I was 19, gay and ready to be ‘cured’ by nversn therapy | Fay | The Guardian

Contents:

• 17 RIGHTFUL WAYS ON HOW TO CURE BEG GAY ISLAM
• I LIKE GUYS BUT I DON’T WANT TO BE GAY. HOW DO I STOP BEG GAY?
• HOW TO DEAL WHEN YOUR BT FRIEND IS GAY
• THE HISTORY OF GETTG THE GAY OUT
• I WAS 19, GAY AND READY TO BE ‘CURED’ BY NVERSN THERAPY
• GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS
• HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
• GAY CONVERSN THERAPY – REAL OR HOAX?
• GAY THERAPY, GAY THERAPISTS, GAY TREATMENT
• CAN PEOPLE STOP BEG GAY?

17 RIGHTFUL WAYS ON HOW TO CURE BEG GAY ISLAM

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I LIKE GUYS BUT I DON’T WANT TO BE GAY. HOW DO I STOP BEG GAY?

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HOW TO DEAL WHEN YOUR BT FRIEND IS GAY

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THE HISTORY OF GETTG THE GAY OUT

*ternally sobbg*Acupuncture Your Gay AwayIn 2015, a homeopathy blog (I'll wa for you to stop lghg) claimed that gay people n be 'cured' through alternative therapi cludg acupuncture. There is so much science this one sentence that the blog is beg nsired for a Nobel read: 4 laws that n actually benef gay men and women India However, the sad part is that every doctor (at least the sensible on) would agree that magic needl n't really do much to stop you beg Off To A Gay CampRemember the movie But, I'm A Cheerleer? The mm recently llected materials to document gay-nversn therapy (also lled "reparative therapy")—and the objects allow curators like myself to explore how real people experience the risks.

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I WAS 19, GAY AND READY TO BE ‘CURED’ BY NVERSN THERAPY

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“And he said, a voice ee of emotn: ‘False Image’, ” rells Conley Boy Erased, his elegant memoir about the year which his southern Baptist upbrgg llid wh his sexual awakeng as a gay man. The methods are cel and equently vlent, om applyg electric shocks while beg forced to watch gay porn, to md ntrol gam aimed at persuadg LGBT “patients” their sir are rooted dysfunctnal or “disempowerg” relatnships wh their LIA the msage was unequivol: homosexualy meant unhapps, isolatn and ath.

Stori like the were not unmon at LIA, renamed Rtoratn Path 2012, and wily nsired to be the first morn “ex-gay” mistry predited on changg the sexual orientatn of gay men and women. Like other gay teens, Conley went through the motns of havg a girliend as a way to “cure” himself, but he was also a vorac rear who found novels a unterweight to the Bible that helped expand the horizons of his world.

GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS

The knowledge of my homosexualy would seem more shockg than the knowledge of my rape; or, worse, would seem as though one act had evably followed the other, as though I’d had g to me. There, she jok about an ia for a TV seri, Preachers’ Wiv Gone Wild, while he surreptly observ their handsome the ironi of nversn therapi such as LIA is the fact that they are n and managed largely by gay men who have been through the programme themselv, renounced their past and now seek to make others do the same.

Conley characteris them by their “ex-gay s” which the rners of their lips “stretched beyond the lims of normalcy” such person was John Smid, former executive director of LIA and a gay man and Christian who would eventually adm that he’d “never met a man who experienced a change om homosexual to heterosexual”. We were learng Step One of Love Actn’s 12-Step programme, a set of prcipl equatg the ss of fily, btialy, paedophilia and homosexualy to addictive behavr such as alholism or gamblg: a kd of Alholics Anonymo for what unsellors referred to as our ‘sexual viance’. Robert Galbrah Heath, a psychiatrist New Orleans who pneered the technique, ed this form of bra stimulatn, along wh hired prostut and heterosexual pornography, to “change” the sexual orientatn of gay men.

An offshoot of the techniqu was “aversn therapy, ” which was found on the premise that if LGBTQ people beme disgted by homosexualy, they would no longer experience same-sex sire. ” LGBTQ people had long protted the cel and scientifilly dub forms of “treatment, ” but the ncept that homosexualy was a disease was accepted by the majory of the medil tablishment. This clud the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn, which nsired homosexualy to be a psychiatric the 1960s and 1970s, as a vol gay rights movement took to the streets to mand equaly, the profsn began to turn s back on the ncept that people uld be “nverted” to heterosexualy.

HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY

In 1973, the APA removed homosexualy om the DSM, s fluential manual of psychiatric disorrs, and medil profsnals began to distance themselv om techniqu they had once embraced. Their methods varied, and clud everythg om talk therapy to “gay nversn” mps and nferenc, LGBTQ people were isolated om fay and iends, hypnotized, told to pray until their homosexualy subsid, stcted to beat effigi of their parents, mocked, ached on “proper” genr rol, and told their sexualy was unnatural and And Anne Plk, both “formerly gay” pose wh their son, Timothy, a mpaign for Gay Conversn to Heterosexualy. “I read books and listened to dtap about how to have a ‘rrective and healg relatnship wh J Christ, ’” wr Jam Guay, a gay man who attend weekly therapy and nversn semars as a teen.

GAY CONVERSN THERAPY – REAL OR HOAX?

And Exod Internatnal, an umbrella group that nnected var nversn therapy groups and gay mistry anizatns, closed down 2013 after nearly 40 years of operatns after s print, Alan Chambers, cid ’s impossible to change someone’s sexual orientatn. “The practic have no basis science or medice and they will now be relegated to the dtb of quackery, ” said California ernor Jerry Brown as he signed a bill banng gay-to-straight therapy the state 2012. Image source, BFI FLAREImage ptn, Demonstrators gathered Albany, New York, 1971 to mand gay rightsUntil 1973 the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn fed beg gay as havg a mental illns.

GAY THERAPY, GAY THERAPISTS, GAY TREATMENT

The film archive you see the documentary Cured isn't a total surprise: beg gay was illegal the US when most of the programm and public service announcements featured were ma.

Image source, BFI FLAREImage ptn, Kay Lahen (centre) helped wh the foundg of the origal Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) 1970"The average homosexual, if there be such, is promiscuo. But the first half of the film terviews and archive film and TV to illtrate more generally the prsur of growg up gay 1950s and 60s 1952 the APA's manual had fed beg gay as a "socpathic personaly disturbance". )Sger says the post-World War Two perd appears retrospect pecially homophobic the US and source, BFI FLAREImage ptn, Disguised as "Dr H Anonymo", Dr John Fryer shocked the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn's 1972 nventn by hidg his inty to talk about beg a gay psychiatrist"My sense is that there was a new ph toward nformy after the war - a return to normal polil life and social life.

CAN PEOPLE STOP BEG GAY?

"Image source, BFI FLAREImage ptn, Magora Kennedy (right) on the David Sskd show 1971 argug agast his assertn that beg gay was a "mental aberratn"Sger says 's also a matter of how the lg damaged profoundly the picture LGBT people had of themselv and of whether they were valued society. Magora Kennedy, now 82 and scribed as the "gayt great grandmother the gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr muny", scrib beg forced to marry a man at 14 for fear of beg stutnalised agast her will.

She remembers the practice as mon source, BFI FLAREImage ptn, L-R: Activists Ronald Gold (left), Charl Silverste, Frank Kameny and Barbara Gtgs celebrate 1973 the APA cisn to remove homosexualy om s manual of mental illnsThe late Barbara Gtgs, shown as extremely effective phg the e of listg beg gay as an illns, is relled wh affectn by her partner of 46 years Kay of the most engagg ttimony - livered wh wry humour - om Richard Soris. The gay bsman and former adviser to Print Bill Clton rells g out when young to his psychiatrist father Dr Charl Soris - a leadg proponent the 50s and 60s of the ia that beg gay was treatable as a nrotic disorr. Image source, BFI FLAREImage ptn, A Liberatn Day Para 1970 wh key LGBT rights activist Frank Kameny (centre), who ed the "Gay Is Good" sloganIt's no great surprise that elements of the film are now velopment by 20th Televisn as a possible multi-part scripted says the pot the mpaigners returned to aga and aga was the absolute lack of scientific data to support the assertn that beg gay was a mental illns.