Latter-day Sat lear Dall H. Oaks nied that Brigham Young Universy ed electroshock therapy on gays at the school when he was the print om 1971 to 1980. Individuals and rearch say otherwise.
Contents:
- WHEN GAYNS WAS A CRIME AND A MENTAL ILLNS: ONE MAN’S JOURNEY OM INVOLUNTARY CONFEMENT TO PRI
- DISGRACED EX-REP. AARON SCHOCK OUT AS GAY
- ANTI-GAY EX-CONGRSMAN AARON SCHOCK ALLEGEDLY FILMED PUTTG MONEY GO-GO BOY'S UNRWEAR
- DALL OAKS SAYS SHOCK THERAPY OF GAYS DIDN’T HAPPEN AT BYU WHILE HE WAS PRINT. RERDS SHOW OTHERWISE.
- THE MOST SHOCKG FACTS ABOUT GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
- SHOCK THE GAY AWAY: SECRETS OF EARLY GAY AVERSN THERAPY REVEALED (PHOTOS)
- MORMON 'GAY CURE' STUDY USED ELECTRIC SHOCKS AGAST HOMOSEXUAL FEELGS
- THE UNSPEAKABLE TORTURE OF GAY MEN AT THE HANDS OF THE MORMON CHURCH – (VIO)
- 'TORTURED WH ELECTRICY': CHECHEN GAY MEN REUNT DAYS OF ABE
WHEN GAYNS WAS A CRIME AND A MENTAL ILLNS: ONE MAN’S JOURNEY OM INVOLUNTARY CONFEMENT TO PRI
This is the story of Gene Ampon, a gay California teen who was arrted the '60s and sent to a psychiatric hospal to be "cured" of his homosexualy -- and the movement to pri and rilience that helped save him. * gay shock *
Edors’ note: This story tak back to an era before the rights of gay people were regnized as herent to their humany and right to privacy. It was the early 1960s, and across the untry, state laws and psychiatric diagnos had nverged to create a grim era for LGBTQ people – pecially gay men.
And bee “homosexualy” was nsired a psychiatric disorr, judg uld m them to Atasro – sometim before their crimal s had been adjudited – for evaluatn and fe treatment.
DISGRACED EX-REP. AARON SCHOCK OUT AS GAY
AN NBA veteran and one-time 20-pot-per-game srer is now officially a ee Gay is available for any team to sign after beg waived by t * gay shock *
His story is part of a dark history when gay men, and even teens, were nfed by the state and subjected to treatments that today would be nsired torture.
As most bleak chapters of history, there are pots of light – hero who rejected the notn of “homosexualy” as a mental illns, and galvanized a movement that brought about radil change.
His hope openly sharg his experience, he said, was that “movg forward, ” the untry and world would have more “enlightened attus towards alg wh gay people, pecially young gay people. Soon, Ampon was lyg about where he was spendg the night to hang out wh other gay teens – and hook up wh men for a place to sleep and a ee meal.
ANTI-GAY EX-CONGRSMAN AARON SCHOCK ALLEGEDLY FILMED PUTTG MONEY GO-GO BOY'S UNRWEAR
Schock, who has nied equent mors about his sexualy, voted agast marriage equaly and liftg the ban on gays the ary. * gay shock *
He was there for “treatment, ” bee “homosexualy” had been listed the DSM – the Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs – sce the first edn was published by the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn (APA) 1952. “Homosexualy” was listed the DSM – the Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs – begng wh the first edn, published by the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn 1952.
DALL OAKS SAYS SHOCK THERAPY OF GAYS DIDN’T HAPPEN AT BYU WHILE HE WAS PRINT. RERDS SHOW OTHERWISE.
* gay shock *
If you were gay 1962, when Ampon got to the hospal, you’d be diagnosed wh “psychopathic personaly disorr wh pathologic sexualy.
Although some of the “treatments” for homosexualy that Jackson scribed had been disntued or were unsubstantiated, many others would today be nsired torture. A young psychiatrist who blew the whistle on humane treatments at the hospal wrote that “masturbatn, hallucatns, pe attempts, [B]lack ance, lyg, homosexualy, lazs and mental retardatn” were all ed as jtifitn for this so-lled treatment. Atasro State Hospal psychiatrist Michael Serber, who helped reform the hospal’s culture and phed for dignified treatment of gay patients, pos wh rearch assistant Cldia Keh.
“We looked at the sourc of gay opprsn, and we kd of nailed them as the mental health dtry, the church and the state, ” said Don Kilhefner, 84. Trans women had stood up to police a rt at Gene Compton’s Cafeteria San Francis’s Tenrlo 1966 and a raid of gay patrons at the Black Cat Tavern Los Angel the followg year triggered s own uprisg.
