1505: Did Dall H. Oaks Lie about Gay Electroshock Therapy at BYU? | Mormon Stori

Contents:

• GAY 'NVERSN THERAPY': MAN GIVEN ELECTRIC SHOCKS MANDS APOLOGY
• GAY MEN GIVEN ELECTRIC SHOCKS 'TO CURE HOMOSEXUALY' AT QUB
• MORMON 'GAY CURE' STUDY USED ELECTRIC SHOCKS AGAST HOMOSEXUAL FEELGS
• SHOCK THE GAY AWAY: SECRETS OF EARLY GAY AVERSN THERAPY REVEALED (PHOTOS)
• 1505: DID DALL H. OAKS LIE ABOUT GAY ELECTROSHOCK THERAPY AT BYU?
• DALL OAKS SAYS SHOCK THERAPY OF GAYS DIDN’T HAPPEN AT BYU WHILE HE WAS PRINT. RERDS SHOW OTHERWISE.
• DID MIKE PENCE SUPPORT 'GAY CONVERSN' THERAPY?
• THIS GAY MAN WAS GIVEN REPEATED ELECTRIC SHOCKS BY BRISH DOCTORS TO MAKE HIM STRAIGHT
• HORRIFIC TAILS OF GAY MAN’S ELECTROSHOCK TREATMENT ENDURED AT BELFAST UNIVERSY
• GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS
• 'GAY CONVERSN' THERAPY SURVIVORS SHARE HORRIFIC EXPERIENC IN NEW DOCUMENTARY

GAY 'NVERSN THERAPY': MAN GIVEN ELECTRIC SHOCKS MANDS APOLOGY

A gay man who went through months of electric shock "therapy" a universy psychology partment 50 years ago has mand an - not his real name - went to his GP for advice the 1970s, when he beme aware of his sexualy his doctor said he knew someone who uld "cure" him.

'Hefty electric shock'Homosexualy had only been -crimalised 1967, and mastream society was still eply disapprovg of the, now 74, remembers beg told that "even havg a sex change" would be better for him than ntug to live as a gay man, and so he mted to the prcribed treatment which he had been guaranteed would work.

GAY MEN GIVEN ELECTRIC SHOCKS 'TO CURE HOMOSEXUALY' AT QUB

Banng nversn therapy In 2018, the UK ernment announced that "gay nversn therapi" were to be banned, as part of a plan to improve the liv of gay and transgenr people. Media ptn, Gareth went to gay nversn therapy for four years and says ma him 'feel broken' "You nnot cure beg LGBT, you nnot erase om society.

MORMON 'GAY CURE' STUDY USED ELECTRIC SHOCKS AGAST HOMOSEXUAL FEELGS

Image source, Dr Tommy DicksonImage ptn, Dr Tommy Dickson said that e of electril aversn therapy had been almost totally abandoned by the mid-1970s the UK"When I was about 15, I realised I am one of the people who are homosexuals and who are reviled really by the society I grew up , so was a big shock to me.

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

"John was also enuraged to date women while unrgog the a rearch paper published the Ulster Medil Journal 1973, amics om the partments of Mental Health, Social Studi and Psychology at QUB said their e of electril aversn therapy was rare by that they did still e evince treatment worked"We have a particular tert the e of methods for producg heterosexual tert exclive homosexuals, " they reported.

"The most fluential factor rcg the e of the treatments was the growg gay liberatn movement as queer men and women were ung and refutg that sickns label that had been attributed to them, " he source, PAcemakerImage ptn, Thoands attend the Belfast Pri para 2019A spokperson for Queen's Universy Belfast said that, regrettably, aversn therapy was ed a number of suatns the past.

"Luckily, fairly soon afterwards I did start to meet some gay people and my life changed pletely then and sce then thgs have been much better. "I was never actively gay, never had any enunters wh men -- never had moments when I failed and actually had sex wh other men, " he his unrcurrent of feelgs put him direct nflict wh the Church of J Christ of the Latter-day Sats (LDS) and s prcipl.

1505: DID DALL H. OAKS LIE ABOUT GAY ELECTROSHOCK THERAPY AT BYU?

"I thought he was my savr, " said Cameron, who enrolled wh 13 other willg subjects, all Mormons who thought they might be gay, for a three- to six-month urse of therapy. Psychologists nfirm those harsh experiments were ed a variety of medil settgs by scientists of all officials say they no longer support aversn therapy, but a generatn who grew up the 1970s say they have been srred for life bee of well-tentned attempts to change their sexual, the church still steadfastly oppos homosexualy, as wnsed by the lns of dollars support gave to pass California's Proposn 8, which would amend the state's nstutn to outlaw gay P.

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

"The BYU Counselg Center never practiced therapy that would volve chemil or duced vomg, " she, therapi are all "male theraptic approach, " acrdg to Jenks, and all faculty are expected to be licensed and programs universy, which is owned by the Mormon Church, said s policy on homosexualy is le wh Mormon doctre -- today's stunts are not discipled unls they engage sexual activy, and that clus heterosexual sex before marriage. "BYU will rpond to homosexual behavr rather than to feelgs or attractn, and wel as full members of the universy muny all whose behavr meets universy standards, " said Jenks.

"Play About 1976 Shock Therapy OpensCameron, who is now openly gay, wrote a play about his shock therapy experience, "14, " which clus much of McBri's ntroversial dissertatn. "Connell O'Donovan, who now works at the Universy of California, Santa Cz, told he was sent to BYU 1976 for vom therapy, but uldn't go through wh said s unselg servic never nducted such treatment, but O'Donovan unters that he was evaluated by Joseph Smh Fay Livg Center, another service on 1986, he said he volunteered for "extremely bilatg hypnotherapy" through another Utah unselg center, He said a Mormon tern hypnotized him, spltg him to "Gay Connell" and "Straight Connell.

DID MIKE PENCE SUPPORT 'GAY CONVERSN' THERAPY?

""He then had me visualize J g down through the ceilg and utterly stroyg Gay Connell to dt and then 'a mighty wd' blowg all the dt away, " said O'Donovan. "This is a sensive topic for all parti volved, " said Jsi Moody, an LDS public affairs associateShe referred to official statements on homosexualy on their web stat: "The Lord's law of moral nduct is abstence outsi of lawful marriage and fily wh marriage. Silverste was recently given the Amerin Psychologil Associatn Lifetime-Achievement Award for helpg to remove "homosexualy" om the list of illns psychiatry's "Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs" 1973.

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

"Play About 1976 Shock Therapy OpensDavid Melson, print of the advocy group Affirmatn: Gay and Lbian Mormons, said anecdotal rmatn suggts suici rat among gay Mormons may be higher than the general populatn.

HORRIFIC TAILS OF GAY MAN’S ELECTROSHOCK TREATMENT ENDURED AT BELFAST UNIVERSY

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.

GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS

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.

'GAY CONVERSN' THERAPY SURVIVORS SHARE HORRIFIC EXPERIENC IN NEW DOCUMENTARY

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.

Oaks nied that electroshock and vom aversn was ed as a form of “gay nversn therapy” durg Oaks’ tenure as print of Brigham Young Universy. “The Abomable and Dettable Crime Agast Nature: A Revised History of Homosexualy & Mormonism, 1840-1980, ” by Connell O’Donovan.