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Contents:

• THE GAY BOWEL SYNDROME: A MON PROBLEM OF HOMOSEXUAL PATIENTS THE EMERGENCY PARTMENT
• GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS
• GAY RABOW GIF
• THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON
• THE GAY BOWEL SYNDROME: A MON PROBLEM OF HOMOSEXUAL PATIENTS THE EMERGENCY PARTMENT
• LEGENDARY GAY PORNOGRAPHER DAVID HURL DI AT 78
• GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS
• GAY VOM SEX

THE GAY BOWEL SYNDROME: A MON PROBLEM OF HOMOSEXUAL PATIENTS THE EMERGENCY PARTMENT

The gay bowel syndrome: a mon problem of homosexual patients the emergency partment. Sexually transmted bowel and rectal diseas are mon gay men and are ed by a wi variety of fect agents. Each of the enti implited the gay bowel syndrome is nsired separately and epimlogic nsiratns rponsible for the appearance of such a syndrome are examed.

GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS

Gay bowel syndrome.

GAY RABOW GIF

Clil approach to ttal fectns homosexual men. Enteric diseas of homosexual men.

The gay bowel.

In 1899, a German psychiatrist electrified the dience at a nference on hypnosis wh a bold claim: He had turned a gay man straight.

THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON

Homosexualy, pecially same-sex relatnships between men, was nsired viant, sful and even crimal for centuri. In the late 19th century, psychiatrists and doctors began to addrs homosexualy, too.

(Cred: Imagno/Getty Imag)There were plenty of theori as to why people were homosexual.

For Eugen Steach, a pneerg Atrian endocrologist, homosexualy was rooted a man’s tticl. This theory led to tticle transplantatn experiments the 1920s durg which gay men were strated, then given “heterosexual” tticl. ” Others theorized that homosexualy was a psychologil disorr stead.

THE GAY BOWEL SYNDROME: A MON PROBLEM OF HOMOSEXUAL PATIENTS THE EMERGENCY PARTMENT

Sigmund Frd hypothized that humans are born nately bisexual and that homosexual people bee gay bee of their ndng. But though Frd emphasized that homosexualy wasn’t a disease, per se, some of his lleagu didn’t agree.

LEGENDARY GAY PORNOGRAPHER DAVID HURL DI AT 78

They began to e new psychiatric terventns an attempt to “cure” gay people.

GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS

Robert Galbrah Heath, a psychiatrist New Orleans who pneered the technique, ed this form of bra stimulatn, along wh hired prostut and heterosexual pornography, to “change” the sexual orientatn of gay men. But though Heath ntend he was able to actually turn gay men straight, his work has sce been challenged and cricized for s methodology.

An offshoot of the techniqu was “aversn therapy, ” which was found on the premise that if LGBTQ people beme disgted by homosexualy, they would no longer experience same-sex sire.

Others were given electril shocks—sometim to their genals—while they looked at gay pornography or cross-drsed. ” LGBTQ people had long protted the cel and scientifilly dub forms of “treatment, ” but the ncept that homosexualy was a disease was accepted by the majory of the medil tablishment.

GAY VOM SEX

This clud the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn, which nsired homosexualy to be a psychiatric the 1960s and 1970s, as a vol gay rights movement took to the streets to mand equaly, the profsn began to turn s back on the ncept that people uld be “nverted” to heterosexualy.

In 1973, the APA removed homosexualy om the DSM, s fluential manual of psychiatric disorrs, and medil profsnals began to distance themselv om techniqu they had once embraced. That wasn’t the end of attempts to turn gay people straight. They lled their techniqu “nversn” or “reparative” therapy, or advertised themselv as “ex-gay” mistri.