The PBS documentary “Cured” details gay activists’ yearslong battle to get the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from its list of mental disorders. - NBCOUT
That 1973 decision was “a momentous turning point in the movement for LGBT equality,” according to producer and director Bennett Singer, who teamed up with Patrick Sammon to make “Cured.”
For decades prior to that shift, LGBTQ people were subjected to painful and traumatizing practices — including electroconvulsive therapy and shock therapy — in efforts to “alter” their sexual orientations. More extreme measures included castrations and lobotomies. Doctors and other perpetrators of these practices often justified the procedures based on the APA’s characterization of homosexuality as a mental illness.
Kennedy also felt betrayed by fellow activists who didn’t recognize the compounded discrimination she faced as a Black lesbian, she said.
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