PRIVATE:
​Preliminary Program Highlights
(In Development)
May 22 - June 28

OPENING DAY / May 22 (Harvey Milk Day):  Harvey Milk Program (45th Anniversary of Harvey Milk LA Speech and Assassination)
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• FEATURE ​FILMS: Weekly Wednesday Movie Nights featuring ​Queer + Religion Documentary Series (LIVE from Founders MCC)
  View Program Here
  May 24: 1946 May 31: "The Radical"  (Theme: Islam)
  June 7: "The Therapy"  (Theme: Conversion Therapy)
  June 14: "Wonderfully Made" 
  June 21: "Mama Bears" (Theme: Mothers of LGBTQ+ Youth)
  ​June 28 (Stonewall Day):  "God Loves Uganda" - Ten Years Later
  
  
• FEATURE FILM: Documentary: "CURED" & Q&A with Bennett Singer & Patrick Sammon
• FEATURE FILM: Documentary: "The Legend of Connie Norman" & Q&A with Dante Alencantre
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• IN FOCUS: QUEER FILMMAKERS:  Scottie-Jeanette Madden, "Proud in a Pandemic" (Featuring TED Talk: "What Would My Father Say?")

 

• IN FOCUS: AFRICA: Feature Documentary: "I Am Samuel" (Kenya)
• IN FOCUS: AFRICA: LGBT Voice Tanzania
• IN FOCUS: AFRICA: LIVE from Namibia (Reports from Equal Namibia with Omar van Reenan)  (LIVE)
  
  
• IN FOCUS: QUEER HISTORY:  TV Review: "The Book of Queer" (With Zoya Fedos / Riverwood International School, Atlanta)
• IN FOCUS: QUEER HISTORY:  UCLA Library Film & TV Archive / Outfest UCLA Legacy Project: "See the Bigger Picture" (On Demand)
  
  

• SHORTS WATCH PARTY: OUR PRIDE Youth Official Selections View Some Entries Here (LIVE & On Demand)
• SHORTS WATCH PARTY: Jackson Brink Director's Showcase & Watch Parties  View Here
• SHORTS WATCH PARTY: All American High School Top Shorts (With All American High School Film Festival (LIVE & On Demand)
  
  
• WeHo PRIDE LIVE: LIVE FEEDS from artists and programs in the WeHo Pride Arts Festival (LIVE)
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• WORKSHOP: "Writing Artivist Scripts" (Presented by John Broadway & Artivists United)  (LIVE)
• WORKSHOP: "Equitable / Justice-Based Film Production" (Presented by John Broadway & Artivists United)  (LIVE)
  
  
• ART GALLERY: Art Share LA Gallery
• ART GALLERY: "Wonderfully Made" Gallery with Yuval David
• ART GALLERY: Project Contrast Gallery with Maxwell Poth
  
  
• BOOKS: Young Queer America / Maxwell Poth - Project Contrast
• BOOKS: Rainbow Book Bus with Eric Cervini
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• DRAG STORYTIME: Weekly Readings from the Banned Book Club (LIVE)​


• POETRY: Short Film "Folded Whispers" and Q&A with Mark Anthony Thomas

 

• POWER OF SONG: Sweden's Rainbow Riots & New Rainbows Uganda & India

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• IMMERSIVE STORYTELLING: "Shoulders Back, Held High" & "Making of..." with MDB/UK

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• MILESTONE SPECIAL: 45th Anniversary / Rainbow Flag: Threads of the Rainbow View Here
• MILESTONE SPECIAL: 75th Anniversary / Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• MILESTONE SPECIAL: 90th Anniversary / 1933 Germany Book Burning and prelude to the Holocaust with Yuval David
  
  
• STONEWALL DAY (June 28): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rjyRPnRsqw
• AWARDS: Troy Perry Awards (LIVE)
• AWARDS: Youth Short Film Awards (LIVE)

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CLOSING DAY: ​​Special Africa Program featuring African Queer Youth Initiative & Tribute to Kenyan Activist Edwin Chiloba

FEATURE DOCUMENTARY and Q&A

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.

Join us in the theater for a special screening of CURED, followed by Q&A with the Director/Producers, Bennett Singer & Patrick Sammon.

Cured Website