'Treatments' as torture: gay nversn therapy's ep roots Atralia

Contents:

• GAY NVERSN THERAPY IS HAPPENG SECRET ATRALIA, REPORT FDS
• OPN'TREATMENTS' AS TORTURE: GAY NVERSN THERAPY'S EP ROOTS ATRALIA

GAY NVERSN THERAPY IS HAPPENG SECRET ATRALIA, REPORT FDS

After he had gay sex for the first time, church lears asked Benson to renounce Baal (an Old Ttament god of the Phoenicians) and exorcise the spir of sodomy. "The vil won't have a chance wh you now, " they told cycled back home wh his school bag on his back, and that was the last time he went to gay nversn therapy.

Stori like this are part of a landmark report released today to the nature, extent and impact of gay nversn therapy Atralia. Produced by the Human Rights Law Centre, Gay and Lbian Health Victoria, and La Trobe Universy, the report has found nversn practic are not recedg, but are enterg the mastream wh particular Christian report provis the first amic rearch on the LGBT nversn movements least 10 anisatns Atralia and New Zealand currently advertise the provisn of nversn therapi, acrdg to the report. In 2014, ne ex-lears of the 'Gay Conversn Therapy Movement' offered a public apology for the damage their movement had ed.

OPN'TREATMENTS' AS TORTURE: GAY NVERSN THERAPY'S EP ROOTS ATRALIA

()"They don't advertise dog LGBT nversn therapy, they don't ll themselv ex-gay. "It's lled 'unwanted same-sex attractn'When Benson hopped on his bike every Wednday and cycled to the lol church, he didn't thk he was attendg gay nversn therapy.

He was told his homosexual feelgs me om problems wh his upbrgg. " Exampl of morn gay nversn therapy quasi-psychologil approach is typil of current gay nversn therapy practic, acrdg to Dr Jon. All Atralian health thori, cludg the Christian Counsellors Associatn of Atralia, now "strongly oppose any form of mental health practice that treats homosexualy as a disorr, or seeks to change a person's sexual orientatn".