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Contents:

• GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS
• THE 1970S “GAY-CURE” EXPERIMENTS WRTEN OUT OF SCIENTIFIC HISTORY
• THE MAN WHO IED GAY PEOPLE’S BRAS
• THE MAN WHO ATTEMPTED TO USE PLEASURE CONDNG TO TURN A GAY MAN STRAIGHT

GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS

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In 1899, a German psychiatrist electrified the dience at a nference on hypnosis wh a bold claim: He had turned a gay man straight. Homosexualy, pecially same-sex relatnships between men, was nsired viant, sful and even crimal for centuri. In the late 19th century, psychiatrists and doctors began to addrs homosexualy, too.

THE 1970S “GAY-CURE” EXPERIMENTS WRTEN OUT OF SCIENTIFIC HISTORY

(Cred: Imagno/Getty Imag)There were plenty of theori as to why people were homosexual.

For Eugen Steach, a pneerg Atrian endocrologist, homosexualy was rooted a man’s tticl. This theory led to tticle transplantatn experiments the 1920s durg which gay men were strated, then given “heterosexual” tticl.

THE MAN WHO IED GAY PEOPLE’S BRAS

” Others theorized that homosexualy was a psychologil disorr stead.

THE MAN WHO ATTEMPTED TO USE PLEASURE CONDNG TO TURN A GAY MAN STRAIGHT

Sigmund Frd hypothized that humans are born nately bisexual and that homosexual people bee gay bee of their ndng.

But though Frd emphasized that homosexualy wasn’t a disease, per se, some of his lleagu didn’t agree. They began to e new psychiatric terventns an attempt to “cure” gay people. Robert Galbrah Heath, a psychiatrist New Orleans who pneered the technique, ed this form of bra stimulatn, along wh hired prostut and heterosexual pornography, to “change” the sexual orientatn of gay men.