Until 1973, doctors tomatilly classified every gay man and lbian as mentally ill. CURED tells the David-vers-Goliath story of the activists who challenged this diagnosis — and won.
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 *
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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. 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.
UPG PBS DOC “CURED” ABOUT GAY LIBERATN OM PSYCHIATRY…AND MUCH MORE
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… * cured gay *
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. 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.
GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS
But the first half of the film terviews and archive film and TV to illtrate more generally the prsur of growg up gay 1950s and 60s 1952 the APA's manual had fed beg gay as a "socpathic personaly disturbance".
A HALF-CENTURY OF CONFLICT OVER ATTEMPTS TO 'CURE' GAY PEOPLE
)Sger says the post-World War Two perd appears retrospect pecially homophobic the US and source, BFI FLAREImage ptn, Disguised as "Dr H Anonymo", Dr John Fryer shocked the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn's 1972 nventn by hidg his inty to talk about beg a gay psychiatrist"My sense is that there was a new ph toward nformy after the war - a return to normal polil life and social life. "Image source, BFI FLAREImage ptn, Magora Kennedy (right) on the David Sskd show 1971 argug agast his assertn that beg gay was a "mental aberratn"Sger says 's also a matter of how the lg damaged profoundly the picture LGBT people had of themselv and of whether they were valued society. Magora Kennedy, now 82 and scribed as the "gayt great grandmother the gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr muny", scrib beg forced to marry a man at 14 for fear of beg stutnalised agast her will.