New urt challeng are aimed at gay nversn therapy, a psdoscientific method said to turn homosexual people straight.
Contents:
- WHAT HAPPENS GAY NVERSN THERAPY? 'CAMERON POST,' 'BOY ERASED' SHOW SRY REALY
- 5 THGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
- NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY ‘PRAY AWAY’ EXPLOR ‘GAY REPROGRAMMG’
- TOM HOLLAND’S THE CROWD ROOM GAY SEX SCENE SPARKS APPALLG HOMOPHOBIC BACKLASH
- COMG OUT & CONFSG TO YOUR ROOMMATE ASMR ROLEPLAY (M4M) (COMG OUT AS GAY) (ENGLISH ACCENT)
- THE GAYS
- DID MIKE PENCE SUPPORT 'GAY CONVERSN' THERAPY?
- ARE YOU AWARE OF THE AVALANCHE OF GAY PROGRAMMG ASSLTG YOUR HOME?
WHAT HAPPENS GAY NVERSN THERAPY? 'CAMERON POST,' 'BOY ERASED' SHOW SRY REALY
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Gay nversn therapy is more than jt a "South Park" ntroversial practice – which emotnally abive, often extreme methods to "cure" people of their homosexualy – has been a subject for edic fodr the ribald animated seri, as well the 2000 film satire "But I'm a Cheerlear. " But reparative therapy is still a ighteng realy for thoands of LGBTQ people, who often enter "ex-gay" programs at the sistence of pastors, unselors and loved on.
Two new films are aimg to show the paful reali for kids gay nversn programs: awards ntenr "Boy Erased" ( theaters Nov. More:$90K donated to send gay valedictorian to llege after parents reject himRelated:Chloë Grace Moretz go to gay nversn therapy 'Mistn'"Boy" stars Lus Hedg and is based on the 2016 memoir by Garrard Conley, who entered Love Actn, an ex-gay Christian mistry, after beg outed to his parents (played by Nile Kidman and Rsell Crowe) 2004 at age 19.
' For rearch, "Cameron Post" director Diree Akhavan and -wrer Cecilia Fgiuele terviewed survivors, watched sermons and read materials ed ex-gay programs.
5 THGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
The film chronicl the experienc of five evangelils the 1970s who e together to form Exod Internatnal, a group that claimed gay people uld bee straight through prayer and nversn therapy. * gay reprogramming *
At one therapy mp, Shurka and other men were asked to re-create the moments that "ma" them gay.
A therapy that claims to nvert gay people to heterosexuals is beg tted urt wh two new s, one of which seeks to sue unselors offerg the therapy and the other seekg to fend nversn therapy, as is known, supposedly helps gay people overe same-sex attractns.
NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY ‘PRAY AWAY’ EXPLOR ‘GAY REPROGRAMMG’
Tom Holland's gay sex scene The Crowd Room on Apple TV sparks appallg homophobic backlash. * gay reprogramming *
[5 Myths About Gay People Debunked]In a send se California, a feral judge is hearg arguments agast a new state law that bans nversn therapy for mors.
[7 Absolutely Evil Medil Experiments]More recently, people who have been through nversn therapy report talk therapy that emphasiz psdoscientific theori, such as the ia that an overbearg mother and a distant father make a child gay. In an April 2012 say The Amerin Prospect, wrer Gabriel Arana scrib his "ex-gay" therapy experience.
His therapist blamed his parents for Arana's homosexualy, and urged him to distance himself om his female bt Lev, one of the men sug Jonah for ceptive practic, says that he qu nversn therapy after his therapist had him strip down and touch himself to "rennect wh his masculy, " acrdg to the New York Tim. Why psychologists say nversn therapy don't workHomosexualy is not nsired a mental disorr, so the Amerin Psychologil Associatn (APA) do not remend "curg" same-sex attractn any se.
TOM HOLLAND’S THE CROWD ROOM GAY SEX SCENE SPARKS APPALLG HOMOPHOBIC BACKLASH
There is hope for those who don't want to be gay. Bee homosexualy is a rponse to beg wound, there is hope for healg. Probe's Sue Bohl exam paths to te change om a passnate Christian perspective. * gay reprogramming *
Instead, societal ignorance, prejudice and prsure to nform to heterosexual sir are the real dangers to gay people's mental health, acrdg to a 1997 statement on "nversn" or "reparative" therapy by the APA. The sire to turn gay people straight go way back. In 1935, Frd went even further, wrg to a woman who wanted her homosexual son nverted that homosexualy "is nothg to be ashamed of, no vice, no gradatn; nnot be classified as an illns.
"Other psychologists throughout the early mid-1900s believed homosexualy uld be changed and remend a variety of treatments. One of the stranger attempts was an effort by Vienne endocrologist Eugen Steach to transplant tticl om straight men to the scrotums of gay men an attempt to rid them of same-sex sir.
COMG OUT & CONFSG TO YOUR ROOMMATE ASMR ROLEPLAY (M4M) (COMG OUT AS GAY) (ENGLISH ACCENT)
It didn’t of the most proment advot of nversn therapy the 1940s and 50s was Edmund Bergler, who saw homosexualy as a perversn and believed he uld "cure" gay people wh a punishment-based, nontatnal therapy the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn stopped classifyg homosexualy as a mental disorr 1973, nversn therapi lost support.
THE GAYS
But relig-right anizatns such as Exod Internatnal and Foc on the Fay's Love Won Out took up the charge, promotg their own "ex-gay" therapi.
DID MIKE PENCE SUPPORT 'GAY CONVERSN' THERAPY?
A small group of psychologists, spltg wh their peers, ntue to promote the therapi, foundg the nversn therapy anizatn NARTH, or the Natnal Associatn for Rearch & Therapy of Homosexualy.
ARE YOU AWARE OF THE AVALANCHE OF GAY PROGRAMMG ASSLTG YOUR HOME?
In 2003, famed psychiatrist Robert Spzer, who spearhead the removal of homosexualy om the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn's mental disorr list 1973, reported the journal Archiv of Sexual Behavr that terviews wh nversn therapy patients suggted that some people uld change their sexual paper was cendiary and highly cricized, given that relied on terviews wh patients stead of measurable benchmarks of same-sex sir. Conservative groups were lighted to have support om Spzer, who wasn't tated wh relig bias or anti-gay iology; gay anizatns felt the end, however, Spzer me to agree wh his crics.