Sunak Apologiz for Historic Treatment of UK Gay Veterans

Contents:

• GAY MEN GIVEN ELECTRIC SHOCKS 'TO CURE HOMOSEXUALY' AT QUB
• 'GAY CURE' THERAPI ARE STILL AVAILABLE ON THE NHS AND NEED TO BE BANNED, SAYS TORY MP MIKE FREER
• SUNAK APOLOGIZ FOR HISTORIC TREATMENT OF UK GAY VETERANS
• UK BANS ‘GAY CURE’ THERAPY UNR NEW ACTN PLAN TACKLG LGBT ABE
• RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
• 'GAY CURE' THERAPY WILL BE OUTLAWED
• CHURCH OF ENGLAND LLS ON GOVERMENT TO BAN 'GAY CURE THERAPI'
• BOY ERASED: THE HOLLYWOOD FILM EXPOSG THE ENDURG MYTHS ABOUT GAY CURE THERAPY

GAY MEN GIVEN ELECTRIC SHOCKS 'TO CURE HOMOSEXUALY' AT QUB

Acrdg to the Brish Psychologil Society (BPS), nversn therapy - sometim lled "reparative therapy" or "gay cure therapy" - tri to change someone's sexual orientatn or genr inty. In practice, means tryg to stop or supprs someone om beg gay, or om intifyg as a different genr to their sex rerd at birth.

"My church was a Prbyterian church, so that was que difficult when I realised I was gay, " he told BBC News NI. Image source, Dr Tommy DicksonImage ptn, Dr Tommy Dickson said that e of electril aversn therapy had been almost totally abandoned by the mid-1970s the UK"When I was about 15, I realised I am one of the people who are homosexuals and who are reviled really by the society I grew up , so was a big shock to me. The aim of electril aversn therapy was for him to associate homosexual sire wh pa or unpleasant feelgs.

'GAY CURE' THERAPI ARE STILL AVAILABLE ON THE NHS AND NEED TO BE BANNED, SAYS TORY MP MIKE FREER

"You would then associate any gay, homosexual feelgs wh somethg unpleasant - a ndned reflex really. "John was also enuraged to date women while unrgog the a rearch paper published the Ulster Medil Journal 1973, amics om the partments of Mental Health, Social Studi and Psychology at QUB said their e of electril aversn therapy was rare by that they did still e evince treatment worked"We have a particular tert the e of methods for producg heterosexual tert exclive homosexuals, " they reported.

"The most fluential factor rcg the e of the treatments was the growg gay liberatn movement as queer men and women were ung and refutg that sickns label that had been attributed to them, " he source, PAcemakerImage ptn, Thoands attend the Belfast Pri para 2019A spokperson for Queen's Universy Belfast said that, regrettably, aversn therapy was ed a number of suatns the past. "Luckily, fairly soon afterwards I did start to meet some gay people and my life changed pletely then and sce then thgs have been much better.

Sign up for the View om Wtmster email for expert analysis straight to your boxGet our ee View om Wtmster emailThe Government should troduce regulatn to ban so-lled “gay cure therapi” that purport to be able to change someone’s sexual orientatn, an MP has Free, a Conservative, said the psychotherapy dtry was th far not regulated by statue and that the Government need to “go further” to ensure that “quack” therapi were rooted out. “It remas possible for people wh the UK to be referred by an NHS profsnal to a psychotherapist for a so-lled ‘gay cure’, ” he said durg a bate on the subject Parliament’s Wtmster Hall.

SUNAK APOLOGIZ FOR HISTORIC TREATMENT OF UK GAY VETERANS

“Beg gay is not a disaster, beg gay is not an illns.

”Mr Freer, who is himself gay, said bog supposed “therapi” offered by some practners cludg exorcism, ridg a bike, and also said electric shock and nsea pa-aversn treatments were e to try and alter sexualy. Rearch published by LGBT chary Stonewall July found that one ten health and social re workers had wnsed a lleague clare a belief a “gay cure” April last year then Lib Dem Health Mister Norman Lamb wrote to NHS England to seek assuranc that the practic would never be available on the health MP Diana Johnson last year said misters were ignorg the issue of the therapi availabily on the rponse, a Department for Health spokperson said at the time: “NHS fund therapi are provid for those who need them to help them manage a psychologil problem.

This is absolutely not the same as gay-to-straight “nversn” therapy, which we strongly oppose. “Beg gay is not an illns and should never be treated as somethg which is curable, which is why we are proactively explorg ways of ensurg that ‘nversn’ therapy n never be fund by public money. *Government lays ban for five years*Prsure on Sunak to act*LGBTQ+ activists fear loophol*Campaigners divid over trans rightsBy Lucy MiddletonLONDON, July 20 (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - When Alex me out as gay, the 15-year-old’s parents issued a stark ultimatum: unrgo nversn therapy or clear out of the fay home the northern English cy of chose optn one and unrwent multiple ssns wh elrs om the fay’s Jehovah’s Wns ngregatn, seekg a ‘cure’ for homosexualy.

