What It’s Like To Experience Gay Conversn Therapy

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. 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.

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But we live a heteronormative culture which rults many gay and queer people beg sent to nversn therapy or choosg to go themselv. On the send or third day I was given some, hdsight, credibly lghable gay eroti and was allowed to return to my room.

MOSW: GAY MOSW

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. 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.

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

In some class, they would rip to homosexualy alongsi thgs like pedophilia and necrophilia as all beg somewhat equally horrific.

Homosexualy was seen as beg even worse than necrophilia bee was someone else beg 'tricked' and 'asslted' by someone who claimed to re.

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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.

My parents thought was fe that I was gay (my mom more so than my dad) and didn't want to take me to a Christian unselor, but I was adamant. His procs was based on the ia that I was gay bee my relatnship wh my dad was aquate and bee I hadn't been affirmed my masculy when I was younger. And fally, "I went to a 'special psychologist' or 'psychiatrist, ' but he was a 'former gay man' who had sce turned his life over to God.

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I was mostly dog this to appease my parents, as they were unr the imprsn beg gay (well, bisexual my se) was a choice, and that I uld change if I wanted to. One such piece — and a highly-predictable one, at that — is veteran forward Rudy Gay, who was recently waived by the Oklahoma Cy Thunr, after beg ed as filler two different offseason tras: first when the Utah Jazz shipped him to the Atlanta Hawks the John Colls al, and then when the Hawks sent him to the Thunr the Patty Mills tra. Dpe beg a 17-year veteran — he was drafted one year after Chris Pl, and one pick ahead of Patrick O’Bryant — Gay has never shared an NBA locker room wh any Warrrs.

Not only have they played (and ached) agast him for years, but Gay was teammat wh Steph Curry and Klay Thompson on the Team USA squad that won gold at the 2014 FIBA World Cup, and also teammat wh Curry (and Andre Iguodala) on the gold medal-wng 2010 team. Perhaps most importantly, Gay spent four seasons — four recent seasons, crilly — playg for the San Anton Spurs and Steve Kerr’s mentor, Gregg Popovich.

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If the Warrrs are terted Gay, you n bet that Kerr and Pop have talked about , and about how he handled the swch om high-volume starter/srer to veteran bench piece. It’s easy to make the se for Gay, sce the Warrrs rotatn seems pretty set as is, wh an 11-player rotatn of Curry, Pl, Thompson, Wiggs, Green, Kumga, Moody, Kevon Looney, Gary Payton II, Dar Šarić, and Cory Joseph.

There’s also a cent chance that Gay go unsigned, and that the Dubs uld brg him to trag mp on a non-guaranteed al to get a better look at him. Pecially among transgenr In some relig practic, homosexualy and other forms of genr exprsn and inty are sometim viewed as “evil.

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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