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Contents:

• TERRIFYG PHOTOS RECREATE THE HORRORS OF GAY 'CONVERSN THERAPY' CENTERS
• 8 PEOPLE ON SURVIVG GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
• GAY AND TRANS PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN TO CONVERSN THERAPY ARE SHARG THEIR TRMATIC STORI, AND IT'S A REMR WHY IT NEEDS TO BE ABOLISHED
• IS RUDY GAY A GOOD F?
• 'THE MISTN OF CAMERON POST' SHOWS THE DANGERS OF "GAY CONVERSN" CAMPS
• FORMER 'EX-GAY' LEARS DENOUNCE 'CONVERSN THERAPY' IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY
• WHAT IT’S LIKE TO EXPERIENCE GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
• GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS
• MOSW: GAY MOSW
• 5 THGS I LEARNED AT A 'PRAY AWAY THE GAY' CAMP
• THEY/THEM REVIEW: A SLASHER GO TO GAY CONVERSN CAMP CLEVER HORROR MOVIE
• MOSW GAY MAP
• DIRECTOR OF QUEER CLASSIC 'BUT I'M A CHEERLEAR' WANTED TO 'MAKE A GAY "CLUELS"'

TERRIFYG PHOTOS RECREATE THE HORRORS OF GAY 'CONVERSN THERAPY' CENTERS

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.

8 PEOPLE ON SURVIVG GAY CONVERSN THERAPY

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?

GAY AND TRANS PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN TO CONVERSN THERAPY ARE SHARG THEIR TRMATIC STORI, AND IT'S A REMR WHY IT NEEDS TO BE ABOLISHED

” I sat my parents down for a nversatn and told them I was gay ont of three meras – a pletely surreal and liberatg experience. From “Unveiled” I had a lot of gay men and women ntact me around the world to thank me for sharg such an timate moment wh the world.

Gay and Lbian Mental Health 291 (2010); Ariel Shidlo and Michael Schroer, Changg Sexual Orientatn: A Consumer’s Report, 33 Prof. rponse to a Generatns qutn that asked if they were lbian, gay, bisexual, queer, or same-genr lovg, if they were the age and.

IS RUDY GAY A GOOD F?

For timat of the proportn of youth who intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual see Lra Kann et al., Sexual Inty, Sex of Sexual Contacts, and Health-Related Behavrs among Stunts Gras 9-12 – Uned Stat and Selected S, 2015 (2016).

'THE MISTN OF CAMERON POST' SHOWS THE DANGERS OF "GAY CONVERSN" CAMPS

Psychodynamics Study of Lbianism 299 (1954); Irvg Bieber et al., Homosexualy: A Psychoanalytic Study (1962); Jolan Jabi, Case.

FORMER 'EX-GAY' LEARS DENOUNCE 'CONVERSN THERAPY' IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY

Participants Reportg a Change om Homosexual to Heterosexual Orientatn, 32 Archiv of Sexual Behavr 403 (2003)’l Ctr. 991 Health Care Needs of the Homosexual Populatn, /liverg-re/polici-lbian-gay-bisexual-transgenr-queer-lgbtq-issu (last vised Dec.

WHAT IT’S LIKE TO EXPERIENCE GAY CONVERSN THERAPY

On Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Issu, Posn Statement: Sexual Orientatn Change Efforts (SOCE) and Conversn Therapy wh Lbians, Gay Men, Bisexuals, and Transgenr Persons (2015), Release, Am. 8, 2017), Kaplan, Polil Climate Forest for Florida 2018 Looks Posive for John Man, Negative for Gay Conversn Therapy,. 6, 2018), Marketg, Virgia Electn Poll (May 26, 2017), poll052016/ Moore, Only 8% of Amerins Thk Gay Conversn Therapy Works,, June 12, 2014, news/2014/06/12/gay-nversn-therapy/ B.

GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS

Also known as “reparative” or “ex-gay” therapy, the programs e var forms of psychologil manipulatn, and sometim physil abe, to nont “same-sex attractns, ” or “SSA’s. Diree Akhvan’s The Mistn of Cameron Post (adapted om the novel by Ey Danforth), out now, follows a young gay woman named Cameron (Chloë Grace Moretz) who is sent away to a gay nversn mp the mid-1990s, where the close iendships she forms wh the other participants serve as a rpe om the ongog psychologil torments flicted upon her. There was one really abive act, where three misters held me down for six and a half hours and were screamg my face, tryg to get the gayns out of me.

MOSW: GAY MOSW

Well, there is this thg lled gaydar …” — some parts of the church believe gaydar is the abily to see a mon another person. Like the movie, there’s this whole iceberg scene [about disverg the “” of one’s homosexualy] and the girl the movie mocked . So, the day after I’d go to [nversn therapy] I’d bury myself the perdil sectn of the library and read articl about homosexualy and the more of those articl that I read, the broar perspective that I got.

I gus now I intify as gay, and I fely believe there’s no changg that, and even if there was I don’t know that you should. I had been raised to believe that beg gay is horrible and terrible and awful and sful, and you’re gog to go to Hell.

5 THGS I LEARNED AT A 'PRAY AWAY THE GAY' CAMP

And of urse that marriage got dicey — I end up ex-gay therapy at the referral of a pastor at about the age of 37, 38. By then I had stopped seeg myself as “unwanted same-sex attracted” and started seeg myself as more of what I would ll “gay si B, ” chaste and celibate. For a while I intified as a gay Christian, but I was still such nservative circl that I sort of tried to do this thg that’s gag some tractn publicly where you acknowledge that you’re gay and Christian but you’re mted to lifelong celibacy and sglens.

It was sort of ial for them bee they uld hire a gay person but you uld still sign their statement of fah and muny venants. But we live a heteronormative culture which rults many gay and queer people beg sent to nversn therapy or choosg to go themselv.

THEY/THEM REVIEW: A SLASHER GO TO GAY CONVERSN CAMP CLEVER HORROR MOVIE

On the send or third day I was given some, hdsight, credibly lghable gay eroti and was allowed to return to my room.

I was motivated by Bible College teachgs whose founr was secretly groomg and sexually harassg his younger youth mister and employee to a homosexual relatnship while teachg and preachg the 'Sun' of homosexualy.

MOSW GAY MAP

I went to a seri of speech geared toward the youth of the church where one speaker talked about how watchg porn would lead you down an evable path that ends by you beg a homosexual and then a child molter (which obvly isn't te). I was told that sexualy was a s, specifilly, homosexualy was a s the same tegory as murr bee perverted the tools for the creatn and stctn of life.

I remember specifilly there was a strong attempt to try and nnect gay thoughts to jail time my head, that msed wh me for a ltle. In some class, they would rip to homosexualy alongsi thgs like pedophilia and necrophilia as all beg somewhat equally horrific.

DIRECTOR OF QUEER CLASSIC 'BUT I'M A CHEERLEAR' WANTED TO 'MAKE A GAY "CLUELS"'

Homosexualy was seen as beg even worse than necrophilia bee was someone else beg 'tricked' and 'asslted' by someone who claimed to re. They believed and tght that homosexuals were scum for beg so selfish and so nceed to thk they had the right to steal the nocence of someone else by makg them go to hell.

Even worse, they said gay people force themselv on someone else bee there is no way TWO adults n nsent to sex if they are the same genr. I was part of an onle muny of other gay people tryg to nvert, and some of the people that muny claimed to have succsfully nverted.