A novelty em that claims to "cure gayns" has been removed om a store's shelv Gimli, Man., after parents exprsed shock that the product was available there.
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ManobaA novelty em that claims to "cure gayns" has been removed om a store's shelv Gimli, Man., after parents exprsed shock that the product was available store owner says addn of novelty product was an 'hont mistake''Gay Away' gimmick ndy at Gimli store offends parentsNovelty em that claims to "cure gayns" has been removed om a store Gimli, Man., after parents exprsed shock that the product was available there. A novelty em that claims to "cure gayns" has been removed om a store's shelv Gimli, Man., after parents exprsed shock that the product was available of "Gay Away: The origal gay pill" were on display alongsi other gag products si the store. Slogans on the pk package claim that "cur gayns" and "stops the cravg for misbehavg.
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" Insi is a blister pack ntag 10 piec of while Gay Away claims to be jt a gimmick, Gimli rints like Mona Johnson were not amed. "A parent, who did not want to be named, said his 12-year-old dghter brought a pack of Gay Away home bee she had qutns about what was about.
Johnson and others said the product is offensive and uld send hurtful msag to the gay and lbian store's owner told CBC News on Wednday afternoon that she has removed the gag em om shelv after receivg lls om ncerned parents.
Rachelle Mistelbacher apologized and sisted that her bs is still a fay store, and the addn of Gay Away was an oversight and an "hont mistake. "Calls to Lghrat, the Toronto-based pany that produced Gay Away and other gag ems, were not returned on an email sent to CBC News on Friday, Lghrat said Gay Away's creator believ 's a "pro gay product that pok fun at not gays but rather those people opposed to gay liftyl. "The spiratn for this product was born out of the ignorance of amongst others relig anizatns and others society who suggted that homosexualy was a 'curable disease or ndn' and a liftyle choice, " the pany's email stat pany add that Gay Away has been sold hundreds of North Amerin retailers sce 2008.
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CW: aversn therapy, homophobia, transphobia, psychiatric abe, mentn of nversn therapy. This article tak a closer look at the mechanics and history of the vic and anti-gay aversn therapy, where mach like the were ed on homosexual patients to “cure” them by means of “shockg the gay away.
An earlier article on the e of aversn therapy to “shock the gay away” was published by HuffPost, wrten by then ONE Natnal Gay & Lbian Archiv Project Manager Jamie St 2013. “Treatg” Homosexualy?
Pray the Gay Away is the product of six years of ethnographic rearch on the liv and experienc of gays livg the “Bible Belt” of the Uned Stat. Thr * gay away product *
Popular portrayals of humane attempts at “treatg” homosexualy have been sensatnalized film, tv, and news stori—often terchangeably g the the terms aversn therapy, nversn therapy, and electro-nvulsive therapy.
In our se of the Farrall Instments AV 5 Visually Keyed Shocker, shocks were to be livered to the patient when a projected sli showed homosexual (or otherwise genr/sexualy-viant) behavr. This mo of anti-gay aversn therapy, then, gets s name om s sired oute of creatg aversn to homosexualy through aversn to pa, so tensely that homosexual behavr is rced, or avoid entirely. A 2016 study on ECT film and pop culture showed that the most popular portrayals of ECT—across 52 movi, 21 TV programs, and two animated ss—ed shock therapy as reprsn of [homosexual] inty.
A cut-and-dry example of anti-gay shock therapy up lbian classic But I’m a Cheerlear as homosexual boys and girls are given tasers to shock themselv every time they have an impure, gay thought (a sort of DIY aversn therapy, if you will).