In the 1980s, the campaign for homosexual rights received government support as Mel Boozer, an openly gay running vice-presidency, gave a Democratic National Convention speech at the same time Scotland legalized male to male sexual behaviors. On 1981, the World Health Organization (WHO) removed homosexuality as a mental illness. bullet In July, the Centers for Disease Control reported that 26 cases of a very rare form of cancer, Kaposi's Sarcoma, was found in young gay men. This was later recognized as being due to the presence of AIDS.