Cure Me I'm Gay: It's Impossible, Says Former Gay Conversn Therapist

Contents:

• UNRVER DOCTOR: CURE ME, I'M GAY
• UNRVER DOCTOR: CURE ME, I'M GAY; FOOD PRIC: THE SHOCKG TTH – TV REVIEW
• I WAS FORCED TO NVERSN THERAPY TO ‘CURE’ ME OF BEG GAY
• I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN
• CURE ME, I'M GAY!
• TV REVIEW: UNRVER DOCTOR: CURE ME, I’M GAY
• CHANNEL 4'S DR CHRISTIAN ASKS: CURE ME, I'M GAY
• ‘HEARTBREAKG’ UNRVER DOCTOR: CURE ME, I’M GAY OUTRAG TV VIEWERS
• WATCH UNRVER DOCTOR: CURE ME, I'M GAY
• CURE ME I'M GAY: IT'S IMPOSSIBLE, SAYS FORMER GAY CONVERSN THERAPIST

UNRVER DOCTOR: CURE ME, I'M GAY

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" Homosexualy is a s that you need to purge om your system, and the only way to do is to follow their three-parts-a-day the app is only downloadable om Google Play (iTun and the 69, 822+ people who petned them don't believe nversn therapy for some reason), there is an abridged versn available on the mistry’s webse. But Hont About Your S (But Not TOO Hont): Adm that you have homosexual tennci, but don’t say anythg else about .

UNRVER DOCTOR: CURE ME, I'M GAY; FOOD PRIC: THE SHOCKG TTH – TV REVIEW

Stop Callg Your Homosexualy an "Alternative Liftyle": It's "Wicked, " "Evil, " and a "S": The are the only thgs you should ever ll om now on, preferably hhed ton. Even better, feel ee to refer to your homosexualy wh water-based metaphors: It's a "broken cistern" that will never satisfy your thirst. Change For the Right Reasons (the Glory Of God): After all, homosexualy is nothg but "lt, porn, and sexual immoraly, " ss that are applible only to gay people and never to straight on.

Always Read Scripture, But Only the Parts We Tell You to: Who knew curg homosexualy uld be so much like dog high school homework?

I WAS FORCED TO NVERSN THERAPY TO ‘CURE’ ME OF BEG GAY

Remove Yourself From Anythg Even Remotely Gay: Don't watch porn (aga, 's only a gay thg), don't go on gay webs, and most of all, certaly don't associate wh gay people. Any of those thgs might make you feel like your homosexualy is a natural part of your inty and n be accepted by those around you.

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If you tly believe God and want to change your sful ways, God will remove all homosexual urg om your md.

I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN

But if at the end of this 60-day therapy, you still have homosexual tennci, then you didn't really believe and you didn't really want to change.

Then, my iend, you are a gay man and, as part of your $3, 000 per month -gayg, the ditors of your viant liftyle will be taken om you and – que possibly – burned on a ceremonial Unrver Doctor: Cure Me, I'm Gay (Channel 4), Christian Jsen met John Smid, former director of the Tennsee ex-gay mistry Love Actn. Smid mmaged through Jsen's luggage lookg for signs of gayns g the world's most hilar measurg vice, the Bible belt gaydar.

"This scene purported to show one of the gay cur that Jsen was unrtakg, which was a b of a cheat: Smid is no longer an ex-gay therapist but a former ex-gay therapist – or, if you prefer, an ex former gay therapist.

CURE ME, I'M GAY!

In fact, Smid is even more nfg: he is a newly gay failed former ex-gay therapist. His gay rehab turned no one straight and he outed himself after leavg the mistry, thereby addg to the world's gay populatn rather than subtractg om . In an otherwise upsettg hour for non-homophob, this was good gay is Dr Christian Jsen?

How gay was he? So gay that he found clouds more arog than women. Only if the several Amerin quack therapists, unqualified doctors and qutnable clergymen, whom Jsen nsulted, were right and beg gay is ally related to a childhood trma – abe by an olr man, or, oooh, I don't know, seeg Ruf Wawright lerhosen at an imprsnable age – that viat you om your God-given heterosexual shockg than the Bible belt bigotry Jsen exposed was to learn that, until 1980, the NHS offered shock therapy to gay men.

TV REVIEW: UNRVER DOCTOR: CURE ME, I’M GAY

Jsen unrwent that treatment, which nsisted of takg a dg to make one vlently ill while lookg at gay porn – orr to associate homosexual aroal wh feelgs of extreme nsea. "Gay sex is unnatural. " The treatment changed no one's sexualy but, surmised Jsen, unrmed participants' nfince and ma them more, Jsen vised a mistry east London where exorcisms are performed to liver gay men om evil.

CHANNEL 4'S DR CHRISTIAN ASKS: CURE ME, I'M GAY

He didn't stoop to try that cure, but stead asked the good qutn: "If homosexualy is ed by some childhood trma, how n be a s?

Perhaps, I reflected, as he took off his top at one pot, for reasons tangential to his vtigatn, and my pupils dilated acrdgly, there is a cure for unsurprisgly emerged om this vtigatn as gay as he went . He uldn't be ls gay. Tuday 18 March at 5:53pmLast year a patient me to see Embarrassg Bodi' Dr Christian Jsen at his clic and asked to be cured of his homosexualy.

‘HEARTBREAKG’ UNRVER DOCTOR: CURE ME, I’M GAY OUTRAG TV VIEWERS

It was followg this shockg vis that Dr Christian, who is openly gay himself, disvered that ntroversial gay-to-straight nversn therapi are still offered both the US and the UK.

So, as part of a new documentary, Dr Christian went unrver to vtigate some of the so-lled gay cur, cludg gay rehab and exorcism, and even tted out some himself. Dr Christian jos to discs the programme: Unrver Doctor: Cure Me, I'm Gay, which is on Channel 4 at 10pm tonight. As a 30-year-old gay man, I’ve met a lot of other queer people who also hid parts of themselv childhood.

Experimentg wh femy the safety of the home — even somethg as mcule as selectg girl characters vio gam and livg virly through her abily to kick ass — seems to be a shared gay experience for many of . None of this mak a person gay, of urse. It feels remiscent of the adoratn that gay fans hold toward old Hollywood beti like Joan Crawford and Judy Garland, or the pageant-style exaggeratns of femy that unrpned so much of early drag culture.

WATCH UNRVER DOCTOR: CURE ME, I'M GAY

Barbie has been the subject of the same gay diva worship over the years, and Gerwig’s film promently featurg LGBTQ+ actors feels like a nod to that history. Part of Barbie’s gay appeal might be that, spe beg plastic and unmalleable, she n transform herself to anythg: doctor, lawyer, judge, journalist, and vet, or whatever Mattel thks will sell the most dolls.

CURE ME I'M GAY: IT'S IMPOSSIBLE, SAYS FORMER GAY CONVERSN THERAPIST

) As the world’s most famo doll, she has been st as both an aspiratnal hero and a rctive villa — the gay world, this polarizg dualy often turns women to ins. After I me out as gay, I spent a lot of my younger adult life reilg when people said that they “already knew. Now, I feel proud of my ltle gay self for havg the urage to play wh those fabulo dolls — and of my parents for buyg me the toys I wanted, not the on I was supposed to like.