Scasta, D. I., John E. Fryer, MD and the Dr. H. Anonymous Episode , Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy, Vol. 6, no. 4, 2002, pp. 73-84 Recounts Fryer’s anonymous appearance on stage, at the 1972 American Psychiatric Association session on psychiatry and mental illness, to announce his homosexuality. (He spoke anonymously – as he explained later – through fear of being refused tenure at his university.)