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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)

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?

MORMON 'GAY CURE' STUDY USED ELECTRIC SHOCKS AGAST HOMOSEXUAL FEELGS

" 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.

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. 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.

DALL OAKS SAYS SHOCK THERAPY OF GAYS DIDN’T HAPPEN AT BYU WHILE HE WAS PRINT. RERDS SHOW OTHERWISE.

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.

In the early 1970s, ex-gay mistri began to emerge.

5 THGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT GAY CONVERSN THERAPY

In 1973, the first ntemporary ex-gay mistry, Love Actn, was started Northern California.

1505: DID DALL H. OAKS LIE ABOUT GAY ELECTROSHOCK THERAPY AT BYU?

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. 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.

HORRIFIC TAILS OF GAY MAN’S ELECTROSHOCK TREATMENT ENDURED AT BELFAST UNIVERSY

"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.

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.

GAY MEN STILL SUBJECTED TO ELECTRIC SHOCK THERAPY TO ‘CURE’ THEIR SEXUALY

"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.

HORRIFIC ‘GAY SHOCK THERAPY’ WHERE MEN ARE ELECTROCUTED TO ‘CURE THEM’

But now that they are ted, now we know homosexualy is not a choice, people are born this way.