The Biltmore Invasion and Queer Activism

Weathers is a pioneering queer activist who has fought for LGBTQ+ rights for over five decades. Her most notable achievement was organizing the 1970 “Biltmore Invasion” where activists stormed the American Psychiatric Association’s convention to protest electroshock therapy as a “cure” for homosexuality, helping end the classification of homosexuality as a mental illness in 1973.