The 'Gay Cure' Experiments That Were Wrten Out Of Scientific History

Contents:

• METH HAS VASTATED THE GAY MUNY FOR S. A NEW TREATMENT OFFERS HOPE.
• THE 1970S “GAY-CURE” EXPERIMENTS WRTEN OUT OF SCIENTIFIC HISTORY
• THE 'GAY CURE' EXPERIMENTS THAT WERE WRTEN OUT OF SCIENTIFIC HISTORY
• GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX (LGBTQI+)

METH HAS VASTATED THE GAY MUNY FOR S. A NEW TREATMENT OFFERS HOPE.

Rearch published JAMA September documented a spike after the first wave of ernment shutdowns the e of meth, e, fentanyl and hero among those diagnosed wh or at risk of substance e and the gay munyMeth has st a heavy cloud over the gay muny particular for s. The Natnal Survey on Dg Use and Health timated that 2015, past-year meth e prevalence was more than four tim higher among gay men pared to straight men — at 4. Rearch also suggts that for people who are livg wh HIV, like Roger, meth exacerbat the vis's harm to the, who said he first started takg meth at gay "circu" parti, said his e of the dg led him to stop gog to the doctor and qu takg his HIV treatment a ago.

Bob Heath's septal regn love sparked iffy experiments for schizophrenia, homosexualy. Robert Heath claimed to have cured homosexualy by implantg electros to the pleasure centre of the bra.

THE 1970S “GAY-CURE” EXPERIMENTS WRTEN OUT OF SCIENTIFIC HISTORY

And they had jt bee part of one of the strangt experiments scientific history: an attempt to e pleasure ndng to turn a gay man straight. He had, the papers said, entered the ary but had been expelled for “homosexual tennci” wh a month.

THE 'GAY CURE' EXPERIMENTS THAT WERE WRTEN OUT OF SCIENTIFIC HISTORY

He had a five-year history of homosexualy, and a three-year history of dg abe: he had tried glu, pats, thners, sedativ, marijuana, LSD, amphetam, even nutmeg and vanilla extract. B-19 featur two 1972 papers: ‘Septal stimulatn for the iatn of heterosexual behavr a homosexual male, ' by Heath and his lleague Charl E Moan, and ‘Pleasure and bra activy man, ' by Heath alone, which set out—apparently for the first time—what happens to human brawav durg asm.

GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS

By 1970, the time of the ‘gay cure’ experiment, there were almost 200 staff and medil stunts unr his supervisn. It wasn’t so long ago that beg lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr was nsired to be abnormal.

In the US the 1970s, you were labeled as havg a mental disorr if you were gay. Although homosexualy was eventually classified as a mental illns by the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn, many homosexuals still thought they were sick. [2] When shown imag that would stimulate aroal for a homosexual, the patient would receive a shock.

If you were found to be gay, you uld expect to be btalized tly horrific ways.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX (LGBTQI+)

Que often, fai who knew they had a gay fay member would send that person to a psychiatric facily.