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Contents:
- 5 THGS I LEARNED AT A 'PRAY AWAY THE GAY' CAMP
- TERRIFYG PHOTOS RECREATE THE HORRORS OF GAY 'CONVERSN THERAPY' CENTERS
- HORRIFIC GAY NVERSN MPS LIKE THIS ONE ARE LEGAL STAT THAT’VE BANNED EX-GAY THERAPY
- FORMER 'EX-GAY' LEARS DENOUNCE 'CONVERSN THERAPY' IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY
- 'KIDNAPPED FOR CHRIST,' PLANNED DOCUMENTARY, AIMS TO EXPOSE 'EX-GAY' EXPERIENC IN CHRISTIAN REFORM SCHOOLS
5 THGS I LEARNED AT A 'PRAY AWAY THE GAY' CAMP
A gay teen claimed the mp owner beat him wh a belt and said, "I'm gog to get the mon out of you and make you straight.” * gay reform camps *
"Wh my first weeks therapy, I was told every other gay person on Earth had been executed.... By the end of the so-lled 'treatments, ' I believed the ernment was lookg for me bee the gays had brought AIDS to Ameri and that I now had this disease ragg through me.
" That is, they assumed that bee he was gay, 's bee his ntrollg mother and adbeat dad had nfed and irreparably trmatized his genals. In fact, they uldn't fd any trma to blame Sam's homosexualy on at all. 4 They Physilly Torture You For Beg Gay.
Later ssns would clu pper heatg ils, needl my fgers, and electric shocks, " all while Sam was shown gay porn. Antos777/iStock/Getty Imag Of urse, no one explaed why they had a stockpile of gay porn on hand. Obvly, spe the old sayg, you n't "heatg-il the gay away.
TERRIFYG PHOTOS RECREATE THE HORRORS OF GAY 'CONVERSN THERAPY' CENTERS
* gay reform camps *
In fact, he got so ed to reprsg his te self that, even after he me out, he wasn't entirely sure how to be: When he got to llege and first enuntered the gay muny, he immediately "me out a ball of glter.
HORRIFIC GAY NVERSN MPS LIKE THIS ONE ARE LEGAL STAT THAT’VE BANNED EX-GAY THERAPY
A satiril play about about gay reform mps prov skewerg stereotyp is the bt weapon—even Spokane * gay reform camps *
" He embraced a sparkly, Freddy Mercury-stage-show-liftyle bee he saw a bunch of out-and-proud homosexuals and thought that was how was done.
"I'm very flamboyant, and that's partly bee of how I was troduced to the ia of other gay men existg.... I found out what a gay person looked like, and realized that was how I was supposed to act. 2 There's A Reason Some Gays Are So "Flamboyant".
Go to a hardware store on the day of the gay pri para and you might hear an old du wh a beer gut lament, "Why do them gays have to be so flamboyant? The vast majory of homosexuals are -- shocker -- jt people. But if you see somebody sportg an outlandish stume, 's not about makg homosexualy look fun to help "turn kids gay" (if Sam's gayns uld survive electroshock torture, then we're pretty sure another kid's straightns n survive a few paras and some sequ boas); 's about showg closeted gay kids that homosexualy isn't tomatilly a lifetime of misery.
FORMER 'EX-GAY' LEARS DENOUNCE 'CONVERSN THERAPY' IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY
I thought that I'd heard all when to ex-gay mistri. The movie "But I'm a Cheerlear" shows the edic si of ex-gay rehabs which exist the U.S., but are dwdlg sce the closg of Exod Internatnal. It has recently e to my attentn that there exists several foreign ex-gay reform mps… * gay reform camps *
1 Both Fah And Homosexualy Can Be Equally Intolerant.
I'm the middle ground: From some fah muni, I'm attacked for beg gay. From some gay muni, I'm attacked as beg Christian. Fally some mon ground between tolerant homosexuals and tolerant Christians: tolerance!
'KIDNAPPED FOR CHRIST,' PLANNED DOCUMENTARY, AIMS TO EXPOSE 'EX-GAY' EXPERIENC IN CHRISTIAN REFORM SCHOOLS
Hope for Wholens, an “ex-gay” mistry wh a prence at least 15 stat, advoted “eedom om homosexualy through J Christ.” * gay reform camps *
For more sir perspectiv, check out 5 Reali of Beg Gay a Country Where It's Illegal and 6 Shockg Reali of the Secret 'Troubled Teen Indtry'.
A new llectn of photos is providg a strikg ― and horrifyg ― visual recreatn of the barbaric practice of gay “nversn therapy” and the impact has on s victims. Photographer Paola Pares first learned of the “Clis Dhomosexualizacn” her home untry of Ecuador four years ago om a iend. After pletg a project lled “Unveiled” that documented her own g out procs ― cludg filmg herself wh three meras as she me out to her parents ― Pares cid the foc of her next work would be on the gay “nversn therapy” clics.
We want to sign an tnal mpaign that centers around teachg people about homosexually, LGBT rights, genr inty and human rights. ”Check out more imag om “Until You Change” throughout this article and learn more about the photographer’s relatnship wh the victims of the gay “nversn therapy” clics and what she hop the impact of this project will be by readg our terview wh Pares Pares PhotographyHuffPost: What spired the project?