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Gay Conversion Therapy

Cavan Sieczkowski

New App Offers 'Gay Cure' In Just 60 Days

HuffingtonPost.com | Cavan Sieczkowski | Posted 06.01.2013 | Gay Voices

A new app claims to offer a 60-day "gay cure" that will teach users how to finally find "freedom from the bondage of homosexuality." The app is fro...

Lila Shapiro

'I Tried To Kill Myself And Ended Up On The Psych Ward': Survey Reveals Harm In Gay 'Cure'

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 05.30.2013 | Gay Voices

In a new survey of people who have undergone a controversial treatment seeking to change their sexual orientation, a gay man described his eight-year ...

Sports Camp Helps Control Same-Sex Attraction With Exercise?

The Huffington Post | Meredith Bennett-Smith | Posted 05.22.2013 | Gay Voices

Exercise the gay urges away? A Pennsylvania sports camp claims to help men control same-sex attractions through Christian fellowship, camaraderie a...

Lila Shapiro

Group Invokes Jerry Sandusky, Claims Proposed 'Gay-Cure' Ban Could Harm Abuse Victims

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 05.06.2013 | Gay Voices

Opponents of proposed state legislation that would ban licensed therapists from offering so-called gay "conversion therapy" to minors are holding a p...

Lila Shapiro

Gay Conversion Therapy Fight Comes To New York

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 04.26.2013 | Gay Voices

NEW YORK -- The fight against a controversial therapy that purports to "cure" gay people of their gayness and make them straight has come to New York....

Gay Conversion Therapy Is Not Free Speech

Chana Wilson | Posted 06.16.2013 | Gay Voices
Chana Wilson

State licensing boards and the courts already enforce speech-based restrictions on mental health professionals. The government absolutely has the power to protect children from treatments by state-licensed mental health professionals that are ineffective, harmful and abusive.

WATCH: Poet Slams Michele Bachmann With Incredible Performance

The Huffington Post | Glennisha Morgan | Posted 04.15.2013 | Gay Voices

A video of slam poet Sierra DeMulder blasting Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) during an incredible performance at the 2013 Women of the World Poetry S...

Chris Christie Weighs In On Gay Conversion Therapy

The Huffington Post | Amanda Terkel | Posted 03.22.2013 | Politics

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) has come out against the practice known as gay conversion therapy, after facing intense criticism for saying he did...

Dem Slams 'Disgusting' Christie Ambivalence

The Huffington Post | Lisa_Miller | Posted 03.21.2013 | Politics

New Jersey state Sen. Barbara Buono (D) had some harsh words for Gov. Chris Christie (R) on Thursday, calling the governor's ambivalence on legislatio...

Chris Christie Unsure About Banning Gay Conversion Therapy

The Huffington Post | Amanda Terkel | Posted 03.22.2013 | Politics

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) said Wednesday he isn't sure whether to back legislation that would ban the controversial practice known as gay con...

MMA Fighter Comes Out As Transgender

Posted 03.06.2013 | Gay Voices

Mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter Fallon Fox opens up about being transgender in a new interview with Outsports' Cyd Zeigler, but admits she has some l...

Lila Shapiro

Gay 'Cure' Proponents Defend Practice In New Jersey

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 02.05.2013 | Gay Voices

A first-of-its kind lawsuit challenging the practice of gay "conversion therapy" is winding its way through the New Jersey legal system. On Monday, la...

Lila Shapiro

UN Tackles Gay 'Conversion Therapy' For First Time

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 02.01.2013 | Gay Voices

A panel of mental health experts, human rights advocates, religious leaders and a former patient gathered Thursday at the United Nations Church Center...

They Tried To Make Me Go To Rehab; I Said, 'No, No, No'

Weston Ashley | Posted 03.02.2013 | Gay Voices
Weston Ashley

My first week back at boarding school for my sophomore year, my father and stepmother came to pick me up to send me to rehab for being gay. I was admitted into a drug and behavioral facility for kids with eating disorders, drug problems and suicidal tendencies. I didn't belong there.

Could Stroking This Horse Change Your Sexuality?

Posted 02.28.2013 | Gay Voices

The idea that a gay person can be "cured" of his or her homosexuality is not a new one. For centuries doctors, therapists and religious figures have t...

Historic Gay Rights Moves Becoming Real In 2013

Posted 12.26.2012 | Politics

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Measures on gay rights and child safety are among the top state laws taking effect at the start of 20...

Michelangelo Signorile

New Jersey Senator On Gay Marriage, Reparative Therapy Legislation

HuffingtonPost.com | Michelangelo Signorile | Posted 12.27.2012 | Gay Voices

New Jersey Democratic Senate President Stephen Sweeney responded strongly to charges by openly gay Assemblyman Reed Gusciora that he's stalling on a v...

WATCH: Colbert Takes On Gay Conversion Therapy

Posted 12.13.2012 | Comedy

On last night's "Colbert Report," Stephen put aside his Senate hopes and instead focused on something else truly affecting the fabric of our country: ...

Lila Shapiro

Dueling California 'Gay Cure' Law Court Rulings Draw Battle Lines

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 12.04.2012 | Gay Voices

Shortly after California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed groundbreaking legislation this fall that banned licensed therapists from practicing gay "convers...

California's Gay Conversion Therapy Law Blocked

AP | LISA LEFF | Posted 02.02.2013 | Gay Voices

SAN FRANCISCO — Two federal judges in California have arrived at opposite conclusions on whether the state's first-of-its-kind law prohibiting l...

Ex-Straight Therapy: It Works, And I Am Proof!

William Dameron | Posted 02.02.2013 | Gay Voices
William Dameron

For most of my life, I experienced shame because I had chosen a lifestyle that was unhealthy for me. I always wondered if there was some way to escape it. Deep in my heart I knew that it was wrong, but I could not seem to stop living that life, that lie.

Lila Shapiro

First U.S. 'Gay Cure' Law Tested As Battle Over 'Reparative' Therapy Heats Up

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 12.01.2012 | Gay Voices

Jerry Spencer's counselor once placed bags of ice on his hands while showing him photos of men holding hands. Chaim Levin's "life coach" told him to s...

Ban On Gay 'Conversion' Therapy Faces First Legal Test

AP | LISA LEFF | Posted 11.30.2012 | San Francisco

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A first-of-its-kind California law prohibiting licensed psychotherapists from counseling gay minors on how to become heterosexua...

Dem Rep Blasts Anti-Gay 'Quackery'

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 11.29.2012 | Politics

Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) unveiled a measure this week meant to take national steps to protect minors from so-called ex-gay conversion therapy, or...

Gay Men File Suit Against Jewish 'Pray The Gay Away' Therapy Center

The Huffington Post | Meredith Bennett-Smith | Posted 11.27.2012 | Gay Voices

On Tuesday, the Southern Poverty Law Center filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing (JONAH). The cons...