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• GAY MEN GIVEN ELECTRIC SHOCKS 'TO CURE HOMOSEXUALY' AT QUB
• 'TORTURED WH ELECTRICY': CHECHEN GAY MEN REUNT DAYS OF ABE
• GAY MEN ‘ELECTROCUTED AND STNG UP BY LEGS’ NEW WAVE OF TORTURE CHECHNYA, SAYS HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP
• ELECTRIC SHOCKS: CHECHEN GAY MEN REUNT DAYS OF TORTURE
• GAY MEN SHARE HORRIFIC DETAILS OF ELECTRIC SHOCK TORTURE SECRET CHECHNYA PRISONS
• THIS GAY MAN WAS GIVEN REPEATED ELECTRIC SHOCKS BY BRISH DOCTORS TO MAKE HIM STRAIGHT
• ABDUCTN, BEATGS, ELECTROCUTN: GAY MAN SCRIB TORTURE CHECHNYA
• GAY 'NVERSN THERAPY': MAN GIVEN ELECTRIC SHOCKS MANDS APOLOGY
• 9 BARBARIC AND BTAL EXPERIMENTS AND TTS GOVERNMENTS PERFORMED ON GAY PEOPLE
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
• GAY MEN GIVEN ELECTRIC SHOCKS 'TO CURE HOMOSEXUALY' AT QUB
• GAY MEN ‘ELECTROCUTED AND STNG UP BY LEGS’ NEW WAVE OF TORTURE CHECHNYA, SAYS HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP
• ELECTRIC SHOCKS: CHECHEN GAY MEN REUNT DAYS OF TORTURE
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

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

"My church was a Prbyterian church, so that was que difficult when I realised I was gay, " he told BBC News NI. 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. The aim of electril aversn therapy was for him to associate homosexual sire wh pa or unpleasant feelgs.

'TORTURED WH ELECTRICY': CHECHEN GAY MEN REUNT DAYS OF ABE

"You would then associate any gay, homosexual feelgs wh somethg unpleasant - a ndned reflex really. "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.

GAY MEN ‘ELECTROCUTED AND STNG UP BY LEGS’ NEW WAVE OF TORTURE CHECHNYA, SAYS HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP

"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.

ELECTRIC SHOCKS: CHECHEN GAY MEN REUNT DAYS OF TORTURE

"It's a feelg like they are breakg every bone of every jot your body at the same time, " he is a gay man om Chechnya, the predomantly Mlim regn southern Rsia where dozens of men spected of beg gay were reportedly taed and tortured, and at least three of them were allegedly his oral, Anzor fled Chechnya and is now hidg Mosw, fearg not only for his own life but for the safety of his relativ. Antipathy to homosexualy Rsia is wispread.

Gay rights activists' requts to hold ralli are routely rejected by officials and any ralli that do take place are often attacked by anti-gay thugs. But "this anti-gay purge, sanctned by top lol thori, is unprecented, " said Tanya Loksha, the Rsia program ordator for Human Rights Watch.

Another gay man, who spoke on ndn of anonymy for fear of reprisals, told the AP that he was also arrted Chechnya and held wh dozens of others.

GAY MEN SHARE HORRIFIC DETAILS OF ELECTRIC SHOCK TORTURE SECRET CHECHNYA PRISONS

"Related: Rsian Police Deta Gay-Rights Activists at May Day MarchThe abe was first reported April by the pennt newspaper Novaya Gazeta, which said that about 100 men spected of beg gay were round up and tortured, and that at least three were killed. Chechen officials vehemently ny not only the reported torture of gays, but sometim their very existence. "There are no homosexuals Chechnya.

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

Homosexualy is a taboo nservative Chechnya, and the gay muny there was ed to leadg a double life — marryg, havg children and hidg their sexualy om even their clost fay members. The only time a gay man Chechnya uld be himself is when he met wh another gay person, typilly through social media, Anzor said.

