Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker (1992)

Name: Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker
Director: Richard Schmiechen
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1992-01-01
Duration: 1 h 17 min
Cast: Patrick Stewart

English 1h 17m

Documentary

Directed by Richard Schmiechen Starring Patrick Stewart

Release Date 01 Jan 1992

About Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker Movie

Released in 1992, Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker is a Documentary Movie in English. Direction is by Richard Schmiechen. The life and work of the woman described as "The Rosa Parks of Gay Rights". During the repressive 1950's, Dr. Evelyn Hooker undertook ground breaking research that led to a radical discovery: homosexuals were not, by definition, "sick." Dr. Hooker's finding sent shock waves through the psychiatric community and culminated in a major victory for gay rights - in 1974 the weight of her studies, along with gay activism, forced the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from its official manual of mental disorders. Startling archival footage of the medical procedure used to "cure" homosexuality, images from the underground gay world of the McCarthy era and home movies of literary icon Christopher Isherwood bring to life history which we must never forget. Narrated by Patrick Stewart.