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• GAY NVERSN THERAPY IS HAPPENG SECRET ATRALIA, REPORT FDS
• GAY NVERSN THERAPY STILL HAPPENG ATRALIAA REPORT HAS REVEALED THE FAH-BASED PRACTICE STILL EXISTS AND IS G TRMA FOR THOSE SUBJECT TO .THE REARCH REVEALS THAT LGBT NVERSN THERAPY REMAS A REAL PROBLEM ATRALIAN RELIG MUNI. SOURCE: AAPBENSON ANDREWS WAS JT HTG PUBERTY WHEN HE STARTED TO REALISE HE WAS ATTRACTED TO MEN.BEE HE STRICTLY FOLLOWED THE CHRISTIAN FAH, THE MELBOURNE MAN FELT HE NEED TO DO SOMETHG ABOUT . “I REACHED OUT TO A YOUTH PASTOR AT THE CHURCH AND I BELIEVE THE LANGUAGE THAT I ED AT THE TIME WAS, 'I'M STGGLG WH MY HOMOSEXUALY',” HE TOLD SBS NEWS.MR ANDREWS, NOW 29, PUT HIMSELF THROUGH SO-LLED 'GAY NVERSN THERAPY' THE HOPE  WOULD MAKE HIM ATTRACTED TO WOMEN.THE REPORT NFIRMS RELIG NVERSN THERAPY AND RELATED PRACTIC ARE PERVASIVE MANY FAH MUNI. SOURCE: SUPPLIED“IN CHURCH LIFE, YOU ARE NSTANTLY BEG TOLD A MSAGE THAT ['S A] MAN AND A WOMAN, ADAM AND EVE, A RELATNSHIP IS THE BT WHEN 'S BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN, HOW TO BE THE RIGHT FATHER, HOW TO BE THE RIGHT HBAND TO YOUR WIFE,” MR ANDREWS SAID.  “AND FOR WOMEN, THEY’RE TOLD, WHAT WERE THEIR ROL WH THE CHURCH? WHAT WERE THEIR ROL THE BIBLE? HOW IS THAT THEIR JOB TO SUPPORT THEIR HBAND? HOW IS THEIR JOB TO BE A MOTHER TO THEIR CHILDREN?”AT THE TIME HE HADN’T HAD SEX OR EVEN ENGAGED WH HIS SEXUALY BUT SAID HE KNEW THERE WAS SOMETHG WH HIM “THAT WASN’T RRECT.”“I FELT LIKE I WAS SORT OF STG ON A LANDME, YOU KNOW, I WAS DANGERO. I KNEW THERE WAS SOMETHG THAT NEED TO BE CHANGED.”REPORT REVEALS EXTENT OF PRACTICEMR ANDREWS' SE IS JT ONE OF MANY FEATURED A NEW REPORT REVEALG NVERSN THERAPY AND RELATED PRACTIC STILL EXIST ATRALIA'S CHURCH. THE HUMAN RIGHTS LAW CENTRE THORED THE REPORT, 'PREVENTG HARM, PROMOTG JTICE', ALONG WH LA TROBE UNIVERSY AND GAY AND LBIAN HEALTH VICTORIA.THE FIRST REPORT OF S KD ATRALIA, TIMAT UP TO 10 PER CENT OF LGBTIQ+ ATRALIANS ARE STILL EXPOSED TO NVERSN THERAPY.THE CENTRE CLAIMED THE THERAPY OCCURS ACROSS A RANGE OF FAHS