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'GAY AWAY' GIMMICK NDY AT MANOBA STORE OFFENDS PARENTS

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. " 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. 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? 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).

” The pathologizatn of shock therapy, and s nnectn to homosexualy, not only further nstcts homosexualy as dangero but nstcts genr and sexual viants as servg/ need of dangero and humane "treatment". Believg a “Cure” for Homosexualy. The (now scientifilly-disproven) psychiatric claim of homosexualy as a “psychosocial maladjtment” has not jt rulted an ongog legacy of pathologizg genr and sexual viance, but also left a legacy of clil attempts to cure homosexualy.

In the 1960’s, psychiatrists not only endorsed, but spearhead attempts to “cure” homosexualy. A TIME Magaze Febary 1965 article “Homosexuals Can Be Cured” c the notor Samuel Hadn—an often-quoted primary source—and his multi-year group psychotherapy “treatments” for gay men.

Hadn speaks about his methods of reprsn as revolutnary, om disuragg “flntg gay clothg” to workg through “hostily toward [their mothers to] start datg girls. ” The article do not once qutn Hadn’s beliefs or the humany of his methods, takg s tled “Homosexuals Can Be Cured” as fact. As the psychiatric beliefs—popularized by psychiatrists like Hadn, Irvg Bieber, and Charl Soris—and their associated behavral therapi grew more and more popular, the late-1960’s and 70’s turned to electric shock aversn therapi as the next velopment “curg” the gay away.

In rercg heterosexual preference latent male homosexuals, male slis give a shock while the stimul relief slis of femal do not give shock. While many of the products are foced on anti-gay-specific aversn therapy, the manuals advertise Farrall Instments’ treatment of child molters, alholics, certa unsirable phobias [cludg elevators], dg addictn, transvtism, and even igidy [referrg to difference/distert sex, women of urse].

The marketg and bs of Farrall Instments aversn therapy vic was pennt on the wispread belief that homosexualy need to and uld be cured—and ultimately, that genr and sexual viance were diseas.