Did Mike Pence Support 'Gay Conversn' Therapy? |

Contents:

• SHOCK THE GAY AWAY: SECRETS OF EARLY GAY AVERSN THERAPY REVEALED (PHOTOS)
• DID MIKE PENCE SUPPORT 'GAY CONVERSN' THERAPY?
• DALL OAKS SAYS SHOCK THERAPY OF GAYS DIDN’T HAPPEN AT BYU WHILE HE WAS PRINT. RERDS SHOW OTHERWISE.
• 5 SURPRISG FACTS ABOUT GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
• THE MAN WHO IED GAY PEOPLE’S BRAS
• THIS GAY MAN WAS GIVEN REPEATED ELECTRIC SHOCKS BY BRISH DOCTORS TO MAKE HIM STRAIGHT

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

Wh the recent announcement om Exod Internatnal that is closg s doors, and wh s lears offerg apologi for their actns, the LGBT muny is now left wonrg, "Can this really be the end of ex-gay reparative therapy?

" While the dt settl on all of this, we have to remd ourselv that wasn't too long ago that reparative therapi had ls to do wh prayg the gay away and more to do wh physilly removg . Before the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn (APA) classified homosexualy as a mental disorr 1973, aversn therapy was ed routely hop that would prevent or elimate homosexual behavr. Devic like the one below were ed by therapists treatg homosexual patients, and some of them were even available for e the nvenience of your own home.

In rercg heterosexual preference latent male homosexuals, male slis give a shock while the stimul relief slis of femal do not give shock. The patient is given a "sli change" hand button which enabl him to pe or avoid a shock by rejectg a shock cue the 1940s, homosexuals were also voluntarily mted to psychiatric facili by their fai, wh the hospals promisg that the patient would eventually leave the facily cured of their "sexual illns. She lived the rt of her life serly disabled a private psychiatric hospal, along wh most of Freeman's homosexual patients, who were perfect health before the surgery.

DID MIKE PENCE SUPPORT 'GAY CONVERSN' THERAPY?

This cisn occurred agast the backdrop of great cultural shifts brought on by the civil rights movements of the 1950s to the 1970s, begng wh the Ain-Amerin civil rights movement and then ntug on wh the women's and gay rights the late 1960s, Christiany Today began prtg articl and edorials ncerned wh the growg homosexual movement.

What we at ONE Natnal Gay & Lbian Archiv do know for sure is that the LGBT muny has persevered, regardls of what was hurled at physilly, psychologilly, or spirually, then and now.

DALL OAKS SAYS SHOCK THERAPY OF GAYS DIDN’T HAPPEN AT BYU WHILE HE WAS PRINT. RERDS SHOW OTHERWISE.

In October 2016, an image appeared on social media accg Indiana's ernor (and Republin printial nomee Donald Tmp's nng mate) Mike Pence of supportg "gay nversn" therapy, particularly the e of electric shocks as part of the practice:. Although he didn't say so outright, the posn has been wily terpreted as signalg Pence's support for "gay nversn" therapy, which seeks to "cure" patients of beg attracted to members of the same sex.

Acrdg to the Amerin Psychologil Associatn, electric shocks were one of the techniqu ed to addrs homosexualy through "aversn therapy" prr to the group's cisn 1973 to stop classifyg as a mental disorr. Psychotheraptic modali to nvert or “repair” homosexualy are based on velopmental theori whose scientific validy is qutnable.

5 SURPRISG FACTS ABOUT GAY CONVERSN THERAPY

The potential risks of reparative therapy are great, cludg prsn, anxiety and self-stctive behavr, sce therapist alignment wh societal prejudic agast homosexualy may rerce self-hatred already experienced by the patients who have unrgone reparative therapy relate that they were accurately told that homosexuals are lonely, unhappy dividuals who never achieve acceptance or satisfactn. The possibily that the person might achieve happs and satisfyg terpersonal relatnships as a gay man or lbian is not prented, nor are alternative approach to alg wh the effects of societal stigmatizatn discsed. Constutn to ny rights to addrs was hailed by some as a step toward empathy by Oaks, a top lear The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats, a former Utah Supreme Court jtice and a former Brigham Young Universy, durg a qutn-and-answer ssn earlier that day at the law school — a vio of which has been circulatg on social media — the first unselor the fah’s erng First Princy refed to discs the impact of the church’s past mistreatment of s LGBTQ tegorilly nied that BYU had ed electroshock therapi on gay stunts durg his tenure om 1971 to 1980.

”Acrdg to rearcher Gregory Prce and others, that statement is monstrably his 2019 book, “Gay Rights and the Mormon Church: Intend Actns, Untend Consequenc, ” Prce c “universy-approved” rearch 1976 by then-BYU graduate stunt Max McBri wh 14 gay subjects. “A gradual crease of voltage upon repeated aroals was to serve as a negative feedback stimul that would, acrdg to the hypothis, ‘reorient’ him om homosexual to heterosexual, wherpon photographs of nu femal were supposed to elic sexual aroal.

”Two weeks after the “treatments, ” subjects offered their self-evaluatns and said they were “signifintly ls homosexual than heterosexual, ” McBri nclud.

THE MAN WHO IED GAY PEOPLE’S BRAS

2 This law, which was re-enacted 1563, was the basis for all male homosexual nvictns until 1885, when the Crimal Asssment Act extend the legal sanctn to any sexual ntact between mal.

2 The end of the 19th century saw the advent of the ncept of homosexualy as a pathologil medil or psychologil ndn, 3-6 which legimised treatments to change . The social nstctn of the diagnosis of homosexualy occurred wh the ntext of powerful socpolil forc agast any variatn om the heterosexual norm that prevailed for much of the 20th century. 6 Though sexual behavur private between adult men was crimalised Bra 1967, treatments to change homosexuals to heterosexuals peaked the 1960s and early 1970s.

They were reced through articl newspapers, gay magaz, and newsletters of gay groups; terviews wh one of the thors (GS) on lol and natnal rad and televisn discsg the project; and direct ntacts wh the rearch team. I felt totally bewilred that my entire emotnal life was beg wrten up the papers as utter filth and 1Those who nfid others were ually met wh silence, nmnatn, and rejectn or told that their homosexual feelgs nstuted a temporary phase.

THIS GAY MAN WAS GIVEN REPEATED ELECTRIC SHOCKS BY BRISH DOCTORS TO MAKE HIM STRAIGHT

Isolatn om other gay young people also drove several, as young adolcents, to engage sexual experimentatn wh adults and vice versa, that might not otherwise have occurred. However, doctors often lacked knowledge and were unfortable wh the disclosure of homosexual feelgs:He said he'd never had any experience wh this and no one had ever raised this before. ”Male 2General practners referred participants to NHS profsnals who were known to specialise treatment of homosexualy.