Born and raised in Philadelphia, Perloff was drafted into the United States Army and fought in the Philippines during World War II.
"The APA is too politically correct...and too obeisant to special interests"[4] He referred the removal of homosexuality from DSM-III by APA as the willingness of many psychologists to trample patients rights to treatment in the interest of political correctness and added that making such choice unethical would deprive a patient of a treatment of choice because the threat of sanctions would eliminate any psychologist who engaged in such treatment.
[5] In 2004, Perloff was the keynote speaker at the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality's Annual Conference.
In support of the mission statement of NARTH, he concluded, "The individual's right for self-determination of sexuality -- or sexual autonomy -- is, I am happy to see, inherent in NARTH's position statement: 'NARTH respects each client's dignity, autonomy, and free agency...every individual has the right to claim a gay identity, or to develop their heterosexual potential.
[7] Perloff died of heart failure on April 15, 2013, at UPMC Magee Women's Hospital.