Shock the Gay Away: Secrets of Early Gay Aversn Therapy Revealed (PHOTOS) | HuffPost Voic

Contents:

• PEOPLE WHO ARE GAY, LBIAN OR BI HAVE MORE MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE E PROBLEMS, SURVEY FDS
• GAY CULTURE HAS GROWN TOXIC WH UNCHECKED PRIVILEGE. IT'S TIME FOR TO RET
• CAMERON MONAGHAN PLAYS AN OPENLY GAY MAN ON 'SHAMELS,' BUT IS HE IRL?
• INSANE VS GAY - WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?SANE | GAY |AS AN ADJECTIVE SANEIS EXHIBG UNSOUNDNS OR DISORR OF MD; NOT SANE; MAD; RANGED MD; LIR; DISTRACTED .AS A NOUN GAY ISNAPE.AS A VERB GAY ISTO SANE
• FEATURED QUIZZ & STORI
• WHAT HAPPENS WHEN GAY PEOPLE ARE TOLD THAT HOMOSEXUALY IS A S?
• ON GAY JEALOY
• SHOCK THE GAY AWAY: SECRETS OF EARLY GAY AVERSN THERAPY REVEALED (PHOTOS)

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

Osborne told Time magaze Febary that he is gay and has known for years, but he kept a secret bee of untry mic's mostly nservative fan base. 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. And about a third of all bisexual people and gay mal said they had a problem wh a substance e disorr the year before they filled out the survey, the report found.

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. Jeremy Kidd, a psychiatrist who has worked on studi to improve health out for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer populatns.

“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. Bisexuals may face more challeng bee they may be experiencg mory strs a way that is different om people who intify as gay or lbian, he said.

GAY CULTURE HAS GROWN TOXIC WH UNCHECKED PRIVILEGE. IT'S TIME FOR TO RET

“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. Burecrats the Eisenhower admistratn learned that Tattersall, a married man wh a history of mental illns, was what was then pejoratively labelled a “self-admted homosexual. The vtigator wrote a report that Tattersall and his iend had ed “var homosexual terms, ” reunts Universy of South Florida profsor David Johnson his 2004 book on the persecutn of queer Amerins durg the Cold War, The Lavenr Sre.

Francis and Felts had their first major breakthrough last Augt when they vised the Jean-Nickols Tretter Collectn Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, and Transgenr Studi at the Universy of Mnota.

CAMERON MONAGHAN PLAYS AN OPENLY GAY MAN ON 'SHAMELS,' BUT IS HE IRL?

“Chasg all of the homosexuals out of one cy (even assumg such a thg were possible) would not solve the problem of homosexualy, any more than chasg all of the thiev out of one cy would solve the problem of dishonty, ” he explaed. “Karpman was not unual his efforts to treat and cure people of homoxualy and what he lled ‘trasnvtism, ’” says Rega Kunzel, who leads Prceton Universy’s program genr and sexualy and curated the Karpman papers while at the Universy of Mnota. “He’s ls of a dogmatic psychoanalyst than many people practicg at the time and he was a very strong cric of the crimalizatn of homosexualy.

Elizabeths patients, received shock treatments and lobotomi for prsn or schizophrenia, which physicians thought was closely related to homosexualy.

INSANE VS GAY - WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?SANE | GAY |AS AN ADJECTIVE SANEIS EXHIBG UNSOUNDNS OR DISORR OF MD; NOT SANE; MAD; RANGED MD; LIR; DISTRACTED .AS A NOUN GAY ISNAPE.AS A VERB GAY ISTO SANE

He drew up at least one “qutnnaire for specific typ of sexual viat, ” which asked patients whether they believed “there n be a lastg emotnal relatnship between two homosexuals” and how uld be mataed.

Kunzel scrib Karpman as “a kd of heterodox Frdian” who was “not moralizg at all about homosexualy or genr nonnformy, ” but did believe that people uld be “cured. Wed Overholser, the supertennt of the hospal om 1937 to 1962 and the print of Amerin Psychiatric Associatn for one year, was stmental argug that homosexuals should be separated om the ary and unrgo clil therapy.

Overholser was a chief archect of polici that lumped LGBTQ people to a bal of sexual generat (killers, rapists, voyrs, pedophil, homosexuals) durg the perd followg World War II. Navy, where he distguished between a “small group” of people stuck “the homosexual level” of psychologil velopment who would “rort to vlence to pel submissn to their mands, ” and another group of “homosexuals who engage their chosen sexual activy wh others of like tast.

