Timeline of sexual orientation and medicine

A timeline of sexual orientation and medicine is a way of looking back in history to see how the medical industry and general ideas of sexual orientation have changed over time. This is important to understanding how people's views of sexuality and gender identity have changed and how different treatments used to deal with sexual orientation have developed.

Basically, in the past (before the 1990s), there were many different theories about what sexual orientation was and how it should be treated. There were some people who thought that being LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) wasn’t natural and that certain treatments were necessary to 'cure' it. This could include things like shock therapy, castration, and even surgeries. These treatments were often painful and didn't work, but they were seen as normal medical practices at the time.

In the 1990s, more research was done into the causes of sexual orientation, and doctors began to realize that being LGBTQ isn’t something that needs to be corrected or changed. Instead, LGBTQ people should be accepted as they are and should have access to the same medical treatments as everyone else. This change in attitudes has been slowly happening since then, but there is still a lot of stigma around being LGBTQ, and LGBTQ people still face discrimination.