THE MOST SHOCKG FACTS ABOUT GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
The ntroversial mpaign of Mike Pence has brought gay nversn therapy back to the headl. Here's a b of s horrible history. * gay shock *
But the spe and timg of Stonewall spread the fire across the untry, lnchg a natnwi -your-face kd of gay activism that replaced the quiet assiatnism that had domated the precedg s. ” In orr to get gay people out om unr the thumb of beg pathologized, and get “homosexualy” out of the DSM, the radil gay muny would need to engage those people power.
Even before the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn agreed that beg gay was not a sickns, Atasro’s Michael Serber was llaboratg wh Don Kilhefner.
Instead, he wanted to help gay patients fd muny, a stronger sense of self, and, as he wrote, “aid adjtg to a society which is predomantly heterosexual and is still generally hostile towards homosexuals. Don Kilhefner, now 84, is a Los Angel-based Jungian psychologist, self-scribed gay tribal elr and advote for jtice and joy on behalf of LGBTQ people. He would play a signifint role batg anti-gay bias the mental health field and brgg need servic to LGBTQ people g out of nfement.
SHOCK THE GAY AWAY: SECRETS OF EARLY GAY AVERSN THERAPY REVEALED (PHOTOS)
After the Hawks acquired Gay, they moved him to OKC as part of a al for sharpshooter Patty Mills, which saved Atlanta over four ln dollars p space. “I am gay, ” wrote the 38-year-old ex-Illois pol who rigned om Congrs five years ago amid claims he mised ernment and mpaign funds, wh feral charg only dropped last year.
When he was fally ready to nfi his fay last Easter, photographs that emerged of him shirtls wh other men at the Coachella ftival “ma clear” that he was gay, he wrote. “I n live openly now as a gay man bee of the extraordary, brave people who had the urage to fight for our rights when I did not, ” he wrote.
MORMON 'GAY CURE' STUDY USED ELECTRIC SHOCKS AGAST HOMOSEXUAL FEELGS
Schock fally me out after beg photographed hangg out wh other gay men around the world, shovg his hands down a male stripper’s pants Mexi, and makg out wh men at mic ftivals. Schock was a reliably anti-gay vote for Republins, spe the para of young men who vised his DC apartment, and his outg by journalist Itay Hod 2014.
THE UNSPEAKABLE TORTURE OF GAY MEN AT THE HANDS OF THE MORMON CHURCH – (VIO)
Former Republin Congrsman Aaron Schock, who rigned amid a fancial sndal 2015, was reportedly spotted at a gay club Mexi Cy last image of a man alleged to be the 38-year-old ex-polician was taken at Boy Bar, a popular gay bar Mexi Cy's famed Zona Rosa, on Saturday around midnight. )Schock went off the grid after steppg down—reportedly travelg to Machu Picchu wh his father—but he rurfaced 2016, when he moved to the popular gay neighborhood of Wt Hollywood L. Constutn to ny rights to addrs was hailed by some as a step toward empathy by Oaks, a top lear The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats, a former Utah Supreme Court jtice and a former Brigham Young Universy, durg a qutn-and-answer ssn earlier that day at the law school — a vio of which has been circulatg on social media — the first unselor the fah’s erng First Princy refed to discs the impact of the church’s past mistreatment of s LGBTQ tegorilly nied that BYU had ed electroshock therapi on gay stunts durg his tenure om 1971 to 1980.
”Acrdg to rearcher Gregory Prce and others, that statement is monstrably his 2019 book, “Gay Rights and the Mormon Church: Intend Actns, Untend Consequenc, ” Prce c “universy-approved” rearch 1976 by then-BYU graduate stunt Max McBri wh 14 gay subjects. “A gradual crease of voltage upon repeated aroals was to serve as a negative feedback stimul that would, acrdg to the hypothis, ‘reorient’ him om homosexual to heterosexual, wherpon photographs of nu femal were supposed to elic sexual aroal. ”Two weeks after the “treatments, ” subjects offered their self-evaluatns and said they were “signifintly ls homosexual than heterosexual, ” McBri nclud.
'TORTURED WH ELECTRICY': CHECHEN GAY MEN REUNT DAYS OF ABE
Look no further than Old Hollywood actor Rock Hudson, whose homosexualy remaed a tightly guard secret durg the height of his fame. However, the Tony and Emmy-nomated gay actor has also played Victor Strand on several seasons of "Fear the Walkg Dead, " and appeared films like "If Beale Street Could Talk, " "Selma, " and "Zola.
" He discsed g out as gay 2014, after enterg a civil partnership wh poser Mark Bradshaw, llg public reactns "surprisgly lovely. Ma history as the first openly gay player to play a Canadian Football League regular-season game, playg for the Montreal Alouett. Gay actor Matt Bomer won a Goln Globe for playg a closeted journalist the TV film adaptatn of Larry Kramer's AIDS epimic-foced play "The Normal Heart.