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'Cured': Film Review

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Many documentaries have explored battles for gay liberation: There have been films about Stonewall, AIDS activism and the struggle for marriage equality.

But Cured, which received its (virtual) premiere at this year’s Outfest, finds a fairly fresh slant that scintillates. In addition to facing widespread public bigotry, the gay liberation movement was inhibited by an unusual enemy, the American Psychiatric Association, which had long declared homosexuality to be a mental illness.

It was not until the 1970s that a newly energized minority strove to change this diagnosis in order to ease the transition of gays and lesbians into the mainstream.

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