Monday, Oct. 11, 2021 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / On Demand. When homosexuality was considered a mental illness to be "cured," renegade LGBTQ+ activists fought a powerful psychiatry establishment that had things dangerously backwards.
Cured, a documentary screening online April 22-28 as part of
aGLIFF’s
Queer Spectrum series, covers a particularly prescient if sometimes overlooked tale from the LGBTQIA history books: the 1973 activist campaign to remove homosexuality from the
American Psychiatric Association’s list of mental illnesses. Demonstrators gathered in Albany, New York, in 1971 to demand gay rights and to declare that Homo Is Healthy. (Credit: Richard C. Wandel Photographs, The LGBT Community Center National History Archive)
Focusing on this specific moment in queer history started from a reverential place for the film’s co-director
Bennett Singer, who said that after his directing partner