Contents:
- EMMERDALE SPOILERS: MARSHALL OUT AS GAY TO HIS IENDS WH HEARTWARMG REACTN
- PRAYG THE GAY AWAY: SPRGFIELD MAN SHAR EXPERIENCE WH NVERSN THERAPY
EMMERDALE SPOILERS: MARSHALL OUT AS GAY TO HIS IENDS WH HEARTWARMG REACTN
But was he the gay para Marshall? Together, Marshall and the man would try to "pray the gay away.
I'm not thkg, 'Wow, I'm gay, '" he said.
"Talkg about sex — heterosexual and certaly homosexual — was taboo around the home and school. Marshall relled searchg the ter to unrstand his feelgs and stumblg onto gay pornography. He said the only tim he remembers hearg anythg about homosexualy was if someone was talkg about "how AIDS happened" or "the Bible says 's wrong.
PRAYG THE GAY AWAY: SPRGFIELD MAN SHAR EXPERIENCE WH NVERSN THERAPY
"Though he knew he liked boys om early on, Marshall said he didn't e to the realizatn that he was gay until high school. Sometime around his hman or sophomore year, Marshall said he me out to his parents.
They found a program lled Freedom Christ, which offered unselg servic for var issu cludg alholism, dg addictn, fily, transgenr and homosexualy. Marshall was paired wh a mentor, someone who had renounced beg gay and uld help gui Marshall to do the same. "I was still very much the closet, but I was seeg gay people and transgenr people jt livg out and beg happy, " he said.
"That's the thg about beg gay. "I said I'm gay. 4 tim more likely to have attempted stat have banned nversn therapy: New Mexi, California, Oregon, Vermont, New Jersey and Illois, as well as the District of the Amerin Psychologil Associatn saysThe Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs, a publitn by the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn nsired to set the standards the field, classified homosexualy as a mental disorr 1973.