Stonewall Uprising, one important stop often gets omitted from the story. Prior to 1973, the American Psychological Association classified homosexuality as a mental disorder.
Doctors and psychiatrists, therefore, focused on “treating” or “curing” the ailment, often employing various methods of torture on their patients.
Needless to say, these attempts to cure patients never worked and did more harm than good.Cured, the new film by directors/activists Patrick Sammon & Bennett Singer which plays Outfest August 24-30, recounts the story of how a group of brave activists banded together in the early 1970s to lobby the APA to remove homosexuality-as-illness from the DSM, the handbook for mental health professionals.