Gay Conversn Therapy's Disturbg 19th-Century Origs | HISTORY

Contents:

• 'THE MISTN OF CAMERON POST' SHOWS THE DANGERS OF "GAY CONVERSN" CAMPS
• THE HISTORY OF GETTG THE GAY OUT
• GAY CONVERSN THERAPY IS STILL LEGAL 41 STAT
• GAY NVERSN THERAPY IS A DANGERO LIE THAT N LEAD TO PRSN AND ANXIETY. MORE THAN 700,000 LGBTQ PEOPLE HAVE GONE THROUGH ANYWAY.
• GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS
• TERRIFYG PHOTOS RECREATE THE HORRORS OF GAY 'CONVERSN THERAPY' CENTERS
• 8 PEOPLE ON SURVIVG GAY CONVERSN THERAPY

'THE MISTN OF CAMERON POST' SHOWS THE DANGERS OF "GAY CONVERSN" CAMPS

” When he returned to the Catholic Church at age 36, his experience wh nversn therapy Pate said his Catholic therapist, like many who attempt to help patients change their sexual orientatn, believed that homosexualy was ed by childhood sexual abe or alienatn om one’s parents: what Mr. Catholics will ever seek nversn therapy, the assumptns unrlyg that therapy often fluence the msage many gay Catholics hear at home, the nfsnal and om iends and mentors. Brothers Road scrib self as “a non-prof, multi-fah, ternatnal fellowship primarily of men om bisexual or same-sex-attracted backgrounds who—for our own, eply personal reasons—typilly do not accept or intify wh the label ‘gay’ and prefer stead to explore and addrs unrlyg issu and embrace our thentic masculy.

”Catholic InfluencThe Catholic media personaly Milo Yiannopoulos recently began llg himself “ex-gay” and announced plans to open a “reparative therapy” clic Florida.

Fzgibbons -thored Homosexualy and Hope, a pamphlet published by the Catholic Medil Associatn, which advot theraptic “preventn and treatment” of same-sex attractn. Another Catholic, Joseph Nilosi, who died 2017, was a -founr of the Natnal Associatn for the Rearch and Therapy of Homosexualy, a secular group formed 1992 that is now lled the Alliance for Theraptic Choice and Scientific Integry. Nilosi said of young people experiencg same-sex attractn: “So when a 15-year-old boy go to a prit and says, ‘Father, I have the feelgs, I have the temptatns, ’ that prit should say, ‘You have a choice; if you don’t want to be gay, there are thgs that you n do.

THE HISTORY OF GETTG THE GAY OUT

” A group prottg the nference hung a banner on archdcan property that featured a quote attributed to the Dert Stream/Livg Waters founr, Andrew Comiskey, and that read part, “There is no such thg as a ‘gay’ is a popular myth.

The people I terviewed said Catholic stutns may not wily promote nversn therapy, but the msag gay believers hear Catholic spac help promote the ia that nversn is possible. Many gay Catholics have heard, over and over, that nobody is “born gay”; that homosexualy is typilly ed by trma; that beg gay is a purely negative experience om which they have nothg to learn, and om which the broar church has nothg to learn. The specific theori and practic of nversn therapy draw on a ep well of silence and shame that affects all gay Catholics, cludg those who never step si a therapist’s office.

GAY CONVERSN THERAPY IS STILL LEGAL 41 STAT

Tristan did not thk of her sexualy as the only issue she was alg wh, but when she raised other ncerns, she said, her therapist seemed to thk beg gay was the central problem. Bob, as we all lovgly ll him” as “an amazg, lovg man, ” who nohels nvced him of what he now se as “misrmatn” about the nature and orig of homosexualy, attributg a “homosexual clatn” to problems fay relatnships, sexual trma cludg e of pornography, the lack of a proper velopment of masculy and other “wounds”—ias he later heard om prits the Schuchts, thor of the upg book Be Rtored: Healg Our Sexual Wounds Through J’ Merciful Love, disagreed wh the labelg of his work as of “misrmatn, ” statg that all of the materials om the John Pl II Healg Center have approval om the lol bishop and his books have obtaed an imprimatur. ”As he began to leave nversn therapy behd, Kent read gay narrativ like The Velvet Rage: Overg the Pa of Growg Up Gay a Straight Man’s World, by the psychologist Alan Downs.

GAY NVERSN THERAPY IS A DANGERO LIE THAT N LEAD TO PRSN AND ANXIETY. MORE THAN 700,000 LGBTQ PEOPLE HAVE GONE THROUGH ANYWAY.

They do, they jt might be harr to the film, Cameron (Chloë Grace Moretz) is forced to go to God's Promise, a Christian mp that tri to "turn" gay teens straight.

GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS

In the trailer, Cameron is told, "The first step is for you to stop thkg of yourself as a homosexual, " to which she repli, "But I don't thk of myself as a homosexual.

TERRIFYG PHOTOS RECREATE THE HORRORS OF GAY 'CONVERSN THERAPY' CENTERS

Stark was a teen boy who gaed attentn 2005 after he posted about his fay planng to send him to "a fundamentalist Christian program for gays" on "gay nversn" — be through a mp or otherwise — still exists today. The mm recently llected materials to document gay-nversn therapy (also lled "reparative therapy")—and the objects allow curators like myself to explore how real people experience the risks.

8 PEOPLE ON SURVIVG GAY CONVERSN THERAPY

Conley's memoir of his time there, Boy Erased, chronicl how the mp's nversn therapy followed the ia that beg gay was an addictn that uld be treated wh methods siar to those for abatg dg, alhol, gamblg, and other addictns. Smid eventually left Love Actn and married a the Uned Stat, rpons to gay, homosexual, queer, lbian, bisexual, transsexual, and genr non-nformg inti have fluctuated om "Y!