by denying admission to individuals who were found to be “mentally defective” or who had a “constitutional psychopathic inferiority,” which the then Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) interpreted to include gays and lesbians, in accordance to a U.S. The Immigration Act of 1917 excluded gay and lesbian individuals from immigrating into the U.S. immigration law has discriminated against gays and lesbians, who have only been able to lawfully immigrate to the United States for the last 25 years.
