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Contents:
- 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).
‘GET AWAY FROM ME!’: PASTOR GO NUTS WHEN CONONTED ABOUT HIS ABIVE GAY CONVERSN CAMP
* gay conversion camp abuse *
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.
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 *
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!
I WAS TORTURED GAY CONVERSN THERAPY. AND IT’S STILL LEGAL 41 STAT.
Three Teens Die After Alleged 'Gay Conversn' Camp Torture: Report * gay conversion camp abuse *
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).
SOUTH AIN TEENS DIE AFTER ALLEGED ABE AT REPORTED GAY 'CONVERSN' CAMP
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.
FORMER 'EX-GAY' LEARS DENOUNCE 'CONVERSN THERAPY' IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY
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.