FEATURED QUIZZ & STORI

He acknowledged that “the emotnal reactn of the public agast homosexual activy” was “out of all proportn” wh homosexualy’s actual threat to personal rights and public orr, ” but then remend that gays be promptly discharged om the armed forc. Rumored to be gay, Hoover pursued efforts to ot homosexuals om civil service, cludg by famoly requirg FBI supervisors to “unrle green pencil the nam of dividuals mentned any report, letter, memorandum, newspaper article or other munitn who are alleged to be sex viat.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN GAY PEOPLE ARE TOLD THAT HOMOSEXUALY IS A S?

One picts ncentric circl bisected by the words “homosexualy” and “ct, ” both of which are surround by two curved stanc of the word “masturbatn.

1, ” featur a flow chart of a “fay settg” that rembl a game of “Chut and Ladrs” wh dramatic out: “paternal ambivalence, ” “guilt, ” “ferry, ” “latent homosexualy, ” “fay slavery, ” “tratn, ” “maral difficulti, ” “psychic impotence, ” “oedip plex, ” “paraphiliac tennci eptg to the surface. ” Another chart, on “subclil acute homosexual panic, ” is lor-d by time of diagnosis and centered around the word “guilt, ” which appears three tim ncentric circl. In the Mattache Society’s acunt, which a few amics have penntly reviewed, the hospal was a “headwater” of psdoscientific theori about LGBTQ people that bed the psychoanalytic teachgs of Sigmund Frd wh Amerin homophobia.

ON GAY JEALOY

It is also a harbger of specifilly anti-LGBTQ polici that persist: the ban on transgenr servicemembers floated by Print Donald Tmp; nied bathroom accs for people whose genr inti do not match the genrs assigned to them at birth; ternatnal persecutn of gay men and women; and, some rners of the U. But even though the nversatns that muted this lumn for six weeks are nowhere close to beg over, I do feel like some thgs that me up durg that time of ntemplatn are worth sayg now — particularly to my fellow whe gay cis out more stori on LGBTQ+ ins and activistsHowever, the ghost of Larry Kramer very much remaed my own head as I ma my way through a Pri month unlike any other. I spent a few quiet afternoons readg his 1978 but novel Faggots, a satiril (yet clearly tobgraphil) look at the liv of gay men 1970s New York Cy that he wrote jt before AIDS ma him a figurehead of Amerin activism.

Followg a man his late 30s (based on Kramer himself) who is seekg out a lovg, long-term relatnship a sea of hedonism, the novel has a clear msage: gay men need to start lovg each other stead of beg so obssed wh gettg fucked up and (lerally and figuratively) fuckg each other.

- Larry Kramer his but novelUpon publitn, Faggots was dismissed by many as puranil and self-loathg for s cricism of gay men's obssn wh vany, promiscuy and recreatnal dg e.

SHOCK THE GAY AWAY: SECRETS OF EARLY GAY AVERSN THERAPY REVEALED (PHOTOS)

And while, on one level, the book is a wild (if at tim problematic) wdow to an era of gay culture 40 years the past, also felt like had a lot to say about gay culture today. In mastream gay media, the phrase almost always refers to a fairly specific subset of the LGBTQ "muny" largely ma up of whe gay cis men — even though many of the battl won around queer rights were fought by people of lour, trans and genr-nonnformg folks, and queer women, and fact the morn Pri movement self was large part iated by Black trans women.

If an imprsn of a monolhic "gay culture" fed by such a homogeneo mographic exists, is bee whe gay cis men have until very recently domated mastream reprentatn unr the LGBTQ umbrella and have, general, been hand a level of privilege the last that is wildly disproportnate to any other mographic unr said umbrella. When was the last time I actually had a good time at gay bar full of people I have fely spoken to on social media or apps but who act like I'm pletely sane when I se or say hello person? In analyzg the show's pictn of young gay men livg San Francis, wrer Daniel Wenger diagnos what he terms the "new gay sadns": an entire generatn of urban, privileged gay men who seem to have no clue what they're lookg for or who they are.

Largely born the 1980s, they are the earlit wave of a "post-Stonewall, post-plague, post-activist" generatn of gays — "too old to have brought a boy to the prom and too young to have nursed a fantasy of nng away to an urban gay utopia, " Wenger explas. Queeri5 pneerg LGBTQ Canadian films you n watch for ee right nowI've seen many of my fellow whe gay cis men seemgly rise to the ocsn by retweetg Black and Indigeno voic, gog to ralli and vowg to te themselv on how to tly be anti-racist (though how performative that is some s is unclear).