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

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

Robert Heath claimed to have cured homosexualy by implantg electros to the pleasure centre of the bra. 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. 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.

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

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.

GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS

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

Homosexualy was nsired to be a mental illns. [3] Homosexuals nfed to ncentratn mps would agree to be strated return for gettg shorter sentenc. The so-lled psychiatric facili to cure homosexualy may seem like a thg of the past.

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

In fact, hypnotherapy has been ed as a “cure” for homosexualy for s. In one study om the 1960s, a group of 15 homosexuals was treated wh hypnotherapy an effort to change their sexual orientatn. However, this did not mean that the patients were “cured, ” simply that some of them exprsed ls tert homosexual thoughts and activy after hypnosis.

Nilosi believed that homosexualy was due to genr inty fic issu.

Through his anizatn, Natnal Associatn for Rearch and Therapy of Homosexualy, he ed psychoanalysis, which volved a number of c psychologil methods, to try to replace homosexual sir wh heterosexual on. For homosexual mal, show them pictur of sultry women skimpy attire and, eventually, they’ll bee aroed. When his father found out that Samuel had gay feelgs, Dad punched Sam, then 12, and put him the hospal.