Patrick Sammon and Bent Sger's rivetg feature documentary Cured, which opens the fall season of PBS' Inpennt Lens on Monday October 11th, exam the fascatg chapter queer history that saw gay liberatn activists succsfully overturn the US psychiatric profsn's classifitn of homosexualy as a mental illns. Usg archive photographs and vio footage, recently disvered…
Contents:
- HOW STONEWALL CURED GAY PEOPLE — OF PSYCHIATRISTS
- UPG PBS DOC “CURED” ABOUT GAY LIBERATN OM PSYCHIATRY…AND MUCH MORE
- GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS
- A HALF-CENTURY OF CONFLICT OVER ATTEMPTS TO 'CURE' GAY PEOPLE
HOW STONEWALL CURED GAY PEOPLE — OF PSYCHIATRISTS
A new film rells the fight to overturn the US labellg of gay people as havg a mental illns. * cured gay *
Current treatment only works on cells that are actively producg new viral pi, NBC News the IAS nference, scientists will hear about post-treatment ntrol of HIV fant boys, the impact of circumcisn on HIV risk gay men and the relatnship between HIV and mpox, NBC News rmatnThe U. The Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs, or DSM, which the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn pil as a gui to diagnosis and treatment of illns, listed homosexualy as a "socpathic personaly disturbance” the DSM-I, published 1952, and as a “sexual viatn” the DSM-II, published 1968 (see Further Readg). Heath scribed his homosexualy experiment two papers published 1972: “Septal Stimulatn for the Iniatn of Heterosexual Behavr a Homosexual Male, ” -wrten wh Charl Moan, Journal of Behavr Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry; and "Pleasure and Bra Activy Man, " Journal of Nervo and Mental Disease.
UPG PBS DOC “CURED” ABOUT GAY LIBERATN OM PSYCHIATRY…AND MUCH MORE
* cured gay *
For the prev three years, Heath wrote, B-19 had “led the life of a vagrant, experimentg wh dgs, engagg numero homosexual relatnships and beg supported fancially by his homosexual partners. The latter quot Edmund Bergler, a proment psychoanalyst, sayg his 1956 book Homosexualy: Disease or Way of Life: “I have no bias agast homosexuals; for me they are sick people requirg medil help...
Image source, BFI FLAREImage ptn, Demonstrators gathered Albany, New York, 1971 to mand gay rightsUntil 1973 the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn fed beg gay as havg a mental illns.
GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS
The film archive you see the documentary Cured isn't a total surprise: beg gay was illegal the US when most of the programm and public service announcements featured were ma. Image source, BFI FLAREImage ptn, Kay Lahen (centre) helped wh the foundg of the origal Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) 1970"The average homosexual, if there be such, is promiscuo.
A HALF-CENTURY OF CONFLICT OVER ATTEMPTS TO 'CURE' GAY PEOPLE
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