GLSEN - Upstate New York

We are SO excited to be offering a free screening of the award-winning documentary CURED on Saturday, April 26th starting at 4:00PM!

CURED beautifully highlights the heroes behind a crucial moment in LGBTQIA+ history and the fight for equality.
Join us in learning about this powerful moment and be inspired by the history of the LGBTQIA+ communities' fierce activism as we move forward towards a more safe, equitable, and inclusive future for all- especially our young people.

This is a free screening followed by a community discussion with CURED's Co-Director, Patrick Sammon. Refreshments will be provided.
Registration for this event is required: www.tinyurl.com/glsenpresentscured

About CURED:
CURED illuminates a pivotal yet largely unknown chapter in the struggle for LGBTQIA+ equality: the campaign that led the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to remove the diagnosis of homosexuality from its manual of mental illnesses. Before this momentous 1973 decision, the medical establishment viewed every LGBTQIA+ person as mentally unwell and in need of a cure.
While CURED is indisputably about science, medicine, politics, and the process of social change, this film, at its core, is about a group of extraordinary activists with stubborn dedication and big personalities who came together at a crossroads in LGBTQIA+ history. These heroes’ passion for justice — and their belief that they, and not psychiatrists, were the experts on their own lives — propels the story and forms the backbone of CURED.

It is a true honor that our chapter was recognized with the 2023 Human Rights Award from the Albany Commission on Human Rights alongside such incredible individuals and organizations.
We accept this honor as recognition for our over quarter century legacy of working to actualize our mission.

Beyond that, we accept this as a fierce and LOUD call to action. We are renewed by this acknowledgment and will continue to RISE UP for LGBTQIA+ youth.