An interview with E. Gerald Dabbs, MD

ABSTRACT

In this continuation of JGLMH's Oral History Series, Dr. Jack Drescher, editor emeritus, interviews E. Gerald Dabbs, MD. Dr. Dabbs was in private practice of psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry in Manhattan from 1969–2016. He has been on the faculty of Weill Cornell Medicine (formerly Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University) from 1969 to the present, and is currently Emeritus Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry. He was an Attending at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Cornell from 1969–2016. He is a founding member of AGLP and Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists of New York (GLPNY). He is a co-founder and Past President of the Lesbian and Gay Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Association (LAGCAPA). He served as Chair of the Homosexual Issues Committee of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP).

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1. Irving Bieber and Charles Socarides were psychoanalysts who opposed the removal of homosexuality from the DSM-II. See Bayer, R. (1987). Homosexuality and American psychiatry: The politics of diagnosis. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

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Dr. E. Gerald Dabbs (left) and his husband, Dr. John Vincent Abbott Jr. (right).