moving!” The refurbishment of New York Mattachine also hinged on a reexamination of the sickness theory, with the old guard wanting to take no stand on the matter or actually believing homosexuality to be an illness, and the new guard wanting to adopt a statement similar to the one framed by Mattachine of Washington: “In the absence of valid evidence to the contrary, homosexuality is not a sickness, disturbance, or other pathology in any sense, but is merely a preference, orientation, or propensity, on par with and not different in kind from heterosexuality.”
