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Contents:

• 'THE MISTN OF CAMERON POST' SHOWS THE DANGERS OF "GAY CONVERSN" CAMPS
• KEV BAN RUNS A KILLER GAY CONVERSN CAMP NEW TRAILER FOR BLUMHOE SLASHER PIC ‘THEY/THEM’
• I PUT MY SON THROUGH GAY NVERSN THERAPY. IT WAS ONE OF THE BIGGT MISTAK OF MY LIFE | OPN
• CONVERSN THERAPY CENTER FOUNR WHO SOUGHT TO TURN LGBTQ CHRISTIANS STRAIGHT SAYS HE’S GAY, REJECTS ‘CYCLE OF SELF SHAME’
• 5 THGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
• TERRIFYG PHOTOS RECREATE THE HORRORS OF GAY 'CONVERSN THERAPY' CENTERS
• 'I N MAKE YOU STRAIGHT THREE MONTHS': INSI INDIA'S GAY NVERSN DTRY
• INDIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE SAYS HIS PARENTS TRIED TO SUBJECT HIM TO THE 'TORTURE' OF NVERSN THERAPY TO MAKE HIM STRAIGHT
• TEEN FORCED TO ATTEND GAY NVERSN MP IS NOT ALONE
• GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS

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

Gay and Lbian Mental Health 291 (2010); Ariel Shidlo and Michael Schroer, Changg Sexual Orientatn: A Consumer’s Report, 33 Prof.

rponse to a Generatns qutn that asked if they were lbian, gay, bisexual, queer, or same-genr lovg, if they were the age and.

KEV BAN RUNS A KILLER GAY CONVERSN CAMP NEW TRAILER FOR BLUMHOE SLASHER PIC ‘THEY/THEM’

For timat of the proportn of youth who intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual see Lra Kann et al., Sexual Inty, Sex of Sexual Contacts, and Health-Related Behavrs among Stunts Gras 9-12 – Uned Stat and Selected S, 2015 (2016). Psychodynamics Study of Lbianism 299 (1954); Irvg Bieber et al., Homosexualy: A Psychoanalytic Study (1962); Jolan Jabi, Case.

Participants Reportg a Change om Homosexual to Heterosexual Orientatn, 32 Archiv of Sexual Behavr 403 (2003)’l Ctr. 25, 2009), AAMFT/Content/about_aamft/; Hilary Daniel & Renee Butkis, Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Health. 991 Health Care Needs of the Homosexual Populatn, /liverg-re/polici-lbian-gay-bisexual-transgenr-queer-lgbtq-issu (last vised Dec.

On Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Issu, Posn Statement: Sexual Orientatn Change Efforts (SOCE) and Conversn Therapy wh Lbians, Gay Men, Bisexuals, and Transgenr Persons (2015), Release, Am. 8, 2017), Kaplan, Polil Climate Forest for Florida 2018 Looks Posive for John Man, Negative for Gay Conversn Therapy,.

I PUT MY SON THROUGH GAY NVERSN THERAPY. IT WAS ONE OF THE BIGGT MISTAK OF MY LIFE | OPN

6, 2018), Marketg, Virgia Electn Poll (May 26, 2017), poll052016/ Moore, Only 8% of Amerins Thk Gay Conversn Therapy Works,, June 12, 2014, news/2014/06/12/gay-nversn-therapy/ B.

CONVERSN THERAPY CENTER FOUNR WHO SOUGHT TO TURN LGBTQ CHRISTIANS STRAIGHT SAYS HE’S GAY, REJECTS ‘CYCLE OF SELF SHAME’

The movie is set 1993, but jt bee tak place 25 years ago do not mean that so-lled "gay nversn" mps don't still exist today. 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. 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.

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. Unrver at a so-lled gay nversn mpABC News' Brian Ross tak to plac that many claim no longer exist -- Christian mistri or mps where gay teens are sent by parents who want their children to change their 10, 2017. That is a pa I would not wish on anyone, and that is why I am mted to dog all I n to ensure that every LGBTQ young person knows that they are born Conley is the mother of Garrard Conley, thor of “Boy Erased, ” a memoir about his experienc a gay nversn therapy mp.

5 THGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT GAY CONVERSN THERAPY

” He was wrong to tell people they were doomed for all eterny if they didn’t change their 20 years workg that field, Game said he realiz the harm he has ed and that he, himself, is gay.

“It’s all my past, but many, way TOO MANY ntue believg that there is somethg wrong wh themselv and wrong wh people that choose to live their liv hontly and open as gay, lbian, trans, etc., ” Game, 51, wrote on Facebook last week. In 2014, ne former “ex-gay” lears signed an open letter nouncg nversn therapy as “effective and harmful” and llg for an end to . A Latter-day Sat unselor who practiced nversn therapy said January that he is gay and that he “unequivolly renounc” ex-gay announced June that he was gay, almost two years after Hope for Wholens’s board of directors fired him, the Post and Courier reported.

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

”In a Facebook Live vio posted Tuday, Game said he cid to tell people he was gay bee he was sred that someone would “out” him — reveal his sexual orientatn — and he wanted to ntrol his own story. ”Lears of nversn therapy programs rarely renounce the practice publicly bee dog so volv turng their backs not jt on the ex-gay muny, but also on nservative fah as a whole, said Alan Chambers, the former print of Exod Internatnal. ”Chambers, who said he is “a gay man married to a straight woman, ” said his cisn to reject nversn therapy veloped slowly over s.

Chambers now advot for an end to nversn therapy for mors and for cludg LGBTQ people fah Whe, a former ghostwrer for high-profile evangelil Christians, scrib himself as “a victim of the ex-gay movement. The anizatn promot nonvlent ristance to relig spendg years workg wh the nservative Christian right, Whe said he has “spent the rt of my life tryg to reem myself om havg anythg to do wh that ex-gay system.

