Independent Lens

Season 23, Episode 1

Episode Title: Cured

Air Date: 2021-10-11

Overview:

When doctors classified homosexuality as a mental illness to be “cured,” they employed cruel treatments like electroshock and lobotomies. LGBTQ+ activists and their allies fought back — and won a momentous victory when the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its manual of mental disorders in 1973.