Cured! A Sunday Edition Advocacy Special Event

January 12, 2026

CURED: A Sunday Edition Special Advocacy Event

Sunday Edition presents a powerful and timely broadcast centered on history, activism, and the urgent work still before us.

This special episode begins with a screening of the audio described version of the documentary CURED, which chronicles the pivotal moment when LGBTQ activists successfully challenged the psychiatric establishment and forced the removal of homosexuality from the American Psychiatric Association’s list of mental illnesses. Achieved through strategy, courage, and relentless advocacy, this victory marked one of the earliest and most consequential steps toward equality for the LGBTQIA plus community.

For listeners who would like to watch the full 80 minute version of CURED in advance of this conversation, the filmmakers have generously made it available to the Sunday Edition community for a limited time. To request the advance screening link, please email [email protected].

While CURED focuses on the removal of homosexuality from the DSM, the lessons embedded in this history extend far beyond one community. This is a story of how marginalized people organize, challenge institutional power, and create lasting change. The advocacy strategies highlighted in the film offer clear examples of how hearts and minds are shifted, how laws and policies are influenced, and how guidance rooted in bias can be dismantled. These lessons resonate deeply across the LGBTQIA plus community, the disability community, and all communities that continue to face marginalization.

Following the screening, Sunday Edition transitions into a live roundtable discussion exploring a critical question: how do we borrow from the past to protect and shape our future.

Joining the conversation are the filmmakers behind CURED, along with event coordinator Jeremy Grandstaff, whose work in organizational change and advocacy brings essential perspective. Additional surprise panelists will also join, offering deeply personal insight into both the film’s themes and the current moment our communities are navigating.

Together, the panel examines historical lessons and how they apply to today’s backlash, bias, and renewed attacks on LGBTQIA plus and disabled communities. The discussion explores prejudice then and now, the power of collective action, and how past victories can be revisited, remixed, and reactivated for the advocacy demands of today.

During the second hour of Sunday Edition, the conversation opens to the audience. Listener voices, lived experiences, and perspectives are central to this dialogue. This is not simply a retrospective, it is a living conversation, a tribute to those who fought before us, and a call to action for what comes next.

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We invite you to join us for this important history, urgent conversation, and shared moment of reflection and action.

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