Editor
Steve Heffner
Archival Producers
Mridu Chandra
& Lewanne Jones
Music By
Ian Honeyman
Director Of Photography
Sam Henriques
Executive Producers
Sally Jo Fifer
Lois Vossen
Andrew Tobias
Executive Producers
Cole Rucker
Jeff Nalin
Mel Heifetz
A Film by
Patrick Sammon & Bennett Singer
Produced, Directed & Written by
Bennett Singer
Patrick Sammon
Co-Producers
Mridu Chandra
Julianne Donofrio
Joel Greenblatt
Assaf Mor
Christopher Racster
Ted Snowdon & Duffy Violante
Assistant Editor
Jennifer Stamps
Motion Graphics & Design By
David L Byrd
Sound Recordists
John Murphy
Gary Black
John D’Aquino
Dudley Houlden
Blas Kisic
Robert Madey
John O'Connor
David Rainey
Neil Riha
Fred Runner
Eric Soma
Additional Camera
Wolfgang Held
Andy Jackson
Loch Phillipps
Diana Wilmar
Additional Graphics
Steve Heffner
Sound Editor & Re-Recording Mixer
Evan Benjamin
DI Colorist / Post Finishing Editor
Evan Anthony, CSI
Post Production Picture Services provided by
Goldcrest Post Productions
Supervising Producer
Michael Ehrenzweig
Consulting Producers
Tamara Gould
Jannet Nuñez
Noland Walker
Melissa Wylie
Consulting Editors
Lillian Benson, ACE
Toby Shimin
Additional Editing & Creative Consultant
David Deschamps
Editing Consultant
David Scorca
Impact Producer
Julie Sandler
Legal Services
Prash Naik
Nicole Page
Karen Shatzkin
Bookkeeping Services
Michelle Jacoby
Graphic Design
Rachel Smith
Creative Consultant
Mathew Shurka
Research Assistants
Jackie Clary
Marija Rakovic
Production Assistant
Katia Czartorysky
Production Interns
MacKenna Connor
Charles Mallison
Advisory Board
Dr. Chris Babits * Professor Ronald Bayer * Dr. Eric Cervini * Dr. Jack Drescher * Dr. Lillian Faderman
Pate Felts * Charles Francis * Dr. Nishani Frazier * Professor Dagmar Herzog * Professor Nadine Hubbs
Professor Regina Kunzel * Eric Marcus * Vernon Rosario, MD, PhD * Professor Susan Stryker
Additional Consultants
Tracy Baim * Dr. Mary Barber * David Carter (1954–2020) * Professor Jerry Davison *
Dr. Max Fink * Professor Anne Harrington * Professor Emeritus Gregory Herek
Jonathan Ned Katz * Paul Kuntzler * Professor Liz Lunbeck * Dr. Katherine Ott
Professor Jonathan Sadowsky * Professor Randall Sell * Professor Jennifer Terry
Music Score Produced By
Ian Honeyman
Music Score Recorded By
TJ Callaway
Music Score Recorded At
Luminous Sound
Music Score Mixed By
Scott Smith
Music Score Performed By
Spektral Quartet
Violin:
Maeve Feinberg
Violin:
Clara Lyon
Viola:
Doyle Armbrust
Cello:
Russell Rolen
Piano:
Daniel Schlosberg
Vocals:
Angela Parrish
Drums:
Jerry Roe
ARCHIVAL MATERIALS
American Psychiatric Association Foundation, Melvin Sabshin, M.D. Library and Archives
Full Exposure Films, LLC – Josh Howard * Fred W. McDarrah / Getty Images * Grey Villet / Getty Images The John Fryer Papers – Historical Society of Pennsylvania * Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C
Kay Tobin, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
ONE Archives at the USC Libraries * Sally Duplaix Interview, JEB (Joan E. Biren) Papers, Smith College McGovern Historical Center, Texas Medical Center Library * John J. Wilcox, Jr. Archives
“Before Stonewall,” produced by Robert Rosenberg, Greta Schiller & John Scagliotti, After Stonewall, Inc. “Changing Our Minds,” directed by Richard Schmiechen, Frameline
“‘Gay is Good’ … Or Is It?,” CBS 60 Minutes, 1973
“Some of Your Best Friends,” directed by Ken Robinson, Frameline
“The Homosexuals,” CBS Reports, 1967 * “The Rejected,” WNET / KQED, 1961
“The Second Largest Minority,” directed & produced by Lilli Vincenz
“Women Who Love Women,” The David Susskind Show, Historic Films, 1971
Interviews with Rick Stokes and Whitey from “Word Is Out,” courtesy of the Mariposa Film Group,
San Francisco Public Library and Milestone Film & Video
ADDITIONAL MATERIALS
ABC News * CBC Licensing * CBS NEWS / Veritone * Rodney-Young Productions, Columbia Pictures Television * CriticalPast * eFootage, LLC * F.I.L.M. Archives, Inc. * Getty Images * KCET * KDKA Radio
* The Kinsey Institute * “Boston – Harbor/City/Islands, 1969,” produced by Derek Lamb & Lawrence Rosenblum; Executive Producer Stanley Jacks — MIT * MTM Enterprises * NBC News Archives * NBCUniversal * NPR * Oddball Films * Audio-Visual Services, Penn State University * Pond5 * “Gay San Francisco,” directed by Jonathan Raymond, Sherpix Inc. * Shutterstock * Jones Film Collection, Southern Methodist University, footage donated by KERA * UCLA Film & Television Archive * The Peabody Awards Collection, University of Georgia Libraries * Archives and Special Collections, University of Louisville * WAMU-American University Radio * WBEZ’s “This American Life” * WGBH Media Library and Archives * Miami Dade College’s Wolfson Archives * The WPA Film Library
Bruno Barbey, Magnum Photos * Mother Boats C.P. * Diana Davies, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library * Harry Eberlin * Anthony Friedkin * Zach Gibson/The New York Times/Redux * Max Halberstadt * Bettye Lane * Joan McCullough, Majority Report * Peter A. McGovern
* Andrea Mohin/The New York Times/Redux * Larry Morris/The New York Times/Redux * B. Proud and the First Comes Love Project * Craig Satterfield * Lee Snider * Weaver Tripp, Tampa Bay Times * Nancy Tucker, Lesbian Herstory Archives
ClassicStock / Alamy Stock Photo * Associated Press * Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library * Dallas Municipal Archives, City of Dallas * Getty Images * Harvard Yearbook Publications * Lesbian Herstory Archives * The LGBT Community Center National History Archive * Library of Congress, Manuscript Division — Frank Kameny Papers and Lilli Vincenz Papers * Massachusetts Psychiatric Society * Mediscene * National LGBTQ Task Force * New York Daily News Archive / Getty Images * New York State Psychiatric Institute * Reuters * Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution * Gay Activists Alliance * Gay Liberation Front * Grune & Stratton * Hill and Wang, Inc. * International Journal of Psychiatry * Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology * Journal of Homosexuality * Journal of Projective Techniques * W. B. Saunders Co.