"Sometim fai turn away om such people, some fai get rid of such people, " he said of gays, a word he is visibly unfortable g. "A monstrator holds a plard pictg Rsian print Vladimir Put wh the label 'Stop Homophobia, ' to nounce the anti-gay mpaign lnched the Rsian provce of Chechnya, durg a prott held on Place la Republique Paris on April 20, 2017. Small tails that Anzor didn't want to make public led the police to believe that he and one of his iends were gay, he were btally beaten ont of the police statn chief and taken to a shed.

"I thought if I would go there, they would be people like that there, too, " he said, lghg other gay man who spoke to the AP said that his oral began when police arrted him a crowd place, bee his number was found the phone of another gay man arrted said that he believed his ptors, drsed mouflage, were abg them one by one a bid to fd more gays. Related: Facebook Groups Raise Over $100, 000 to Help Gay Men Chechnya"They were beatg rmatn out of , " he man, his 30s, said that when the abers lost tert one person, the torture would stop.

ABDUCTN, BEATGS, ELECTROCUTN: GAY MAN SCRIB TORTURE CHECHNYA

Loksha said the methods ed agast gay men echo the ab — 's "their standard toolbox, " she last month met wh Kadyrov the Kreml and the Chechen lear dismissed the reports.

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

We have never seen anythg like this, " said Tatyana Vnichenko, head of the Rsian LGBT Network, which is aidg about 40 gay men who have fled Chechnya recent weeks.

Two of the men have already left Rsia for another untry which is visa-ee for Rsians, and two more have jt received visas and should be leavg for Europe activists have been meetg wh foreign diplomats, pleadg that grantg a visa to gay survivors of torture uld be a matter of savg their liv.

For ee real time breakg news alerts sent straight to your box sign up to our breakg news emailsSign up to our ee breakg news emailsGay men are beg electrocuted and stng up by their legs a new wave of torture Chechnya, acrdg to a human rights Rights Watch said terviewed four gay men who claimed they fled the nservative, predomantly Mlim regn after police allegedly beat and shocked them wh electric currents while they were stng up by their ternatnal group, headquartered New York, said the acunts ma by the men, who were allegedly taed for between three and 20 days between December 2018 and Febary 2019, were nsistent wh a plat an LGBT+ activist filed , January this year, a warng appeared on social media urgg all vulnerable men and women to flee Chechnya as was feared a new “anti-gay purge” was 2017, activists said more than 100 gay men were taed and tortured Chechnya durg a “purge”, and that some were killed. LGBT+ rights around the globeShow all 9There was no immediate ment on the report om Chechen officials, who rejected the allegatns Rights Watch said a report on Wednday that the men terviewed reported beg beaten, huiated and held for up to 20 days wh limed four said terrogators also mand rmatn about other gay men Chechnya, acrdg to the man said he had been livg elsewhere but returned to Chechnya to attend a fay weddg. Support ee-thkg journalism and attend Inpennt eventsHuman Rights Watch said thought the 2017 mistreatment of gay men was not aquately Loksha, the anisatn’s associate director for Europe and Central Asia, said: “The absolute impuny for the anti-gay purge of 2017 embolns the perpetrators.

9 BARBARIC AND BTAL EXPERIMENTS AND TTS GOVERNMENTS PERFORMED ON GAY PEOPLE

”Homosexualy is crimalised Rsia, but animosy towards sexual mori still wily persists. Anzor is a gay man om Chechnya, the predomantly Mlim regn southern Rsia where dozens of men spected of beg gay were reportedly taed and tortured, and at least three of them were allegedly killed.

The abe was first reported April by the pennt newspaper Novaya Gazeta, which said that about 100 men spected of beg gay were round up and tortured, and that at least three were killed. Small tails that Anzor didn't want to make public led the police to believe that he and one of his iends were gay, he said.

The other gay man who spoke to the AP said that his oral began when police arrted him a crowd place, bee his number was found the phone of another gay man arrted earlier. He said that he believed his ptors, drsed mouflage, were abg them one by one a bid to fd more gays. Loksha said the methods ed agast gay men echo the ab — 's "their standard toolbox, " she said.

JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

LGBT activists have been meetg wh foreign diplomats, pleadg that grantg a visa to gay survivors of torture uld be a matter of savg their liv.

