘Last Summer at Bluefish Cove’ (Frank Ishman)
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