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Contents:

• DID AMONG TURN MY SON GAY?
• PSYCHIATRIST WHO CHAMPNED 'GAY CURE' ADMS HE WAS WRONG
• TEACHER RIGNS AFTER SENDG SHOCKGLY ANTI-GAY LETTER TO STUNT NEWSPAPER

DID AMONG TURN MY SON GAY?

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Is he a gay psychopath? AdvertisementSKIP WisemanJune 21, 2018Updated on June 7, 2019When I me out as gay more than 10 years ago, there were only four letters monly ed to group var sexual and genr mori: L, G, B and letters were an evolutn toward cln — an expansn of the language ed to reprent a disparate group that had often jt been lled “the gay muny.

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PSYCHIATRIST WHO CHAMPNED 'GAY CURE' ADMS HE WAS WRONG

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One of the most fluential figur morn psychiatry has apologised to Ameri's gays for a scientific study which supported attempts to "cure" people of their survey, published 2001, looked at "reparative therapy" and was hailed by relig and social nservativ Ameri as proof that gay people uld succsfully bee straight if they were motivated to do Dr Robert Spzer has now apologised the same amic journal that published his origal study, llg "fatally flawed". "I believe I owe the gay muny an apology, " his letter said. "I also apologise to any gay person who wasted time and energy unrgog some form of reparative therapy bee they believed that I had proven that reparative therapy works.

TEACHER RIGNS AFTER SENDG SHOCKGLY ANTI-GAY LETTER TO STUNT NEWSPAPER

"Spzer's letter, which was leaked onle before s publitn the Archiv of Sexual Behavur, is sure to e light among gay civil rights groups and stir up anger among social nservativ, who have ed the study to bat the acceptance of homosexualy as a normal part of human society. Gay rights activists nmn such practic as motivated by relig fah, not science, and ll them "pray away the gay" groups. He nclud that many of them reported feelgs of chang their sexual sir om homosexual to heterosexual.

Spzer's stance was notor, bee 1973 he had been stmental gettg the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn to stop classifyg homosexualy as a mental disorr s diagnostic manual: a move seen at the time as a major victory for gay 2001 study ed a huge stir bee many people felt that was not rigoro enough for publitn.

But the simple fact is that there was no way to terme if the subject's acunts of change were valid, " Spzer an terview wh the New York Tim last week, Spzer, who is 79 and suffers om Parkson's disease, scribed how he had wrten his letter of rentatn the middle of the night after agonisg over the study's had also recently been vised by a gay magaze journalist, Gabriel Arana, who had scribed to him his own experience gog through reparatn therapy and how damagg had been and how had led to thoughts of suici. "Spzer's apology to the victims of 'pray away the gay' therapy … marks a watershed moment the fight agast the 'ex-gay' myth, " the group said.