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Gay men who have fled Chechnya are revealg horrific tails of the prisons the untry where prisoners are tortured and sometim murred. Last month, Rsian journalists revealed tails of six known prisons for gay men Chechnya.

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

While Chechen Print Ramzan Kadyrov (above) has nied the existence of the prisons for gay men, the ternatnal muny is puttg prsure on Rsian Print Vladimir Put to speak out agast the prisons. Alvi Karimov, a spokman for Chechen lear Ramzan Kadyrov, said bee “there are no homosexuals Chechnya…you nnot ta and persecute those who do not exist. Acrdg to Tanya Loksha, the Rsia program ordator for Human Rights Watch, although LGBT people Rsia often face persecutn, “this anti-gay purge, sanctned by top lol thori, is unprecented.

RELATED: Mar Rub Blasts Torture of Gay Men Chechnya Senate Floor Speech: WATCH. The AP reports on nversatns wh a number of gay men who have fled Chechnya followg horrendo abe mps there. The other gay man who spoke to the AP said that his oral began when police arrted bee his number was found the phone of another gay man arrted earlier.

GAY MEN ‘ELECTROCUTED AND STNG UP BY LEGS’ NEW WAVE OF TORTURE CHECHNYA, SAYS HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP

He thks that his ptors, drsed mouflage, were abg them one by one a bid to fd more gay people. The send man who spoke to the AP said he has no doubt that Put knows about the abductns, torture and murr of gay men Chechnya. Petersburg agast anti-gay ab Chechnya was broken up by Rsian police today as around ten to twenty protters were arrted.

ABCs of Death 2: Durg the attempt to cure the man's gayns "J is for J", the fundamentalists take jumper leads nnected to a r battery and apply them to his genals.

ELECTRIC SHOCKS: CHECHEN GAY MEN REUNT DAYS OF TORTURE

Instead they force him to sg a duet of "I Got You Babe" by Sonny & Cher wh the Big Bad's credibly fat and credibly gay Rben.

Used que effectively (and somewhat humoroly) Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, as the electricy is applied to a very sensive area and another character the opportuny to goad the torturer on the homo-erotic subtext. They/Them (2022): The mp electroshocks for aversn therapy, makg a gay teen watch imag of attractive sntily clad people, both male and female, electrocutg him as he views the former to stop his attractn toward them. They are averted om havg sexual tert any woman, black or whe, and turn Camp Gay.

A succsn of doctors and psychiatrists strapped him to a chair and passed electril currents through his thrashg body bee he was gay.

JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

His story expos a culture of homophobic opprsn filterg through every level of Brish society, and implitg every stutn of power: the health service, the tn system, the state, the yet today Gavs apologis: for the ms his most terraced hoe; for only beg able to fd one photograph om that time; for the swearwords that ept when he reliv the most huiatg episos. They knew only to keep 15, Gavs started gog to the lol library, searchg for mentns of homosexualy. It was 1969, only two years after homosexualy had been partially crimalised, and four years before would be removed om the psychiatric profsn’s official list of mental disorrs.

“I had to be very vigilant to make sure the gay part didn’t e out, ” he says. When I was wh Stephen I uld be me, the whole me, the gby me and the gay me, and he accepted me. “He said, ‘You n rry on beg a homosexual and I will expel you today.

JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

Tell your GP you’re a homosexual and you want to be cured. His fay doctor was also a Catholic, he says, and she nfirmed that he had a curable disease and she would refer him to a psychiatrist – a nversatn that took ls than a the time, the notn of curg homosexualy, emed a mental illns, was acceptable medil circl and beyond.

All such attempts to dispt gay feelgs by g pa were known as aversn therapy – a technique mostly disrd now, but which morphed om the 1970s and 1980s to talkg treatments that beme known as nversn therapy. ”This practised rponse to homosexualy, says Gavs, me wh an stctn. Gavs shows me the typed letter, which he later obtaed by mandg his medil scribg the boy as “havg homosexual sir” and a “disturbed personaly”, Milne prcrib “aversn techniqu” to “enurage his heterosexual sir”.