CURED Documentary Screening & Discussion

To celebrate Pride Week and reflect on the history of the LGBTQ community in the United States, please join us for a screening of CURED, a documentary illuminating the campaign that led the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to remove homosexuality from its manual of mental illnesses. Award-winning filmmaker Patrick Sammon will join and share his perspective.

This event is co-hosted & co-sponsored by Yale's Office of Diversity and Inclusion and also co-sponsored by the Office of LGBTQ Resources & the Yale LGBTQ Affinity Group. Food & beverages will be served to registered attendees. A Zoom link will be provided the day of to those who register to attend remotely.

About CURED:

Five years in the making, CURED illuminates a pivotal yet largely unknown chapter in the struggle for LGBTQ equality: the campaign that led the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to remove homosexuality from its manual of mental illnesses. Before this momentous 1973 decision, the medical establishment viewed every gay and lesbian person as diseased and in need of a cure. Business and government used the mental-illness classification to justify discrimination and bigotry. As long as lesbians and gay men were “sick,” progress toward equality was nearly impossible.

Incorporating a trove of newly unearthed archival material — much of it unseen for decades — CURED takes audiences inside this riveting narrative to chronicle the strategy and tactics that led to a crucial turning point in the movement for LGBTQ rights. Indeed, following the Stonewall rebellion of 1969, the battle that culminated in the APA’s decision marked the first major step on the path to first-class citizenship for LGBTQ Americans. CURED sheds new light on this victory — which was far from inevitable — while situating the APA story within the larger context of the modern movement for LGBTQ equality.

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