AND IS HARMG LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE. AT LEAST 10 ANISATNS ATRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND CURRENTLY ADVERTISE THE PROVISN OF NVERSN THERAPI.DIRECTOR OF LEGAL ADVOCY AT THE HUMAN RIGHTS LAW CENTRE, ANNA BROWN. SOURCE: AAPANNA BROWN, THE LAW CENTRE'S DIRECTOR OF LEGAL ADVOCY, SAID  HAPPENS AWAY OM THE ATTENTN OF MANY ATRALIANS.THE REPORT  AMID A DISCSN ABOUT RELIG EEDOMS  ATRALIA AND HOW FAR THEY SHOULD GO.'HYPNOSIS AND EXORCISM'MR ANDREWS FIRST UNRTOOK RMAL THERAPY, WHERE HE WAS MENTORED BY THOSE WH THE CHURCH MUNY.AFTER SOME TIME, HE AND THE CHURCH OFFICIALS REALISED WASN'T WORKG. THAT WAS WHEN HE STARTED MORE FORMAL THERAPY.MR ANDREWS SCRIBED GOG THROUGH “HYPNOSIS AND EXORCISM.”HIS THERAPIST EVEN STARTED MAKG HIM BELIEVE WAS THE FLT OF HIS PARENTS, CLAIMG HIS MOTHER FLUENCED TOO MUCH OF HIS LIFE AND THAT MA HIM “MORE OF A FEME BOY”. THE THERAPIST ALSO TOLD HIM HE WAS ATTRACTED TO MEN BEE HE DID NOT GET THE LOVE HE NEED OM HIS FATHER.READ MOREUK TO BAN GAY 'NVERSN THERAPY' AFTER WORLD’S LARGT SURVEYTODAY, MR ANDREWS MATAS A GOOD RELATNSHIP WH HIS FAY, BUT HE SAID THE EXPERIENCE LEFT HIM FEELG TRMATISED AND HE STILL EXPERIENC NIGHT TERRORS.THE EXPERIENCE MEANT HAVG TO REJECT THE CHURCH.“IT WAS A CISN BETWEEN BEG GAY AND BEG GOOD FAH WH GOD,” HE SAID.“THE IA OF THE THERAPY WAS; GOD N DO THIS, GOD N HEAL YOU, GOD HAS A PLAN FOR YOU, BUT IF YOU DON'T DO THE HARD WORK, IF YOU DON'T KEEP UP GOOD FAH, IF YOU STAY NTACT WH QUEER IENDS, IF YOU ENGAGE SEX, IF YOU LOOK AT PORNOGRAPHY, IF YOU EVEN LET YOURSELF THKG ABOUT A BOY OR CHECKG OUT A GUY, ALL OF THOSE THGS ARE OPENG DOORWAYS FOR THE VIL TO HAVE A HOLD YOUR LIFE.”MS BROWN SAID THE REPORT FOUND MANY OTHERS HAD SIAR EXPERIENC.THEY HAD THERAPY THE FORM OF FAH-BASED UNSELLG OR PASTORAL ACTIVI, FOCG ON THE BELIEF HOMOSEXUALY MEANS AN DIVIDUAL IS BROKEN AND NEEDS TO BE REPAIRED. SHE SAID WAS MON FOR DIVIDUALS TO THEN REJECT THEIR FAH.MANY DIVIDUALS ALSO FEEL SELF-HATRED, LONELS AND BEG THOUGHTS OF SUICI, AMONG OTHER ISSU, SHE SAID.WILL BE