'We don't need fixg': Texas bat ban on gay nversn therapy for kids

Contents:

• THE “GAYBORHOODS” OF TEXAS
• IN A FIRST FOR THE NFL, JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• 'WE DON'T NEED FIXG': TEXAS BAT BAN ON GAY NVERSN THERAPY FOR KIDS
• THE 10 BEST TEXAS GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS TEXAS
• WHERE DID FORT WORTH GAY BARS GO?
• PRAYER AND PA: WHY GAY NVERSN THERAPY IS STILL LEGAL SPE DANGERS

THE “GAYBORHOODS” OF TEXAS

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Texas’ “gayborhoods” aren’t jt neighborhoods wh rabow-pated crosswalks at their tersectns; they’re historic muni where Texas pri and gay pri tersect ever-fascatg unison. Their one-of-a-kd rtrants, vivac nightclubs, and lovable lols crown the gayborhoods as attractive statns—no matter where you fall on the sexualy spectm. In 1947, one of the first gay bars Texas, Club Reno, opened Dallas, heraldg the cy’s LGBTQ muny as one of the earlit to form the state.

IN A FIRST FOR THE NFL, JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY

As that group grew to over 3, 000 while marchg through downtown, Dallas beme the se of the first gay pri para all of Texas. The marker ss at “The Gay Crossroads, ” loted at the tersectn of Throckmorton Street and Cedar Sprgs. The sign’s backdrop is JR’s Bar & Grill, an inic gay club that has served Amerin eats sce 1980 wh regular drag queen and celebry appearanc.

Next door is Statn 4, known to lols as S4, a 24, 000-square-foot nightclub and gay utopia sce 1986. Also at “The Gay Crossroads” tersectn is Sue Ellen’s, nsired to be the olst lbian bar the state. The Montrose neighborhood Hoton was found 1911 and had an timated 30 to 40 gay bars by the late ’70s.

In June of 1977, LGBTQ advote Ray Hill anized a rally prott of sger and anti-gay activist Ana Bryant visg the cy. More than 1, 000 people showed up, which began the gay liberatn movement Montrose and led Hill to help tablish The Montrose Center, an anizatn still operatg today that foc not only on advocy but also on offerg rourc to the muny.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

Ls than five wt downtown, Montrose featur gayborhood stapl like permanently stalled rabow crosswalks and historic saloons. RIPCORD opened 1980 and has the distctn of beg the olst gay leather bar Texas. San Anton’s Ma Avenue is terchangeably referred to as “The Strip” and “The Gay Strip, ” but ’s gay no matter what you ll .

Loted jt north of downtown, Tob Hill, this central gayborhood district don’t fall short on rabow flair. Also on June 26 is The Strip’s Pri Block Party, an -person event to memorate Pri Month the gayborhood.

'WE DON'T NEED FIXG': TEXAS BAT BAN ON GAY NVERSN THERAPY FOR KIDS

In 2016, Luther’s hosted a spontaneo meetg wh San Anton Police Chief William McMan to discs the rponse of lol law enforcement after the tragic mass shootg at a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida.

A short stri over a nearby rabow crosswalk will land you at the pnacle of gay nightlife San Anton, North Ma Avenue’s bar strip. Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen hop to spire others by publicly g out as gay.

THE 10 BEST TEXAS GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS TEXAS

Katie Sowers was the first female NFL ach to e out as gay. Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St. ”Yet ’s bt known as “gay nversn therapy, ” the attempt to lsen or rid someone of their attractn to members of the same sex.

'We don’t need fixg'In the Texas Legislature’s 173-year history, only six members have openly intified as lbian, gay or bisexual. '""I brg you this bill for all those Texas kids who do have the strength to say, 'Mom, Dad, I'm gay. Stori of forced "pray away the gay" boot mps and aversn or electroshock treatments have bee unual — though not nonexistent.

" Some are tght church and rooted relign, like Alholics Anonymo but for homosexualy. Clients aren't "gay, " they're "same sex attracted, " nversn therapy supporters say. "Even the practice self has a thoand nam: ex-gay and reparative and retegrative therapy; change unselg; and sexual orientatn change efforts, or s more nocuo acronym, SOCE.

WHERE DID FORT WORTH GAY BARS GO?

It’s spun off whole stutns and all kds of “treatments, ” one-on-one or group, child to adult, voluntary and the methods and monikers are different, the aim is the same — to see a patient’s gay feelgs dwdle or even disappear. Practners, generally speakg, reject that homosexualy is nate or believ the feelgs mt be the products of trma or neglect and se no evince someone n be “born” gay.

To “lsen” or “dissipate” homosexual feelgs, he employs talk therapy and “Eye Movement Densizatn and Reprocsg, ” or EMDR, a therapy most often ed to treat post-trmatic strs disorr. “It totally rolved my homosexual feelgs, ” he said. It’s not ‘pray away the gay.

PRAYER AND PA: WHY GAY NVERSN THERAPY IS STILL LEGAL SPE DANGERS

"Mental health profsnals should avoid tellg clients that they n change their sexual orientatn due to lack of evince that such change is possible and the potential to harm the patient's mental health, " the APA said a statement to The Dallas Morng chalks that posn up to a “gay uc” si the ’s impossible to know how many Amerins, let alone Texans, have experienced some kd of nversn therapy the last few study found that around 698, 000 adults had gone through the practice and timated that 77, 000 more teens would experience some kd of nversn therapy before they turn 18. More and more former lears of ex-gay programs are rejectg their past teachgs and openly intifyg as lbian or gay. (Carly Geraci / Staff Photographer)John Smid, the former director of Memphis-based ex-gay mistry Love In Actn, pos for a photograph ont of his church Paris, Texas on Dec.