I heard that this group of Rsians, Created a cure for beg gay. What do you guys thk?
Contents:
- A HALF-CENTURY OF CONFLICT OVER ATTEMPTS TO 'CURE' GAY PEOPLE
- GAY CONVERSN THERAPY – REAL OR HOAX?
- IS BEG GAY, CURABLE?
A HALF-CENTURY OF CONFLICT OVER ATTEMPTS TO 'CURE' GAY PEOPLE
Some wish to cure the gay om themselv and look to gay reparative therapy, but do gay nversn therapy actually work? Fd out. * gay curable *
Fifty years ago today, TIME ran a short article unr the headle, “Homosexuals Can Be Cured. ” The article reported that male homosexuals rpond well to group psychotherapy, unr the re of 64-year-old Universy of Pennsylvania profsor and psychiatrist Samuel Hadn.
GAY CONVERSN THERAPY – REAL OR HOAX?
* gay curable *
Hadn was not the only—or most proment—psychiatrist to claim homosexualy was a curable mental illns, but he was reprentative.
IS BEG GAY, CURABLE?
Throughout the 1960s, psychiatrists Irvg Bieber and Charl Soris were regularly quoted newspapers and magaz, argug that homosexual sire was a form of psychosocial maladjtment, rultg om childhood. Frd himself had explicly stated by 1935 that homosexualy was not an illns and strongly disuraged attempts to treat ; neverthels, by the 1950s, his theori were wily misappropriated by nservative Amerin and émigré psychiatrists vted reaffirmg the heterosexual, breadwner-homemaker hoehold the wake of World War II. Wh the popularizatn of behavral therapi the 1960s and ’70s also me new attempts to treat homosexualy, the form of “aversn” therapi, cludg electric shocks.
Already by the 1960s, such cur had provoked ristance: April 1965, jt months after that TIME article ran, the Philalphia-based gay rights anizatn Jan ved Hadn to give a lecture on his rearch, only to surprise him wh fierce ristance om the dience. Frankl Kameny, a pneerg gay rights lear, rpond sharply, “This is not science, Dr. In June 1969, the Dorian Society of Seattle worked wh a Universy of Washgton pediatrics profsor to found the Dorian Counselg Service for Homosexuals—the first center of s kd the untry.