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Before the removal of homosexuality from the manual, those in the psychiatric establishment believed that homosexuality could be “cured” by electroconvulsive therapy, castration, or even lobotomies.

Monday, Oct. 11, 2021 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / On Demand. When homosexuality was considered a mental illness to be "cured," renegade LGBTQ+ activists fought a powerful psychiatry establishment that had things dangerously backwards.

New art exhibits, big-time musicals, dragtastic club shows, and sonorous classical concerts await you all over the Bay Area.

Bruce Levine spoke with the filmmakers of a documentary about gay activists' defeat of the APA about their inclusion of a pro-ECT message.

US Olympic Trials Wave I: Reid Mikuta Swims 1:01 100 Breast; Will Jackson, Humberto Najera Lead Prelims Top Seeds in Omaha, Nebraska

Co-director Bennett Singer talks with PopMatters about the early gay rights documentary, ‘Cured’, and the cruelty of todays conversion therapy.

ARTS 42nd Street Moon The musical theater company presents Jason Graae in Perfect Hermany: A Musical Tribute to Jerry Herman, Also Featuring: Jacqueline De Muro, Kelley Dorney, Lauren Louise, and Lauren McGraw; thru May 2. https://42ndstmoon.org/moonbeams/ A.C.T. Out Loud Arms and the Man (on-demand thru April 18); Thornton Wilders The Matchmaker April 26, 6pm (on-demand thru May 2). $5-$50. https://www.act-sf.org/ Ballet22 PointeA2B, and the companys Spring Gala April 23-25. $20-$250. https:/...

Cured, a documentary screening online April 22-28 as part of aGLIFF’s Queer Spectrum series, covers a particularly prescient if sometimes overlooked tale from the LGBTQIA history books: the 1973 activist campaign to remove homosexuality from the American Psychiatric Association’s list of mental illnesses. Demonstrators gathered in Albany, New York, in 1971 to demand gay rights and to declare that "Homo Is Healthy." (Credit: Richard C. Wandel Photographs, The LGBT Community Ce...

Human/ID by StratoFyzika, and Creatives in Place Online storytelling listening project and virtual gallery for a variety of Bay Area artists and activists participating in mid-pandemic work. creativesinplace.org Different Stars Musical show with a current theme: How do these emotions collide during time spent alone in quarantine? When James opens a box of artifacts from his first breakup, after months of self-isolation during COVID-19, he reckons with memories that haunt him of a first queer l...

BFI Flare: the simply brilliant queer films to watch from this year’s festival Naomi May There may have been a clutch of cultural casualties that have resulted from the pandemic, but BFI Flare, the UK’s leading celebration of queer cinema, refused to be one of them. Following on from its successful virtual festival last year, the eleven-day showcase of LGBTQ+ cinema is brimming with wonderfully raw, touching and celebratory queer stories, all which will soon be available to ...