On paper, Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner The Miseducation of Cameron Post might sound like the making of a somber tearjerker. ChloĆ« Grace Moretz stars as the titular Cameron, a teenage girl growing up in Montana in 1993 whose boyfriend dramatically discovers her making out with her best girl friend on homecomingā¦
The first trailer for Boy Erased follows Jared Sykes (Lucas Hedges) as his parents Victor (Russell Crowe) and Nancy (Nicole Kidman) enroll him in a gay conversion therapy program. In it, we see Crowe, who plays a Southern Baptist preacher, address his son with the heartbreaking: āI love you, but we cannot see a wayā¦
The first trailer for The Miseducation of Cameron Post has arrived! The film won the grand jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival and stars ChloĆ« Grace Moretz, Sasha Lane, and Forrest Goodluck, all of whom play teens who are sent to a gay conversion therapy camp. Itās directed by Desiree Akhavan and based on a novelā¦
This video from evangelical media company Anchored North feels extremely familiarāmaybe because for the first two minutes it seems like an inspirational love story about a young woman named Emily coming out about her sexual identity. Fooled you.
Tonight, ABC will air a 20/20 report on gay conversation therapy camps around the U.S., where parents send their kids in attempt to exorcise them of their same-sex attraction. If that already sounds abusiveākeeping in mind that so-called āreparative therapyā has been denounced as at least unnecessary by a laundry listā¦
The extended family of a 17-year-old girl in East Texas has raised more than $40,000 to get her out of a gay conversion therapy ācampā where she was placed by her parents. The family says that Sarah, whose last name they havenāt released, was punished by her family after trying to take her girlfriend to the prom.
Yesterday, New York governor Andrew Cuomo announced a series of regulations that would essentially eliminate so-called conversion therapy, a practice that claims to change the sexual orientation of LGTBQ people. Though conversion therapy continues to be used by a handful of religious groups, the practice has beenā¦
White House officials announced that President Obama will call for an end to conversion or reparative therapies designed to āfixā LGTBQ youth. Though conversion therapy is supported by some religious organizations, the practice has long been condemned by the American Psychiatric Association.
The Texas Republican Party has written support for "ex-gay" conversion therapy into their party platform at the same time as a judge in New Jersey has ruled that organisations and therapists who use the discredited techniques may be held financially liable for psychological damage done to patients.
On Wednesday, a federal appeals court in San Francisco heard arguments on whether a law that bans gay "conversion therapy" for minors is a violation of First Amendment rights or a cogent effort to protect children from potentially harmful and undue treatment for homosexuality, something that has been long understoodā¦
New Jersey may soon follow (but hopefully not too far) in California's footsteps by passing a bill outlawing so-called "gay conversion therapy" for those under the age of 18. After being disowned by former proponent Dr. Robert Spitzer, such conversion therapies are coming under scrutiny in New Jersey, where lawmakersā¦
Our legal system can sometimes seem like a lurching, inefficient machine that only works after a few well-placed blows from a wrench and some irrational pleading, but it's our legal system and we're stuck with it even when shit like this happens: a federal appeals court on Friday temporarily blocked a law that bansā¦
It's been a major month for the gay rights community. First President Obama came out in support of gay marriage, and then this weekend the NAACP followed suit. Now we have word that Dr. Robert Spitzer, the famous psychiatrist who did the 2003 study that supposedly proved the gay people could be cured of theirā¦