BANNED?THE REPORT REMENDS ADULTS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO NTUE TO SEEK FAH-BASED GUIDANCE ABOUT THEIR SEXUALY IF THEY WISH BEE LEGISLATG AGAST WOULD LIM RELIG EEDOM.BUT, SAYS, THE ISSUE IS WH THOSE WHO DO NOT WISH TO GO THROUGH THE THERAPY, PARTICULARLY CHILDREN, OFTEN FORCED TO BY RELIG STUTNS OR THEIR PARENTS.FERAL PARLIAMENT VOT ON CHANGG THE MARRIAGE BILL 2017. SOURCE: AAPMS BROWN SAID ATRALIA HAS BEEN PROACTIVE MOVG TO BAN THE PRACTICE BUT MORE MT BE DONE.“COMPARED TO JURISDICTNS ACROSS THE WORLD, ATRALIA ALREADY HAS SOME PROTECTNS AGAST NVERSN THERAPY BUT WE NEED TO HAVE STRONGER LAWS AS WELL AS TN, AWARENS RAISG AND SUPPORT FOR SURVIVORS.”BUT SHE ACKNOWLEDGED LAW REFORM IS ONLY PART OF THE PICTURE.“WE DON'T WANT TO DRIVE THE PRACTIC FURTHER UNRGROUND AND WE KNOW THAT REAL CULTURAL CHANGE WH SUPPORTG FAH-BASED MUNI, WORKG PARTNERSHIP WH THEM TO REGNISE THE HARM THE PRACTIC ARE OCCURRG AND FDG A WAY FOR THEIR PASTORAL RE OF LGBT PEOPLE TO SUPPORT AND PROTECT THEM”, SHE SAID.MR ANDREWS IS HOPEFUL THAT THE PRACTICE WILL BE OUTLAWED ONE DAY.“AT FIRST I THOUGHT, 'THIS IS , I'M GIVG UP ON THE THERAPY, I'M ACCEPTG THIS GAY LIFE AND I KNOW THAT I'M ACCEPTG ', I THOUGHT THAT I WAS ACCEPTG A UNTERFE VERSN OF WHOLOMENS,” HE SAID.“ONCE I GOT OVER THAT FEELG WAS A SENSE OF RELIEF, BEE I DIDN'T HAVE TO KEEP PRETENDG THAT I WAS TRYG TO BE STRAIGHT ANYMORE. I KNEW THE THERAPY WASN'T WORKG, I KNEW THAT WAS HARMFUL.”SHARE6 M READPUBLISHED 15 OCTOBER 2018 2:56PMBY SAMANTHA BENIAC-BROOKSTAGSATRALIASOCIAL ISSUPACIFICATRALIASHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHAREREMEND FOR YOU
• SHOCKG NEW REPORT TAILS THE EXTENT OF GAY NVERSN THERAPY ATRALIA
• VICTORIA IS ABOUT TO PASS "THE WORLD'S MOST SIGNIFINT ACHIEVEMENT" ON GAY NVERSN.
• ‘THE WORLD IS WATCHG’: QUEER MUNY PH NSW TO BAN GAY NVERSN PRACTIC ON EVE OF WORLDPRI
• HERE'S WHAT IT'S LIKE TO GO THROUGH GAY CONVERSN THERAPY IN ATRALIA
• 60 MUT: GAY CONVERSN THERAPY STILL PRACTICED CHURCH ACROSS ATRALIA
• QUEENSLAND BE FIRST ATRALIAN STATE TO OUTLAW GAY NVERSN THERAPY

