Published Tuesday, September 24th, 2024
Dr. Ron Holt ’89 will serve as master of ceremonies for the free screening of “Cured” at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 2, in the Gardner Hall auditorium on campus.
The public is invited to free screening of the movie “Cured” at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 2, in the Gardner Business Hall’s auditorium on the Wayne State College campus. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., and the film runs approximately 80 minutes.
This award-winning documentary highlighted a pivotal but little-known moment in LGBTQ history. Heralded as “one of the best documentaries of this or any year” by the British Film Institute, “Cured” takes viewers inside the David-versus-Goliath battle that led the American Psychiatric Association to remove the diagnosis of homosexuality from its manual of mental illnesses in 1973.
Dr. Ron Holt, a 1989 graduate of Wayne State, will serve as master of ceremonies for the evening, and the film’s Emmy-nominated co-director, Bennett Singer, will be available via video conference for a Q&A session following the screening.
The film documentary is sponsored by Wayne State’s Psychology and Sociology Department, PRIDE (People Respecting Individuals, Diversity, and Equality) Club, and the Psychology and Sociology Club.
About Dr. Ron Holt ‘89
Since 2017, Holt and his husband, Dr. William Huggett, a 1986 graduate of Wayne State, have created and published PRIDE and several coloring books to help reduce stress among the LGBTQ community and healthcare students.
Holt has received several awards for his community service, including Wayne State’s 2004 Alumni Service Award, the 2012 Alumni Achievement Award, the 2017 President’s Diversity Award, and the 2019 School of Natural and Social Sciences Outstanding Alumni Award. He began his first annual scholarship when he was a senior at Wayne State. He has endowed numerous scholarships and serves as a Wayne State Foundation Trustee.
In 2022, he was elevated to Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and graduated from San Francisco State University (SFSU) with a master of arts degree in Human Sexuality Studies. Holt currently practices as a student health psychiatrist at SFSU.