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Independent Lens Season 23 Episode 1
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.
Serie: Independent Lens
Episode Title: Cured
Air Date: 2021-10-11
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