Chapter Summary<\/summary>\nThis chapter explores the intersection between psychology and LGBTQIA+ activism, tracing the contested terrain of sexual and gender diversity through a critical historical and conceptual lens. Beginning with the legacy of psychological pathologisation and the erasure of queer lives, it examines how activists, scholars, and community movements resisted normative frameworks and challenged the authority of psychology to define \u2018normal\u2019 sexuality and gender. Key moments such as the removal of homosexuality from the DSM, the emergence of trans and intersex activism, and the impact of queer theory are examined alongside pivotal figures such as Evelyn Hooker and Celia Kitzinger. The chapter introduces \u2018activism\u2019 and \u2018queer theory\u2019 as its critical thinking tools, foregrounding the ways in which both political resistance and conceptual disruption have reshaped psychological knowledge. Ontologically, it explores how categories such as \u2018homosexual\u2019 have been historically constructed and contested, while epistemologically it challenges assumptions about objectivity, neutrality, and scientific authority. The chapter closes by reflecting on how contemporary psychology can learn from activist strategies and decolonial perspectives to build more inclusive, pluralistic, and reflexive frameworks. It invites students to see psychology as a site of struggle, ethics, social justice, and possibility.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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