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Contents:
- SHOCK THE GAY AWAY: SECRETS OF EARLY GAY AVERSN THERAPY REVEALED (PHOTOS)
- MORMON 'GAY CURE' STUDY USED ELECTRIC SHOCKS AGAST HOMOSEXUAL FEELGS
- DALL OAKS SAYS SHOCK THERAPY OF GAYS DIDN’T HAPPEN AT BYU WHILE HE WAS PRINT. RERDS SHOW OTHERWISE.
- 5 THGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
- 1505: DID DALL H. OAKS LIE ABOUT GAY ELECTROSHOCK THERAPY AT BYU?
- HORRIFIC TAILS OF GAY MAN’S ELECTROSHOCK TREATMENT ENDURED AT BELFAST UNIVERSY
- GAY MEN STILL SUBJECTED TO ELECTRIC SHOCK THERAPY TO ‘CURE’ THEIR SEXUALY
- HORRIFIC ‘GAY SHOCK THERAPY’ WHERE MEN ARE ELECTROCUTED TO ‘CURE THEM’
SHOCK THE GAY AWAY: SECRETS OF EARLY GAY AVERSN THERAPY REVEALED (PHOTOS)
Latter-day Sat lear Dall H. Oaks nied that Brigham Young Universy ed electroshock therapy on gays at the school when he was the print om 1971 to 1980. Individuals and rearch say otherwise. * gay electroshock therapy *
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.
MORMON 'GAY CURE' STUDY USED ELECTRIC SHOCKS AGAST HOMOSEXUAL FEELGS
New urt challeng are aimed at gay nversn therapy, a psdoscientific method said to turn homosexual people straight. * gay electroshock therapy *
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. 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.
DALL OAKS SAYS SHOCK THERAPY OF GAYS DIDN’T HAPPEN AT BYU WHILE HE WAS PRINT. RERDS SHOW OTHERWISE.
A former patient at Queen’s Universy Belfast (QUB) has shared how he endured electroshock therapy the 1960s for beg gay. * gay electroshock therapy *
Out of the thoands of lobotomi Freeman performed, up to 40 percent of them were on homosexuals.
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. The APA removed homosexualy om s official Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs (DSM) 1973.
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.
5 THGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
Warng: Scen some may fd upsettg Gay men are beg subjected to electroshock treatment a bid to 'cure' them of their sexual preference, an unrver vtigatn has found. Doctors... * gay electroshock therapy *
In the early 1970s, ex-gay mistri began to emerge. In 1973, the first ntemporary ex-gay mistry, Love Actn, was started Northern California.
In 1976, the first natnal nference of "ex-gay" mistri was held, rultg the formatn of Exod Internatnal. It remas to be seen whether this is tly the mise of the ex-gay movement.
1505: DID DALL H. OAKS LIE ABOUT GAY ELECTROSHOCK THERAPY AT BYU?
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. "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. "As teens we were tght that homosexualy was send only to murr the ey of God, " he said.
"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. "Homosexuals were seen as a "prient, expendable populatn, " acrdg to Cameron.
"To adm homosexualy 1976 was the kiss of ath.
HORRIFIC TAILS OF GAY MAN’S ELECTROSHOCK TREATMENT ENDURED AT BELFAST UNIVERSY
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. "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. But now that they are ted, now we know homosexualy is not a choice, people are born this way. The church don't still have to be threatened by homosexualy.
The rponse end up Cameron's play: "No one is a homosexual. Homosexualy don't exist. "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.
GAY MEN STILL SUBJECTED TO ELECTRIC SHOCK THERAPY TO ‘CURE’ THEIR SEXUALY
""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. Any other sexual nduct, cludg fornitn, adultery, and homosexual and lbian behavr is sful.
HORRIFIC ‘GAY SHOCK THERAPY’ WHERE MEN ARE ELECTROCUTED TO ‘CURE THEM’
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.
"There is no treatment for homosexualy today the profsnal muny, " said Silverste. "All of them are on the rerd as sayg that homosexualy is wh the normal range of human behavr. "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.
Progrsn pends on fay relatnships and procreatn and gay people n terpt that pattern of procreatn. "Jason Conner, 26, said he stggled wh gay feelgs while servg a learship role on his Mormon missn Florida 2006. "Sce then, he has e out and works for Soul Force, an LGBT group that fights relig and polil homophobia.