Cured: New Film Documents Fight to Declassify Homosexuality as Mental Illness

Screen capture from “Cured” trailer

The first trailer has just been released for Cured, a documentary which chronicles the fight to declassify homosexuality as a mental illness and the LGBTQ activists who fought the battle. The film, directed by Patrick Sammon (Codebreaker) and Bennett Singer (Brother Outsider), is not yet set for wide release, but will premiere at this year’s Outfest film festival on August 24.

The film’s synopsis: “In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its manual of mental illnesses. Treated as victims of a mental disorder — pathological, deviant, ‘sick’ — gay and lesbian men and women could not progress towards equality in a meaningful way if their very existence was something that needed a cure. Follow the journey of this pivotal moment in queer history through newly unearthed archival footage and eyewitness accounts from the activists and allies who fought to change an insidious bias within a profession, and…

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