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Immigration and Homosexuality
Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness.
Sigmund Freud
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Boutilier
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Immigration and Naturalization Service
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Immigration and Homosexuality
Justice Clark Opinion
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May 22, 1967
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Excerpt:
The petitioner, an alien, has been ordered deported to Canada as one
who upon entry into this country was a homosexual and therefore
"afflicted with psychopathic personality."
... To label a group so large "excludable aliens" would be tantamount to saying that Sappho, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Andre Gide, and perhaps even Shakespeare, were they to come to life again, would be deemed unfit to visit our shores. (3) Indeed, so broad a definition might well comprise more than a few members of legislative bodies.
Footnote 3: Sigmund Freud wrote in 1935:
"Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness; we consider it to be a variation of the sexual function produced by a certain arrest of sexual development. Many highly respectable individuals of ancient and modern times have been homosexuals, several of the greatest men among them (Plato, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, etc.). It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too. If you do not believe me, read the books of Havelock Ellis." Ruitenbeek, THE PROBLEM OF HOMOSEXUALITY IN MODERN SOCIETY (1963).
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