GAY NVERSN THERAPY IS HAPPENG SECRET ATRALIA, REPORT FDS

After he had gay sex for the first time, church lears asked Benson to renounce Baal (an Old Ttament god of the Phoenicians) and exorcise the spir of sodomy. "The vil won't have a chance wh you now, " they told cycled back home wh his school bag on his back, and that was the last time he went to gay nversn therapy. Stori like this are part of a landmark report released today to the nature, extent and impact of gay nversn therapy Atralia.

GAY NVERSN THERAPY STILL HAPPENG ATRALIAA REPORT HAS REVEALED THE FAH-BASED PRACTICE STILL EXISTS AND IS G TRMA FOR THOSE SUBJECT TO .THE REARCH REVEALS THAT LGBT NVERSN THERAPY REMAS A REAL PROBLEM ATRALIAN RELIG MUNI. SOURCE: AAPBENSON ANDREWS WAS JT HTG PUBERTY WHEN HE STARTED TO REALISE HE WAS ATTRACTED TO MEN.BEE HE STRICTLY FOLLOWED THE CHRISTIAN FAH, THE MELBOURNE MAN FELT HE NEED TO DO SOMETHG ABOUT . “I REACHED OUT TO A YOUTH PASTOR AT THE CHURCH AND I BELIEVE THE LANGUAGE THAT I ED AT THE TIME WAS, 'I'M STGGLG WH MY HOMOSEXUALY',” HE TOLD SBS NEWS.MR ANDREWS, NOW 29, PUT HIMSELF THROUGH SO-LLED 'GAY NVERSN THERAPY' THE HOPE  WOULD MAKE HIM ATTRACTED TO WOMEN.THE REPORT NFIRMS RELIG NVERSN THERAPY AND RELATED PRACTIC ARE PERVASIVE MANY FAH MUNI. SOURCE: SUPPLIED“IN CHURCH LIFE, YOU ARE NSTANTLY BEG TOLD A MSAGE THAT ['S A] MAN AND A WOMAN, ADAM AND EVE, A RELATNSHIP IS THE BT WHEN 'S BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN, HOW TO BE THE RIGHT FATHER, HOW TO BE THE RIGHT HBAND TO YOUR WIFE,” MR ANDREWS SAID.  “AND FOR WOMEN, THEY’RE TOLD, WHAT WERE THEIR ROL WH THE CHURCH? WHAT WERE THEIR ROL THE BIBLE? HOW IS THAT THEIR JOB TO SUPPORT THEIR HBAND? HOW IS THEIR JOB TO BE A MOTHER TO THEIR CHILDREN?”AT THE TIME HE HADN’T HAD SEX OR EVEN ENGAGED WH HIS SEXUALY BUT SAID HE KNEW THERE WAS SOMETHG WH HIM “THAT WASN’T RRECT.”“I FELT LIKE I WAS SORT OF STG ON A LANDME, YOU KNOW, I WAS DANGERO. I KNEW THERE WAS SOMETHG THAT NEED TO BE CHANGED.”REPORT REVEALS EXTENT OF PRACTICEMR ANDREWS' SE IS JT ONE OF MANY FEATURED A NEW REPORT REVEALG NVERSN THERAPY AND RELATED PRACTIC STILL EXIST ATRALIA'S CHURCH. THE HUMAN RIGHTS LAW CENTRE THORED THE REPORT, 'PREVENTG HARM, PROMOTG JTICE', ALONG WH LA TROBE UNIVERSY AND GAY AND LBIAN HEALTH VICTORIA.THE FIRST REPORT OF S KD ATRALIA, TIMAT UP TO 10 PER CENT OF LGBTIQ+ ATRALIANS ARE STILL EXPOSED TO NVERSN THERAPY.THE CENTRE CLAIMED THE THERAPY OCCURS ACROSS A RANGE OF FAHS AND IS HARMG LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE. AT LEAST 10 ANISATNS ATRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND CURRENTLY ADVERTISE THE PROVISN OF NVERSN THERAPI.DIRECTOR OF LEGAL ADVOCY AT THE HUMAN RIGHTS LAW CENTRE, ANNA BROWN. SOURCE: AAPANNA BROWN, THE LAW CENTRE'S DIRECTOR OF LEGAL ADVOCY, SAID  HAPPENS AWAY OM THE ATTENTN OF MANY ATRALIANS.THE REPORT  AMID A DISCSN ABOUT RELIG EEDOMS  ATRALIA AND HOW FAR THEY SHOULD GO.'HYPNOSIS AND EXORCISM'MR ANDREWS FIRST UNRTOOK RMAL THERAPY, WHERE HE WAS MENTORED BY THOSE WH THE CHURCH MUNY.AFTER SOME TIME, HE AND THE CHURCH OFFICIALS