Today's radio program is about something small like that, that was at the epicenter of massive social change in our country for a brief moment.
The first act explains that in 1973, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) declared that homosexuality was not a disease, by changing the 81-word definition of sexual deviance in its own reference manual.
The story begins with a recording of John P. Spiegel interviewing himself in which he talks about how he has been asked to travel to Ireland to work with a gay activist who is trying to change the Irish constitution.
The second act of the radio program explains the history of homosexuality in psychological terms and gives the conclusion to the story.
At the same time that Dr. Spiegel is working in Ireland, a few gay activists began to make protests to try to get the designation of homosexuality changed.
The story continues to talk about the group of gay activists that worked inside of the APA, that had a large part to do with the changing of the 81 word definition.