UK BANS ‘GAY CURE’ THERAPY UNR NEW ACTN PLAN TACKLG LGBT ABE

A ernment survey showed that more than half of Brons who had tried nversn therapy were offered through a relig group, almost 12% were signposted by a health re Ozanne, a gay evangelil her 50s who chairs the UK’s Ban Conversn Therapy Coaln, sought treatment her 20s and 30s, after fallg love wh a procs led to hospal admissn for a nervo breakdown. So, we have tablished our GAY TIMES LGBTQ+ 101 sectn for rears (both LGBTQ+ and non-LGBTQ+) to e as a workg gui when lookg for accsible, jargon-ee rmatn on the LGBTQ+ muny, our history and key subjects areas that affect . The UK’s 2017 Natnal LGBT Survey, a self-report survey of over 108, 000 people, revealed that five per cent of rponnts said they had been offered nversn an attempt to “cure” them of beg lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBTQ+) their lifetime.

RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN

“By fn, ‘nversn therapy’ is silencg – isolat you, stifl you, mak you thk your story is one that’s not worth tellg, ” he tells GAY TIMES.

Growg up a relig hoehold, the Glaswegian was brought up believg beg gay or LGBTQ+ was “a s”. Takg a stand wh the LGBTQ+ muny, UK chary Stonewall shared a statement solidary wh GAY TIMES’ missn to te on ‘nversn therapy’.

In 1880’s Germany, roughly around 1889, German psychiatrist Albert Von Schrenck-Notzg claimed he uld succsfully change and cure gay man’s sexual impuls and make him sire through a llective of hypnosis ssns, acrdg to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Shortly after, 1892, leadg Amerin nrologist Graeme Hammond proposed a theory that ridg a bicycle would nstute as a “treatment” to a variety of supposed disorrs, cludg homosexualy. In the early 20th century, Atrian nrologist Sigmund Frd – a pneer the field of psychoanalysis – did not nsir homosexualy an illns, but an “arrted psychosexual velopment”.

'GAY CURE' THERAPY WILL BE OUTLAWED

By 1933, Nazis had tablished ncentratn mps wh many gay prisoners subjected to horrific mistreatment at the hands of the regime.

Several years later 1935, the revisn of Paragraph 175 of the German Crimal Co furthered the persecutn of gay men.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND LLS ON GOVERMENT TO BAN 'GAY CURE THERAPI'

Oswald’s treatment clud jectg gay patients wh dgs that would e extreme vomg, sleep privatn and disfort.

Oswald’s aim was to “overdose” gay men on homosexual stimuli an effort to change their sexualy the hope they would turn “to women for relief”.

Followg a past of crimalisatn and stigmatisatn, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn classified homosexualy as a mental disorr 1973. On 24 May 1988, the Thatcher ernment troduced Sectn 28 and outlawed the promotn of homosexualy schools. An exclive GAY TIMES survey found an overwhelmg amount of support for a total ban on so-lled ‘nversn therapy’ the UK.

BOY ERASED: THE HOLLYWOOD FILM EXPOSG THE ENDURG MYTHS ABOUT GAY CURE THERAPY

Evince shows that transgenr people and those om ethnic mory backgrounds are disproportnately impacted by , ” the chary told GAY TIMES. (Bloomberg) -- Prime Mister Rishi Sunak apologized for the UK’s historic treatment of gay veterans followg a damng report tailg electric shock nversn therapy, sexual asslts and blackmail suffered by personnel over Read om BloombergApple Tts ‘Apple GPT, ’ Develops Generative AI Tools to Catch OpenAIA $500 Billn Corporate-Debt Storm Builds Over Global EnomyNalla’s Microsoft Payouts Top $1 Billn on 1, 000% Stock BoomMk Says Tla to Spend Over $1 Billn on Dojo SuperputerIn London, New York and Paris, a Giant Office Bet Is Gog Wrong #PMQs — Bloomberg UK (@BloombergUK) July 19, 2023The ban on gay and trans people servg the Brish ary, which was lifted 2000, was an “appallg failure of the Brish state, s behd the law of this land, ” Sunak told the Hoe of Commons on Wednday. ”Jt before Sunak stood up Parliament, the Mistry of Defence published a ernment-missned vtigatn — a draft of which was seen by Bloomberg May — that clud anonymo ttimony om gay veterans exposg how personnel were still beg referred to doctors for electric-shock nversn therapy as recently as the 1990s, spe homosexualy beg legal sce prime mister’s apology and the MoD’s statement that accepted the report’s 49 remendatns “ prciple” open up the prospect of pensatn for those who suffered unr the historic remendatns by Terence Etherton, the cross-bench member of the Hoe of Lords who led the probe, clu as much as £50 ln ($65 ln) of total pensatn for the policy’s victims, an examatn of their pensn rights and dividual letters of apology.

“The report is a unique rerd of what, to the morn eye, is an prehensible policy of homophobic bigotry our armed forc, ” Etherton wrote a preface to the report. ”The vtigatn, which exposed a “culture of homophobia” that existed the Brish ary for s, also tails the signifint toll on the mental health of veterans that some s led to homelsns and suici.