REALISED WASN'T WORKG. THAT WAS WHEN HE STARTED MORE FORMAL THERAPY.MR ANDREWS SCRIBED GOG THROUGH “HYPNOSIS AND EXORCISM.”HIS THERAPIST EVEN STARTED MAKG HIM BELIEVE WAS THE FLT OF HIS PARENTS, CLAIMG HIS MOTHER FLUENCED TOO MUCH OF HIS LIFE AND THAT MA HIM “MORE OF A FEME BOY”. THE THERAPIST ALSO TOLD HIM HE WAS ATTRACTED TO MEN BEE HE DID NOT GET THE LOVE HE NEED OM HIS FATHER.READ MOREUK TO BAN GAY 'NVERSN THERAPY' AFTER WORLD’S LARGT SURVEYTODAY, MR ANDREWS MATAS A GOOD RELATNSHIP WH HIS FAY, BUT HE SAID THE EXPERIENCE LEFT HIM FEELG TRMATISED AND HE STILL EXPERIENC NIGHT TERRORS.THE EXPERIENCE MEANT HAVG TO REJECT THE CHURCH.“IT WAS A CISN BETWEEN BEG GAY AND BEG GOOD FAH WH GOD,” HE SAID.“THE IA OF THE THERAPY WAS; GOD N DO THIS, GOD N HEAL YOU, GOD HAS A PLAN FOR YOU, BUT IF YOU DON'T DO THE HARD WORK, IF YOU DON'T KEEP UP GOOD FAH, IF YOU STAY NTACT WH QUEER IENDS, IF YOU ENGAGE SEX, IF YOU LOOK AT PORNOGRAPHY, IF YOU EVEN LET YOURSELF THKG ABOUT A BOY OR CHECKG OUT A GUY, ALL OF THOSE THGS ARE OPENG DOORWAYS FOR THE VIL TO HAVE A HOLD YOUR LIFE.”MS BROWN SAID THE REPORT FOUND MANY OTHERS HAD SIAR EXPERIENC.THEY HAD THERAPY THE FORM OF FAH-BASED UNSELLG OR PASTORAL ACTIVI, FOCG ON THE BELIEF HOMOSEXUALY MEANS AN DIVIDUAL IS BROKEN AND NEEDS TO BE REPAIRED. SHE SAID WAS MON FOR DIVIDUALS TO THEN REJECT THEIR FAH.MANY DIVIDUALS ALSO FEEL SELF-HATRED, LONELS AND BEG THOUGHTS OF SUICI, AMONG OTHER ISSU, SHE SAID.WILL BE BANNED?THE REPORT REMENDS ADULTS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO NTUE TO SEEK FAH-BASED GUIDANCE ABOUT THEIR SEXUALY IF THEY WISH BEE LEGISLATG AGAST WOULD LIM RELIG EEDOM.BUT, SAYS, THE ISSUE IS WH THOSE WHO DO NOT WISH TO GO THROUGH THE THERAPY, PARTICULARLY CHILDREN, OFTEN FORCED TO BY RELIG STUTNS OR THEIR PARENTS.FERAL PARLIAMENT VOT ON CHANGG THE MARRIAGE BILL 2017. SOURCE: AAPMS BROWN SAID ATRALIA HAS BEEN PROACTIVE MOVG TO BAN THE PRACTICE BUT MORE MT BE DONE.“COMPARED TO JURISDICTNS ACROSS THE WORLD, ATRALIA ALREADY HAS SOME PROTECTNS AGAST NVERSN THERAPY BUT WE NEED TO HAVE STRONGER LAWS AS WELL AS TN, AWARENS RAISG AND SUPPORT FOR SURVIVORS.”BUT SHE ACKNOWLEDGED LAW REFORM IS ONLY PART OF THE PICTURE.“WE DON'T WANT TO DRIVE THE PRACTIC FURTHER UNRGROUND AND WE KNOW THAT REAL CULTURAL CHANGE WH SUPPORTG FAH-BASED MUNI, WORKG PARTNERSHIP WH THEM TO REGNISE THE HARM THE PRACTIC ARE OCCURRG AND FDG A WAY FOR THEIR PASTORAL RE OF LGBT PEOPLE TO SUPPORT AND PROTECT THEM”, SHE SAID.MR ANDREWS IS HOPEFUL THAT THE PRACTICE WILL BE OUTLAWED ONE DAY.“AT FIRST I THOUGHT, 'THIS IS , I'M GIVG UP ON THE THERAPY, I'M ACCEPTG THIS GAY LIFE AND I KNOW THAT I'M ACCEPTG ', I THOUGHT THAT I WAS ACCEPTG A UNTERFE VERSN OF WHOLOMENS,” HE SAID.“ONCE I GOT OVER THAT FEELG WAS A SENSE OF RELIEF, BEE I DIDN'T HAVE TO KEEP PRETENDG THAT I WAS TRYG TO BE STRAIGHT ANYMORE. I KNEW THE THERAPY WASN'T WORKG, I KNEW THAT WAS HARMFUL.”SHARE6 M READPUBLISHED 15 OCTOBER 2018 2:56PMBY SAMANTHA BENIAC-BROOKSTAGSATRALIASOCIAL ISSUPACIFICATRALIASHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHAREREMEND FOR YOU