'I N MAKE YOU STRAIGHT THREE MONTHS': INSI INDIA'S GAY NVERSN DTRY

LONDON (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - When Mike Dorn told his parents he was gay, aged 15, they tried to make him straight by sendg him to a Christian mp California for three months, where he was told he would go to hell, forced to dig hol and shoved if he disobeyed ’s trma me to the surface when he was nfed to his home for weeks durg a COVID-19 lockdown the Uned Stat June and he cid to share his story on TikTok.

Stat after Virgia banned 700, 000 Amerins have unrgone nversn therapy, half when unr 18, acrdg to the UCLA’s Williams Instute, which n range om unsellg and ‘prayg away the gay’ to electric shocks.

MONSTERAfter her girliend broke up wh her, Merry blamed her anxiety about beg gay - which had ntributed to the relatnship’s failure - on a church unsellor’s efforts to make her straight when she was she took to TikTok, where she felt anonymo. ”One of her vios, “How to survive nversn therapy, part one”, has been watched more than 500, 000 tim sce December and she has received msag om about 50 teens at risk of nversn therapy and 20 survivors, om teens to late said a church unsellor forced her to put her hand a bowl of ice until melted while talkg about her “homosexual thoughts” - an aversn technique aimed at makg her associate attractn to women wh breakg pot me when Merry’s pastor told her to tell a younger teenage boy that beg gay would make him miserable. Merry said she ntacted child protectn servic who sent the girl to live wh other was also ntacted by a gay 18-year-old livg her town whose pastor was tryg to get him to supprs his attractn to gave the teenager support after each ssn wh the pastor and they now attend the same LGBT-iendly church.

INDIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE SAYS HIS PARENTS TRIED TO SUBJECT HIM TO THE 'TORTURE' OF NVERSN THERAPY TO MAKE HIM STRAIGHT

A therapy that claims to nvert gay people to heterosexuals is beg tted urt wh two new s, one of which seeks to sue unselors offerg the therapy and the other seekg to fend nversn therapy, as is known, supposedly helps gay people overe same-sex attractns. [5 Myths About Gay People Debunked]In a send se California, a feral judge is hearg arguments agast a new state law that bans nversn therapy for mors. [7 Absolutely Evil Medil Experiments]More recently, people who have been through nversn therapy report talk therapy that emphasiz psdoscientific theori, such as the ia that an overbearg mother and a distant father make a child gay.

His therapist blamed his parents for Arana's homosexualy, and urged him to distance himself om his female bt Lev, one of the men sug Jonah for ceptive practic, says that he qu nversn therapy after his therapist had him strip down and touch himself to "rennect wh his masculy, " acrdg to the New York Tim. Why psychologists say nversn therapy don't workHomosexualy is not nsired a mental disorr, so the Amerin Psychologil Associatn (APA) do not remend "curg" same-sex attractn any se.

TEEN FORCED TO ATTEND GAY NVERSN MP IS NOT ALONE

Instead, societal ignorance, prejudice and prsure to nform to heterosexual sir are the real dangers to gay people's mental health, acrdg to a 1997 statement on "nversn" or "reparative" therapy by the APA. In 1935, Frd went even further, wrg to a woman who wanted her homosexual son nverted that homosexualy "is nothg to be ashamed of, no vice, no gradatn; nnot be classified as an illns.

"Other psychologists throughout the early mid-1900s believed homosexualy uld be changed and remend a variety of treatments. One of the stranger attempts was an effort by Vienne endocrologist Eugen Steach to transplant tticl om straight men to the scrotums of gay men an attempt to rid them of same-sex sir.

It didn’t of the most proment advot of nversn therapy the 1940s and 50s was Edmund Bergler, who saw homosexualy as a perversn and believed he uld "cure" gay people wh a punishment-based, nontatnal therapy the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn stopped classifyg homosexualy as a mental disorr 1973, nversn therapi lost support. But relig-right anizatns such as Exod Internatnal and Foc on the Fay's Love Won Out took up the charge, promotg their own "ex-gay" therapi.

GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS

A small group of psychologists, spltg wh their peers, ntue to promote the therapi, foundg the nversn therapy anizatn NARTH, or the Natnal Associatn for Rearch & Therapy of Homosexualy. In 2003, famed psychiatrist Robert Spzer, who spearhead the removal of homosexualy om the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn's mental disorr list 1973, reported the journal Archiv of Sexual Behavr that terviews wh nversn therapy patients suggted that some people uld change their sexual paper was cendiary and highly cricized, given that relied on terviews wh patients stead of measurable benchmarks of same-sex sir. Conservative groups were lighted to have support om Spzer, who wasn't tated wh relig bias or anti-gay iology; gay anizatns felt the end, however, Spzer me to agree wh his crics.

"I believe I owe the gay muny an apology for my study makg unproven claims of the efficy of reparative therapy, " Spzer Stephanie Pappas on Twter @sipappas or LiveScience @livcience. Bce Rner signed a law banng “gay nversn therapy” for mors — a scientifilly discreded practice which unselors try to change a person’s sexual orientatn om gay to straight. Julie Rodgers has wrten a book about her experienc as one of the fac of the gay nversn movement and her journey to beg the first openly gay person hired by Wheaton College, an evangelil Christian llege Illois.

I was his go-to dog-ster, his ri home om the airport, his protégé, and his first pick to give my ttimony before he spoke to church about hope for healg om homosexualy. A new llectn of photos is providg a strikg ― and horrifyg ― visual recreatn of the barbaric practice of gay “nversn therapy” and the impact has on s victims. Photographer Paola Pares first learned of the “Clis Dhomosexualizacn” her home untry of Ecuador four years ago om a iend.