Judd Marmor papers 1943-1998

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Judd Marmor papers 1943-1998

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Correspondence, journal articles, drafts,speeches, notes, legal papers, and subject files created by Los Angelespsychiatrist Judd Marmor (1910-2003), a leader in the successful movement toremove homosexuality from the American Psychiatric Association's , in the course of his research on homosexuality.Materials include several handwritten letters from Evelyn Hooker, as well aslegal affidavits, testimony, and other materials documenting Marmor's role asan expert witness on behalf of gay plaintiffs--most often to counter thetestimony of Charles W. Socarides, Paul Cameron, and Harold M. Voth--in severallegal cases, most importantly Baker v. Wade in Texas, and Evans v. Romer inColorado. The collection also includes several photographs of Marmor, togetherwith leading activists Barbara Gittings and Frank Kameny, and masked gaypsychiatrist "Dr. H. Anonymous" at the May 1972 annual convention of theAmerican Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

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Hooker, Evelyn Caldwell

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Evelyn Gentry was born on Sept. 2, 1907 in North Platte, NE, and grew up near Sterling, CO; awarded bachelor's and master's degrees in psychology from Univ. of CO; Ph. D in psychology, Johns Hopkins Univ.; joined psychology faculty at UCLA University Extension in 1939; after her marriage to Donn Caldwell, she married UCLA English professor Edward Niles Hooker in 1951; in 1954 she received a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) for a comparative study of the pathology of homo...

Socarides, Charles W., 1922-2005

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Cameron, Paul (Paul M.)

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Marmor, Judd.

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Biography Judd Marmor was born in London, England, in 1910, the son of a Yiddish scholar. He grew up in Chicago, and later moved to New York, where he supported himself through Columbia College with odd jobs and debating scholarships. He earned his medical degree from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1933, and went into private psychiatric practice in New York. In 1946, after serving in the Navy during World War II, he moved to ...