CURED – the devastating documentary for which we recorded the soundtrack – is slated to air on PBS this October 11th, which is, not coincidentally, National Coming Out Day!
For those that missed our private screening of the film this spring, we strongly encourage you to add it to your queue as soon as it goes live. We are honored to have played a small role in the retelling of this pivotal moment in our country’s history by way of composer Ian Honeyman’s stirring score.
L to R: Doyle Armbrust, Russell Rolen, Maeve Feinberg, Daniel Schlosberg (piano), Clara Lyon, Ian Honeyman (composer)
We’d love to hear your reactions after viewing CURED, so drop us a line at hello@spektralquartet.com and tell us what you think!
ABOUT CURED
Five years in the making, CURED illuminates a pivotal yet largely unknown chapter in the struggle for LGBTQ equality: the campaign that led the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to remove homosexuality from its manual of mental illnesses. Before this momentous 1973 decision, the medical establishment viewed every gay and lesbian person as diseased and in need of a cure. Business and government used the mental-illness classification to justify discrimination and bigotry. As long as lesbians and gay men were “sick,” progress toward equality was nearly impossible.
Incorporating a trove of newly unearthed archival material — much of it unseen for decades — CURED takes audiences inside this riveting narrative to chronicle the strategy and tactics that led to a crucial turning point in the movement for LGBTQ rights. Indeed, following the Stonewall rebellion of 1969, the battle that culminated in the APA’s decision marked the first major step on the path to first-class citizenship for LGBTQ Americans. CURED sheds new light on this victory — which was far from inevitable — while situating the APA story within the larger context of the modern movement for LGBTQ equality.
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