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LOS ANGELES - JAN 12: Steven Canals arrives for the 25th Annual Critics' Choice Awards on January 12, 2020 in Santa Monica, CA (Image: DFree/Shutterstock.com)
The series, titled 81 Words, shares a story and title with Alix Spiegel's episode of This American Life Gay activists fought against psychiatric boards and the institution to keep gay people from being outcast and unduly subjected to life in mental hospitals and sanatoriums They didn't achieve their goal until the mid-1970s Mind you, this[...]