Produced by the Human Rights Law Centre, Gay and Lbian Health Victoria, and La Trobe Universy, the report has found nversn practic are not recedg, but are enterg the mastream wh particular Christian report provis the first amic rearch on the LGBT nversn movements least 10 anisatns Atralia and New Zealand currently advertise the provisn of nversn therapi, acrdg to the report. In 2014, ne ex-lears of the 'Gay Conversn Therapy Movement' offered a public apology for the damage their movement had ed.

SHOCKG NEW REPORT TAILS THE EXTENT OF GAY NVERSN THERAPY ATRALIA

"It's lled 'unwanted same-sex attractn'When Benson hopped on his bike every Wednday and cycled to the lol church, he didn't thk he was attendg gay nversn therapy. " Exampl of morn gay nversn therapy quasi-psychologil approach is typil of current gay nversn therapy practic, acrdg to Dr Jon. All Atralian health thori, cludg the Christian Counsellors Associatn of Atralia, now "strongly oppose any form of mental health practice that treats homosexualy as a disorr, or seeks to change a person's sexual orientatn".

However, existg laws and regulatns erng registered medil profsnals and healthre servic provi important Victoria, sce 2016, the Health Complats Commissner has had the power to vtigate and rpond to plats of gay nversn therapy. 'I was the secretly gay pta of a private Christian school'Prime Mister Stt Morrison refed to le out the proposal, and a member of his party, Liberal MP Alex Hawke, exprsed rponse, some church lears and headmasters of private Christian schools have taken a stand agast the proposal, sayg is harmful to Jon said he was anx about releasg the nversn therapy report, which has already been layed by the same-sex marriage plebisce, at this time.

VICTORIA IS ABOUT TO PASS "THE WORLD'S MOST SIGNIFINT ACHIEVEMENT" ON GAY NVERSN.

"Why is the church so termed to practice s ways, to protect s tn system, bee gay people uld rro that? Conversn therapy volv practic aimed at changg the sexual orientatn, genr inty or exprsn of lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and genr diverse people. Conversn therapy enurag ternalised homophobia, self-hatred, shame and nfn about sexualy and genr inty.

"Growg up a loud Greek hoehold, Erenie always felt like the odd one sld by her fay for not ftg to the expected genr role, she was labelled a all changed when Erenie's iend ved her to attend church wh her her as their own, this new fay treated her as their dghter, and for the first time her life, Erenie felt this acceptance she had long craved was short-lived, as the fay's stance on homosexualy was clear: Erenie had to stop beg new fay promised to help change her sexual their support, this is when Erenie's journey of exorcisms, prayers and unsellg began. 'Get God and gay out'But after years of failed nversn "therapy", It was suggted that Erenie went to a place lled Mercy people around Erenie, who she loved and tsted, told her to go bee this place uld "fix" left Tasmania to jo Mercy Mistri, whout her parents' was a cisn that would change Erenie's life forever. My treatment was to get God and gay out, " she s webse, Mercy Mistri said  treated women aged 16 to 28 years old by "providg hom and re for young women sufferg the effects of eatg disorrs, self-harm, abe, prsn, unplanned pregnanci and other life-ntrollg issu" former clients of Mercy Mistri claim they were nied profsnal help and were stead exorcised and told simply to repent their publicy and an vtigatn by the ACCC forced the closure of a ntroversial unsellg program lked to the evangelil Hillsong church.

‘THE WORLD IS WATCHG’: QUEER MUNY PH NSW TO BAN GAY NVERSN PRACTIC ON EVE OF WORLDPRI

"They ma believe that we'd actually chosen to be gay, and was a direct rult of our fathers not huggg enough when we were ltle and om listeng to K. (ABC News: Le Bown)'I've ma an appotment for you'It was the late the televisn was clicked on a nservative hoehold southern Tasmania, protts filled the screen as the LGBTQIA+ muny mpaigned for homosexualy to be crimalised the state — somethg that was only achieved Larks's mother labelled the "gay agenda" and said the mpaign was to "rpt fai, rpt children and rec children" a very young age, Bron knew she was different om her six sisters. "The nversn "therapy" went for eight ssns, and Bron was given a tape rerdg to listen to every hypnotherapist's voice played on repeat, wearg her down to believe that homosexuals had somethg herently broken wh their bra, they had experienced fay trma, or that they were jt pretendg to be same-sex attracted for attentn.

"And worst of all, that homosexual people are paedophil and that's what gay people did, rec young children for that, which is not te at all, " Bron says. "Any ht of homosexualy and basilly you would be ccified, you would be ad meat that environment.

