ABSTRACT
This chapter describes how the new lesbian and gay-affirmative psychology views shifted from margin to center both through sustained organizing about lesbian and gay 'issues', 'concerns', and 'psychology', and through the responses of psychologists to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. The Task Force on the States of Lesbian and Gay Male Psychologists continued its work into the late 1970s, and in 1980, the APA Council of Representatives created the Committee on Gay Concerns (COGC) as an ongoing structure within Board of Social and Ethical Responsibility in Psychology (BSERP). The emerging views of the COGC were reported in a special feature of American Psychologist in 1991. In its introduction, Stephen Morin and Esther Rothblum, honored that year by Division 44 for her Distinguished Scientific Contribution, described '15 years of progress' since the APA's initial 1975 resolution on homosexuality.
