Cured
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When homosexuality was considered a mental illness to be "cured," renegade LGBTQ+ activists fought a powerful psychiatry establishment that had things dangerously backwards.

Episode Duration: 56 minutes and 46 seconds

Episode Number: 2301

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Sun, Nov 3 10:00 P.M. One with the Whale     NH World (11.3)
Mon, Nov 4 2:00 A.M. One with the Whale     NH World (11.3)
Mon, Nov 4 10:00 A.M. One with the Whale     NH World (11.3)
Mon, Nov 4 7:00 P.M. Home from School: The Children of Carlisle     NH World (11.3)
Tue, Nov 5 12:00 A.M. Home from School: The Children of Carlisle     NH World (11.3)
Tue, Nov 5 8:00 A.M. Home from School: The Children of Carlisle     NH World (11.3)
Sun, Nov 10 4:00 A.M. Home from School: The Children of Carlisle     NH World (11.3)
Mon, Nov 11 10:00 P.M. Make Peace Or Die: Honor The Fallen     NHPBS (11.1)
Tue, Nov 12 12:00 P.M. Make Peace Or Die: Honor The Fallen     NH Explore (11.2)
Wed, Nov 13 3:00 A.M. Make Peace Or Die: Honor The Fallen     NHPBS (11.1)
Wed, Nov 13 8:30 P.M. Make Peace Or Die: Honor The Fallen     NH World (11.3)
Thu, Nov 14 1:30 A.M. Make Peace Or Die: Honor The Fallen     NH World (11.3)
Thu, Nov 14 9:30 A.M. Make Peace Or Die: Honor The Fallen     NH World (11.3)
Thu, Nov 14 7:00 P.M. Scenes from the Glittering World     NH World (11.3)
Fri, Nov 15 2:00 A.M. Scenes from the Glittering World     NH World (11.3)
Fri, Nov 15 10:00 A.M. Scenes from the Glittering World     NH World (11.3)


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