Fryer threw a rock into a flawed medical system that treated gay people as if they were mentally sick. Flyer in Mask)Īt Stonewall gay people in protest threw rocks at the police that were enforcing a corrupt system that denied their freedom to gather peacefully in a bar. Even in a mask, this was an act of bravery that could have cost him position as a college professor and end the work he was doing to benefit gay people.
John Fryer, a psychiatrist, donned a mask and announced to an annual meeting of psychiatrists that he was a gay psychiatrist and that gay people were not mentally ill, and the only psychiatric support they needed was caused by an uninformed religious society.
