Former 'Ex-Gay' Lears Denounce 'Conversn Therapy' In A New Documentary : NPR

THE HISTORY OF GETTG THE GAY OUT
‘GET AWAY FROM ME!’: PASTOR GO NUTS WHEN CONONTED ABOUT HIS ABIVE GAY CONVERSN CAMP
8 PEOPLE ON SURVIVG GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
I WAS TORTURED GAY CONVERSN THERAPY. AND IT’S STILL LEGAL 41 STAT.
SOUTH AIN TEENS DIE AFTER ALLEGED ABE AT REPORTED GAY 'CONVERSN' CAMP
FORMER 'EX-GAY' LEARS DENOUNCE 'CONVERSN THERAPY' IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY

THE HISTORY OF GETTG THE GAY OUT

In what looks like a not-to-be missed 20/20 Special wh Brian Ross, we get a behd the scen look at the "hundreds or more" secret, hidn facili that ll themselv "gay nversn" mps. In one extraordary showdown, vtigative reporter Brian Ross nonts Christian Pastor William Knott, who ran an unlicensed gay nversn center Alabama. Thgs quickly lated. * gay conversion camp abuse *

Tle page to Garrard Conley's workbook om the gay-nversn mp Love Actn (NMAH). The mm recently llected materials to document gay-nversn therapy (also lled "reparative therapy")—and the objects allow curators like myself to explore how real people experience the risks.

C., Garrard Conley gave the workbook he ed 2004 at a now funct relig gay-nversn mp Tennsee, lled "Love Actn.

‘GET AWAY FROM ME!’: PASTOR GO NUTS WHEN CONONTED ABOUT HIS ABIVE GAY CONVERSN CAMP

We talked to 8 survivors of gay nversn therapy about seeg their own experienc reflected onscreen Diree Akhvan’s new film The Mistn of Cameron Post, starrg Chloe Grace Moretz. * gay conversion camp abuse *

Conley's memoir of his time there, Boy Erased, chronicl how the mp's nversn therapy followed the ia that beg gay was an addictn that uld be treated wh methods siar to those for abatg dg, alhol, gamblg, and other addictns.

In the Uned Stat, rpons to gay, homosexual, queer, lbian, bisexual, transsexual, and genr non-nformg inti have fluctuated om "Y! Non-nformg behavr unrwent a dramatic shift as the word "homosexualy" (ed 1869)—a unter to heterosexualy—beme popular.

Lobotomy kniv of the sort ed to "treat" homosexualy the 1950s–1970s (NMAH). Homosexualy was nsired a psychiatric disorr until 1973, when was removed om the Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs (DSM). Jt as relig nvictn and fah are part of some addictn programs, relig beliefs about sexualy and genr form the only remag jtifitns for "gay nversn.

8 PEOPLE ON SURVIVG GAY CONVERSN THERAPY

ABC News' Brian Ross tak to plac that many claim no longer exist -- Christian mistri or mps where gay teens are sent by parents who want their children to change their sexualy. * gay conversion camp abuse *

Law enforcement raid the Alabama home 2016, after several boys who were rid the home had ped and told thori they were punished wh forced exercise, solary nfement, and whholdg of Greenfield, who intifi as gay, told police that he was beaten by Wiggs at Blsed Hope. Greenfeld was featured an vtigatn on gay nversn therapy by "20/20" and said Wiggs told him "I'm gog to get the mon out of you and make you straight, " The Star Pkston, a former mp unselor at Blsed Hope, told 20/20 he wnsed Wiggs tntg the boys. They are both beg held on $100, 000 more:Google got spend om a top LGBTQ equaly x after failg to lete a 'nversn therapy' appA proment 'gay nversn therapist' has divorced his wife of 34 years and now intifi as gayThe thor of 'Boy Erased' reveals what gay nversn therapy is really like — and how he survived.

I WAS TORTURED GAY CONVERSN THERAPY. AND IT’S STILL LEGAL 41 STAT.

* gay conversion camp abuse *

Mathew Shurka was 16 when he sat down wh his father and told him he was gay. Wh a week, he had found one who sisted there was no such thg as homosexualy, that everyone is born heterosexual and “same-sex attractn” is the rult of childhood trma or dysfunctnal faial relatnships. I’d never met an actual gay person.

SOUTH AIN TEENS DIE AFTER ALLEGED ABE AT REPORTED GAY 'CONVERSN' CAMP

”Two films about nversn therapy will be released the US this year, which is remarkable, nsirg most people probably thk of as a historil horror, om a time when homosexualy was crimalised and electric shock treatment was routely offered as a cure.

” One activy volved each of the 80 men sharg the trma that supposedly ma them gay. Conversn therapy – sometim referred to as “cure” therapy, reparative therapy, ex-gay therapy or sexual-orientatn change efforts – refers to any treatment aimg to change a person’s sexual orientatn or supprs their genr inty.

It is a nebulo term, enpassg what n be a range of highly damagg practic om an app offerg a 60-day “gay cure”, available on iTun and Google Play as recently as 2013, to spirual terventns, talkg therapi, dgs and, more rarely, extreme physil measur such as electric shock treatment, aversn techniqu and “rrective rape”.