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Dear students, Please see this event happening on Wednesday! -- LaToya E. Eaves, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Geography Department of Geography and Sustainability<https://geography.utk.edu/> University of Tennessee, Knoxville Article Forum Editor, Dialogues in Human Geography<https://journals.sagepub.com/home/dhg> Research Fellow<https://www.tourismreset.com/latoya-e-eaves>, Tourism RESET [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> She/her "To be recognized as human, levelly human, is enough." The Combahee River Collective (1977) From: Johnson, Bonnie <[log in to unmask]> Date: Monday, April 10, 2023 at 8:51 AM Subject: Please share with your students: CURED documentary screening and panel this Wed Hi there, I wanted to share a flyer and blurb with you about the Pride Center’s upcoming event this Wednesday. CURED (2020) Screening and Panel Discussion Join the Pride Center for a screening of the new documentary CURED followed by a discussion of the film from a panel of UT experts: * Dr. Patrick Grzanka, Women, Gender, and Sexuality * Dr. Kirsten Gonzalez, Psychology * Kertesha Riley, Clinical Mental Health Counseling 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. Happening Wednesday, April 12 at 4:00pm to 6:00pm at the Frieson Black Cultural Center, Multipurpose Room Thank you! Sending my best to all. Bonnie Johnson Pronouns: she/they Director The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Pride Center 1502 Cumberland Ave Suite 373 Knoxville, TN 37996 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> 865-974-3450 pridecenter.utk.edu Bear the Torch: Donate to the Pride Center<http://journey.utk.edu/pridecenter> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To review the archives of CLUBGGY or Join/Leave the list go to: http://listserv.utk.edu/archives/clubggy.html