HERE'S WHAT IT'S LIKE TO GO THROUGH GAY CONVERSN THERAPY IN ATRALIA

Confsg he was same-sex attracted, the group put him touch wh a mistry the south of the hearg the mistry uld "heal" homosexualy, Glen jumped the r and drove to meet them. (ABC News: Le Bown)But after 21 years of nversn practic, Glen realised he was still gay and nothg would change cid to embrace his sexualy. "When I hear om survivors that they have been put through exorcisms bee they're gay, or they've been sent off to mps terstate which are basilly like prison … We have failed them as a society, " he 2019, La Trobe Universy surveyed more than 6, 000 LGBTQIA+ Atralians aged between 14 to 21 years and clud qutns about their experience wh nversn 4 per cent of the group had attend nversn practic through programs, group work, unsellg and terventns that were aimed at changg their sexual or genr inty.

Fdgs by La Trobe Universy, the Human Rights Law Centre and Gay and Lbian Health Victoria show nversn therapy “remas a real problem Atralian relig muni, ” wh at least 10 anisatns across Atralia and New Zealand actively advertisg the psdoscientific practice.

60 MUT: GAY CONVERSN THERAPY STILL PRACTICED CHURCH ACROSS ATRALIA

Moreover, the availabily of nversn therapy has also perpetuated ternalised homophobia, self-hatred, and nfn about sexualy and genr inty wh the LGBTQI+ muny. “I reached out to a youth pastor at the church and I believe the language that I ed at the time was, 'I'm stgglg wh my homosexualy', ” he told SBS Andrews, now 29, put himself through so-lled 'gay nversn therapy' the hope  would make him attracted to report nfirms relig nversn therapy and related practic are pervasive many fah muni.

The Human Rights Law Centre thored the report, 'Preventg Harm, Promotg Jtice', along wh La Trobe Universy and Gay and Lbian Health first report of s kd Atralia, timat up to 10 per cent of LGBTIQ+ Atralians are still exposed to nversn centre claimed the therapy occurs across a range of fahs and is harmg lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people. ”Ms Brown said the report found many others had siar had therapy the form of fah-based unsellg or pastoral activi, focg on the belief homosexualy means an dividual is broken and needs to be repaired. “At first I thought, 'this is , I'm givg up on the therapy, I'm acceptg this gay life and I know that I'm acceptg ', I thought that I was acceptg a unterfe versn of wholomens, ” he said.

A SHOCKING new report has tailed the extent of gay nversn therapy landmark report, nducted by La Trobe Universy and the Human Rights Law Centre, highlights disturbg ttimoni om people who went through a form of gay nversn therapy — some willgly, others by force — an attempt to bee rights groups have universally nmned the practice for the eply harmful physil, psychologil and emotnal impact has on those who take nversn therapy emerged the early 1970s, wh relig lears claimg was possible to “ee one’s self” om homosexualy through their 1978, Peter Lane found Liberty Mistry — Atralia’s first “ex-gay” mistry — although the report suggts nversn therapy programs were offered prr to practic mostly emerged om nservative Prottant Christian muni, although the rearchers note n be found all the major programs entailed var activi aimed at “repairg” one’s sexual orientatn, fiance of medil, psychiatric and psychologil the early 1990s, the ex-gay movement had gone global, and by 2002 Atralia and New Zealand, there were over 30 ex-gay mistri *, now 48 years old, was sent to nversn therapy after she told her mother she was love wh another young woman at her church parents and extend fay were missnari and misters who shut her away a mental hospal when she was jt 17 years told the rearchers she was ma to s a bath full of ice cub while Bible vers were read to her over and over aga, of beg handcuffed to her bed at night and prived of sleep. ”Mark* said he had been aware of his same-sex attractn for as long as he uld remember, but he didn’t e out until had been married to a woman for 30 years and had six children, but they thought he uld jt “pray away the gay” s, he attempted to get rid of his same-sex sir, but the task proved impossible. ”Counsellors gave him the narrative of “overbearg mother, absent father”, and he said at one pot, the unsellor almost nvced him he had been sexually abed as a child, which he hadn’*, now 44, was part of an ex-gay program two years told the rearchers his group would meet every fortnight to watch DVD ttimoni om ex-gay church lears.

QUEENSLAND BE FIRST ATRALIAN STATE TO OUTLAW GAY NVERSN THERAPY

Members would pray together, read different ex-gay ttimoni and discs Bible passag that evangelil Christians ed as evince of homosexualy beg a also said he’d be forced to lie to unsellors who asked him about his progrs: “She sort of asked, ‘Are you fdg women attractive?