This video from evangelical media company Anchored North feels extremely familiar—maybe 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 abusive—keeping in mind that so-called “reparative therapy” has been denounced as at least unnecessary by a laundry list…
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 “camp” where she was placed by her parents. The family says that Sarah, whose last name they haven’t 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 been…
White House officials announced that President Obama will call for an end to conversion or reparative therapies designed to “fix” 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 understood…
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 lawmakers…
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 bans…
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 their…
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