Gary Alinder * Dr. Bob Belmaker * Dr. Robert Campbell (1926–2020) * Ronald Gold (1930–2017)
* Ruth & Bill Goldman * Dr. Richard Green (1936–2019) * Dr. Lawrence Hartmann * Rev. Magora Kennedy * Dr. Richard C. Pillard * Dr. Kent Ravenscroft * Dr. Charles Silverstein * Richard Socarides
SONGS
“Hey Hey Hey 1”
Written by Eric Starczan (SACEM)
Published by MYMA APM (ASCAP)
“Ooh, Dr. Kinsey”
Performed by Martha Raye
Courtesy of Cleopatra Records
By arrangement with The Orchard
Composed by Phil Moore
Published by Ajax Music
“Time Stood Still”
Written by Al Lowe (ASCAP) and Jef Scott (BMI)
Published by Just Right Publishing (ASCAP) and This Is Justin Music (BMI)
Courtesy of Spirit Production Music
“The Other Side of the Rainbow”
Written by Ian Honeyman & Tucker Murray Caploe
Performed by TUCKER
Produced by Ian Honeyman
Background Vocals by Tiffany Palmer and Carlos Ricketts
Vocals produced in association with C Side Inc.
“Time For The Revolution - Vocal Mix 1”
Written by Jacob King (PRS), Anthony Risley (PRS), and Phil Saatchi (PRS)
Published by Lemoncake APM (ASCAP)
Special Thanks
Jeremy Blacklow
Tim Collins
Dr. Mary Coté
Rob Epstein
Dr. Omar Fattal
Charles Francis
Kathy Fryer Helmbock (1932–2020)
Deena Gorland
Josh Howard
Independent Filmmaker Project
Kevin Jennings
Fred Karger
Andrew Lane
McDermott Will & Emery
Shannon Minter
Heming Nelson
Jenni Olson
SAGE
Veronica Selver
Aaron Tidman
Fiscal Sponsors
Mattachine Society of Washington, DC
Center for Independent Documentary
Production Support Provided by
Lynne Tennenbaum
Matthew Cook
Funding Provided By
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
AARP
Gilead Sciences, Inc.
The Better Angels Society
William Thibaut
Leonard Olds & Hugh Rouse
David Sarama
Frank Monteleone
Gioia Ambrette
Tom Wahl, Jr
Marc Baum
Jeff & Tony Cook-McCormac
Dr. James Hall
Joel Hastings
Renata Pompa
And others. A complete list available from PBS.
Original Series Funding Provided by
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Acton Family Giving
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Wyncote Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
CURED is a co-production of STORY CENTER FILMS, LLC, SINGER & DESCHAMPS PRODUCTIONS, INC., and INDEPENDENT TELEVISION SERVICE (ITVS), with funding provided by the CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING (CPB).
This program was produced by Story Center Films, LLC and Singer & Deschamps Productions, Inc., which are solely responsible for its content.
©2020 Story Center Films, LLC and Singer & Deschamps Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Cured
Premiered October 11, 2021
Directed by
Patrick Sammon and Bennett Singer
When homosexuality was considered a mental illness to be “cured," LGBTQ+ activists fought back.
EXPLORE THE FILM
About the Documentary
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.
The Filmmakers
Bennett Singer has been making social-issue documentaries for more than 25 years. He co-directed Electoral Dysfunction (PBS) and Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin (PBS’s POV) and won a duPont-Columbia Award for his work on Eyes on the Prize II (PBS). He is the former executive editor of TIME Magazine’s education program.
Patrick Sammon, the president of Story Center Films in Washington, D.C., was creator and executive producer of Codebreaker, a “superb” (The Telegraph) and “imaginative” (Sunday Times) drama-documentary that "artfully explored" (The Mail) the life of gay British codebreaker Alan Turing. The film attracted more than 3 million viewers.
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Awards
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Frameline Film Festival
Audience Award - Best Documentary Feature
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NewFest: New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival
Audience Award - Best Documentary Feature
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American Historical Association
2021 John E. O’Connor Film Award
