Samuel Brton strik yet once aga: now he says he is an ‘ex-gay’ | Exgay Callg

Contents:

• MY SO-CALLED EX-GAY LIFE
• EXGAY CALLG
• WHY ARE HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS SO AAID OF “EX-GAYS”?
• MILO YIANNOPOULOS SAYS HE IS ‘EX-GAY,’ WANTS TO REHABILATE ‘NVERSN THERAPY’
• EX-GAY
• FOUNR OF ‘EX-GAY’ FREEDOM MARCH JEFEY MCCALL ADMS TO SLEEPG WH MEN

MY SO-CALLED EX-GAY LIFE

Joseph Nilosi, a clil psychologist California who was then print of the Natnal Associatn for Rearch and Therapy of Homosexualy (NARTH), the untry's largt anizatn for practners of ex-gay therapy. My mother might not have so easily found rmatn about ex-gay therapy had the Christian right not planted this stake the culture ad appeared 23 years after the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn (APA) classified homosexualy as a mental illns.

A small group of therapists ntued to practice talk therapy that enuraged patients to see homosexualy as a velopmental disorr, but they remaed on the ge until the Christian right took up their e. Foc on the Fay lled s new ex-gay mistry Love Won Out and talked about healg and rg for ex-gay movement turned the rhetoric of gay rights agast self: Shouldn't ex-gays be able to pursue therapy and live the liv they want whout facg discrimatn?

Together wh the late Charl Soris, a psychiatrist who led the opposn to classifyg homosexualy as a mental illns, Nilosi formed NARTH 1992 as a "scientific anizatn that offers hope to those who stggle wh unwanted homosexualy.

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Nilosi remas NARTH's most visible are no reliable statistics for how many patients have received ex-gay treatment or how many therapists practice , but the late 1990s and early 2000s, ex-gay therapy enjoyed a legimacy hadn't sce the APA removed homosexualy om s diagnostic manual. Whether or not the Christian right's alliance wh the ex-gay movement had nstuted a D-Day the culture wars, had succsfully challenged the prevailg ia that the bt choice for gay people was to accept themselv. I read one of Nilosi's books, Reparative Therapy of Male Homosexualy, that he tri to posn himself as a supportive father figure, typifyg the sort of relatnship that he believ his patients never had wh their own father.

What translated to the larger culture was: The father of the 1973 revolutn the classifitn and treatment of homosexualy, who uld not be seen as jt another biased ex-gay csar wh an agenda, had validated ex-gay therapy.

Richard Cohen, the founr of PFOX (Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays)-tend as the ex-gay unterpart to PFLAG (Parents, Fai, and Friends of Lbians and Gays)-was expelled om the Amerin Counselg Associatn for ethics vlatns. Among them were Alan Downg, the lead therapist of JONAH (Jews Offerg New Alternativ to Homosexualy), who ma his patients strip and touch themselv ont of a mirror; NARTH member Christopher At, who was nvicted of "unlawfully, tentnally and knowgly [g] peratn of" a client; and Exod-affiliated Mike Jon, who asked a patient to take off his shirt and do ph-ups for movement also suffered several high-profile fectns. But the sprg of my sophomore year, the disparate parts of myself I had managed to hold together-the part of me that thought beg gay was wrong, the part that slept wh men anyway, the part of myself I let the world see, and the part that suffered silence-me undone.

WHY ARE HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS SO AAID OF “EX-GAYS”?

While took years of unselg to disabe myself of the ias I had learned while unrgog therapy wh Nilosi, was the first time I enuntered profsnals who were affirmg of my sexualy, and the first time I allowed myself to thk was all right to be gay.

MILO YIANNOPOULOS SAYS HE IS ‘EX-GAY,’ WANTS TO REHABILATE ‘NVERSN THERAPY’

He looked like he do his Facebook pictur: solid and short, wh a shaved head and large brown had iated penncy-and-neglect proceedgs agast his parents at age 16 to pe ex-gay therapy. For a perd of my life, I intified as ex-gay and me back out, and I wish people had been there to talk to me when I was ex-gay, bee I felt rejected by both muni, ” Brton said.

By the way, he still nnot remember the name of that one therapist who he saw his youth and who “tortured” him for two years on end for g out gay, sorry make that bisexual, sorry make that transgenr, sorry make that genr-fluid, sorry make that ex-gay. His current claim to beg an “ex-gay” has an upsi for him: he n now claim before legislative bodi to speak om personal experience not only about beg a “survivor” of alleged torture ssns, but also about beg an “ex-gay” and masterg that knowledge, and about beg an “ex-ex-gay”, a subject which he would be the ultimate expert. In orr to put the prsure on, Brton and his team have managed to get an article published the New York Tim wh the headl “I was tortured Gay Conversn Therapy, and is still legal 41 stat”.

New York Cy is one of the two most gay-fluenced ci the US, and the NCLR hop that this expansn of the ban, aimed at preventg even nsentg adults om seeg a therapist of their own choice, will spread like an oil spill over the untry. The 23-year-old Massachetts Instute of Technology (MIT) graduate stunt is the son of two Southern Baptist misters, and endured years of reparative therapy signed to “cure” him of his homosexualy while livg Kansas. “(Sam rried) the belief that he was the only livg gay person the world, that the ernment had killed all the other gay children, and that they’d kill him too if he acted gay.

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“On Friday we posted the “I’m From Driftwood” vio of Samuel Brton, a young gay guy whose parents had reportedly punched, burned, electrocuted and stabbed him to make him straight.

But Towleroad has reported that they vered the story back 2010, that gay activist Wayne Ben hasn’t been able to verify the story over a month of tryg, and that one Towleroad menter claims that Brton’s Facebook page “has a picture of the entire happy fay at his llege graduatn ceremony, May 31, 2011, ” even though Brton’s dad reportedly threatened to shoot his son the head if he ever me around aga. Together, the therapist and Sam’s parents stilled the boy the belief that he was the only livg gay person the world, that the ernment had killed all the other gay children, and that they’d kill him too if he acted gay. Bisexualy impli that over the years he has also acquired heterosexual feelgs next to his homosexual feelgs, a possibily which forms the heart of the “nversn” therapy he is so vehemently battlg agast.

He ed to be full blown gay, and now publicly adms that he is battlg wh male inty issu, oppose-sex attractns even, and that he has not seen the end of this stggle, a stance which nstut the re of the theraptic enavors that we scribe on this se. This gay-related plex, this n of worms, nnot be unrstood nor tackled wh the “born that way” hoax which leads to featism and the ntuatn of turmoil, as nveniently f all emotns as beg ed by other people and the outsi world.

FOUNR OF ‘EX-GAY’ FREEDOM MARCH JEFEY MCCALL ADMS TO SLEEPG WH MEN

Some ex-gays are even followed by gay-lib extremists wh meras, for example the notor Wayne Ben (webse Tth Ws Out, click here), to “expose” them if they see or faiarize wh a gay guy.