Gay Conversn Therapy's Disturbg 19th-Century Origs | HISTORY

Contents:

• PEOPLE WHO ARE GAY, LBIAN OR BI HAVE MORE MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE E PROBLEMS, SURVEY FDS
• GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS

PEOPLE WHO ARE GAY, LBIAN OR BI HAVE MORE MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE E PROBLEMS, SURVEY FDS

Dpe creasg acceptance of the LGBTQ+ muny, at least some circl, adults who intify as gay, lbian or bisexual are more likely than those who intify as straight to have ser thoughts of suici and mental health ndns cludg major prsive episos, and they are more likely to mise substanc like alhol or dgs, acrdg to a new US ernment report. However, gay, bi and straight men seemed to have siar substance e patterns: There was no difference smokg between straight and gay mal, for example, and the rate of bge and heavy drkg the month before they took the survey was the same among gay, bi and straight men. “LGBT dividuals experience addnal strs as a rult of discrimatn and stigma, stigma both at the societal level but also the way that livg a society that privileg heterosexualy that has homophobic laws and polici to sort of teach LGB people even to view themselv as ferr, ” Kidd said.

“For stance, you n image beg environments that might be validatg of people who have gay and lbian inti but might eher not regnize bisexual inty – so they are sort of visible that space – or might be really validatg of dividuals wh bisexual inty, even while the environment is affirmg or at least a ltle more ntral to folks who are gay or lbian, ” Kidd said.

For ee real time breakg news alerts sent straight to your box sign up to our breakg news emailsSign up to our ee breakg news emailsA urt Cha has agreed wh a textbook’s scriptn of homosexualy as a mental disorr, upholdg a lg by a lower cisn of the Suqian Intermediate People’s Court the eastern provce of Jiangsu was lled “random and basels” by Ou Jiayong, also known as Xixi, who had filed the 2016, Xixi had disvered a psychology textbook that scribed beg gay as a mental disorr durg her studi at the South Cha Agricultural Universy Guangzhou, Guangdong provce, reported the South Cha Morng 1990, the World Health Organisatn classified homosexualy as a mental disorr followg which Cha followed su and crimalised homosexualy 1997. They argue that the book is perpetuatg the belief that beg gay was wrong and then, 2017, filed a se agast the publisher askg to remove the, last year, the Suyu District People’s Court Suqian held that opposg views of Xixi and the publisher were due to differenc opn stead of beg a factual a rult, November 2020, Xixi, who is now a social worker Hong Kong, appealed agast the lg which has now aga not gone her se and subsequent appeal had generated ser support om Cha’s LGBT muny but the urt’s cisn last week has left them disappoted. I will share wh my -workers that I am gog on a date wh a man or gog to an LGBT-themed event wh an almost belligerent pri, but am overwhelmed wh fear havg to adm to those same people that I’m leavg slightly early to see my therapist or that I need to take some time off due to another, the word “prsn” still has a be to , the way that the word “gay” did when I first dared to say to someone else reference to myself.

GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS

In 2016, durg her first year of study at the South Cha Agricultural Universy Guangzhou, Guangdong provce, Xixi me across a psychology textbook that scribed beg gay as a mental and her iends protted agast the textbook ont of s publisher’s office Guangzhou, Guangdong provce July 2016. But 2021, a urt has upheld a lg that a textbook llg homosexualy a mental disorr is not Qiang, spokman for the Guangzhou-based non-ernmental anisatn PFLAG, a lol peer support group for fai and iends of the queer muny, pared the textbook scriptn of homosexualy to people believg that the sun revolved around the earth s accuracy. 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 the people who unrwent nversn therapy, shame and pa were an unniable part of the procs.

Nearly 50 years ago, LGBTQ+ activists achieved what was lled the “greatt gay victory” of the time: succsfully phg members of the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn (APA) to remove the diagnosis of homosexualy om the official classifitn of mental illns, the Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs (DSM). The classifitn of mental illns was born om the legacy of multiple systems of power: the Amerin legal system crimalized homosexual behavr; feral and state ernments had not yet dified protectns for queer and trans people seekg employment and hog; and an sistence on heteronormative genr rol stigmatized anyone who viated om their role as a “woman” or a “man.