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Main Author:	Fryer, John 1937-2003 (Creator)
Collection:	John Fryer Papers
Collection Number:	3465
Format:	Manuscript
Language:	English
Subjects:	Mead, Margaret > 1901-1978. Persichetti, Vincent > 1915-1987. Saunders, Cicely M. > Dame. Spitzer, Robert L. American Psychiatric Association Association of Gay & Lesbian Psychiatrists Friends Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.) Norristown State Hospital (Norristown, Pa.) Temple University. Dept. of Psychiatry Temple University. School of Medicine Temple University Transylvania College Vanderbilt University. School of Medicine Will Menninger Center for Applied Behavioral Sciences AIDS (Disease). Alcoholism. Bereavement. Choral music. Church music. Community mental health services. Comorbidity. Death and dying > 20th century. Death and mourning > 20th century. Death > Psychological aspects. Drug addiction > Psychological aspects. Drug addiction > Treatment. Episcopal Church. Diocese of Pennsylvania. Gay rights > United States. Gays > United States. Gender identity > Psychological aspects. Health > Religious aspects. Homophobia > United States. Homosexuality > United States. Hospice care > Psychological aspects. Medicine. Mental health services > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia. Mental illness. Psychiatry. Religion. Sex differences > Psychological aspects. Sex differentiation disorders. Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.).
Online Access:	Link to finding aid

Physical Description:	76.0 Linear feet ; 219 boxes; 36 volumes; 10 flat files
Summary:	John Fryer was a groundbreaking gay psychiatrist best-known for his appearance in full disguise at the 1972 American Psychiatric Association (APA) convention. His speech at the convention is credited with convincing the APA to remove homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 1973. As a psychiatrist Fryer worked largely with gay men, lesbians, people who abused drug and alcohol, and those who were coping with death. He was also a professor at Temple University School of Medicine, and organist and choirmaster at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Germantown. The John Fryer collection consists of his personal and professional papers from 1876 to 2003 and is divided into five series: General files, Patient records (restricted to researchers until 2078), Photographs and audio-visual materials, Printed matter, and Miscellaneous papers.

Physical Description:

76.0 Linear feet ; 219 boxes; 36 volumes; 10 flat files

Summary:

John Fryer was a groundbreaking gay psychiatrist best-known for his appearance in full disguise at the 1972 American Psychiatric Association (APA) convention. His speech at the convention is credited with convincing the APA to remove homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 1973. As a psychiatrist Fryer worked largely with gay men, lesbians, people who abused drug and alcohol, and those who were coping with death. He was also a professor at Temple University School of Medicine, and organist and choirmaster at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Germantown. The John Fryer collection consists of his personal and professional papers from 1876 to 2003 and is divided into five series: General files, Patient records (restricted to researchers until 2078), Photographs and audio-visual materials, Printed matter, and Miscellaneous papers.

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