Sred Straight: Why It's So Hard To Accept Gay People And Why It's So Hard To Be Human|Robert N. Mor.

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Experienc of a Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer (LGBTQ) person "sred" to actg "straight" = sred straight, for a good lot of their life for fear of harassment, bullyg, persecutn & bullyg. Y., had revealed to his father, through tears filled wh dread, that he was gay.

However, the weeks that followed, Shurka's father began to worry that his gay son would not flourish a world that often opprs people who are different. "It was a horrifyg nightmare to thk that anyone knew I was gay, " he rells. [Related: Ex-Ex-Gay Pri.

Both California and New Jersey have officially banned gay nversn therapy for mors. "[Conversn therapy] is based on the pletely false premise that there is somethg wrong wh you if you happen to be gay, " he told The Guardian. In the early 20th century, the Vienne endocrologist Eugen Steach proposed (and, unfortunately, tted) a theory that he uld change sexual orientatn by transplantg the tticl of straight men to gay men.

In the followg s, efforts foced on aggrsive behavr modifitn techniqu meant to implant strong aversns to homosexualy. The days, some secular and well-traed mental health profsnals still offer talk therapy, rooted the same psychoanalytic theori that help patients addrs regnized disorrs such as prsn and anxiety, to "repair" dividuals wh same-sex 's therapist told him that homosexualy isn't real—that he was straight and his attractn to other boys was the rult of a void his psyche that need to be fixed.

The therapists who perform this type of nversn therapy are treatg same-sex attractn as a disease—spe the fact that the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn (APA) formally classified homosexualy as a mental disorr 40 years Natnal Associatn for Rearch & Therapy of Homosexualy (NARTH) is the most proment secular anizatn supportg nversn therapy.